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First, family and friends gather at Reuben and Anna Hegberg's home to celebrate Carl Magnus Hegberg's birthday. Many Hegbergs are seen in close-up ...

A silent home movie featuring children playing with their Christmas toys, a child’s third birthday party celebration, and families interacting outd...

Home movie footage of an infant taking a bath and being fed; the Baker family’s wrapping and unwrapping of Christmas gifts; infants in a crib toget...

Home movie capturing the 6th birthday party thrown for Palazzolo's daughter, Sarah Marie, who was born in 1972. Features scenes of children eating ...

Home movie documenting birthday celebrations for Palazzolo's daughter, Amy Louise, who was born in 1974. The footage captured here is most likely o...

A bevy of teenage girls walk towards the camera at a birthday party in February 1930.

Home movie depicting Joanna Wittman's 4th birthday, Erna and Elmer Wittman's 40th wedding anniversary, Sara Wittman's confirmation and graduation f...

Home movie of  Diane Glick-Berolzheimer's sixteenth birthday party.

Home movie footage of a children's birthday party followed by various shots of three children playing outdoors.

Loosely assembled footage of Chicago’s sesquicentennial celebration with Mayor Harold Washington and his fiancee Mary Ella Smith in attendance, a b...

Footage of the Buckingham Fountain as the Chicago Park District turns its water on for the season and honors the fountain’s 50th anniversary. Celeb...

Loosely assembled footage captures the following events: City officials including Mayor Harold Washington and Alderman Eugene Sawyer attend a stage...

Loosely assembled footage documents Mayor Richard J. Daley as he delivers a speech during a rededication ceremony for the 30-foot, 150-ton bronze s...

Loosely assembled footage depicts food vendors, art, music, dancing, pony rides, goat petting zoos, carnival rides, Michael Jackson impersonations,...