SUBSERIES III: Accidents & Disasters
Abstract
News footage related to accidents and disasters, including fires, crashes, and explosions.
Subseries Identifier
SS.2012-03-0001-03
Subseries Items
Film
Cleveland Gas Fire
October 20 1944
Film
Heroic Police Effort to Save Child - During Firemen's Strike -Two Die in Fire 14th + St. Louis - 3-5-80
March 5 1980
Film
During Fireman's Strike - 22nd - California Fire 3-5-80
March 5 1980
Film
Coroner's Jury Report- School Fire Chicago SOF & Sil. Print 1-59
1959
Film
Stills of Chicago Fire shot at Chicago Historical Society 5-15-61
May 15 1961
Film
Refinery Fire 1/29/57-1/30-57 Neg Trims
January 1957
Film
Christmas Party for School Fire Victims (AFL-CIO--Franklin Blvd. Hosp.) Chicago 12-23-58
December 23 1958
Film
Chicago - Firemen Trapped, Killed in Burning Building 2/15/62
February 14 1962
Film
Explosion Rocks [Helene Curtis] Industrial Plant, Chicago, Illinois
October 1961
Film
California Brush Fire Los Angeles 10-14-59
October 14 1959
Film
California Brush Fire
circa 1960
Film
Helene Curtis Plant Explosion 10/18/61 Chicago, Illinois
September 28 1961
Film
Train Wreck Bakersfield, Calif. 3-2-60
March 1960
Film
Freighter Grounded on South Manitou Island off Traverse in Lake Michigan 12-2-60
December 2 1960
Film
Lake Michigan, Ship Sinking Rescue (USS Bradley) 11-19-58
November 19 1958
Film
SS Carl D. Bradley Lake Michigan Sea Rescue Survivors 11-19-58
November 19 1958
Film
[Report on plane crash near Midway airport, Chicago]
circa 1959
Film
Water Main Bursts, Floods Streets of Chicago Sil. Print Trims 11-27-58
1958
Film
Plane Crash at Midland, Mich.
1958
Film
I.C. Wreck
circa 1959
Film
School Fire Inquest Opens Chicago SOF & Sil. Print Trims 12-10-58
1958
Film
Allgauer Restaurant Fire Chicago Negative Trims 5/13/58
May 13 1958
Film
Grain Fire-Neg.
January 1957
Film
Sunday Fire 4-14-57 Neg.
April 14 1957
Film
Refinery Fire Neg.
1955
Film
Pekin Distillery Fire Neg.
1954
Film
CH-2 Vol 11 #243 Survivors Tell Story of Tragedy
December 1958
Film
Fire Victims Laid to Rest (CH2, Vol 11 #245)
December 1958
Film
Mass Funeral For Fire Victims (CH-1, Vol. 11 #246)
December 5 1958
Film
Mass Funeral for Fire Victims (CH1-A Vol. 11 #246)
December 5 1958
Film
Fear 100 Dead in School Tragedy (CH-1 Vol 11 #242)
December 1 1958
Film
[Our Lady of the Angels] School Rebuilding
December 1 1959
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SUBSERIES III: Accidents & Disasters
- 3-5-80-3 Die in Fire at 14th + St. Louis- Interviews Police Who Tried to Save Child, Mt. Sinai Hospital, During Strike
- 4-11 Factory Fire 7-18-77
- 1960 Indianapolis Tower Crash Only
- Allgauer Restaurant Fire Chicago Negative Trims 5/13/58
- Angels School Fire Synd.
- Apt. House & Warehouse Fire, Chicago Uncut Sil. Neg. 2-3-59
- Bradley Survivors 11-19-58
- Broken Water Main Floods North Side Chicago Sil. Neg. Trims 11-27-58
- California Brush Fire
- California Brush Fire Los Angeles 10-14-59
- CH-1 Vol. 11 #97 Allgauer Fire
- CH-1 Vol. 12 #214 I.C. Train Wreck
- CH-1 Vol.14 #208 Aelene Cortis Exp.
- CH-2 Vol 11 #243 Survivors Tell Story of Tragedy
- CH1-A Vol 11 #246 Mass Funeral For Fire Victims
- CH2, Vol 11 #243 Aftermath of Tragic School Fire
- Chemical Plant Explosion Kansas City, Kansas Sil. Neg. Trims.4-23-59
- Chicago - Firemen Trapped, Killed in Burning Building 2/15/62
- Chicago TWA Crash
- Christmas Party for School Fire Victims (AFL-CIO--Franklin Blvd. Hosp.) Chicago 12-23-58
- Cleveland Gas Fire
- Coroner's Jury Report- School Fire Chicago SOF & Sil. Print 1-59
- County Building Slots - Lohman
- During Fireman's Strike - 22nd - California Fire 3-5-80
- Explosion Rocks [Helene Curtis] Industrial Plant, Chicago, Illinois
- Fear 100 Dead in School Tragedy (CH-1 Vol 11 #242)
- Fire Victims Laid to Rest (CH2, Vol 11 #245)
- Freighter Grounded on South Manitou Island off Traverse in Lake Michigan 12-2-60
- Freighter Sinks
- Gas Explosion/2 Dead
- Grain Fire
- Grain Fire-Neg.
- Helene Curtis Plant Explosion 10/18/61 Chicago, Illinois
- Heroic Police Effort to Save Child - During Firemen's Strike -Two Die in Fire 14th + St. Louis - 3-5-80
- I.C. Wreck
- Lake Michigan, Ship Sinking Rescue (USS Bradley) 11-19-58
- Lohman Slot Fire
- Mass Funeral For Fire Victims (CH-1, Vol. 11 #246)
- Mass Funeral for Fire Victims (CH1-A Vol. 11 #246)
- Midlothian Fire 2-7-80 "Mine Shaft"
- Midway Crash Ch-2 Vol. 12 #238
- Northwest Orient Plane Crash
- Nun Survivor Tells Story of Fire Ch. 1 Vol. 11 #247 12-5-1958
- Nursing Home Fire CH-1 Vol. 12 #26
- Oil Barge Leak, So. Illinois 3-1-77
- [Our Lady of the Angels] School Rebuilding
- Pekin Distillery Fire Neg.
- Plane Crash at Midland, Mich.
- Queen of Angels Fire- Taped Print
- Refinery Fire
- Refinery Fire 1/29/57-1/30-57 Neg Trims
- Refinery Fire Neg.
- [Report on plane crash near Midway airport, Chicago]
- San Francisco--Hotel, fire takes 19 lives 1-6-61 Sil. Neg. trims
- Sayen, Pres. ALPA, statement rebutting implied blame by Quesada in UAL-TWA N.Y. plane crash SOF neg. trims 12-21-60
- School Fire Funeral
- School Fire Inquest
- School Fire Inquest Opens Chicago SOF & Sil. Print Trims 12-10-58
- Slots - County Building
- SS Carl D. Bradley Lake Michigan Sea Rescue Survivors 11-19-58
- Stills of Chicago Fire shot at Chicago Historical Society 5-15-61
- Sunday Fire 4-14-57 Neg.
- Train Wreck Bakersfield, Calif. 3-2-60
- TWA Crash CH-1 12 #237
- TWA Crash Chicago
- Water Main Bursts, Floods Streets of Chicago Sil. Print Trims 11-27-58