SSHMP | Alcoholic beverages Archive Films

Thanksgiving at home-1968

SSHMP.2017.ATKINS.00049

The Picnic

SSHMP.2018.BRANCH.00007

Summer '72

SSHMP.2018.ELLIS.00026

NAACP March

SSHMP.OSBORN.00001

Wedding

SSHMP.2015.ROBERSON.00001

Hawaiian Party April 1957

SSHMP.2024.MEDNICK.00005

Pan. American

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00218

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SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00200

Studio

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00186

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SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00172

Mr. Coles Party

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00034

#3 Les Fleurs Victory Life

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00026

Frederick Atkins Collection

Frederick Atkins shot these films of his wife, Loretta, and children in the East Side neighborhood. The collection includes the opening of the Chicago (formerly Calumet) Skyway. 8mm, Super 8mm. 1950-1980. 48 films.

Roy Herbert Branch Collection

Roy and Kathleen Branch shot these films at their home in Lake Meadows. The collection includes shots of their daughter Elizabeth and several family Christmases. Super 8mm. Sound. 1970s-1980s. 7 films.

Alphonse and Nancie Teer Ellis Family Collection

Alphonse and Nancy Ellis shot these films in and around their Auburn Gresham home. The collection also includes a trip to Disneyland, Washington D.C. and visits to the family cottage in Lakeside, Michigan. Super 8mm. Silent. 1960-1970. 40 films.

Philip Maxwell Sr. Collection

Philip Maxwell shot these films of his family in their Londontown home. The collection also includes visits to the Lincoln Park Zoo and the Museum of Science and Industry. 8mm, Super 8mm. Silent. 1960-1970. 4 films.

Dr. Homer Nash Jr. Collection

The younger brother of Dr. Helen Nash, Homer Nash shot these films of his five daughters growing up in their St. Louis home. 8mm. Silent. 1950-1984. 11 films.

Nicholas Osborn Collection

Nicholas Osborn contributed this reel that he found in a thrift shop. It consists of a year in Chicago in 1963 and includes such historic events as the Bud Biliken parade, the NAACP annual convention and the 1963 Public School boycott. 8mm. Silent. 1963. 1 film.

Leroy Roberson Collection

Leroy Roberson shot this collection documenting his extensive travels across the country with his family. Often taking his children out of school early this collection includes visits to California, Wyoming, the Hoover Dam and other sites in the American West. 8mm. Silent. 1950-1960. 32 films.

Roberts Family Collection

This collection was shot primarily by Herman Roberts, his family and the staff of the Roberts Show Lounge. The films capture South Side nightlife from Englewood to Hyde Park, the Roberts Show Lounge in the '50s, rural Oklahoma, and Disneyland. 8mm, 16mm. Silent. 1950s. 34 films.

Len and Ben Mednick Collection

Ramon Williams Collection

Ramon Williams shot and created these films throughout Chicago and the American South. The collection features a number of historical figures and events, including Haile Selassie’s arrival in Chicago, Althea Gibson’s landmark US Nationals win, and several Bud Billiken parades. 8mm, 16mm. Sound, Silent. 1940-1975. 302 films.

1920s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s

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Accidental Dutch Angle Aerial Shot Car-driving off Close-up Establishing Shot Fast-motion Filming from Car Filming from Inside Filming from vehicle Filming Television House Exterior Meta-Filming Pan Portrait Shot Semi-close-up Street Scenes Titles Zoom

Arizona Auburn Gresham Bronzeville Brookfield Zoo Douglas East Hyde Park East Side Grand Boulevard Harvey Lake Meadows London Towne Museum of Science & Industry Petrillo Band Shell Phoenix South Side St. Louis The Superstition Mountain Museum The Superstition Mountains

Chicago Police Department Louis, Joe National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Roberson, Leroy

Sound Silent

Activist Amateur Film Clubs Amateur films Animals Architecture Art Arts/crafts Automobiles Awards Bands Beaches Bicycle riding Billiards Birthdays Bud Billiken Parade & Picnic Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic Buses Business/Financial Celebrity & Public figure Chicago Clubs Chicago Public School Boycott 1963 Children Children-playing Children-talk Christmas Cityscapes Civil rights Clothing and dress Clown Community Compilation Construction Cooking Costumes Cowboys Cultural relations Dance Decorations Deserts Dogs Entertainers Entertainment Events (general) Fairs Family at leisure Family recreation Farming Farms Fashion Film production Flowers Food Football Friendship Fruit Games Gardens Graduation ceremonies Halloween Historic sites Holiday-children Holidays Horses House/garden Kite Flying Lakes Landmarks Leisure Machinery Marching bands Military Mountains Museums Music Musical instruments Musicians NAACP 54th Annual Convention 1963 Nature Office workers Outdoors Parades & processions Parties Performances Photography Picnics Plants Postal service Racing Railroads Recreation Religious Roads Sexuality & culture Singers Smoking Snow Sound Speech Spring Statues Streets Structures Summer Tourism Toys Trains Transportation Trees Trucks Universities and colleges Vegetables Vehicles Weddings Winter Zoos

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Thanksgiving at home-1968

The Picnic

Summer '72

NAACP March

Wedding

Hawaiian Party April 1957

Pan. American

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Studio

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Mr. Coles Party

#3 Les Fleurs Victory Life

Frederick Atkins Collection

Roy Herbert Branch Collection

Alphonse and Nancie Teer Ellis Family Collection

Philip Maxwell Sr. Collection

Dr. Homer Nash Jr. Collection

Nicholas Osborn Collection

Leroy Roberson Collection

Roberts Family Collection

Len and Ben Mednick Collection

Ramon Williams Collection