SSHMP | Celebrity & Public figure Archive Films

[Midwest] Horse Show 1940

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00238

Joe Louis & Chas. Glen

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00221

Joe Louis Banquet

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00220

Bud Billiken 1940

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00208

[Bud Billiken Parade 1946]

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00207

[Bud Billiken Parade 1943]

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00206

[BLANK]

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00202

Mardi Gras

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00180

[Bud Billiken Parade 1959]

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00121

Althea & Fageras At Stadium

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00109

Bud. Bill. '59

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00098

[Natchez, MS and Duke Ellington performance]

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00094

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 1940s 1950s

16mm

Chicago, IL Grand Boulevard Grant Park Memphis Near South Side South Side

Chicago Police Department Kelly, Edward J Louis, Joe Raye, Martha Rogers, Roy Selassie, Haile Simms, Hilda

Sound Silent

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