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Summerfest 1979

SSHMP.2017.ALSUPSMITH.00015

[Susan's Formal]

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Susan's Grad

SSHMP.2018.ELLIS.00025

Wedding

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Horse Show Titles

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00239

[Midwest] Horse Show 1940

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00238

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SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00200

Mardi Gras

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00180

Mrs Cole Deb. Recept

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00160

Good Shep. Tea

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00083

Hospital Dedication

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00036

National Council Negro Women - Parker House

SSHMP.2022.WILLIAMS.00018

Alsup Smith Family Collection

Vanessa Alsup and her husband Kevin shot these sound films of their children Kevin II, Sheena Marie and Carla in and around their Englewood home. The collection also includes several concerts in Chicago. Super 8mm. Sound. 1970-1980. 17 films.

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.

Buford Family Collection

Shirley Jones and her sisters shot these films of the Buford family around their Englewood home. The collection features a wedding and several family parties, and also includes films shot during their time stationed in Okinawa, Japan. 8mm, Super 8mm. Silent. 1950-1970. 18 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.

Charles Merrifield Collection

Charles Merrifield was a postal worker who lived with his family in Princeton Park. His films show gatherings of extended family, as well as travels across the US with his wife and children. 8mm. Silent. 1950-1960. 6 films.

Dr. Helen Nash Collection

Dr. Helen Nash shot these scenes of family life in Atlanta, Georgia and St. Louis, Missouri, as well as trips to Chicago to visit relatives. Dr. Nash also traveled extensively with her sisters and mother, visiting Europe, China, Russia, and Africa in the late sixties and seventies. 16mm, Super 8mm. Silent. 1950-1970. 23 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.

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.

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Activist Alcoholic beverages Amateur Film Clubs Amusement parks Animal behavior Animals Architecture Art Arts/crafts Automobiles Awards Bands Beaches Bicycle riding Bicycles & tricycles Billiards Birthdays Boats Boy Scouts Bud Billiken Parade & Picnic Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic Bulls and Cows Buses Celebrity & Public figure Chicago Clubs Chicago Public School Boycott 1963 Children Children-playing Christianity Christmas Churches City and town life City planning Cityscapes Civil rights Clothing and dress Clown College Students Community Compilation Concerts Construction Cooking Costumes Cowboys Dance Decorations Deserts Diving Dogs Education Entertainers Entertainment Fairs Families Family at leisure Family recreation Farms Fashion Flowers Food Fruit Games Gardens Gay/lesbian Government officials Graduation ceremonies Gymnastics Halloween Highways Holidays Horseback riding Horses House/garden Kite Flying Lakes Landmarks Love Marching bands Marriage Medical Medicine Military Monuments & memorials Mountains Museums Music Musical instruments Musicians NAACP 54th Annual Convention 1963 Night Outdoors Parades & processions Parenting Parties Performances Performing arts Photography Picnics Plants Politicians Politics Politics & government Pool Postal service Racing Racism Railroads Recreation Religious Rivers Roads Rodeos Rooms & spaces School Sexuality & culture Singers Smoking Snow Sorority Sound Speech Sports event Statues Streets Structures Students Summer Sunrises & sunsets Teachers Teenagers Tourism Toys Trains Transportation Travel Trees Trucks Twins Universities and colleges Vacations Vegetables Vehicles Volleyball Water Weddings Winter Youth Zoos