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"77" May Crowning

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"Chicago"

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#1 May 1959 Becky + Leurel

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2 Caracas 72

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[BLANK]

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[Boating, 1971]

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[Dorothy Nash Wedding, 1960]

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[Graduation from Meharry Medical, 1960]

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[Nash girls playing, 1956]

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[Niagara Falls, 1959]

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[Swimming at villa, ca. 1970]

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Aunt Lill + Family Sept. 1955

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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.

Lora Branch Collection

Charles Branch shot these films of his family in Morgan Park. The collection includes family trips to Tennessee, the annual Roberts Family Picnic in the Dan Ryan Woods, and the 50th wedding anniversary of George and Mamie Roberts Thompson. This collection also features rare footage of Roberts Temple Church of Christ in God, preserved by Claude and Naomi Driskell, family relatives and descendants of Bishop William Roberts. 8mm, Super 8mm. Silent. 1930s-1985. 5 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.

Holland Family Collection

John Holland shot these films of his wife Margaret and their children Greg, Debbie, Doug and Karen in and around the East Side neighborhood. The collection includes graduations, holidays and Catholic ceremonies. 8mm, Super 8mm. 1950-1970. 47 films.

Gordon L. Hostetter Collection

Gordon L. Hostetter shot these films of his family and children in Flossmoor, Illinois. The collection features scenes of country clubs, golf, children playing in costumes. 16mm. Silent. 1920-1950. 14 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.

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.

Jean Patton Collection

The Jean Patton collection was shot by both Jean Patton and her husband Robert and documents family life in Chatham and their extensive travels overseas. Consisting of over 100 reels Jean and her husband visited China, Japan, Europe and the Caribbean and documented nearly 20 years of family celebrations and events. 16mm, 8mm, Super-8. Silent. 1940-1970. 100 films.

James E. Taylor Collection

James Taylor and his father-in-law Prose Matthews shot and created these films of their family in and around their Harvey home. The collection includes several family picnics in Michigan City, a wedding, and their children’s birthdays. 8mm, Super 8mm. Silent. 1944-1978. 35 films.

1920s 1950s 1960s 1970s

16mm 8mm Super 8mm

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

Bahamas Bronzeville Buckingham Fountain, Chicago IL California Caracas Chatham East Side Europe Georgia Grand Boulevard Iowa Lake Meadows McCormick Place Meharry Medical College Nashville Near South Side Niagara Falls Petrillo Band Shell San Diego South Shore St. Francis de Sales High School St. Louis Tennessee Washington, D.C.

Boy Scouts of America Chicago Police Department Nash, Helen National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Patton, Bob Patton, Jean

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Activist Alcoholic beverages Amateur Film Clubs Animals Anniversary Architecture Art Arts/crafts Automobiles Awards Battleships Beaches Bicycles & tricycles Billiards Boating Boats Bodies of water Boy Scouts Bud Billiken Parade & Picnic Buses Catholic schools Cats Chicago Public School Boycott 1963 Children Children-playing Churches City & town life Cityscapes Civil rights Clothing and dress Clown College Students Compilation Construction Dance Decorations Deserts Dogs Education Events (general) Fairs Fall Families Family at leisure Family recreation Farms Fashion Fires Food Fountains Fruit Gardens Golf Graduation ceremonies Gymnastics Halloween House/garden Indigenous peoples Lakes Landmarks Leisure Love Marching bands Markets Marriage Medicine Military Monuments & memorials Mountains Museums NAACP 54th Annual Convention 1963 National parks & reserves Natural phenomena Nature Navy Night Oceans Outdoors Parades & processions Parenting Parties Performances Picnics Plants Ponds Pool Postal service Railroads Religious Religious services River & Harbor Roads Rooms & spaces Sexuality & culture Smoking Snow Speech Spring Statues Streets Structures Students Summer Sunrises & sunsets Swimming Talk Teachers Teenagers Tourism Toys Trains Transportation Travel Travelogue Trees Trucks Twins Universities and colleges Vacations Vegetables Vehicles Water Waterfalls Weddings Winter Youth

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