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SSHMP.2017.ATKINS.00046

82 FIELD Freddy AT (?) Museum

SSHMP.2017.ATKINS.00025

[Superstition Mountain, Arizona Part 3 c. 1978]

SSHMP.2018.BRANCH.00005

SSHMP.2022.BRANCHL.00004

1938-39 Pre-War Films

SSHMP.2018.LEVYGUNANSKY.00001

First Pictures

SSHMP.2018.MATTHEWS.00003

[Brookfield Zoo, 1963]

SSHMP.2008.MAXWELL.00001

NAACP March

SSHMP.OSBORN.00001

Summer '66

SSHMP.2016.PATTON.00055

Duram's Visit

SSHMP.2017.PITTS.00017

Grand Canyon

SSHMP.2016.STEELE.00001

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.

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.

Levy-Gunansky Family Collection

Sam Levy and his daughter Harriet shot these films to document their family’s life in the Washington Park neighborhood and later the Jackson Park Highlands. It includes scenes from Englewood High School, several club picnics in Washington Park, and Harriet’s time as a student at University of Chicago (1948-1952). 8mm. Silent. 1938-1955. 15 films.

Sylvester Matthews Collection

Sylvester Matthews shot these films in and around the family’s home in Detroit, MI. Donated by award-winning filmmaker Tracye Matthews, the collection features scenes of Tracye, her sister and her cousins' first years of life, the 1964 World’s Fair in New York, as well as the 1967 Detroit Rebellion. 8mm. Silent. 1960-1970. 14 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.

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.

David D. and Margaret T. Pitts Collection

The Pitts collection consists of films filmed by Margaret Pitts around their Greater Grand Crossing and Calumet Heights home. Scenes include footage of their daughter, Linda growing up. 8mm. Silent. 1940s-1960s. 25 films.

Gustina Steele Collection

Gustina Steele and her husband Bill Higgins, shot this footage of their children William Jr. and Ashauna in and around their Calumet Heights home. Super-8. Sound, silent. 1970-1980. 4 films.

1920s 1930s 1960s 1970s 1980s

8mm

Accidental Dutch Angle Aerial Shot Bird's-eye view Car-driving off Close-up Dutch Angle Establishing Shot Fast-motion Filming from Car Filming from Inside Filming from vehicle House Exterior Illuminated Signs Meta-Filming Night Shot Pan Portrait Shot Road Shot Street Scenes Titles Zoom

Arizona Bronzeville Brookfield Zoo Chicago, IL East Hyde Park Grand Boulevard Grand Canyon National Park Grant Park Kentucky Lake Meadows London Towne Maryland Massachusetts Museum of Science & Industry Near South Side New Jersey New York City New York Harbor Niagara Falls Petrillo Band Shell Phoenix The Field Museum of Natural History The Superstition Mountain Museum The Superstition Mountains Washington Park Washington, D.C.

Chicago Police Department Geller, Adeline Gunansky, Isaac Levy-Gunanksy, Burton Levy-Gunansky, Lila National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Patton, Bob Patton, Jean

Sound Silent

Activist Aircraft Airplanes Airports Alcoholic beverages Amateur Film Clubs Amusement parks Animal behavior Animals Architecture Art Arts/crafts Automobiles Awards Beaches Billiards Birthdays Boats Bud Billiken Parade & Picnic Buses Cats Cemeteries Chicago Public School Boycott 1963 Children Children-playing Children-talk Christmas Cityscapes Civil rights Clothing and dress Clown Clowns Compilation Compilation films Construction Cooking Costumes Cowboys Dance Decorations Deserts Dogs Drawing Events (general) Fairs Family at leisure Family recreation Fashion Fishing Flowers Food Fountains Fruit Games Gardens Geology Graduation ceremonies Halloween Historic sites Holiday music Holiday-children Holidays Home improvement Horseback riding Horses Hotels House/garden Lakes Landmarks Marching bands Military Monuments & memorials Mountains NAACP 54th Annual Convention 1963 National parks & reserves Natural phenomena Nature Oceans Outdoors Parades & processions Parties Performances Picnics Piloting Postal service Propaganda Racing Railroads Religious Rivers Road trips Roads Santa Claus Sexuality & culture Smoking Snow Sound Spring Statues Streets Structures Students Summer Sunrises & sunsets Teenagers Tourism Toys Traditions Trains Transportation Travel Trees Trucks Universities and colleges Vacations Vegetables Vehicles Waterfalls Winter Winter sports Zoos

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