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The Picnic

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Christmas + New Years 1962 + 1963

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Summer '72

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Jan.-Feb.-March 1944

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Gunansky/Ganansky Cousins' Club Picnic, Jackson Park, 1941

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1967 Rebellion - Aftermath

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[Christmas with the McFaddens]

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Hawaiian Party April 1957

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Ellens Party + Family Party also Richard 1957

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#3 of Western Safari Honey Moon

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Dorothy's Wedding

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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.

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.

Burt Ramos Family Collection

This collection includes home movies shot primarily by Louise B. Burt. They depict scenes of everyday life in Chicago, Illinois as well as family visits to Momence, Illinois, St. Louis, Missouri, and Baldwin, Michigan. 8mm. 1958-1968. 3 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.

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.

The 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.

Charles ‘Chuck’ Mayewaki Collection

Charles "Chuck" Mayewaki shot these films throughout the Lake Meadows, Woodlawn, and Oakwood neighborhoods. The collection includes a pilgrimage to the Rohwer Heritage Site in Arkansas, members of his congregation, and a cross country road trip. Super 8mm, 16mm. Silent. 1960-1973. 25 films.

Len and Ben Mednick Collection

Leonard and Beverly Mednick shot these films of their family in and around their Jeffery Manor home, as well as on some national and international vacations. Collection donated by their daughter, Ellen. 1950-1962. 8mm. Silent. 26 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.

The Matilda Puszkiewicz Collection

Matilda Puszkiewicz (née Jablonski) shot these films of her family and surrounding Polish Catholic community in South Chicago and on several national and international vacations. The collection features footage of her children Patricia, Judith, and Jack as they grew up, as well as trips to California and Europe. 8mm. Silent. 1947-1960s. 25 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.

1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s

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

Auburn Gresham Bronzeville Chatham Douglas Englewood Ghana Grand Boulevard Grand Canyon National Park Illinois Lake Meadows Loop North America Petrillo Band Shell South Chicago (Ainsworth) South Shore South Side St. Louis

Adeline Geller Bob Patton Chestra Puszkiewicz Diane Dinkins-Carr Helen Jablonski Helen Nash Jack L. Cooper Jack Puszkiewicz Jean Patton Jimmy Pusminski Joe Louis John Puszkiewicz Judith Puszkiewicz Martha "The Big Mouth" Raye Maryanne Matilda Jablonski Puszkiewicz Patricia "Bunny" Puszkiewicz

Boy Scouts of America Chicago Police Department Girl Scouts Pepsi-Cola United States Marines

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Activists Alcoholic beverages Amateur Film Clubs Architecture Automobiles Bands Beaches Bicycle Riding Billiards Birthdays Boating Boats Boy Scouts Bud Billiken Parade & Picnic Buildings Buses Camping Cats Celebrity & Public figures Cheerleading Chicago (Ill.) Police Dept. Chicago Clubs Chicago Public School Boycott (1963) Children Children-playing Christmas Churches Circus Cityscapes Civil rights Clothing and dress Clown Compilation Construction Cooking Costumes Cowboys Cultural relations Dance Decorations Dogs Entertainers Events Fairs Family at Leisure Family recreation Fashion Fires Flowers Food Football Friendship Fruit Games Gardens Golf Gymnastics Halloween Holidays Horseback Riding Horses House/garden Indigenous peoples Lakes Landmarks Leisure Marching bands Military Motorcycles Mountains Museums Music Musical instruments Musicians NAACP 54th Annual Convention (1963: Chicago, Ill.) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National parks & reserves Office workers Outdoors Parades & processions Parenting Parties Performances Photography Picnics Politicians Pornography Postal service Public Parks Racing Railroads Reading Recreation Religious Riots Rodeos Sexuality & culture Singers Skating Smoking Snow Softball Sound Speech Sports Sports event Sports non-event Statues Streets Summer Swimming Tennis Toys Trains Transportation Travel Trees Trucks Vacations Vegetables Vehicles Water skiing Watersports Weddings Winter World War II (1939-1945)