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NYC for Mothers Day
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A Trip to New York City
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Cruise
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1938-39 Pre-War Films
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First Pictures
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Pilgrimage to Rohwer, Arkansas
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The Big Shot's
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[Princeton Park and Detroit, ca. 1940]
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July 1961 Vacation East C.-PART II
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[Trip to China, 1976]
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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.

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.

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.

Ellis McClelland Collection

Ellis McClelland shot these films featuring his wife and children in the Princeton Park neighborhood. Scenes include visits to many of Chicago’s Parks, Buckingham Fountain and Detroit to visit relatives. McClelland also shot footage of car races, baseball games and his North Side mechanic shop. 8mm. Silent. 1940-1950. 8 films.

Yosh Nakazawa Collection

Yosh Nakazawa filmed his wife Yuri and their sons Paul and Jon during Christmases and birthdays at their Near North Side home. 16mm, Super-8. 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.

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.

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.

1930s 1940s 1960s 1970s

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Accidental Dutch Angle Aerial Shot Birds Eye View Cars-driving off Cityscapes Close-up Establishing Shot Filming from Boat Filming from Car Filming from Inside Filming from vehicle Filming Television House Exterior Meta-Filming Night Shot Pan Portrait Shot Road Shot Street Scenes Titles Zoom

Arkansas Bronzeville California China Colombia Detroit East Side Grand Boulevard Greater Grand Crossing Haiti Jackson Park Highlands Japan Kentucky Lake Meadows Liberia Maryland New Jersey New York City New York Harbor Niagara Falls Oakland Peru Petrillo Band Shell Portugal Princeton Park Shoshoni South Chicago (Ainsworth) South Dakota South Shore South Side Springfield Switzerland Taiwan Washington Park Washington, DC Wyoming Yellowstone National Park

Adeline Geller Bertha McClelland Bob Patton Burton Levy-Gunanksy Diane Dinkins-Carr Dorris Ellis McClelland Eunice Champion Jones Frances Champion Frank Champion Sr. Glodean Hamilton Champion Helen Jablonski Helen Nash Isaac Gunansky Jack L. Cooper Jean Patton Lellia McClelland Lenny Lila Mary McClelland Matilda Jablonski Puszkiewicz Ora McClelland Ronnie McClelland Rosalie McClelland Shirley

Chicago Police Department Girl Scouts Pepsi-Cola United States Marines

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Activists Aircraft Airplanes Airports Alcoholic beverages Amateur Film Clubs Amusement parks Animal behavior Architecture Automobiles Baseball Battleships Beaches Bicycles & tricycles Billiards Boating Boats Bodies of water Bud Billiken Parade & Picnic Buildings Bullfighting Bulls and Cows Buses Butterflies Cemeteries Chicago (Ill.) Police Dept. Chicago Public School Boycott (1963) Children Children-playing Christianity Churches City & town life Cityscapes Civil rights Clothing and dress Clown Compilation Construction Cooking Courtship Cruises Dance Diving Dogs Drawing Events Fairs Families Family at Leisure Family recreation Farm life Farms Fashion Figure skating Filming from Boat Fishing Flowers Food Fountains Fruit Games Gardens Geology Halloween Harbors Highways Hiking Historic sites Home improvement Horses Hotels House/garden Indigenous peoples Lakes Landmarks Marching bands Markets Military Monkeys Monuments & memorials Motorcycles Mountains Museums Musical instruments NAACP 54th Annual Convention (1963: Chicago, Ill.) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National parks & reserves Natural phenomena Nature Navy New York World's Fair (1964-1965) Oceans Outdoors Parades & processions Performances Photography Picnics Plants Political campaigns Politics & government Pornography Postal service Pottery Propaganda Public Parks Quarries Racing Racism Railroads Recreation Religions Religious Rivers Road trips Sailing Sexuality & culture Shrines and Temples Sledding Smoking Snow Spanish Statues Streets Summer Sunrises & sunsets Swimming Teenagers The Chicago "L" Tourism Toys Traditions Trains Transportation Travel Travelogue Trees Trucks Vacations Vegetables Vehicles Water Waterfalls Winter Winter sports World War II (1939-1945)