SSHMP.2008.FRAZIER.00029
SSHMP.2008.FRAZIER.00017
SSHMP.2008.FRAZIER.00013
SSHMP.2008.FRAZIER.00007
SSHMP.2018.LEVYGUNANSKY.00015
SSHMP.2018.LEVYGUNANSKY.00014
SSHMP.NAKAZAWA.00006
SSHMP.NAKAZAWA.00005
SSHMP.NAKAZAWA.00002
SSHMP.2016.NASHH.00007
SSHMP.2016.NASHH.00003
Alphonse and Nancie Ellis shot these films in and around their Greater Grand Crossing home. The collection also includes a trip to Disneyland, New York and a cruise to the Caribbean. Super 8mm. Silent. 1960-1970. 10 films.
Lynette Frazier shot these films of her life in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood of Chicago, as well as her many travels around the globe. The collection includes the aftermath of the MLK Riots, Resurrection City in Washington, DC and the 1964 World’s Fair in New York. 8mm. Year Range. 1950-1960. 31 films.
This collection documents the life of the Levy-Gunansky family in the South Shore neighborhood, and includes scenes from Hyde Park High School, several family reunions in Washington Park and Lila Levy’s marriage and honeymoon in the 1950’s. 8mm. 1938-1955. 2 films.
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; Year Range: 1950-1960.
Dr. Helen Nash shot these scenes of family life in Atlanta and St. Louis, Missouri as well as trips to Chicago to visit relatives. Dr. Nash also traveled extensively with her sisters and mother and visited Europe, China, and Russia in the late sixties and seventies. 16mm, Super-8; Year Range: 1950-1970
The Reed Collection was shot by Dr. George Reed, a physicist at Argonne Laboratories. The collection consists of family scenes featuring Reed's wife, Selina, and children, Mark, Carole, Phillip, and Lauren. Films include scenes on Chicago’s lakefront, a YWCA camp in Forest Beach Michigan and the University of Chicago lab school. The Reeds lived in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on Calumet Avenue. 8mm; Year Range: 1950-1960
Herman Roberts was a Chicago club owner and hotelier, who enjoyed the outdoors. These films capture South Side nightlife (from Englewood to Hyde Park), the Roberts Show Lounge in the '50s, rural Oklahoma, and Disneyland. Herman Roberts, his staff and family mainly shot the films.
