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Summerfest 1979

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Carla + Kevin in Backyard 1980 4

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1980 In the Bedroom with Baby

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Christmas Party Grandma's 59th Throop 1979

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Kevin # Kitchen Birthday 1981

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Christmas 1978 Grandma's / Mama's House Xmas 1978

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Kevin Sheena Carla in the Bedroom

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Christmas Frank's House 1980

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Chicago Fest Gloria Gaynor 1979

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1979 Rita's Wedding

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Carla's Birthday November 1979

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Christmas On 59th 1978

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Alsup Smith Family Collection

Vanessa Alsup and her husband Kevin shot these sound films of their children Kevin II, Sheena Marie and Carla in and around their Englewood home. The collection also includes several concerts in Chicago. Super 8mm. Sound. 1970-1980. 17 films.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Leroy Roberson Collection

Leroy Roberson shot this collection documenting his extensive travels across the country with his family. Often taking his children out of school early this collection includes visits to California, Wyoming, the Hoover Dam and other sites in the American West. 8mm. Silent. 1950-1960. 32 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.

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.

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.

1970s 1980s

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Accidental Dutch Angle Aerial Shot Birds Eye View Cars-driving off Close-up Double Exposure Dutch Angle Establishing Shot Fast-motion Filming from Boat Filming from Car Filming from Inside Filming from vehicle Filming Television House Exterior Illuminated Signs Meta-Filming Milestone Film Night Shot Pan Portrait Shot Road Shot Semi-close-up Slow-motion Stop-motion Street Scenes Super 8mm Titles Zoom

Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Arizona Arkansas Auburn Gresham Bahamas Brazil Bronzeville Brookfield Zoo Buckingham Fountain California Calumet Heights Canada Caracas Caribbean Castle Rock Lake Central Chatham Chicago China Colombia Colorado Colorado Springs Curacao Disneyland Park East Garfield Park East Hyde Park East Side Englewood Europe Evanston Florida Galena Garfield Park Conservatory Grand Boulevard Grand Canyon National Park Grant Park Greater Grand Crossing Grenada Harvey Hawaii Hong Kong Honolulu Hyde Park Illinois India Indiana Iowa Jamaica Japan Kansas Lake Meadows Liberia London Towne Martinique Massachusetts McCormick Place Michigan Morocco Museum of Science & Industry Nassau Navy Pier Near South Side North Side Oakland Ohio Ontario Paradise Lake Peru Petrillo Band Shell Philippines Phillip Murray Elementary Language Academy Phoenix Portugal Puerto Rico Saint Martin (French) South Side South Suburbs St. Francis de Sales High School St. Louis Taiwan The Field Museum of Natural History The Superstition Mountain Museum The Superstition Mountains Tijuana Trinidad and Tobago United States Air Force Academy Venezuela Vermont Virgin Islands Washington, DC West Side Wisconsin Wyoming Yellowstone National Park

Adeline Geller Alsup-Smith Bob Patton Diane Dinkins-Carr Helen Nash Jack L. Cooper Jean Patton Jeannette Foreman Leroy Roberson Marlene Grace Martha "The Big Mouth" Raye Maryanne Stanley McClelland Susan McClelland

Chicago Police Department Girl Scouts Pepsi-Cola United States Marines

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Activists Aircraft Airplanes Airports Alcoholic beverages Amateur Film Amateur Film Clubs Amusement parks Animal behavior Animation Anniversary Architecture Auto racing Automobiles Bands Baseball Basketball Battleships Beaches Bicycle Riding Bicycles & tricycles Billiards Birthdays Boating Boats Bodies of water Buckingham Fountain Bud Billiken Parade & Picnic Buildings Bulls and Cows Buses Business people Butterflies Camping Caribbean Catholic schools Cats Cemeteries Chicago (Ill.) Police Dept. Chicago Public School Boycott (1963) Children Children-music Children-playing Christening Christianity Christmas Churches Circus City & town life Cityscapes Civil rights Classrooms Clothing and dress Clown Commercial real estate Compilation Concerts Construction Cooking Costumes Courtship Cowboys Cruises Cultural relations Dance Decorations Deserts Dogs Domestic life Education Entertainers Environment Events Fairs Fall Families Family at Leisure Family recreation Farm life Farms Fashion Fighting Fires First Day of School Fishing Flowers Food Football Fountains Friendship Fruit Games Gardens Geology Graduation ceremonies Gymnastics Halloween Harbors Health Helicopters Highways Hiking Historic sites Historical reenactments Holiday music Holiday-children Holidays Home improvement Horror Horseback Riding Horses Hotels House/garden Industry Interview Lakes Landmarks Leisure Livestock Love Marching bands Markets Marriage Military Monkeys Monuments & memorials Motorcycles Mountains Murals Museums Music Musical instruments Musicians NAACP 54th Annual Convention (1963: Chicago, Ill.) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National parks & reserves Natural phenomena Nature Navy Oceans Organization of Black American Culture Outdoors Parades & processions Paranormal Parenting Parties Performances Picnics Piloting Plants Playgrounds Political campaigns Politics & government Ponds Pool Pornography Postal service Pottery Public Parks Quarries Racing Racism Railroads Recreation Religions Religious Religious services Riots Rivers Road trips Roads Rooms & spaces Running Santa Claus School Science fiction Sexual Content Sexuality & culture Shooting Shopping Shrines and Temples Singers Skating Skiing Smoking Snow Sound Spanish Sports Sports event Spring Statues Streets Students Suburban life Summer Sunrises & sunsets Swimming Table tennis Teachers Teaching Teenagers Telephone Tennis Tourism Toys Trains Transportation Travel Travelogue Trees Tropes Trucks Universities & colleges Vacations Vegetables Vehicles Voice-over Water Waterfalls Weddings Winter Winter sports World War II (1939-1945) Youth Zoos