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Marky Grass Fight

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Marky playing Horseshoes 83?

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82 FIELD Freddy AT (?) Museum

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[The family outside with horses]

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Deb + Greg's shower

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Ellens Party + Family Party also Richard 1957

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Lauren and Leo's Wedding

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Chicago Wedding Etc

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Helicopter Dave Sherry & Dwayne

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[Young life in Hyde Park]

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[Lake Park basketball game]

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[Slaughterhouse; Chicago traffic, ca. mid-60s]

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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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

O'Neal Family Collection

Brothers Brian, Rick II, and Kamal O’Neal shot and created these films of their teenage years in and around their Hyde Park home. The collection includes experiments in stop-motion animation, basketball games, and a family road trip to Niagara Falls and Bar Harbor, ME. 8mm, Super 8mm. Silent. 1970s. 21 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.

1960s 1970s 1980s

8mm Super 8mm

Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA) Boy Scouts of America Chicago Police Department Girl Scouts

Sound Silent

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