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Athletes ready to run during Annual Road Event at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois.

Athletes ready to run during Annual Road Event at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. Athletes run. Speed ace leads Vernon Frank and William Geissman and hordes of plodders over course to finish in 21 minutes, 32 seconds.

Date: 1931, July 13
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035126
Firemen with water hose pipes try to stop fire at huge tank house in Chicago, Illinois.

Firemen with water hose pipes try to stop fire at huge tank house in Chicago, Illinois. Smoke comes out as the fire stops. People see.

Date: 1931
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035133
A Texan man during his round the world walking tour in Chicago, Illinois.

A Texan man during his round the world walking tour in Chicago, Illinois. Plennie Wingo, of Albiene, doing it in reverse.

Date: 1931, June 25
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035138
People at railroad tracks after a blast at Drainage Canal tunnel in Chicago, Illinois.

People at railroad tracks after a blast at Drainage Canal tunnel in Chicago, Illinois. Vast crowd gather to see. Trapped firemen and workers saved by rescue workers by means of buckets similar to that used in mine shafts. Smoke rises from a building.

Date: 1931, April 16
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035142
Unemployed get work under Works Progress Administration projects in Chicago, Illinois

'A better Chicago'. Unemployed men on the streets during the Great Depression. They sleep on the streets and stand in queues and relief lines in Chicago, Illinois. A young man asks another man for work and is rejected, but the other man gives him a coin to help him. Unemployed and hungry men digging through trash cans and sleeping on park benches and in doorways. Whistles blow at factories representing work starting again and available jobs. Men look up from relief lines and head to factories for new jobs. Men grabbing shovels and digging in the ground. Men working at steel factories. Smoke pouring from smoke stacks at factories. Men in pay line at factory to receive payment from cashier office. Happy men and women lifting up a young smiling child. Views of racks of milk bottles and full bread racks. Children slide down a slide into a swimming pool. Boys and girls playing on playground equipment and smiling. A family of a man and womand and two children walking together. Men working on sewage infrastructure projects in the Chicago area. View of projects underway to develop lakefront areas of Lake Michigan. Skyline and skyscrapers of Chicago seen in the background. View of the Field Museum and workers inside constructing fossil and zoology displays. Men working in construction to build and improve runways and tarmac areas at Chicago Municipal Airport (Midway International Airport). A plane taking off overhead above the workers building a runway. Low, roadside view of 1930s cars going by on road near Lincoln Park extension project area. View of Chicago city skyline buildings in the background. Men work at planting trees and expanding the Lincoln Park with an extension. Men with excavating machines and tractors work at the site of the former Chicago 1893 World's Fair (World's Columbian Exposition), transforming the area into the new 500 acre Jackson Park. Construction workers build a new Field House at Wilson Park. An old building is demolished to make way for a new housing development named after Jane Addams. Men building new low income housing apartment buildings for poor families on the site.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058516
Museums, buildings, bridges, monuments of historical importance in Chicago, Illinois during the mid 1960s.

Buildings, bridges and monuments of historical importance in Chicago, Illinois. View of bridges over the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, Illinois. In the Wacker historic district, close-up view of the Heald Square Monument (34 E Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60601, United States) featuring George Washington, Robert Morris, and Haym Salomon. Lion sculpture and entrance area of the Art Institute of Chicago. Tourists view displays and artwork inside the Art Institute. Exterior view of the Museum of Science and Industry. People entering the museum. A woman with her woman in a stroller or pram, drags the stroller backwards up the steps of the museum.

Date: 1965
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036787