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Unique stunt bicycles designed by Charles Steinhauf being shown and used in Chicago, Illinois.

Woman working on a sewing machine while riding attached to a series of bicycles in Chicago Illinois. The bike includes multiple riders including children, and one rider elevated atop the woman using the sewing machine, and another rider behind. Charles Steinhauf riding bicycle on the road while another boy riding a uniquely designed bicycle follows. A man on bicycle which is raised very high with buildings of Chicago in background. All the cyclists moving in a group. Front cyclist shows some tricks.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1939, June
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034127
American flag at half mast after the riots in Chicago, Illinois.

After the riots in Chicago, Illinois. Chicago Temple building, cars, and buses on a street with tall buildings in the background. The Unity Building (127 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60602, United States) and the Chicago City Hall (121 N La Salle St # 107, Chicago, IL 60602, United States) in Chicago. American and Chicago flag at half-mast after the riots in Chicago. An official building with an American flag on it at half-mast. Events were after the death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1968, April 7
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049030
Cars, trucks and other vehicles in snow covered areas after a storm in Chicago, Illinois.

Snow covered areas in Chicago, Illinois. Men remove snow from a path using rakes. Vehicles parked on a snow covered path in front of a building. Vehicles moving through the snow covered areas. A car covered with snow parked on a side. People getting into a car with snow on its front part. Snow covered areas in the background. Vehicles marooned on a street covered with snow. Buildings on both sides of the street. Trucks parked on a path with both sides covered with snow. People in front of a building.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1939, February 1
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070054
Billy Schweinsberg eats and drinks with his pet crow at his home in Chicago, Illinois.

A pet crow in Chicago, Illinois. The crow eats from a spoon. Billy Schweinsberg feeds the crow seated on a table. The boy seated at the table eating from a bowl. The crow on the table. The boy smiles and holds a glass full of liquid in front of the crow. The crow drinks from the glass with its beak.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1939, February 1
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070058
W C Bailey, on trip to Chicago in Elgin, Illinois.

W C Bailey of Underhill, Vermont poses with his bicycle during his trip to Chicago in Elgin, Illinois. He rides a bicycle.

Location: Elgin Illinois USA
Date: 1939, August 2
Duration: 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055170
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.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058516
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