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Monuments, buildings and traffic on streets in various cities of Illinois, United States

Film 'This is our Land' focuses on the state of Illinois in the United States. A bridge over a river. A view of the river through the bridge. The highway running alongside the river. A man sits on a bench under a tree overlooking beach and Lake Michigan, with downtown buildings and skyscrapers of Chicago in the background. The skyscrapers of the city. Automobile and streetcar traffic on the downtown building-lined city streets of Chicago. People walk on pedestrian sidewalks. Pedestrians and automobile traffic in the capital city Springfield. The Illinois State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. A view of the Capitol dome. The statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois State Capitol building. The Lincoln Tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery. A child rubs nose of the sculpted face of Abraham Lincoln.

Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067573
Minnijean Brown, one of the "Little Rock Nine," at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.

Glimpse of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, with U.S. Army troops posted to protect nine African American students enrolling at the school. Scene shifts to after graduation, when Minnijean Brown, one of the nine, strolls the campus of Southern Illinois University, and speaks of wanting to be a writer. She is seen in the office of a newspaper, where she works as a part time reporter, after school. Brown walks on the college campus with Professor Simon. she bicycles and picnics with friends.

Date: 1961
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024011
University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.

Sign board reads 'University of Chicago'. View of Ida Noyes Hall (Ida Noyes Hall - 1212 E. 59th Reynolds Club - 5706 S. University Chicago, IL 60637). Vehicles drive in front of University of Chicago. Harper Memorial Library in University of Chicago campus grounds. Board reads 'William Rainey Harper Memorial Library 1116 East 59th Street'". View of Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House (5757 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, United States). Adlai Stevenson Institute. Three men walk out of a building.

Date: 1970
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043076
A Hungarian refugee family reunion at Chicago Union Station, Chicago, Illinois

Baltimore and Ohio locomotive arrives at Chicago Union Station. An elderly Hungarian man greets his refugee family on the train platform as they arrive in Chicago. Elderly man kisses and hugs family members during reunion. Hungarian refugee girl smiling. Hungarian woman smiling at train station. Hungarian family leaves the train station. The One Prudential Plaza (130 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601, United States) as seen from a moving vehicle. Pedestrians walking on a busy street in Chicago. DeLuxe Cab (5900) parked in driveway of a snowy suburban Chicago neighborhood. Hungarian family walks to front porch of home. Man takes off his jacket and lies down on his bed. Man shows a newspaper article to a woman inside a living room. Man and woman reads an article about their family reunion in the newspaper. A rotary dial phone. Hungarian refugee woman answers a phone. Woman opens a door for her neighbor. Neighbor offers the woman winter coats for her family.

Date: 1956, December 28
Duration: 3 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079691
Metallurgical Laboratory, Eckhart Hall and other buildings in the University of Chicago campus, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Buildings of the Chicago University, Chicago. Metallurgical Laboratory in the university campus. Eckhart Hall in the foreground. Ryerson Hall Physical Laboratory in the background. A man comes out from the entrance to Ekhart Hall. Lettering 'Eckhart Hall' above the entrance.

Date: 1946, July
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046544
Various power plants and different uses of isotopes in United States,1957.

Men discussing design of Model of 275000KW Indian Point Nuclear power plant to be built in New York. Nuclear power plants in Detroit,Chicago and New England planned in next 10 years. Animation of a map of U.S. shows new nuclear power plants to be built. Narrator indicates that by 1975 atomic plants (nuclear power) may provide a substantial portion of the U.S. electricity. Views of electric power supply lines and towers. Cans of isotopes in a factory. A reaction studied by scientist. Exterior of White Plains Hospital building; inside doctors at a radio lab. Iodine isotopes are mixed in water and a patient drinks it. Doctor analyzes the isotopes by a tracer placed near the Thyroid gland of the patient. The doctor looks at the scale. Doctor examines another patient. The patient is given radiation therapy to control malignant tumors of cancer, via a cobalt therapy machine, at New York Memorial Center.

Date: 1957
Duration: 4 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023827