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Views of National Guard soldiers in practice battle in Chicago, Illinois, shortly before World War 2

Six P-12 biplane aircraft in flight just outside Chicago, Illinois during a practice battle for American military forces from the Illinois National Guard. Troops at ground fire machine guns, loading and firing anti-aircraft guns. Troops wear gas masks, moves through the smoke and firing rifles. A tank and the Chicago skyline in background with various skyscrapers seen.

Date: 1938
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032873
Black Panther Party's Chairman Fred Hampton's murder investigations in Chicago, Illinois.

News reporter reports on the murder of Black Panther Party's Chairman Fred Hampton in his apartment in Chicago, Illinois. Investigations done at the crime scene. Attorney James Montgomery in a press interview speaks regarding Hampton's death. Police officer explains the events that took place on the day of Hampton's murder. Illinois State Attorney General Edward V Hanrahan speaks on what occurred at the raid of Fred Hampton's apartment in Chicago. View of bullets holes at the crime scene. Press officials ask various questions.

Date: 1969, December
Duration: 6 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029951
The 1956 Democratic National Convention in the International Amphitheatre, Chicago, Illinois, August 13–17 1956

The 1956 National Convention of the Democratic Party at the International Amphitheatre (4220 South Halsted Street Chicago, Illinois 60609 United States) in Chicago, Illinois. Former President Harry S. Truman and his wife Bess, taking seats at the convention. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, taking her seat. Democratic Party National Chairman, Paul M. Butler standing behind and below the podium as convention prepares to get underway. The amphitheater is filled with seated delegates, as they are called to order. Delegates standing and applauding, following the keynote speech of Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee, who touches the Tennessee delegate identification pole as it is thrust toward him. Delegates waving poles displaying their respective State names.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070985
Henry A. Wallace awards the best gardeners at the victory garden festival in Chicago, Illinois during World War 2

The activities of victory gardeners in Chicago, Illinois. Rail road train and the largest inland port of Chicago. A ship at the harbor. Steel plants and skyscrapers in Chicago. People look at the vegetables produced by gardeners at the victory garden festival. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace awards the best gardeners at a ceremony. Men and women perform Mexican dance.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042218
Scenes from U.S. 1916 Republican Political Convention at the coliseum in Chicago Illinois.

Exterior view of the Chicago Coliseum (1466 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605, United States) in Chicago Illinois, at 15th and Wabash. Patriotic bunting decoratively displayed on the building as it hosts the 1916 Republican National Convention. Delegates march en masse, to the Coliseum, carrying small American flags. Closeup of Senator Warren G. Harding, convention chairman, tipping his hat and speaking. Automobiles parked at the curb, and people carrying umbrellas as they enter Entrance F of the coliseum. Women suffragettes holding umbrellas as they walk together on wet pavement, in a demonstration for women's suffrage. Closeup of Charles Evans Hughes, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, at the Coliseum. He doffs his hat and says a few words. Another closeup of him seated on a bench in the coliseum. Street scene with Hughes walking with a group of men, when a man steps into their midst to shake hands with Hughes. Another closeup of Hughes, seated on a bench.

Date: 1916, June 7
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055038
Richard Hunt talks with his daughter and prepares a sculpture in Chicago, Illinois.

Richard Hunt's sculptures in Chicago, Illinois. Richard outside with his daughter on a winter day in Chicago near lake shore. Chicago skyscrapers in the background through fog. He takes his daughter on back. He talks with his daughter in an arboretum or indoor greenhouse garden, examining the forms of plants and commenting on how they influence his art works. Richard with another artist examining one of Hunt's sculptures in progress. They talk to each other. Richard preparing a sculpture with a mold over it for kiln firing. He weighs stones in a large beam balance, puts stones on a small trolley and moves it. They make it hot and pour liquid into molding vessel. They knock away the mold and examine the sculpture to see if it was cast as he intended.

Date: 1971
Duration: 6 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035541