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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
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
Bartender serves 3.2 beer to the customers at a bank converted into a bar as prohibition ends.

Bottles of beer on an assembly line at the end of Prohibition. Barrels of beer rolling down a ramp outside a brewery. A bartender and his patrons greet each other with raised mugs of beer. A bartender slides mugs of beer down the bar. Barrels of beer are rolled into the former West Highland State Bank on Ashland Ave at 79th Street, which was closed June 9, 1931 and has now been converted into a bar. A sign above the cash register reads, "This Bank gave 3% We give 3.2%" Sign outside the bar reads, "Ladies Entrance." Three women dressed in evening attire are greeted by the doorman as they enter the bar. From a 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years prior.

Date: 1933, May 20
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072515
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
Models display clothes for brides to be, at a fashion show in Chicago, Illinois.

A fashion show in Chicago, Illinois. Models display the dresses from Dame Fashion for to be brides during a fashion show at Edgewater Beach Hotel (975 W Bryn Mawr Ave, Chicago, IL 60640, United States) in Chicago, Illinois. Models display bridal wear, gowns and swimsuits at the fashion show. Flanked by models wearing matching bridesmaid dresses, a model in a bias cut, floor-length wedding dress poses during a fashion show. Bouquet of white flowers. Model in bridal attire is wearing a wedding veil with a fashionable 1930s tulle and pearls headpiece. A model shows off her dark backless maillot swimsuit. A model wearing a feathery lingerie set. Models showing two different black tulle evening wear. Film ends showing a model spinning a parasol.

Date: 1937, May 12
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051413