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Elgin Illinois USA 1932 stock footage and images

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Debtors construct store, paint roofs and eat after work to pay their debts to the Grohar brothers in Joliet, Illinois

The Grohar brothers, grocers, induce workers to build a new store in Joliet, Illinois, during the Great Depression. Unemployed debtors including carpenters,brick layers,plasterers,grocers and other artisans work on building of a new store to pay off their due debts. The new store known as 'the store that friendship built'. A cement trolley on ground. Two men note. Workers paint roof. Workers eat food.

Date: 1932, August 11
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068207
Pushball match at Loyola University, Illinois.

A huge inflated ball in a stadium of Loyola University in Illinois, Chicago. College students playing push ball. Other students cheer the participants in the Pushball game as they struggle to move the giant ball to the opponents side of the field.

Date: 1932, October 27
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033275
Governor L L Emmerson attends the annual reunion ceremony of Union Civil war veterans in Springfield Illinois.

American Civil War veterans pay tribute to Abraham Lincoln in Springfield Illinois in United States. View of decorated tomb of Abraham Lincoln. Thousands of aged veterans in their Civil War Union Army uniforms gather in Oak Ridge Cemetery near the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. Governor Louis L Emmerson and other dignitaries attend the event. Governor Emmerson is seen in conversation with one of the aged veterans. Most of the veterans wear hats with the "G.A.R." symbol (Grand Army of the Republic, a Union military veterans and fraternal organization). One of the Union Civil War veterans shown is an African American soldier.

Date: 1932, September 19
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030535
Mine workers on the rail coaches with machine guns in their hands at Fulton County mines in Canton, Illinois.

Mine workers on the rail coaches with machine guns in their hands at Fulton County mines in Canton, Illinois. Men patrol. National Guard companies march on a road.

Date: 1932, October 10
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035157
A demonstration against Japanese attack on China, in Chicago, Illinois, gets violent and police arrest a man who fired in crowd.

A demonstration against Japanese attack on China, in Chicago Illinois gets violent. Policemen grab and arrest the demonstrators. Policemen look for a gunmen in crowd who shot four policemen and a woman. They capture him and stand around him. (The captured man is Communist Stephen Chuck.)

Date: 1932, March 14
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036755
Sleuths destroy 537 barrels of banned beer discovered when the police raid a garage at Halsted Street in Chicago, Illinois.

During Prohibition, police raid a garage at Halsted Street in Chicago, Illinois. The police raid the garage under the instruction of Deputy Prohibition Adminstrator A. E. Aman. They discover 537 barrels of banned beer. Officials destroy the barrels with mallets. Liquor flows from the barrels and into the streets.

Date: 1932, January 14
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056184