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Museums, buildings, bridges, monuments of historical importance in Chicago, Illinois during the mid 1960s.

Buildings, bridges and monuments of historical importance in Chicago, Illinois. View of bridges over the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, Illinois. In the Wacker historic district, close-up view of the Heald Square Monument (34 E Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60601, United States) featuring George Washington, Robert Morris, and Haym Salomon. Lion sculpture and entrance area of the Art Institute of Chicago. Tourists view displays and artwork inside the Art Institute. Exterior view of the Museum of Science and Industry. People entering the museum. A woman with her woman in a stroller or pram, drags the stroller backwards up the steps of the museum.

Date: 1965
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036787
Montage of U.S. scenes covering various parts of the nation

Opening scene shows a wheat field in the United States. White hot molten metal collected in ladles as a furnace is tapped. Sandstone buttes the Navajo Nation's Monument Valley Park. Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, looking North from the Art Institute. A white church in a suburban setting. The Japanese cherry trees in bloom along the Tidal Basin in Washington,DC. A major river and an old fashioned stern wheeler River Boat cruising on it. A street scene in New Orleans, Louisiana. A roadway in Florida. A fishing village scene in New England. A formation of oil well pumps operating out West. Cowboys herding cattle. View of the Statue of Liberty with dramatic sunset behind it. Two U.S. Marines conversing as they look at the Manhattan skyline in New York City. Aerial view of the skyscrapers on Manhattan Island. View of Times Square in Manhattan, with the Astor Hotel visible (It was razed in 1967). Police officer directing traffic at an intersection. Two Marines walking past the United Nations Building in Manhattan, New York City. View of the General Assembly Building and construction site of the The Dag Hammarskjöld Library Building being added in front of it. Camera pans upward showing Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Camera pans the U.S. Capitol building, followed by the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, and the Washington Monument (viewed from steps of the Lincoln Memorial across the reflecting pool, in Washington, DC. A Marine color guard marches across the lawn in front of the United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park Virginia, as the Marine Band marches and plays. Closeup of the Memorial with American flag flying above it.

Date: 1961
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064859
The New York Giants in 1917 baseball World Series games 3 and 4 in New York against the Chicago White Sox.

Baseball 1917 World Series games numbers three and four in New York at Polo Grounds IV stadium in Upper Manhattan, New York City. A large crowd gathers at the stadium to watch the game. New York Mayor John Mitchel arrives along with officers and Mayor Mitchel throws out the first pitch. World Series Baseball game 3 in progress. Giants take the lead at 2 - 0 in the fourth. Robinson scores on Holke's double. Burns singles, sending Holke home. A closeup view of Dave Robertson and Rube Benton in the dugout. The crowd cheers the teams. View also from game 4 where Benny Kauff gets two home runs and Giants win game 4 also. New York crowd, all men, cheering the game 4 win. Mass of spectators exiting the stadium after the game.

Date: 1917, October 10
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045977
Scenes of West Side neighborhoods in Chicago, Illinois.

Elevated views of large buildings of Chicago and ground nearby. Buses and 1960s cars on busy roads, streets, and highways in West Chicago area. A streetcar or trolley goes by on the road. Its connecting electric rod can be seen above it. Pedestrians walk on roads and sidewalks in the Little Italy neighborhood of Chicago. Shops in the area. Three women walk on sidewalk in front of a pizzeria. Old men on streets. A residential housing area, and the Notre Dame de Chicago Roman Catholic Church (1335 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60607, United States) nearby. High rise apartment buildings and housing projects. City of Chicago workers, of the Department of Urban Renewal, work to clean debris from an area and load it on a truck. A huge building under construction.

Date: 1965
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036794
Hungarian refugees working in factories, attending school in Chicago.

Sign reads “State of Illinois Department of Labor Division of Unemployment Compensation Illinois State Employment Service Affiliated with United States Employment Service”. An Illinois State Employment Agency officer picks up a rotary dial phone to make calls. Employee making calls and inspecting files. A Hungarian refugee who has immigrated to the United States talking on phone and smiling. State Employment Agency Officer reads a file on his desk while talking on the phone. A worker lifts a cogwheel and puts it on a bench. Worker grinding teeth on a cogwheel. Hungarian immigrant cleaning a lathe at the Jones-Dabney Co. factory in Chicago. Hungarian refugee wears a white “Jones-Dabney Co.” cap while working. A Hungarian woman works as a draftsman. Draftsmen drawing at drafting tables. External view of a Chicago area Catholic school. Elementary students attend class at a Catholic school in Chicago. Views of children seated at their desks in the classroom, facing the teacher during class. Hungarian refugees attend Catholic school. A priest teaches students reading. “My Captain Boy Savior” is written above the blackboard. Hungarian refugee girls listening in class. Hungarian girl reading a Catholic children’s book, “This is our Town: Faith and Freedom” (by M.A. Sister M. Marguerite, S.N.D.). “Boy Savior Our Guiding Star” written on the wall of the classroom. First grade students learn to write using crayons.

Date: 1956, December
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079692
Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) throws the first pitch of Game 3 of the World Series in Chicago during campaign to run as President of the United States

Silhouette of train carrying New York Governor and Presidential Candidate Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) on the way to Chicago, Illinois. Chicago Mayor, Anton Cermak, honors Franklin Roosevelt in special dinner. Close up view of Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak speaking. Mayor Anton Cermak passes a baseball to Franklin Roosevelt during the Baseball World Series Game 3 (New York Yankees vs. Chicago Cubs) at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Due to paralysis, Franklin Roosevelt stands upright with the assistance of his son, James Roosevelt. Crowds watching the Baseball World Series Game 3, the same game famous American baseball player, Babe Ruth, won for the New York Yankees over the Chicago Cubs. Franklin Roosevelt throws the first pitch of Game 3 of the World Series. View of the Baseball World Series Game 3. View of locomotive train wheel moving.

Date: 1932, October 1
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079094