Children playing on land and on boat. Pan of lake and speedboats. Meyer having a smoke. Hilda and the children playing and going on a boat ride. Shots of sailboats, docks, dogs,...

Close-ups of Hilda and family at Lake Placid, pan of lake, Uncle Jake by lake. Davis' family and adult friends mugging for camera and kissing and dancing. Playing ball with chil...

Title, 'Nice from the sea.' Water, hillside. Title, 'Nice, Promenade des Anglais.' People at tables. Title, 'Herald of the Carnival, Nice.' More such titles. Stable shots, no CU...;Title card with the still image of a man and woman standing near trees: 'Nice from the sea'. Panning shot of Nice shoreline, seen from the water. Shot of the beach. The Jetée-Pr...

Label on can: '#5 Leaving Shanghai 1933. Bou Dam, England, Paris, Clevelly, etc.' // 1931 and 1932 edge codes on film. // Shots of Shanghai, city from water. Shots of suburbs (E...

Date range from edge codes on film. // Notes from film tag: 'Sarasota (Fl.); circus; ballgame; end of pageant; celery farm; ranch [?].' // Monkeys in cage. Leopard in cage. Ring...

Two people raising an American flag up a flagpole. People cutting brush. Two children in the back of a car. A man (Uncle Charles) and a dog (Ted). Charles sharpening a scythe. C...;Flagpole. Chopping at the Buckfield turn, clearing the road, by Curtis & CCW. 1929 Ford station wagon. Uncle Charles & Ted the dog. Uncle Charles sharpening his Scythe a...;[They are preparing location for tennis court, according to Aagot Wright, wife of Walter Woodman Wright.] // Donor note: The elderly woman having the birthday is Mrs. Maxim, n...

A group of people and a dog. A man places a sign for ‘Windy Ledge’, as two others watch. Placing stones around the sign. Shot of the sign. Close up of a boy with a bird on his h...;Visiting the Ingrams next door. Setting out the Windy Ledge sign, carved by Vivian Alera, Norway artist. Curtis, Charles, Mary, Brooks, Weston Uncle Ell, CHCW Pheonry? on Brooks...

Shot of the Windy Ledge house. (Paris, Maine) A wood-sided car drives past. Children walking through a field. Orchard trees. Intertitle: ‘MRS. MAXIM AGE 93 CUTS HER BIRTHDAY CAK...;Windy Ledge (dark) Lena driving by. Corn field across the road. Brooks and Mary crossing the field, resing, running CHCW looking at the view. "Mushroom" Sears Roebuck cottage in...

Amateur footage with hand-lettered intertitles. Reels 6-10: (reel divisions unclear in cat. notes) People playing with spotted dog and hose. Zoo. 'The homeopathic hospital at Rh...

A picnic at a table outdoors. [End of Reel]

[illegible] at 215 Bishop. Bill. Burd's 1st cat Anne + friends in snow. Grandfather Reed. Watch Hill, Eddy. Children. Nanna, Uncle Blair. Bill + Hotchkess. (over) [illegible] on...;Four women in chairs in a garden. Three older women outside a stone building. A young girl leaning against a pillar. Two girls holding cats. Puppies in a dog house. Dogs seen th...

Dobb - 1931. Bliss' Graduation Dobbs - 1931. Anne's Graduation Vassar - 1930 Commencement Hammonds + Edith Woolsey at Bishop St. Yale Ball Game Vassar 1930 Vassar 1935 Bliss Gra...;Women playing baseball/softball. People racing around a track, a large brick building in the background. A crowd of young women on a lawn/garden. People seated outdoors (graduat...

NHF cataloguer's notes: Seagull. Shot seagull eggs. Breaking shell. Progression out of egg. Holding baby bird in hand. Holding rumpled mother bird. Shot of seagulls in flight. (...

Amateur footage of Great Northern Paper operations. // Opening title cards: 'All This for a Sheet of Paper.' 'Millinocket Mill. Fire Protection. Wood Pile. F.C. Bowler. 'Railroa...

16. June 1931, Susanne indoors (super), July 1931, shore and circus, Aug 1931, Isle of Springs, Bensams, Aug 1931, Isle of Springs sunset, inspector. ;NHF Cataloguer's notes for Reel 16: (00:00) Man with infant and child. (04:00) Outdoor picnic. Blimp in air. Family at beach. Gray image. (07:00) Outdoor circus events. Horses. ...

17. Aug 1931--San on porch, sunbath, yacht club bake, costume party, unbeaching boat, [marshmallow] roast, Gertrude's departure, Erik sawing tree, farewell to island.;NHF Cataloguer's notes for Reel 17: (18:00) Baby naked on table outdoors. Baby in carriage. Picnic. (22:00) Man swimming to a small moored boat. (28:00) Roasting marshmallows on...

18. Tom goes to school Sept 15 [1931], Susanne 6 months Oct 25 [1931], Halloween costume Oct. 31 [1931], Halloween pumpkin, start to Newton [George Washington] Bridge Nov. 25 [1...;NHF Cataloguer's notes for Reel 18: (37:00) Family with infant. (41:00) Child with Halloween mask. Child with pumpkin (jack-o-lantern). (44:00) Crossing George Washington Bridge...

Label on can: 'Charles River 1931-1932. Michael, June 1935. Farmer's Day 1935.' // Film has 1947 and 1948 (or 1927-1928) edge codes, likely a dupe. // Same family appears throug...

Label on can: 'Reel 27.' // Note on reel: 'E.H. Reed.' // Film has 1931 and 1934 edge codes. // Intertitle: 'WEST INDIES CRUISE. S.S. LADY NELSON Summer 1934.' 'BERMUDA.' Woman ...

Depicts the year-round activities of the Machias Lumber Company on the Machias River in Washington County, Maine. Includes scenes of winter logging in the forest with hand tools...

Amateur footage. Processing notes, PSL: Lakeside scenes with fir trees, picnic, fishing, women feeding ducks; sheep farm, boy with dog and puppie, rodeo; boys aerial footage of ...;People seated at an outdoor table beside a cabin. A man with a line of fish. A group of people on horseback. A man and a dog leading horses. Two men in a motor boat. People seat...

Notes from can: Discard. No. 2C. '27, '28, '31 & '40. Picnic backwards. 27 group in fur coats down from Win. white building. His girls H & N trying on hats at Win. at Bu...;Dark shot of a girl (Helen) and a toddler, (Nancy) reading. An older man, Helen and Nancy sitting together. Nancy playing. Intertitle: 'Helen was dressing for a party.' Helen in...

Notes from can: 2B. Semi-good trips, etc. Mixed; Ben Block's horses. Win. '27; Maribel Vincent, World Champion before Sonja Henie, skates at Win. (M.L.'s play.); Picnic at Saqui...;A man training a horse. Intertitle: 'Red Rover, another Ben’s prize horses.' A man leading Red Rover. People skating, including Maribel Vincent. Close up of a woman with skating...

Notes from can: 7A. N. at 6. M. Vinson's. N. mates.; Win. '27, '31 & Dux. '31.; Helen, Win. porch, 14 yrs.; Helen has breakfast with Nancy, 1 3/4 yrs.; Helen rides with Ruth...;A girl (Helen) sitting by the window. Intertitle: 'Helen and Ruth Wadleigh.' Two girls on horseback. Intertitle: 'Ben Black’s Flamingo”, Blue Ribbon of the Turf.' A man training...

Notes from can: 8A Wood Relations. 1927-1932; Spring '27. Parker & Leonard. Carpenters; Summer, '27 at Burr House, Dux.; Fall '27 or '28, Barbara Wood; Fall '27, Kay and Joe...;Intertitle: 'Parker and Leonard Wood'. Two men sitting and smoking. Three men pose for the camera. Intertitle: 'The Carpenters.' Two women and a man sitting on the steps. A woma...

VHS copy of 17 reels donated with film, stored in vault. // Videotape has narration. // VHS video notes: 1928 - Powder Point house renovations, Duxbury, MA. 1927 - Nancy 1 year ...

1930 and 1931 edge codes on film. // Can label: 'Nassau. May 1931.'

1930 edge code on film. // Can label: 'Ludington 1931.' // Airplane in flight, landing.

1930 edge code on film. // Can label: '2+3 Ludington 1931.'

Can label: '[ ? ], Niagara, Queen Mary.' // Date range from edge codes on film. // Reel was apparently transferred in two parts, as .0004A and .0004B. // 1930 Niagara Falls and ...

Can label: 'Choate, Hockey, Destroyers.' // 1928, 1929, 1933 edge codes on film. // 1929, The Choate School: Pomfret Hockey Game, John Booth, Walter Kelly, Bud Sherwood, Zeke Sp...

24 reels donated 7/20/2000. 6 additional reels donated 8/31/2001 Reels shot by father (Philip C. Curtis, Sr.) 1929-1938. Notations on reels and in collections file. 1. Grand Man...

Collection of home movies donated 5/2001. Assigned as Gift because of lack of New England content (home movies were primarily taken in Connecticut). Accompanied by donation of B...

Label: 'Cape Cod B+W 1931 KCHROME 1940.';DVD slate: Reel 24, Cape Cod, B&W 1931, Kodachrome 1940. Waves on beach, b&w, film is dirty. Woman in bathrobe walks toward camera and past. Various shots of breaking w...

Box label: 'Family X July 31 to Spring 32.' // Film is warped, has occasional perf damage.;DVD slate: Reel 39. Family 10. July 1931-Spring 1932. Jumping into a pond with stone edges. Quail on rock (blurry). Diving board into pond. Children jump off low dock into water...

Box label: 'Jun. Hill+Family Black+White 1928-1934.' // Film was moldy - cleaned.;DVD slate: Reel 42. Jun. Hill Family, 1928-1934. Biplane on field, scratched and dirty. Biplane lifts off; view of biplane briefly in air. Mold, dirt. CU woman in biplane weari...