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3) 0137.0002 Pilgrim Forests (reel 1 of 2)
Pilgrim Forests, produced by the National Park Service, United States Department of Interior, in cooperation with the Emergency Cooperation Work, about Civilian Conservation Cor...
6) 0252.0067 [Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 67
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 67: (100 ft.) 'Niagara and birds 1936.' Niagara Falls. Birds.
9) 0252.0071 [Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 71
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 71: (175 ft.) 'Caribbean colors, 1936-1937 #1.' Color. Snow in woods. Bon voyage scenes, leaving New York o...
8) 0252.0086 [Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 86
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 86: (50 ft., dc 1938) 'View from Howards Mountain, Fort O'Brien.'
9) 0702.0005 [Lloyd B. Hayes--home movies] Reel 5
Rachel Millard and two other women greet each other at the docks. A man steps in a rowboat and paddles around a bit. The man and two women row the boat to shore, the women get...
4) 0721.0001 [Naturalist Films] Tape 1
Untitled educational/cultural films and nature films. // Date range from information in collection folder. // Original footage is 16mm film. // NHF retains video copy with the f...
35) 0721.0002 [Naturalist Films] Tape 2
Untitled educational/cultural films and nature films. // Date range from information in collection folder. // Original footage is 16mm film. // NHF retains video copy with the f...
4) 0721.0003 [Naturalist Films] Tape 3
Untitled educational/cultural films and nature films. // Date range from information in collection folder. // Original footage is 16mm film. // NHF retains video copy. // NHF vi...
32) 0726.0004 [unidentified--home movies] Reel 4
NHF cataloguer's notes (reel numbers are NHF-assigned): Reel 4: General Electric Plant. Race track (Louisville or maybe Schenectedy?) Large lake. Many boathouses. Speedboat. A w...
3) 0726.0005 [unidentified--home movies] Reel 5
NHF cataloguer's notes (reel numbers are NHF-assigned): Reel 5: More scenes in Grand Central Station. More Statue of Liberty and harbor scenes. Mid-town scenes from atop a high ...
17) 0726.0006 [unidentified--home movies] Reel 6
NHF cataloguer's notes (reel numbers are NHF-assigned): Reel 6: Country scenes. Small-town American Legion Parade. Mountains. Lakes. Beach scenes. Same family (as in earlier ree...
28) 0726.0008 [unidentified--home movies] Reel 8
NHF cataloguer's notes (reel numbers are NHF-assigned): Reel 8: Circus. Zoo. Mountain scenes. A small-town parade. Four-masted schooner 'Seth Parker' open to the public. Isl...
1) 0801.0001 Maine family activities and travels, circa 1930-1950-- Ben Blodget--home movies. Reel 1
Compiled home movie reel including 1939 New York World's Fair color footage shot by Benjamin P. Blodget, resident of Bucksport, Maine. ;New York World's Fair footage: United States Building and Lagoon of Nations with fountains. Government Zone Pavilions including Romania Pavilion. Union of Soviet Socialist Rep...
12) 0814.0001 Winter Sports in the White Mountain National Forest
VHS reference copy of USDA film. Summary: Highlights of White Mountain National Forest winter sports activities including scenes of skiing and invitational race in Tuckerman's R...
13) 0998.0001-.0005 [unidentified--home movies] Reels 1-5
Amateur footage with hand-lettered intertitles. Reels 1-5: (approx. 40 min.; reel divisions unclear in cat. notes) Reel 1: 'Thanksgiving 1929 at home.' Patriarch at table with n...
120) 95-40.0001 A picnic at Isle Royale--Dassler family--home movies. Reel 1
NHF cataloguer's notes, 2/96 for Reel 1: interior scenes of summer cottage, furnishings; elderly man smoking a pipe; men and boys (four or five in number) carrying picnic suppli...
3) 95-40.0003 Camping trip at Isle Royale--Dassler family--home movies. Reel 3
NHF cataloguer's notes, 2/96 for Reel 3: bull moose swimming across calm lake water; exits onto wooded shoreline; boy, an eldery man, and a young woman fishing for 'muskie' from...
3) 95-40.0005 Scoville Point Camp on Isle Royale--Dassler family--home movies. Reel 5
NHF cataloguer's notes, 2/96 for Reel 5: Onboard family cabin cruiser; elderly couple standing on deck, dressed in suits; young woman and boy seated on deck; rock outcrops along...
7) 95-40.0007 Slate Islands, picnic at McCargoe Cove, Isle Royale--Dassler family--home movies. Reel 7
NHF cataloguer's notes, 2/96 for Reel 7: Entrance to bay on shore of Lake Superior; panoramic shot of wooded, hilly shore forming bay; 8-10 men 'poling' saw logs as they float i...
16) 1051 [H.D. Morrison--home movies] Reel 3
Collection-level description: amateur footage with scenes of children and activities at the family home on President Avenue in Trenton as well as at summer camp. Vacation footag...
2) 1051 [H.D. Morrison--home movies] Reels 4-7
Collection-level description: amateur footage with scenes of children and activities at the family home on President Avenue in Trenton as well as at summer camp. Vacation footag...
22) 1108.0075 [Archie Stewart--home movies] Reel 075
Reel 75: Archie Stewart can notes: Maryah's trip West, 1939. 1) San Francisco World's Fair. 2) Yosemite Park. 3) Oregon: Mt. Hood, Columbia River, Multnomah Falls. 4) Walla Wall...;Mary Stewart Hafer notes: 1939 Western Trip with "Cousin Catherine" Weaver Miss Weaver was a cousin of my grandmother, Ella Florence Todd Warden. She was Principal of Chestnut...
148) 1289.0001 [Ernest G. Stillman--home movies] Reel 001
Can notes as follows; reel numbers are donor-assigned. Reel 1: Maine Thrillers, travel. Maine, Thunder Hole, Fire before and after fishing, by EGS.;b&w, Intertitle: from "Glimpses of the Maine Coast" view from moving boat of rocky shore and trees. Top of frame, dirt. lobster pot, man hauls trap. Man is wearing captain's...
33) 1515.0002 [Oscar R. Houston—home movies] Reel 2
Bash Bish Falls State Park in Mt. Washington, MA. Footage of a waterfall. A shot of two men in the surrounding rocks. Footage of a boy climbing up a fallen tree and over some...
13) 1515.0003 [Crillon Mountain footage] Reel 3
Footage of men loading their gear onto a train. Scenes of men on a boat. Shots of the mountain landscape from the water. Footage of men carrying a canoe across a rocky path b...
14) 1515.0004 [Crillon Mountain footage] Reel 4
Footage of three men hiking through the snow interspersed with shots of the surrounding mountains. Several men ski the slopes. A man sets a still camera and then rushes to joi...
15) 1515.0006 [Oscar R. Houston—home movies] Reel 6
Intertitle: “CAMP 2 “THE ELYSIAN FIELDS” ON THE MORAINE OF WEST FORAKER GLACIER.” Shots of snow covered mountain peaks. Men take in the view. One man takes a picture. Inter...
28) 1612.0014 [Chute Homestead—home movies] Reel 14
A few shots of someone feeding deer through a fence. A few shots of people looking at a mountain view from pedestal-mounted binoculars. Footage of a winding mountain road, som...;Notes on can: “Mount Desert ’35 Helen & Fawn Helen & Barb Mam & Gramp Brunswick Springs Lilacs Mt. Washington Air Views Chamberlain Augusta Meets Lincoln Beecher Pus...
29) 1612.0018 [Chute Homestead—home movies] Reel 18
Footage of the National Mall in Washington D.C., including the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. Footage of George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens. A ...;Notes on can: “Fla. No. 1”
30) 1638.0009 Old Faithful, Monticello, Colonial Williamsburg--Robert N. Lupfer--home movies. Reel 9
Views of Yellowstone National Park: Old Faithful, the park lodge (Old Faithful Inn), a black bear turns and runs, a Park ranger, lake, mountains. Snow behind a field. People cro...
3) 1682.0003 Glacier National Park, Montana--Robert Hoadley Whipple--home movies. Reel 3
Black-and-white home movies of the Whipple family's 1938 visit to Glacier National Park in Montana.;On can: "Glacier National Park #1, 1938";Reel opens with pan across roadside teepee structures. "Glacier Park" building, a deer plays with a dog on park ground. Camera pans over mountains and water. Shot of bear cub...
32) 1682.0004 Glacier National Park, Montana--Robert Hoadley Whipple--home movies. Reel 4
Compiled black-and-white and color home movies of the Whipple family's 1938 visit to Glacier National Park in Montana.;On can: "Glacier Park #2, 1938";Reel opens with color footage of Glacier National Park and surroundings. Scenes include river rapids, a waterfall, various mountain vistas. Color section also includes scenes ...
25) 1682.0006 Western travels in Colorado, Utah, California, 1939--Robert Hoadley Whipple--home movies. Reel 6
On can: “Western #1, Grand Canyon 1939”;Color home movies of the Whipple family's travels through the American West in 1939, including scenes shot in Colorado, Utah, and California.;Stone marker enclosed in iron fencing. Mountain vistas. People standing in doorway at the Star Tunnel mine in Clear Creek County, CO, below sign: "Star Tunnel/Property of Cons...
21) 1682.0007 Western travels in California, Arizona, and Mexico, 1939--Robert Hoadley Whipple--home movies. Reel 7
On can: "Western #2, Grand Canyon 1939”;Color home movies of the Whipple family's travels through the American West and Mexico in 1939, including scenes of San Francisco, Tijuana, and Grand Canyon National Park. ;Reel begins with city views of downtown San Francisco. Mission-style architecture, including a church with an ornate mural on its façade. A passing parade features a marching ...
2) 2177.0070 [Henry Sturgis Dennison--home movies] Reel 70
Label: 'Utah Col'd Kodacolor.' // Item has color portion as well as a portion that appears b&w - this part is likely a Kodacolor print.;DVD slate: Reel 70 Utah, 1933, 1934. Out of focus tilt up rock formation. Landscape views, a lot of camera motion across rocks. Scratches to film. This is a pack trip? Mules ...
13) 2241.0022 [Alexander Forbes—home movies] Reel 22,  Accession 2241
Box notes: "1930- Yellowstone Geysers, Wyo. for Nat." Steam rises from Old Faithful Geyser at Yellowstone National Park. Visitors walk by and watch.
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