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19) 19613 United Fund Victory Dinner At Dow
No description available
2) 18717 Salute to Dow
No description available
35) 18679 Orville Freeman Tours Dow
Orville Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture
4) 2790.0001 [Roger Inman Film]
[The film is water damaged and some images are obscured.] A series of “magic tricks” accomplished with film editing: A trick with a bottle. A woman appears, standing on a table....
5) 2716.1270 New England Sunday - Repack, Part I, July 7, 1985
NES X3134 Repack July , 1985 Part I Rec. 6/21/85 Air. 7/7/85;Title: ‘New England Sunday’. Frank Avruch and Jan Holmes host. Avruch talks with former Boston police commissioner Joseph M. Jordan. They discuss his retirement, police officer ...
23) 2509.0001 Summer of '72, 1972--Linda Stearns--home movies, Reel 1
Among things on the footage is a performance of "The Circus" by Polly Thomas School of Dance. It was filmed summer of 1972. Nearly a decade later is some footage from the Airp...;Circus performers and dancers on a field, with people seated around the edge. Recording equipment. A circus performance. A man with a camera. A clown leads a dance procession. (...;Birthday - RED DOLL Cake "3"
3) 2507.0006 [S.D. Kelsey--home movies] Reel 6
Can notes: "1950-51 Kids Windstorm Oak Park Steve's camp Clovis";REEL SIX 1950-1951 Reel Six is all taken at Clovis Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Stevie is 7 ½ and I am 5 years old. The opening scene Daddy shot at the base air...
15) 2507.0003 [S.D. Kelsey--home movies] Reel 3
Can notes: " WP to Maxwell Football Game, Ft. Put, Ft. Monmouth, T-6, WP in snow." "Fall 1948-1949 West Point 1948 Football game, Mechanics Dept. party at Round Pond. Hunti...; REEL THREE 1948 The 1948 football season game between arch rivals Army and Navy is seen followed by an after game party where the men and women, all officers and their spouse...
34) 2507.0001 [S.D. Kelsey--home movies] Reel 1
Can notes: " 1) Engagement pictures May, 1942 2) Stevie's first holy pictures July, 1943 3) Christening day - Marge" 4) Stevie with Jack for first time in front of 150" Add...;REEL ONE 1942-1944 The scene opens with pre-marriage expectations. The date is May 27, 1942. The location, Post Chapel, Lemoore Army Flying School, California. The time, ...
10) 2187.0016 [Smyth Family--home movies] Reel 16
Footage taken from boat of waves, shoreline. Possibly Alcatraz. Air force plane/jet. Farm at sunset. Graduation/commencement exercise. Storm at sandy beach.
2) 2002-013.0002 Florida, family scenes, circus--Julia Crafts Sheridan--home movies. Reel 2
Florida boat; man with two fish. Florida farm scenes, flowers, women. Picnic at picnic table, 8 or so adults. Views of Barnum & Bailey Circus with elephants and other animals. ...
21) 1944 Collecting America: Folk Art and the Shelburne Museum
Tour of folk art museum in Shelburne, Vt. including reproduction of Vermont in the 1930s as actors portray collector Electra Hevameyer Webb and associates going to barn to colle...
13) 1906.0002 [Belfast Movie Queen footage] Reel 2
Label on can "Fire Dept. Steamer, Boston Boat, Steamer Belfast, Pygmy Circus,-Parade & Show, Belfast Dam Bursts" Color footage of fire department steam engine and hose dem...
71) 1837.001 [Houlton Air Force Base Parades]
Amateur footage of Houlton Air Force Base parades during World War II
25) 1688.0009 [Annie Wood Nowell--home movies] Reel 9
Notes from can: 3A. Burr House & Circus; Win. '27, Dux. '27; Burr House; Coffins; Garfields; Masquerade; N's Hair cut. 6 yrs.; Jumble Gym [?]; Swims; Shown at Dux. party '44...;Intertitles: '58416', 'WINCHESTER, SPRING 1927 NANCY 1 YR. 9 MOS. OLD'. A toddler (Nancy) playing indoors. Nancy playing in the garden. Two girls walking outdoors. Nancy in the ...
25) 1370.0025 [Karl Stefan--home movies] Reel 25
Amateur footage of family and travel. Leader notes as follows: 25. Key West apt. dedication, boat scenes, July '57. NHF Cataloguer's Notes: Baby in stroller. People in summer cl...
17) 1323.0012 [Philip Thompson--home movies] Reel 012
Label: 'Maine State Pier--Waterfront Park Boston--Haymarket Square [Boston]--Ringling Bros. Circus--Portland Waterfront. 1980.' (5:08.51). Maine Pier. Harbor. Ships docks. Water...
17) 1323.0002 [Henry P. Rines--home movies] Reel 2
Can notes: 'Fair--Chipman property. White Mountains. 1928.' // Shrunken, fairly heavy edge damage. // Scenes of harness racing track. Horse racing. Shots of horse drawn carriage...
9) 1229.0009 [Charles Gilbert--home movies] NHF Reel 009
NHF cataloguer's notes as follows. Film box notes/dates in parentheses. Reel numbers are NHF-assigned. Reel 9: (Circus.) (1929.) (37:32) Circus parade, animals in wagons. Trolle...
15) 1229.0003 [Charles Gilbert--home movies] NHF Reel 003
NHF cataloguer's notes as follows. Intertitles in quotes; film box notes/dates in parentheses. Reel numbers are NHF-assigned. Reel 3: (Circus). (1929). (10:17). Two women sittin...
18) 1191 cat. 1096-28-WABI-68 Inactivation Ceremonies at Dow
No description available
17) 1191 cat. 1083-03-WABI-67 Bangor Air Force Cadet Before Lions Club
No description available
16) 1191 cat. 1075-18-WABI-67 Military Retirement Ceremony At Dow
No description available
86) 1191.1100.21 [Last Planes Leave Dow]
Last bomber plane and stratotanker leave Dow Air Force Base in Bangor; Air Force men board plane, it takes off; 'City of Bangor' painted on side of bomber; inspection of men in ...
25) 1140.5786 [Loring Restart Hearing]
Loring Air Force Base closure hearing; Senator Edmund Muskie, Governor Joseph (Joe) Brennan, William Cohen, Olympia Snowe. Other people speak. Dale Duff reports.
21) 1140.2983 [New Plans For Dow Base]
Interview with Bangor Development Director Ed McKeon about plans for the former Dow Air Force Base; President Harold Chute (sp?) of chemical company opening plant.
27) 1140.0463 [Shrine Circus in Bangor]
Opening night of Shrine Circus at Bangor Auditorium. Footage of tigers, trapeze artists.
13) 1140.0460 [Circus Sets Up at Bangor Auditorium]
Circus equipment set up at Bangor Auditorium. Performer practices on trapeze. Footage of ponies and elephants, tigers in cages.
33) 0780.0006 [Sawyer--home movies] Reel 006
NHF cataloguer's notes as follows (box/reel notes in quotes, reel numbers are NHF-assigned). Reel 6: 'Jo and John in boat, rainbow, Mt. Washington, air circus ; ca. 1939'. Lengt...;Scenes of rainbow. Man and woman in canoe and then in motor boat. Some airplane stunts and parachutist, but these are poor quality. Views of mountains and surrounding area.
11) 0751.0018 [Wilbur Senter--home movies] Reel 18
Amateur footage. Can notes (quoted) and reel notes as follows; reel numbers are NHF-assigned. Reel 18: 'Circus and ski jumping reel.' Robbins Brothers Circus. National Ski J...
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...
23) 0565 cat. 0038-02-WABI-59 Cerebral Palsy Children
Children roller skating, at circus, at day camp, at YMCA pool, and at the United Cerebral Palsy Center.
11) 0558 cat. 0060-12-WABI-63 NORAD Anthem
Promo for the North American Air Defense Command which tells how the military defenses of the U.S. and Canada protect North America from aerospace attack. Shots of flags, jets, ...
11) 0456 cat. 1071-22-WABI-67 Bangor City Council Meets Federal Representative on Dow Re-use
Men sitting at table with papers and talking. Man sitting down. Several shots of men sitting down at table. Shot of assembled crowd. Men at table with map of Bangor behind them.
9) 0456 cat. 1071-15-WABI-67 Penobscot Bay Power Squadron at DOW
Two men talking near plaque on wall which reads 'James Frederick Dow 1913-1966 2nd Lieutenant U.S. Army Air Corp.' Men talking in front of plaque and picture.
65) 0451 cat. 1059-05-WABI-67 Dow Fireworks Display
Bangor: LS of Dow Air Force Base buildings. People sitting in grassy area. Fireworks.
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