Collection Items

  • Film, Video
    TR reviews and addresses troops [Fort Sheridan, Ill.]; TR riding in auto, Chicago, 1917
    TR riding in auto, Chicago, 1917 | Theodore Roosevelt reviews and addresses troops [Fort Sheridan, Ill.] | Theodore Roosevelt riding in auto, Chicago, 1917
    Two segments of TR during a midwestern speaking tour in support of military preparedness. On September 27, 1917, TR visited the officers' training camp at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Views of troops marching past a reviewing stand for inspection by TR and several civilian and military personnel; identified on the platform with TR are Captain Georges Etienne Bertrand (wearing beret), a visiting Frenchman who instructed...
    • Contributor: Meeker, Arthur - Bertrand, Georges Etienne - Insull, Samuel - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Ryan, James A. - Universal Film Manufacturing Company
    • Date: 1917
  • Film, Video
    All-American news. [1945-03, no. 1]
    Inventory title: All American news 10 | Inventory title: All American news X
    All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events. Highlights of this issue include segments about a black tank battalion (probably the 784th Tank Battalion) serving as part of...
    • Contributor: Barnett, Claude - All American News, Inc - Alexander, William D. - Glucksman, E. M. (Emanuel M.)
    • Date: 1945
  • Film, Video
    All-American news. [1945-03, no. 2]
    Inventory title: All American news 13 | Inventory title: All American news XIII
    All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events. Highlights of this issue include segments about women making munitions in the Washington Navy Yard, Adam Clayton Powell addressing a...
    • Contributor: Barnett, Claude - All American News, Inc - Alexander, William D. - Glucksman, E. M. (Emanuel M.)
    • Date: 1945
  • Film, Video
    All-American news. [1945-01, no. 3]
    Inventory title: All American news, 1945, unidentified issue
    All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events. Highlights of this issue include segments about the retirement of Mr. Lucas, steward on the President's private railcar, who served...
    • Contributor: Barnett, Claude - All American News, Inc - Alexander, William D. - Glucksman, E. M. (Emanuel M.)
    • Date: 1945
  • Film, Video
    All-American news. [1945-05, no. 1]
    Inventory title: All American news 10 | Inventory title: All American news X
    All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events. Highlights of this issue include segments about Saudi Arabian attendees of the United Nations Conference on International Organization (April 25-June...
    • Contributor: Barnett, Claude - All American News, Inc - Alexander, William D. - Glucksman, E. M. (Emanuel M.)
    • Date: 1945
  • Film, Video
    All-American news. [1945-04, no. 1]
    Inventory title: All American news 10 | Inventory title: All American news X
    All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events. Highlights of this issue include segments about Walter F. Walter, named Secretary of Public Works for Liberia, Dr. Charles W....
    • Contributor: Barnett, Claude - All American News, Inc - Alexander, William D. - Glucksman, E. M. (Emanuel M.)
    • Date: 1945