A Video Tour of Chicago, Circa 1936
Posted Nov. 21, 2012, at 1:55 p.m.
In the 1930s, a young man from Australia was sent to Chicago to study at George Williams College, a South Side institution that later moved to Downers Grove and eventually became part of Aurora University. While in the city, he shot film all over the city, or at least from downtown to South Chicago and back. What's striking is the smog: what William Archer described as having "a peculiar and aggressive individuality."
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Thanks for reposting this video and a link to my letters project blog. It's nice to see that other people are as excited by seeing the city in the 1930s as I was when I had my grandfather's film digitized.