Summary

Blind members of the American Federation of Musicians attend the 1953 annual Christmas party at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago.

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Pathe
Negative # 36912
Clip SR001081_01_03.mov
Date 12/25/53
Title Blind members of the American Federation of Musicians attend the 1953 annual Christmas party at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago.
Description An older man wearing sunglasses and a boutonniere with a woman and girl at a banquet table with sign "The Musicians Christmas Party" at rear / an older man with sunglasses seated at a table with two middle aged women / VS a man in a Santa Claus costume speaks into a microphone placed in the center of a dais / VS two men eat eating / two men with a woman eating grapefruit / a woman seen through the shoulders of a couple seated at a table / a woman's band conducted by a woman wearing a long gown / VS woman violinists / left profile of the enthusiastic conductor / woman flutist / violinists / shots of darkened ballroom floor seen from balcony
Country United States
Province/State Illinois
City Chicago

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