Frank Sheffield home movie collection, 1925-1965 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The collection consists of home movies of Frank Sheffield of Americus, Georgia and his family, recorded over a period of forty years, from 1925-1965. Highlights include footage of England in the 1930s (Trafalgar Square, opening of Parliament, street scenes, the Thames, Whipsnade Zoo, Queen Mary in the historic royal coach); the Harrold-Sheffield wedding; the Sheffields' honeymoon at Lakemont; a dinner party thrown by the Sheffields in 1932; the Sheffield and Harrold family servants; Lindbergh's transatlantic flight; New Orleans in the 1940s; pyramids in Tucatan, Cuervavaca and Taxco; an Old Southern Field Flying Jennie airshow from the 1960s; and a trip to Cape Cod