Housing to be Demolished for Sumner Field Homes Project

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Housing to be Demolished for Sumner Field Homes Project

1935

Slow pans of the neighborhood to be demolished for the Sumner Field Homes Project. Houses and yards are rundown, in disrepair or boarded up. Glimpses of residents, automobiles and some businesses, including the Minneapolis Knitting Works. (0-7:59) Neighborhood boys playing football and mugging for the camera. (8:00-8:29) Workmen arrive to begin dismantling houses. (8:30-9:20) Slow pan again of houses and buildings to be demolished. Note numbers on buildings. (9:21-10:23) Slow pan of neighborhood from an elevated position, possibly the Minneapolis Kitting Works. Note streetcar at 12:09-18. (10:24-12:38) Stacks of lumber salvaged from demolished houses line the streets. Footage of workmen loading trucks and dismantling houses. (12:39-16:31) Footage of business strip, including the Roy Kee Laundry and Barney's Lunch. (16:32-16:49) 1 16m film reel; digitized to mp4 format in 2014

Houses

Wrecking

Sumner Field Homes Federal Housing Project (Minneapolis, Minn.)

Minnesota Digital Library

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1935

Minnesota Digital Library

Houses

Wrecking

Sumner Field Homes Federal Housing Project (Minneapolis, Minn.)