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[Item 11B: Travel in Indiana]

Description: This home movie includes footage of a trip to Indiana including Clifty Falls in Madison, Indiana, the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, and what appears to be one of the Ball family homes in Muncie, Indiana. Scenes of Thomas Owsley feeding squirrels are included. Adults and children can be seen playing in the snow.
Date: 193X
Duration: 10 minutes 19 seconds
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[Item 14B: A garden and a livestock event]

Description: This home movie footage includes footage of Alvin Sr., Alvin Jr., Thomas, and Lucy Owsley spending time in a garden and posing with the plants. The video also includes footage from a livestock event. The footage appears to have been taken in Denmark.
Date: 193X
Duration: 13 minutes 35 seconds
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[Item 7B: Family home movie footage]

Description: A home video of Alvin Owsley Sr., Alvin Owsley Jr. Alvin C. Owsley, and others posing with caught fish. David Owsley can be seen swimming and playing in the sand. Adults partake in a dinner party. People board a ship in Manhattan, NY.
Date: 193X
Duration: 11 minutes 55 seconds
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[Owsley home video 1]

Description: A home video shot by Alvin Mansfield Owsley of his family outside of their home. There are two boys dressed up as Native Americans with fake headdresses playing. One stands by a bicycle, one goes down a slide, and they both meet in a sandbox. Lucy Ball Owsley, Alvin's wife, meets the children in the sandbox and they all wave. Later Lucy stands by a bush and moves its branches around.
Date: 193X
Duration: 1 minute 26 seconds
Creator: Owsley, Alvin Mansfield
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[Owsley home video 2]

Description: A home video of the Owsley Family shot by Alvin Mansfield Owsley and his wife Lucy Ball Owsley of the family at their home. They each take turns standing with Alvin Jr. and David, their children, in front of bushes and then Alvin is walking in the road with the two boys.
Date: 193X
Duration: 2 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Owsley, Alvin Mansfield
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[The 1962 Order of Lafayette Freedom Award Dinner]

Description: This film footage, presented by LifeLine, shows the activities of the Order of Lafayette Freedom Award Dinner held December 3, 1962, at the Americana Hotel in New York, NY to honor distinguished leadership in combating Communism. Representatives from the New York County American Legion, National Legion of Greek-American War Veterans, Polish-American Patriotic Society, The Society of American Wars, and the Catholic War Veterans were present. Also present were Katharine St. George, Rear Admiral J… more
Date: December 3, 1962
Duration: 13 minutes 12 seconds
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[Item 4A: Film Reel: Debutantes, Constance Owsley, 1947]

Description: Film of the Debutantes ball of 1947-48, held at the Idlewild Club of Dallas. The footage features young women in ball gowns being escorted around the room by men in tuxedos and dancing, as well as a still photo of the 7 debutantes and their escorts Constance Owsley is featured 7th in line at 05:40.
Date: 1947
Duration: 8 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Curry, Robert M.
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[Item 8B; Owsley's travels to the UK, Ireland and Indiana]

Description: This home movie incorporates title cards and includes footage of Ann Hathaway's Cottage in the United Kingdom, Cobh, Ireland in June 1937. Scenery in Minnetrista, Indiana can be seen. Individuals enjoying the beaches in Leland, Michigan. The launching of the family boat The Rosemary in July 1937 is also present in the film.
Date: 1937~
Duration: 14 minutes 11 seconds
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[Item 5B: 1936-Leland-Judge Owsley; Leland-Chrystal Downs-Owsley (Judge O.) and Others 1937]

Description: Home movie footage of children riding horses; a party at a house on the coast; a parade in downtown Indianapolis featuring floats for the Raymond Springer gubernatorial campaign; women standing in front of rows of fruit jars; and people at the Highland Park train station in Illinois.
Date: [1936..1937]
Duration: 13 minutes 12 seconds

[Men gathered on the stairs at PeleÈ™ Castle]

Description: Photograph of a group of men gathered on the stairs at PeleÈ™ Castle in Sinaia, Romania. Some of the men are dressed in format attire with top hats and others are dressed in military uniforms. Alvin Owsley can be seen at the top of the stairs, in the center of the image (to the left of the man in a military uniform). The group is gathered for Owsley's presentation of his credentials as the new United States minister of Romania to King Carol II.
Date: 1933
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