Description
The Sandra Bean Home Movie Collection includes nine reels of 8mm and 16mm film documenting
African Americans beginning in the late 1930s. The home movies include four b&w and four color films totaling 103 minutes and shows women gardening,
children playing, sleeping car porters traveling across the country working for the Pullman Company, and families enjoying
their leisure time dancing and fishing. A majority of the footage is thought to be taken by Ernest Bean, a sleeping car porter
from the Bay Area, and documents the work of sleeping car porters working for the Pullman Company and middle class
African Americans in the Bay Area during the 1930s-1940s.