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Edward Bennett's watercolor sketch as a guide for frontispiece for 1909 Plan of Chicago
A bird's-eye view watercolor sketch of Chicago and environs by Edward H. Bennett. This is one of two such sketches found on a few pages of a…
Grant Park with peristyle
The 1917 Grant Park Peristyle appears in this photo looking north from the roof of the Railway Exchange Building during a 1918 parade on Michigan…
Daniel Burnham writing in 1909 Plan of Chicago studio
The prominence of this image on scrapbook pages in Bennett's papers, retained by him in 1953, along with Burnham seen writing in the setting in the…
Michigan Avenue -- looking south from the river
Edward Bennett labeled the title of this photograph on the verso of the photographic print. This view from 1913-1915 looks toward the future site of…
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Lake Forest College Public History Project
This exhibit is about food at Lake Forest College, and and its importance to where it is found on campus....
