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Concert for the Benefit of the Library of the Alliance Francaise
This program for an April 19, 1920 library benefit concert for the Chicago branch of the Alliance Francaise, a French-sponsored cultural outreach agency, gives a history of the group here and also lists members, officers, and benefit patronesses,…
The Bookplates of John W. Evans
This essay on the Brooklyn-born (March 27, 1855) master wood engraver and bookplate designer John W. Evans, written by Cornelia Eames Neltnor Anthony of West Chicago, IL, may have appeared in the 1936 Yearbook of the Washington, DC-based American…
Constitution and By-Laws of the Athenean Literary Society, of Lake Forest University, Lake Forest, Ill, 1880
Printed by University Press, Lake Forest, Ill.
Grand Annual Flunk of the Athenean Literary [?] Society, Official Program
Humorous program containing the Disorder of Exercises for the evening including an old moth-eaten address, grand burlesque of a modern orator, laughable pantomime and a musical solo with accompanyment on the knee bones. Parody of Class Exercise Day…
Constitution and By-Laws of the Athenean Literary Society of Lake Forest University, 1884
Printed by A. M. Wood Co., Printers, Chicago.
Lake Forest Academy building, 1865-1879, with Baker engraving, 1869
This engraving appears on p. 1 of a 4-page 1869 circular for Lake Forest Academy, boys' preparatory school, and the new then Ferry Hall, ladies' seminary and girls' preparatory school.
The enraving appears to be signed "Baker", very likely W. D.…
Lake Forest College World War II Military Records, ed. Francis Beidler II (Lake Forest: the College,ca. 1950), 199 pp.
This 200 pp. volume created by the College in 1950 was published the same year, apparently, as was completed the Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse, South Campus. The introductory portion of the book lists and shows photographs of those who died in World War…
Lake Forest [East Estate District] Historic District Revised Nomination Form, 2012: draft by Benjamin Historic Certifications for the City of Lake Forest, Illinois (DRAFT with edits and comments by Gail Hodges), temporary and preliminary
Commissioned by the City of Lake Forest and carried out by Susan Benjamin's historic property research firm (Gwen Sommers Yant, etc.), BEnjamin Historic Certifications ( http://www.benjaminhistoric.com/ )with volunteer assistance in 2010-12, this is…
William Bross--a biographical memoir and transcriptions of his diary (1875-1888) and of his correspondence with Mark Hopkins, Williams College, 1850s
This pdf document is of the carbon copy of a tpescript, apparently prepared by presidential assistant La Tourette Stockwell in the late 1930s for Dr. Herbert McC. Moore, president of Lake Forest College. It may have bee nthe basis for a biography…