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"Freedom or Planned Economy--There is No Middle Road" by Lewis H. Brown, Commencement address for Lake Forest College, 1945
Iowa born and educated, Lewis Herold Brown (1894-1951) led for two decades until his death in 1951 Johns-Manville Corporation, New York. He also founded in that city in 1943 the forerunner of today's American Enterprise Institute of Washington, DC, a…
"Glee Club Sings at Kenosha," Currens Scrapbook Glee Club Trip West series, Photo 001
From Earl Currens '11 scrapbook, series of Glee Club Trip West images: The Lake Forest University Glee Club trip to the West was documented in the institution's Stentor newspaper for February 16, 1911, 1 (v. 25, no. 14). This photo of the men in the…
"James R. Getz: Collector & Activist"
During the decade following Mr. Getz's death in 1986 the Donnelley Library, in cooperation with the College's development office, offered annual James R. Getz Lectures. In February of 1995, a year after Arthur H. Miller became Archivist and Librarian…
"Merrie Meade, Early Lake Forest Residence" (Calvin Durands)
These two clippings from the mid 20th C. were stapled together among the files of the Public Information office, transferred to the library in the early 1970s and forming a core of College Archives then. The first shorter one just lists homes at…
"Mr. Liston as Moll Flaggon"
This small (approx. 6 in. by 3 3/4 in.), hand-colored engraved print apparently is removed from a book or periodical. The print shows the actor John Liston in the role of the "low camp follower" Moll Flagon in General Burgoyne's 1780 play, "Lord of…
"Roadside" (Sylvester Lind, builder/owner, 1859), 550 East Deerpath, Lake Forest, IL. Lake Forest Country Places no 26, Lake Forest Journal, Volume 5, Issue 5 (March 1997)
This 1990s local monthly periodical article may be superceded by later published sources, as listed in the Lake Forest Country Places page of the Archives and Special Collections main page:…
"Routes to Mundelein and the Eucharistic Congress, June 1926" map
This one-sheet 9" by 12" color half-tone map, folded into brochure size in thirds, of the Chicago North Shore area shows transportation lines converging on Mundelein, Illinois, and the St. Mary of the Lake Seminary there. The lead name among the…