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John Leslie Preston Image 2.jpg
John Leslie Preston (1945-1994), Lake Forest College Class of 1968, participated in a summer, 1964 summer tutorial project at Miles College, Birmingham, Alabama. This is from a two-page spread in The Forester 1965, pp. 66-67: "Miles College Book…

John Leslie Preston, Image 1.jpg
This is the "senior picture" photograph, p. 162, in The Forester 1968 (yearbook, Lake Forest College for John Leslie Preston (1945-1994). After graduattion Preston worked in the Registrar's Office, North Hall, Middle Campus, during academic year…

Dubin-Trains-Photos-I,II-Master-Finding-Aid.xls
This finding aid, in the form of an Excel (Microsoft) spreadsheet, is a guide to information about 5,500 photographs (prints, slides) on train topics (group I) and railroad lines (group II), about half of Dubin's photographs in this repository. For…

James-Farmer-at-Lake-Forest-College.jpg
This 3 x 5 inch color photograph shows three figures, from the left: an unidentified student, James Farmer, and Eugene Hotchkiss, 1928- . After a presentation in Lilly Reid Holt Chapel, Middle Campus, Lake Forest College, the institution's President…

Herbarium-Sally-Lear-'67-(11-17-65).jpg
This 5 x 7 black and white image shows a student, Sally Lears, Class of 1967, at work preparing a specimen for the Herbarium of Lake Forest College (Johnson SScience Center), probably under Prof. of Biology Elizabeth T. Lunn of Prof. Ken Wiek. The…

Patterson, Joseph Medill.jpg
This portrait of Joseph Medill Patterson, 1879-1946, shows the "Chicago Tribune" fortune scion in the early period of his launching the "New York Daily News" for the Tribune Company, a tabloid paper soon to become the highest circulation newspaper in…

JM Pres LFC Commencement Address.pdf
New York based Lewis H. Brown received an honorary L.L.D. degree from Lake Forest College on May 26, 1945 and delivered the Commencement address to the graduates. His company had a major manufacturing facility for asbestos at Waukegan harbor and he…

Two Women and a Fool.jpg
This is a poster publicizing a Stone & Kimball (Chicago) novel by Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, illustrated by C. D. (Charles Dana) Gibson, entitled, Two Women and a Fool: http://www.archive.org/stream/twowomenafool00chatgoog#page/n10/mode/2up The…

Durand:Smith estate, Deerapth, Lake Forest, Illinois--Arbor.jpg
This view displays a garden allee or arbor, dating from ca. 1900 and situated on the estate that was the Henry Clay Durands' after 1875 and by 1901 the Franklin P. Smiths', on the southwest corner of Deerpath and Mayflower Road. The original Henry C.…

Franklin P. Smith estate, Deerpath, Lake Forest, Illinois--Formal garden south of Great Hall, 1920s.jpg
Garden apparently designed by Marshall & Fox in the early 1920s for the Franklin P. Smiths, Deerpath, Lake Forest. The garden was situated south of the new pool and Great Hall, and north of the ravine on the Smiths' estate. Its features include…
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