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Howard Van Doren Shaw, architect, portrait plaque sculpted by Sylvia Shaw (Judson Haskins), a replica
This is a modern replica, late 20th c., of a portrait plaque of AIA Gold Medalist architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, 1869-1926. The original work in bronze was created ca. 1918-19 by the architect's sculptor daughter Sylvia Shaw (Judson, Haskins),…
To the Graduates and Former Students of Lake Forest College, April 5, 1907
Mailing sent from the Acting President, John J. Halsey. Discusses the enrollment rate, the building of Blackstone Hall dormitories, and asks for information regarding good and worthy student candidates for admission.
University Printing Co., Frank O. Harding, Manager, Book and Job Printing, Rooms 4, 5 and 6, College Building, Lake Forest, Ill
Advertisement of services and prices for bill heads, letter heads, note heads, statements, cards and handbills at the University Printing Co.
Alice Home: Lake Forest Hospital
This is an unpaginated twenty-four-page booklet, published in 1910, for the "Alice Home, Lake Forest Hospital," on the grounds of Lake Forest University (Lake Forest College, Middle Campus), demolished 1965 after serving as a College residence hall.…
Samuel Miller and Isaac Winter with Boulder Commemorating "Old Mill" Location, Newport Twnshp., Lake County, IL, 1910
Lake County Discovery Museum County Historian & Collections Coordinator Diana Dretske reports that the two men are Samuel Miller and Issac Winter. Miller's father, Jacob Miller, "established a mill on Mill Creek (southern Newport Twp) in 1835,"…
Commencement, 1941, Lake Forest College, with Dr. Hu Shih, ambassador to the U.S. from China, speaker, on "Intellectual Preparedness."
This image shows the June 1941 Commencement of Lake Forest College, where Dr. Hu Shih, Ambassador to the U.S. from China, gave the address of the day on "Intellectual Preparedness," a talk later printed in pamphlet form and distributed by the…
Lake Forest's Spring Lane Looking East From Near Mayflower Road Towards the Lake
This view east of Lake Forest University's campus is from an album of photographs from William H. Humiston. Its significance is in showing several key landscape features: the apparently 1870-vintage arbors at the south end of the C. B. Farwell…
William Henry Humiston Scrapbook, Lake Forest University Class of 1891
Historical images of Lake Forest University and its surrounding from ca. 1887-1897 make up this collection of photographic prints. William Henry Humiston after his graduation went on or continued to be a chruch organist in the Chicago area, studied…
Nineteenth Annual Contest of the Inter-State Oratorical Association, Lyceum Theatre, Thursday Evening, May 5th, 1892, 7:30 O'Cock, Minneapolis, Minn.
Delegate from Illinois was F. M. Skinner. First place oration went to Miss E. Jean Nelson of DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind.