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Roosevelt Park, Waukegan, Illinois E. A. Bishop-published color half-tone postcard
This is the second of three E. A. Bishop, Racine, WI, published standard-sized postcard views of Waukegan parks (with Court House Park and the Glen Flora Country Club grounds). Roosevelt Park has twelve acres of ravine and stream/pond informally…
View in Glen Flora Country Club, Waukegan, Illinois E. A. Bishop, Racine, WI, postcard publisher, with a 1938 postmark and a note.
This standard-sized half-tone color postcard of the Glen Flora Country Club, Waukegan, Illinois, was published by E. A. Bishop, Racine, Wisconsin, crediting the C.T. Art-Colortone process, of Chicago postcard maker Curt Teich. This is the third of…
Brown, Lewis H. (Lewis Herold), b. 1894, (1894-1951) at the 1945 Lake Forest College Commencement at which he received an honorary degree and also delivered the Commencement address.
Mr. Brown is shown standing in front of a southeast entrance to the First Presbyterian church of Lake Forest, a building adjacent to the campus and facing the then administration building, Durand Institute, on North campus. The stones are from the…
"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…
Hans Kmoch portrait photograph to Edwin N. Asmann, Lake Forest, 1956
This standard 8 by 10 black and white portrait photograph of Hans Kmoch (1894-1973) was presented by him in an inscription (ink), upper left: "To Edwin N. Asmann / in rememberance to many hours / spent in his / charming / company. / New York, Jan 18…
"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…
William I. Myers on "The Food Situation" in 1943, perspective of Friends of the Land in wartime
By the summer of 1943 in Chicago and in Lake Forest wartime food rationing was well established, with the first ration cards for sugar having been given out in schools in May, 1942. The strict limits on foods from standard channels quickly led to…
Seymour, Ralph Fletcher, etching print of/for Lake Zurich Golf Club
The Lake Zurich Golf Club, founded in 1895, remains today, small (nine holes), private, closed to outsiders and apparently also to women. It has been a retreat for some of Chicago's business leadders and also a few artists for well over a century. In…
"A Toast to Zurich," song for four parts on one folio sheet, hand-decorated by Ralph Fletcher Seymour.
The decorations recall those of medieval antiphonals, song sheets or books for monastic and church choirs. The song is for the Lake Zurich Golf Club, Lake Zurich, Lake County, Illinois, mid-twentieth century. The four parts are tenor 1 and 2,…
Chicago pamphlet printing of the July 1862 Pacific Railroad Acts, creating (July 1) and calling the first meeting of commissioners (July 12), September 2, 1862, at Chicago's Bryan Hall, for organizing the Union Pacific Railroad Company and commencing construction of the transcontinental railroad west of the Missouri River.
This is a sixteen-page Chicago pamphlet reprinting of the July 1, 1862 approved Act leading to the creation of the Union Pacific Railroad and the construction of the first transcontinental rail line to the Pacific Ocean in California. It also…