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Dr. Seuss, Theodor S. Geisel, 1904-1991, receiving his honorary doctorate at Lake Forest College June 4, 1977
Dr. Seuss, Theodor S. Geisel, is shown receiving his honorary doctorate from Dr. Eugene Hotchkiss III, June 4, 1977, at Lake Forest College's 99th Commencement. On the left, assisting with the hood, is Hollander Professor Art and Faculty Marshall…
...The Work of Bertram A. Weber, A. I. A., Architect, Chicago, Illinois.... Architecture and Designv. IV, no. 9 (April 1940).
This is the first of twoArchitecture and Designnumbers devoted to Weber's architectural design work. On the title page, it continues by noting that much of the work dates from the partnership of White & Weber, ending with White's death in 1936…
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…
Heartland development/subdivision, Grayslake, Illinois: newspaper clippings from the Wood Institute for Local and Regional Studies files, mid 1970s
This was a 2,300 acre development plan, to be made up of many smaller units, that was proposed and approved for annexation to Grayslake in 1974, with consideration going on for parts of the plan later, 1976, and subsequently. Sometiomes the newspaper…
Student's Handbook of Lake Forest University, 1906-07, and Diary of Ora R. Whitmore (Williams), '07
This Student Handbook for 1906-07 includes daily schedule/diary pages, and this copy was filled in with appointments and notes of activities by Ora R. Whitmore (Williams) '07, from Logansport, Indiana. The book was produced for the final academic…
Japanese Garden, Middle Campus, Lake Forest College, 1959 and Subsequent
The Japanese garden on Middle Campus was created in 1959, designed by John G. Anderson, the College's Building and Grounds superintendent and Director of Physical Plant Planning (Lake Forest College Bulletin, June 1959 [v. 39, no. 6], 2 and 4). This…
President William Howard Taft, 1909-13, and Golf
This is one of forty-four small exhibits/canvases on U.S. presidents commissioned by the Theater Dept. in connection with its April 2012 production of a play on that subject:…
David Mattoon is shown here with the David Plowden 1960 photograph of a Canadian steam locomotive he won at the 2012 Railroad Photography Conference, April 14.
David Wesley Mattoon, Lake Forest College Class of 1976, and Special Collections Railroad Collection volunteer, won this framed image of a steam locomotive by David Plowden. It is one of those published in Plowden's 2011 book,Requiem for Steam (W. W.…
Joseph Medill Patterson, Portrait (ca. 1920)
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…
"The Fourth Estate" by Joseph Medill Patterson and Harriet Ford. A play in four acts, 1909-11?,
This is a copy of a 1909 four-act play "The Fourth Estate" in manuscript with autograph notes and changes in more than one hand, copied from the original in the the Joseph Medill Patterson papers, Lake Forest College library Special Collections. The…