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.

Plowden, David

Mattoon, David Wesley

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. Norton).Also attached here is a photo from the Center for Railroad Photography and Art's website sowing Plowden signing copies of Requiem for Steam. 

Mattoon's Plowden print was raffled off on Saturday, April 14, 2012, at the 10th annual "Conversations about Photography" Conference of the Center for Railroad Photography and Art, Lake Forest College. Over 140 photographers, publishers and collectors attended from across the U.S. and Europe.

The photograph was a gift of the photographer, David Plowden, parent of Karen Plowden, a recent graduate of the College. The raffle benefited the Center's programs at its headquarters in Madison, WI, and here at its archive in Special Collections, Donnelley and Lee Library.

For more about Mattoon, see: http://www.lakeforest.edu/library/archives/DavidMattoonCV.php

For more about David Plowden, see: http://davidplowden.com/

For more about Requiem for Steam, see http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Requiem-for-Steam/

For more about tthe Center for Railroad Photography and Art, see: http://www.railphoto-art.org/

For more about the April 113-15, 2012 ten annual Conversations about Photography Conference of the Center and the photo won by Mattoon,, see: http://www.railphoto-art.org/conference/

For more about the railroad related collections in Special Collections, Donnelley and Lee Library, Lake Forest College, see: http://www.lakeforest.edu/library/archives/railroad/

Miller, Arthur H.

Koshollek, Hank

Plowden, David

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