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La Roi, George. " A Study of the Flora of Lake County," 1958 (Lake Forest College Sr. Thesis), listing the contents of the College herbarium collections from the 1890s and the 1950s
This thesis was carried out under the supervision of Professor of Biology Elizabeth Lunn, author ofPlants of the Illinois Dunesland, 1982, and centered on imporoving documentation, etc. of the 1890s herbarium collection, adding 1950s specimens to the…
Lake Forest [East Estate District] Historic District Revised Nomination Form, 2012: draft by Benjamin Historic Certifications for the City of Lake Forest, Illinois (DRAFT with edits and comments by Gail Hodges), temporary and preliminary
Commissioned by the City of Lake Forest and carried out by Susan Benjamin's historic property research firm (Gwen Sommers Yant, etc.), BEnjamin Historic Certifications ( http://www.benjaminhistoric.com/ )with volunteer assistance in 2010-12, this is…
Lake Forest Academy building, 1865-1879, College weeklyStentorphoto, 1906
This is a photograph reproduced in The Stentor, Lake Forest College, May 3, 1906 (v. 20, no. 25), [289], showing the Lake Forest Academy building as it appeared after its 1865 expansion. It burned in 1879. This building also incubated the original…
Lake Forest Academy building, 1865-1879, with Baker engraving, 1869
This engraving appears on p. 1 of a 4-page 1869 circular for Lake Forest Academy, boys' preparatory school, and the new then Ferry Hall, ladies' seminary and girls' preparatory school.
The enraving appears to be signed "Baker", very likely W. D.…
Lake Forest Academy campus, then west of the City of Lake Forest, ca. early 1950s
This plan, separately printed, shows the Lake Forest Academy campus after the institution moved in 1948 to the former J. Ogden Armour estate, then west of the city limits of Lake Forest (now annexed). This layout appears to show the campus while work…
Lake Forest Academy Reid Hall interior stairway
This is a photograph of the stairway of the 1893 Pond & Pond designed Reid Hall, Lake Forest Academy.
Location is the "Lake Forest Academy" subject file, Lake Forest College archives.
Lake Forest Academy's Reid Hall, 1893-1946
This is an Inland Architect and News Recordphotograph of the just completed Reid Hall, 1893, for Lake Forest Academy on its new campus, and facing north to Rosemary Road. The architects were Pond & Pond, Irving K. Pond, designer. Today this is…
Lake Forest Annual Global Fest
Lake Forest annual global fest