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Paddock 360
C.P. Huntington Steam locomotive #1 Builder: Cooke Locomotive Works, Serial 277, Build date: October 1863, UIC Classification 2'A2' nt, Guage 4 ft 8.5 ins, Driver diameter 54 in, Weight on drivers 18,500 Lb, Locomotive weight 39,000 Lb, Boiler…
Paddock 359
Steam locomotive ATSF 1601, Raton N. Mexico (pen). O.C.P after 9/ 1920 (pencil).
Student Rosters-South School, teacher Hilpertshauser, and school year 1909-10
This book is one of a series of hundreds dating form the early twentieth century, listing the students in local grade schools, their ages or levels and often also the name of a parent and an address or street name also. Information is sparse about…
Architects and landscape Architects Listings from the annual Greater Chicago and Surrounding Territories Business Classified Directory, 1958
The National Register of Historic Places considers properties historic when they are fifty years old. These few pages from this 1958 Chicago and Illinois business directory includes listings for professionals that may be useful to researchers seeking…
Diary and scrapbook of the transatlantic crossings and European grand tour, June to August 1949, of architect Arthur D. Dubin, Highland Park, Illinois
Arthur D. Dubin, 1923-2011, began architectural study at the U. of Michigan, was drafted, attended the Army Special Training Program (ASTP) at Lake Forest College in 1943, participated in the invasions of Leyte (Philippines) and Okinawa in the…
"The Massacre of Fort Dearborn at Chicago"
Chciago area remained territory granted to Native Americans, Potowatomies, until 1836, only following the 1832 Blackhawk War--making it one of the last major U.S. metropolitan areas to be founded, following St. Louis, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.…
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…
Paddock 655 -- Baltimore & Ohio 2-8-0 steam locomotive #2695
Baltimore & Ohio 2-8-0 steam locomotive #2695.
Wheels: 2-4-4
Paddock 673 -- Forney steam locomotive 0-4-4, #49
According to the Forney Museum website, the 0-4-4 boiler forward, also capable of running 4-4-0 cab forward, was an early popular elevated and commuter rail engine in the U.S. This type steam locomotive was patented by Matthias Nace Forney,…
Paddock 672 -- Forney steam locomotive 0-4-4 or 4-4-0 Whyte wheel type, # 176 and labeled "Rector St," for the west side (Broadway-Seventh Ave.) IRT line, New York City subway.
Rector Street today is a stop on the west side IRT subway line, New York City. It opened in 1918, closed on September 11, 2001, and reopened September 15, 2002.