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Bookplate for Harrison K. Ford, by R.C. Chase
This is a bookplate for Harrison K. Ford, engraved by R.C. Chase. It is part of the Asmann-Anthony collection.
The Sheridan Road and the Beautiful North Shore.Chicago: Chicago & North-Western Railway Co., 1902. Printed by Poole Bros., Chicago.
This has been digitized from a photocopy made from microfilm of a brochure, owned by Katherine T. Arpee, Lake Forest, IL, in the 1980s. The photocopied document is made up of 47 pp., including a rear cover (no front one) and at the back a map of…
An interurban roadway in 1950. Parallel teaming, trolley and pleasure ways.
Commercial Club of Chicago. Inter-urban Roadways: About Chicago. Chicago: Commercial Club of Chicago, Inter-urban Roadways Committee, 1908. (A rendering of a divided highway with two light rail tracks between the roadways appears facing p. 30: "An…
H.M.B. Bookplate, by Beulah Mitchell Clute
A bookplate designed for H.M.B., done by Beulah Mitchell Clute. Clute was a famous bookplate designer and parchment illuminator.
Bookplate for Philip S. Collins, by Timothy Cole
This is a bookplate for Philip S. Collins, designed by Timothy Cole. It is part of the Asmann-Anthony collection.
Bookplate for Flora Gardiner Kling, by Timothy Cole
This is a bookplate for Flora Gardiner Kling, engraved by Timothy Cole. It is part of the Asmann-Anthony collection.
Bookplate for Leila Knox Charlton, by Timothy Cole
This is a bookplate for Leila Knox Charlton, engraved by Timothy Cole. It is part of the Asmann-Anthony collection.
Bookplate for Frank D. Anthony, D., C.E., by J.C. Coll, des. and Fred Thompson, sc.
This is a bookplate for Frank Anthony, designed by J.C. Coll, des. and Fred Thompson, sc.Anthony was the husband of Cornelia Eames Anthony. There are seventeen copies of this bookplate in total; thirteen of the small ones and four of the larger ones.
Carte de visite photograph of four generations of the Bross family of Illinos: Moses (of Morris), his son, former Lt. Gov. William Bross (Chicago), etc.
The Morris, Illinois-based photographer, as identified on the rear of the carte de visite, was "J. H. Crawford" or James H. Crawford, as identified on the photographer listing :Langdon's List of 19th and Early 20th C. Photograpers," at…
North Hall - From the southwest, showing the 1897 entry portico
Ivy is covering, partially, a portion of the building, showing also the state of the entry prior to the 1960s, when a modernist vestibule was installed under the portico. This view may date from the 1940s or 1950s, in the era when it was repurposed…