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…
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…
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.
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…
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…