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My Memories by Annie Rhea Wilson (1953). Recollections of growing up in Lake Forest, attending Ferry Hall and Lake Forest University's Collegiate Department (class of 1881), and a life in the mission field.
Annie Rhea Wilson, Lake Forest University Class of 1881, was the daughter of missionaries who also dedicated her life with her husband to the Presbyterian mission field. Her mother, Sarah Rhea, was also a pioneer woman church and mission-promotion…
News from Lake Forest CollegeandLake Forest College News,1960 to 1972: a list of holdings.
News from Lake Forest College and Lake Forest College News were monthly public relations newsletters sent out by Lake Forest College from the 1950s to the early 1970s. Much of the time this publication overlapped with the regular alumni/public…
Old Settlers / that resided in / Chicago before 1840. Chicago:C. D. Moser, 1876.
This is a 18" by 15.5" photographic print composite image of what appear to be 152 cabinet sized portrait photographs by C. D. (Charles Delevan) Mosher (1829-1897). The title comes from the information in the center frame on the lower level. It is…
Plays For Small Stages by Mary Aldis (1915)
This is a collection of five one-act plays written for amateur players by a participant in Chicago's Little Theatre after 1911, led by Maurice Browne and located in the Fine Arts Building, Michigan Ave., Chicago. The players were typically summer…
Selection from Work of the Office of Bertram A. Weber Architect... Chicago 1, Illinois; Architecture and Design, v. XV (September 1951).
This has been digitized from the Special Collections copy of this second Bertram A. Weber monograph, published in 1951, and with permission of Weber's son, John B. Weber, Winnetka, IL. This is the second of two monographs of Weber's office's work…
Student's Handbook of Lake Forest University, 1906-07, and Diary of Ora R. Whitmore (Williams), '07
This Student Handbook for 1906-07 includes daily schedule/diary pages, and this copy was filled in with appointments and notes of activities by Ora R. Whitmore (Williams) '07, from Logansport, Indiana. The book was produced for the final academic…
The Playing Fields of Brushwood[Lake Forest College's Farwell Field]
The "Brushwood" of the title is Farwell Field, north of Illinois (Brushwood?) Road between Washington Road on the east and Washington Circle on the west. This is a memoir of Mr. McConnell's childhood growing up facing this Lake Forest College…
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…
To the Graduates and Former Students of Lake Forest College, April 5, 1907
Mailing sent from the Acting President, John J. Halsey. Discusses the enrollment rate, the building of Blackstone Hall dormitories, and asks for information regarding good and worthy student candidates for admission.