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Sports Center (1968-2009) - Swimming Pool
The 1968-completed Sports Center, designed by architect Edward Dart of Chicago's Loebl Slossman firm, featured an Olympic scaled swimming pool on its east side. This view is from the northeast corner looking toward the diving board. An early star…
Bookplate for the Boston Browning Society, by F.T. Merrill
This is a bookplate for the Boston Browning Society, designed by F.T. Merrill.
Dr. Seuss (Theodor S. Geisel, 1904-1991), among honorary degree recipients, June 1977, Lake Forest College
Dr. Seuss, Theodor S. Geisel, is shown here second from the right, among those receiving honorary degrees at Lake Forest College in June 1977--with College President Eugene Hotchkiss III in the center. The other honorees are, from the left, Cecil…
Sculptor Mrs. Clay (Sylvia Shaw) Judson and art collector Mrs. Solomon B. Smith, at a 1958 Japanese Print Exhibition, Durand Institute, Lake Forest College
At an exhibit of Japanese prints, Lake Forest College, in 1958, shown arriving in this photograph are two notables in the Chicago and Lake Forest art world, Mrs. Clay (Sylvia Shaw) Judson and Mrs. Solomon Byron (Babs) Smith.
Mrs. Judson later (after…
"Early Spring"--Jackson Park Lagoon, Chicago; photograph by Mary McMasters
This springtime view of the lagoons at Jackson Park, Chicago, was the first-place winer, out of 5,000 entries, in the 1933 Chicago Park District photography contest.
The creator, Mrs. McMasters, by 1940 was living in Lake Forest and took many…
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…
Letter from Maybeck explaining the details of Bennett's scholarship
A letter from Bernard Maybeck to Edward Bennett regarding the details of a scholarship Mrs. Hearst awarded Bennett.
Sylvia Shaw Judson in her studio (indoor studio)
Desk designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw now under the ownership of Mitchell Ryerson in Cambridge Mass (extant 200 I). Photograph reproduction may be found in Mary Lloyd Estrin's To the Manor Born (Boston, 1979) text.