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Lake Forest Academy campus, then west of the City of Lake Forest, ca. early 1950s
This plan, separately printed, shows the Lake Forest Academy campus after the institution moved in 1948 to the former J. Ogden Armour estate, then west of the city limits of Lake Forest (now annexed). This layout appears to show the campus while work…
Lake Forest Academy's Reid Hall, 1893-1946
This is an Inland Architect and News Recordphotograph of the just completed Reid Hall, 1893, for Lake Forest Academy on its new campus, and facing north to Rosemary Road. The architects were Pond & Pond, Irving K. Pond, designer. Today this is…
Chicago pamphlet printing of the July 1862 Pacific Railroad Acts, creating (July 1) and calling the first meeting of commissioners (July 12), September 2, 1862, at Chicago's Bryan Hall, for organizing the Union Pacific Railroad Company and commencing construction of the transcontinental railroad west of the Missouri River.
This is a sixteen-page Chicago pamphlet reprinting of the July 1, 1862 approved Act leading to the creation of the Union Pacific Railroad and the construction of the first transcontinental rail line to the Pacific Ocean in California. It also…
"A Toast to Zurich," song for four parts on one folio sheet, hand-decorated by Ralph Fletcher Seymour.
The decorations recall those of medieval antiphonals, song sheets or books for monastic and church choirs. The song is for the Lake Zurich Golf Club, Lake Zurich, Lake County, Illinois, mid-twentieth century. The four parts are tenor 1 and 2,…
Seymour, Ralph Fletcher, etching print of/for Lake Zurich Golf Club
The Lake Zurich Golf Club, founded in 1895, remains today, small (nine holes), private, closed to outsiders and apparently also to women. It has been a retreat for some of Chicago's business leadders and also a few artists for well over a century. In…
"Civic Opera Building," art print by Richard (Dick) Richards, distributed as an art calendar for 1944 by James C. Thompson, president of the the 20 N. Wacker Corp., owner/managers of the Civic Opera Building.
Richard (Dick) Richard's 1943 distributed "Civic Opera Buidling, Chicago" calendar print, a black and white engraving, had attached, below the print, a small 1944 calendar with tear-off pages for the months. Over or covering the print was a sheet of…
William I. Myers on "The Food Situation" in 1943, perspective of Friends of the Land in wartime
By the summer of 1943 in Chicago and in Lake Forest wartime food rationing was well established, with the first ration cards for sugar having been given out in schools in May, 1942. The strict limits on foods from standard channels quickly led to…
Black Rap (irregular serial, 1968-1984), published by African-American undergraduate students, Lake Forest College.
This is a student group periodical issued regularly for about four years and then occasionally after that, to 1984. This record includes a first issue and then a first full volume of issues. Its format was as an alternative newspaper or periodical to…
"Routes to Mundelein and the Eucharistic Congress, June 1926" map
This one-sheet 9" by 12" color half-tone map, folded into brochure size in thirds, of the Chicago North Shore area shows transportation lines converging on Mundelein, Illinois, and the St. Mary of the Lake Seminary there. The lead name among the…