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Hans Kmoch portrait photograph to Edwin N. Asmann, Lake Forest, 1956
This standard 8 by 10 black and white portrait photograph of Hans Kmoch (1894-1973) was presented by him in an inscription (ink), upper left: "To Edwin N. Asmann / in rememberance to many hours / spent in his / charming / company. / New York, Jan 18…
"Freedom or Planned Economy--There is No Middle Road" by Lewis H. Brown, Commencement address for Lake Forest College, 1945
Iowa born and educated, Lewis Herold Brown (1894-1951) led for two decades until his death in 1951 Johns-Manville Corporation, New York. He also founded in that city in 1943 the forerunner of today's American Enterprise Institute of Washington, DC, a…
Brown, Lewis H. (Lewis Herold), b. 1894, (1894-1951) at the 1945 Lake Forest College Commencement at which he received an honorary degree and also delivered the Commencement address.
Mr. Brown is shown standing in front of a southeast entrance to the First Presbyterian church of Lake Forest, a building adjacent to the campus and facing the then administration building, Durand Institute, on North campus. The stones are from the…
View in Glen Flora Country Club, Waukegan, Illinois E. A. Bishop, Racine, WI, postcard publisher, with a 1938 postmark and a note.
This standard-sized half-tone color postcard of the Glen Flora Country Club, Waukegan, Illinois, was published by E. A. Bishop, Racine, Wisconsin, crediting the C.T. Art-Colortone process, of Chicago postcard maker Curt Teich. This is the third of…
Roosevelt Park, Waukegan, Illinois E. A. Bishop-published color half-tone postcard
This is the second of three E. A. Bishop, Racine, WI, published standard-sized postcard views of Waukegan parks (with Court House Park and the Glen Flora Country Club grounds). Roosevelt Park has twelve acres of ravine and stream/pond informally…
Soldiers' Monument, Court House Park, Waukegan, Illinois
This is an unsent half-tone color postcard (item number 408) published by E. A. Bishop, Racine, WI, showing the nineteenth-century Soldiers' Monument at the center of the shade-tree lined Court House Park in Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois. This lake…
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…
Chicago Portraits Index: a Listing of Selected Published Photographic Print and Reproduced Portraits of Pioneers and Leaders of Nature's Metropolis's First Century
This 32-page listing is a guide to portraits of Chicagoans (men) that appear in biographical and historical works published between 1868 and 1912, plus one composite photograph of pioneers in the city, from 1876. These works in chronological order…
Ronald R. Edmonds (1935-1983) curriculum vitae, dated May 1983
From the Effective Schools Process (SM) archives, this is Ron Edmonds' last CV before his death, summer 1983. A biography of Edmonds is available on the Lake Forest College library Special Collections website for the Effective Schools Process…
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…