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Sixty-Fifth Annual Contest of the Interstate Oratorical Association, Chapel of Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois, Friday, April 28, 1939 at 8:00 p. m.
Orations include "The Economic Color Line," "The Gentile Problem," "America's Slum," "That America May Live," "Do You Want to Commit Suicide?," and "Liquor Propaganda and Youth."
Sketch of an apartment in New York (not built)
Daniel H. Burnham informal sketches for an Fifth Avenue apartment (presumably not built), New York. A large residence in the style of a Parisian "hotel" or aristocratic residence.
This leaf of letterhead stationery with pencil sketches of plans…
This leaf of letterhead stationery with pencil sketches of plans…
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…
Some Aspects of Artistic Creativity in Lake Forest's Past; for the October 25, 1995 Ruth Winter Community Lecture: "The Arts in Lake Forest: Creating--Yesterday and Today"
This talk was given as one half of the October 25, 1995 Ruth Winter Community Lecture, 8 pm at Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel, Middle Campus, Lake Forest College. The other "half" of the program was Ragdale Foundation executive director Michael…
Some Morton Grove (Ill.)-related items: (1) 1976 Milwaukee Road Morton Grove Train Station - at (Lehigh and Lincoln Avenues); (2) 1904 incompleted train station; (3) C. 1905 train station; (4) 1995 "Levi Parsons Morton Biography" and (5) "Bingham and Fernald's Subdivison Map," c. 1891
Sometime in the 1830's or around 1840, John Crane and their son-in-law John Miller settled in the area.On February 6,1841, John Miller, an enterprising settler puchased 80 acres of land for $100.00. He erected a small sawmill located just south…
Sonnenschein gallery images
Photographic images of the holdings of the Sonnenschein Gallery at Lake Forest College. Digital photographs and postcards.
Soo Line Depot and Passenger Train and Steam Engine, Prairie View, Illinois, Photographic Postcard
This "Soo Line Depot" shows the line's steam engine number 2609 arriving at t he station, with a freight train to the extreme right, perhaps on a siding. The station master is shown with a cart for luggage, trunks, etc. and behind him are several…
South Porch
On the porch - "Ethel [mother a French woman, sometimes lived at Ragdale], Theo [Frances Theodora Shaw], Dorothy (Aldis) holding Bill, and Sylvia (on right)." Note original pillars of Ragdale. The play horse was made by Howard Van Doren Shaw and was…