Lake County Discovery Museum County Historian & Collections Coordinator Diana Dretske reports that the two men are Samuel Miller and Issac Winter. Miller's father, Jacob Miller, "established a mill on Mill Creek (southern Newport Twp) in 1835,"…
This is a bookplate for Harvard College, from the bequest of James Walker, D.D., LL.D., engraved by Andrew Filmer. It is part of the Asmann-Anthony collection.
The "Tiger" steam locomotive, 0-4-0 wheel type, of the Whitneyville & Machiasport (Maine) Railroad, appears to have been photographed for a November, 1907, article on the recently dismantled line byRailway and Locomotive Engineering. A related…
This is an unpaginated twenty-four-page booklet, published in 1910, for the "Alice Home, Lake Forest Hospital," on the grounds of Lake Forest University (Lake Forest College, Middle Campus), demolished 1965 after serving as a College residence hall.…