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Joseph Medill Patterson, Portrait (ca. 1920)
This portrait of Joseph Medill Patterson, 1879-1946, shows the "Chicago Tribune" fortune scion in the early period of his launching the "New York Daily News" for the Tribune Company, a tabloid paper soon to become the highest circulation newspaper in…
David Mattoon is shown here with the David Plowden 1960 photograph of a Canadian steam locomotive he won at the 2012 Railroad Photography Conference, April 14.
David Wesley Mattoon, Lake Forest College Class of 1976, and Special Collections Railroad Collection volunteer, won this framed image of a steam locomotive by David Plowden. It is one of those published in Plowden's 2011 book,Requiem for Steam (W. W.…
President William Howard Taft, 1909-13, and Golf
This is one of forty-four small exhibits/canvases on U.S. presidents commissioned by the Theater Dept. in connection with its April 2012 production of a play on that subject:…
Japanese Garden, Middle Campus, Lake Forest College, 1959 and Subsequent
The Japanese garden on Middle Campus was created in 1959, designed by John G. Anderson, the College's Building and Grounds superintendent and Director of Physical Plant Planning (Lake Forest College Bulletin, June 1959 [v. 39, no. 6], 2 and 4). This…
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…
Heartland development/subdivision, Grayslake, Illinois: newspaper clippings from the Wood Institute for Local and Regional Studies files, mid 1970s
This was a 2,300 acre development plan, to be made up of many smaller units, that was proposed and approved for annexation to Grayslake in 1974, with consideration going on for parts of the plan later, 1976, and subsequently. Sometiomes the newspaper…
Black Rap, Volume 1 no. 2 (1968)
This is the second issue of Black Rap, and like the first issue it begins with a clear statement of editorial policy--its service to the campus African-american student community and its friends. This issue states that it represents the campus group…
Black Rap, Volume 1 no. 4 (January 1969)
The fourth issue of Black Rap published in January of 1969, after the holiday break. It included articles that explore the concept of Black awareness and what it holds for future generations. As well as questioning the place and role of Black…
Black Rap, Volume 2 no. 1 (Febraury 1970)
The beginning of this new volume, after a hiatus of almost a year (March 1969 to February 1970), of Black Rap, published by Lake Forest College African-American students (Black Students for Black Action), is printed in a new format, offset in a…