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Black Rap: Words of Truth From To You (Dec. 5, 1978)
This is a six-page tabloid issue, with a subtitle but no masthead or listing of staff, though responsibility continues to be attributed to A.S.A.L., the campus black student organization.
Topics continue to center on political topics in Africa and…
Henry Clay Durand (1827-1901), his family, his household and Lake Forest (Ill.) home, 1890s.
This photographic view shows Henry Clay Durand (1927-1901) seated in his carriage with his spouse in front of his home, with his daughter and retainers nearby. The house, which dated from 1860 and was frequently remodeled before it burned in 1912,…
Lake Forest [East Estate District] Historic District Revised Nomination Form, 2012: draft by Benjamin Historic Certifications for the City of Lake Forest, Illinois (DRAFT with edits and comments by Gail Hodges), temporary and preliminary
Commissioned by the City of Lake Forest and carried out by Susan Benjamin's historic property research firm (Gwen Sommers Yant, etc.), BEnjamin Historic Certifications ( http://www.benjaminhistoric.com/ )with volunteer assistance in 2010-12, this is…
"Athena Lemnia [by] Phidias," a watercolor by Janet Land (Mrs. Henry J. Van der Eb), 1937, on the cover of an art class notebook
This blue and brown watercolor painting of the head of the Athena of Lemnos by Phidias was done for a standard sized college art class notebook, in June 1937, by the artist Janet Land (Van der Eb). It is based on well-known and reproduced copies of…
Nancy Nichols’ Journals about her trips to Waukegan
Nancy Nichols’ Journals about her trips to Waukegan in 2007 (see also the table of contents). The journals contain interview notes, readings, and observations.
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.…
Lake Forest College Catalog 1903-04
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Lake Forest College Catalogue 1903-04.Lake Forest: 1904.
This was the first catalog of the College as the main free-standing institution, with the "University" designation only retained for legal purposes. The…