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Michael Wilkerson, Ragdale Foundation Executive Director, talking about the Ragdale Foundation at the October 25, 1995 Ruth Winter Community Lecture, Lake Forest College
This is the second of two talks for the Ruth Winter Community Lecture, October 25, 1995, Lake Forest College (8 pm, Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel).
Wilkerson was executive director, Ragdale Foundation, in early 1990s and then for several years was…
Random Thoughts on a Bookplate List
A supplement to Bulletin No. 6. (July 15, 1932) American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers, Washington D.C. Written by William F. Hobson.
My Memories by Annie Rhea Wilson (1953). Recollections of growing up in Lake Forest, attending Ferry Hall and Lake Forest University's Collegiate Department (class of 1881), and a life in the mission field.
Annie Rhea Wilson, Lake Forest University Class of 1881, was the daughter of missionaries who also dedicated her life with her husband to the Presbyterian mission field. Her mother, Sarah Rhea, was also a pioneer woman church and mission-promotion…
Bookplate for the Children's Library (In Memory of Robert Bacon), by W.J. Wilson
This is a bookplate for the Children's Library (in memory of Robert Wilson), designed by W.J. Wilson. It is part of the Asmann-Anthony collection.
Bookplate for the American Antiquarian Society, by Woodbury Carlton Co.
This are copies of a bookplate for the American Antiquarian Society, by Woodbury Carlton Co. (a bookplate designing company) of Worcester.
Bookplate for the American Antiquarian Society (John and Eliza Davis Fund), by Woodbury Carlton Co.
These are copies of a bookplate for the American Antiquarian Society (the John and Eliza Davis fund), by Woodbury Carlton Co. (a bookplate designing company) of Worcester.
Lake Forest Papers, 1995, award winning student essays
See 1992 issue entry for general information. This issue is edited by Bernice Gallagher (Howard), director of the College's Writing Center. The cover design is by Professor of Art Michael Croydon. The winning essays are by Heather A. Brown and Eric…
Lake Forest Papers, 1992, Lake Forest College student award-winning writing
These expository essays by Lake Forest College undergraduate students, 1991-92, were published by the College's Writing Center and edited by the director, Alan Devenish. The center had been organized in the later 1970s, and this series, published…
"The Prospector" by sculptor Mahonri M. Young, the embossed metal emblem the Rio Grande's named streamlined express nightly train (Denver to Salt Lake City), and employed on early train menus; from the Arthur D. Dubin collection
This embossed metal emblem appeared as part of the menu on the early, or 1941, nightly express train "The Prospector" between Denver and Salt Lake City. As a brochure promoting the train from the period shows, this emblem in the form of a gold nugget…
Fraternity at LFC
Fraternity house was a common place for students to dine.