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Paddock 602: "Tiger" steam locomotive of the Whitneyville and Machiasport Railroad.
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…
Manuel A. Ortiz Bookplate by Duarte-GR
A bookplate created for Manuel Ortiz, designed by Duarte-GR.
This bookplate can also be found in the library of the University of…
Famous Everyday Dishes from the Medieval Arab World
This website explores the famous foods such as harisa,which is a popular meat dish in today's Muslim world but was also popular in the medieval Arab world. This site also looks at other foods which present Muslims can connect to and were also liked…
Ellis's Catalogue of British and American Bookplates, Lucia Harries Bookplate
#595 on page 31 of Ellis's Catalogue of British and American Bookplates.
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.…
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…
Black Rap, Volume 1 no. 6 (March 16, 1969)
This issue of Black Rap explores the lives of African Americans through a serious of different types of poetry, prose, and hard hitting news clips.
Black Rap, Volume 1 no. 3 (November 6, 1968)
This is the third issue of Black Rap, from late 1968 (mention of "X-mas" gifts). This was the first full semester for Lake Forest College after the assassination of minority Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King in April of 1968, the…
Lake Forest University catalog 1899-1900
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Catalogue of Lake Forest University for the Year 1899-1900. Lake Forest, Illinois: the University, 1900.
This catalogue includes the three Lake Forest branches--the College, Lake Forest Academy (young men's prep) and…