This image is a carte de visite (visiting card) sized small albumen print photograph, taken in Paris while future Chicago architect Peirce Anderson was studying there, in the 1890s. William Peirce Anderson, 1870-1924, was known as Peirce or as Andy…
published by H. Bailliere, 1842, London/ This is one of the octavo aquatint plates made by Harris from George Catlin drawings for James C. Prichard’s The Natural History of Man. London: Hippolyte Balliere, [1844]. Octavo (9 1/2" x 5 1/2" full…
The twelve questions asked each of the four environmental writers during interviews at The New Nature Writing, Lake Forest College's 2012 Literary Festival. Questions are numbered and listed in the order in which they were asked. Questions are…
Crow Island School is an elementary school significant for its progressive philosophy and its architecture. The design of its building was a collaboration between the Chicago firm of Perkins, Wheeler and Will (now Perkins and Will Partnership).…