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"The Raggedy Man," the pianist, Currens Scrapbook Glee Club Trip West series, Photo 013
From Earl Currens '11 scrapbook, series of Glee Club Trip West images
"The Raggedy Man," Currens Scrapbook Glee Club Trip West series, Photo 014
From Earl Currens '11 scrapbook, series of Glee Club Trip West images
"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…
"The mother talked this way" - photographs of facial expressions posed by Cornelia Neltnor Anthony
Image of Cornelia Neltnor Anthony (1868 - 1959), an aunt of Edwin Assmann '27, of Lake Forest.
"The Massacre of Fort Dearborn at Chicago"
Chciago area remained territory granted to Native Americans, Potowatomies, until 1836, only following the 1832 Blackhawk War--making it one of the last major U.S. metropolitan areas to be founded, following St. Louis, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.…
"The Log Damm - Williams, Arizona," Currens Scrapbook Glee Club Trip West series, Photo 057
From Earl Currens '11 scrapbook, series of Glee Club Trip West images
"The last of the Charruas," in Prichard's History of Man,
plate no. 43
published by H. Bailliere, 1842
London
London
"The Kodak Bunch" - La Junta, Colorado. Currens Scrapbook Glee Club Trip West series, Photo 028
From Earl Currens '11 scrapbook, series of Glee Club Trip West images
"The Gospel Train" reversed title text and train image with a 4-8-4 steam locomotive, ca. 1930s-1940s, on a copper plate attached to a wood block for a header on a traditional printing press
This is a reversed relief image of a train (4-8-4 steam locomotive, tender, and five cars) on a track and passing a signal. The words "the Gospel Train" are spelled in reverse, the title of a song, perhaps of African-American traditional origin, and…
"The Glee Club" drawing, Currens Scrapbook Glee Club Trip West series, Photo 003
From Earl Currens '11 scrapbook, series of Glee Club Trip West images