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West bank of Chicago River north of Madison Street
This is a view of a quayside roadway above the Chicago riverbank, with a house, wagon and driver. The vantage point seems to be from the northeast. Behind and above in the view are signs for the Hurley Electric Laundry Equipment Company, an…
White
White represents spirituality, peace, higher self, and purity. Delicate things in nature, such as snow, clouds, and flowers, are a large reason as to why white is a pure and tranquil color.
Wicca
Wicca is a structured, religious practice with certain paths and rituals, but many pagan witches forge their own path and practice in a very individual way. Wicca was largely popularized in the 1950s, mostly in the United States and the United…
William Bross--a biographical memoir and transcriptions of his diary (1875-1888) and of his correspondence with Mark Hopkins, Williams College, 1850s
This pdf document is of the carbon copy of a tpescript, apparently prepared by presidential assistant La Tourette Stockwell in the late 1930s for Dr. Herbert McC. Moore, president of Lake Forest College. It may have bee nthe basis for a biography…
William Henry Humiston Scrapbook, Lake Forest University Class of 1891
Historical images of Lake Forest University and its surrounding from ca. 1887-1897 make up this collection of photographic prints. William Henry Humiston after his graduation went on or continued to be a chruch organist in the Chicago area, studied…
William I. Myers on "The Food Situation" in 1943, perspective of Friends of the Land in wartime
By the summer of 1943 in Chicago and in Lake Forest wartime food rationing was well established, with the first ration cards for sugar having been given out in schools in May, 1942. The strict limits on foods from standard channels quickly led to…