On the porch - "Ethel [mother a French woman, sometimes lived at Ragdale], Theo [Frances Theodora Shaw], Dorothy (Aldis) holding Bill, and Sylvia (on right)." Note original pillars of Ragdale. The play horse was made by Howard Van Doren Shaw and was…
This "Soo Line Depot" shows the line's steam engine number 2609 arriving at t he station, with a freight train to the extreme right, perhaps on a siding. The station master is shown with a cart for luggage, trunks, etc. and behind him are several…
Sometime in the 1830's or around 1840, John Crane and their son-in-law John Miller settled in the area.On February 6,1841, John Miller, an enterprising settler puchased 80 acres of land for $100.00. He erected a small sawmill located just south…
This talk was given as one half of the October 25, 1995 Ruth Winter Community Lecture, 8 pm at Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel, Middle Campus, Lake Forest College. The other "half" of the program was Ragdale Foundation executive director Michael…
This is an unsent half-tone color postcard (item number 408) published by E. A. Bishop, Racine, WI, showing the nineteenth-century Soldiers' Monument at the center of the shade-tree lined Court House Park in Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois. This lake…
Daniel H. Burnham informal sketches for an Fifth Avenue apartment (presumably not built), New York. A large residence in the style of a Parisian "hotel" or aristocratic residence.
This leaf of letterhead stationery with pencil sketches of plans…