This listing is a guide to the structure and contents of the collection of research materials gathered by author Nancy Nichols in researching and writing her 2008 book, Lake Effect.  Where electronic files are available for material in the collection, either created here or from the web, links are supplied.

The archive or collection consists of four series of materials: (I.) Nichols’ notes and interviews,  (II.) Photographs she took for reference, (III.) Research material (books, maps, copies of documents and articles, etc., and (IV.) a reference file of hard copy material accumulated by the Lake Forest research team in the process of preparing this website. Nichols’ notes and research materials contain her frequent highlighting, tabs, and post-it notes.

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Series I.  Nichols’ Notes and Interviews

     See Nancy Nichols Journals and under it Table of Contents on the Lake Effect Environmental Archive main page’s right hand index. 

Series II. Photographs by the author of Lake Effect

     Available on the College’s Digital Collections site Part 1. Part 2.

Series III.  Research material gathered by the author 

     A.  Books

          1, Brodeur, Paul. Outrageous Misconduct: The Asbestor Industry on Trial. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.

          2. Colborn, Theodora E. et al.  Great Lakes Great Legacy? Washington, D. C.: The Conservation Foundation, 1990.

          3.  Hartig, John H. and Michael A. Zarull.  under Raps: Toward Grassroots Ecological Democracy in the Great Lakes Basin. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992. 

          4. Pipher, Mary.  writing to Change the World. New York: Riverhead Books/Penguin, 2006.  [no tabs or markings]

          5. Waukegan Historical Society.  Waukegan, Illinois.  Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2000.  

     B.  Maps, etc.

          1.  North Lake County.  Chicago: Rand McNally, 1985.  [Waterstained and heavily annotated with locations for “Manville,” “OMC,” and Yeoman Creek, etc.; folded as Nichols organized it; originally from the Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, where Nichols was in residence during her writing process on Lake Effect.]

           2.  Lake County, Illinois: Interactive mapping Application[brochure].  Waukegan: GIS/Mapping Division, Department of Information and Technology, Lake County, n. d.    

          3. “Lake County Tax Parcel Map,” [Yeoman Creek].  Waukegan: Lake County Geographic Information System, n.d.  Accessed July 19, 2005 from http://gis.lakeco.org

     C. Binders of copies of articles, court documents, maps, etc. , by topic

          1. Waukegan History/Lake Michigan

          2. Asbestos

          3. Outboard Marine Corporation

          4. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Site Information

          5.  Early Court Cases

     D. Separate reports, in own binders or otherwise

          1.  Report of Sewage Disposal For Waukegan for the North Shore Sanitary District.  Chicago: Pearce, Greeley & Hansen, Engineers, 1930.  

          2.  Lakefront Redevelopment Report.  [Waukegan]: T.O.W.N., 2003.

          3. Commercial Fishing in the Great Lakes Area: Eighty-First Congress, First Session. United States Government Printing Office, March 1949.

          4. Public Health Implications of Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs). Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, November 2005.

          5. PCB Contaminated Sediment Remediation in Waukegan Harbor. International Joint Commission: US/Canada, 2004.

          6. Health Consultation: Outboard Marine Corporation/Waukegan Harbor, Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois.Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 2006.

           7. Public Health Assessment: Outboard Marine Corporation, Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 2005.

           8. Public Health Assessment: Outboard Marine Corporation, Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 2004.

           9.  (Binder) Atkins Deposition.

          10. (Binder) Early Court Cases.

          11. (Binder) EPA and Site Info

          12. (Binder) Asbestos

          13. (Binder) Assorted Articles, Cancer-Geol, Toxins,

Waukegan/History, Great Lakes

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Series IV.  Reference material gathered by the Lake Forest team