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Caxton Club Collection
US ILfC SC/094 · Collection · 1937-2012

This collection contains various Caxton Club materials. These include constitution and by-law records, meeting minutes, directories and other member documents, correspondence, Publication Committee records and program invitations. It also includes a small amount of Caxtonian newsletters published in the mid 1990s and materials related to the Caxton Club’s Centennial celebration.

Miller, Arthur H.
US ILfC SC/096 · Collection · 1929-1985

This collection includes meeting and program announcements from Tribolet's time as a member and later secretary of the Caxton Club. There are also two miscellaneous brochures included in the final folder of the collection, one titled "A Checklist of The Lakeside Classics," and the other labeled "Rare Book & Manuscript Collections in the Libraries of the San Francisco Bay Area."

Caxton Club
Posters and Programs
US ILfC LF/012 · Record Group

The collection consists of posters, programs, and other memorabilia regarding Lake Forest College activities and events. Please note that commencement programs are currently housed within the Office of the Registrar collection.

US ILfC LF/014 · Record Group

The collection consists of records from several academic departments at the College. Types of materials include reports, correspondence, syllabi, course information, and other official materials. The files have been collected from various faculty over the years, and as of July 2017 there are only a few departments represented.

Madeline Ashton Papers
US ILfC SC/095 · Collection

The collection consists of College historical documents collected by Madeline Ashton in the early 1960s. It appears from correspondence in the collection that Ashton survey various offices around campus and brought all the files together. The materials very well may be the start of the formal College Archives.

Ashton, Madeline
Chicago Symphony Programs
US ILfC SC/056 · Collection

The collections consists of programs from the Chicago Symphony.

Chicago Symphony
US ILfC SC/032 · Collection · 1907-1934

The Garden Cities Pamphlets Collection contains informational pamphlets advertising garden cities in England, Germany and the United States. There are accompanying maps with some pamphlets. Other pamphlets include more general information addressing urban planning.
As a reaction to the overcrowding, pollution and turmoil in major English cities at the end of the nineteenth century, the idea of the garden city was born. The brainchild of Ebenezer Howard, he believed the solution to the problem was to build communities where housing, industry and agriculture could coexist. In order to achieve this, he believed all three sectors must be of equal size, with each one being surrounded by an expanse of green, undeveloped land, creating an ideal combination of the city and the country. Howard published his idea in 1898 in the book, “Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.”

The first two garden cities planned and executed were Letchworth and Welwyn, both in Hertfordshire, England. Howard’s ideas also influenced urban planning in the United States. By the 1920s, the idea of the garden city had taken hold, especially on the Eastern seaboard. This resulted in communities like Sunnyside Gardens in Queens, New York and Radburn, New Jersey being built.

Shortly after World War II, the idea of the garden city once again gained prominence in England. The New Towns Act was passed in 1946 to help rebuild urban communities damaged during the war. This led to Howard’s concepts of equality and coexistence in building communities being embraced.

The garden city and the ideas upon which it was built have since been employed around the world.

Unknown Donor
US ILfC SC/092 · Collection · 1926-1932

The collection includes sketches completed by architecture students in Lake Forest IL. Sketches include Lake Forest structures and European structures. The collection also includes a binder of photocopies by laws, founding documents, and minutes from the Foundation for Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

Foundation for Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Elizabeth T. Lunn Collection
US ILfC SC/089 · Collection · 1926-1990

This collections consists of three binders noting sightings of plants and their identification. Plants from all over the country are recorded in the binders, though there are a significant amount from the Illinois Dunesland.

This collection also contains newspaper clippings about or written by Elizabeth T. Lunn. Additionally, the collection has documents related to Lunn and her tenure at Lake Forest College. These documents include faculty questionnaires and news releases, among other records.

Lunn, Elizabeth T.
US ILfC SC/053 · Collection

The files in this collection may include some original documents collected by College Archivist Emeritus Arthur Miller. Most of the material is secondary research. There may be occasional pieces of correspondence.

Miller, Arthur H.
US ILfC SC/087 · Collection · 1924-2009

This collection contains materials related to the city of Lake Forest. This includes brochures, newsletters and numerous other materials from organizations and institutions in the city, political documents, as well as City of Lake Forest directories, briefings, council meeting minutes and a resident handbook. The collection also contains documents regarding Lake Forest public schools, Lake Forest Academy, Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart and Barat College. The collection also contains a number of records related to Market Square.

Miller, Arthur H.
Bruce Lineburg Notebook
US ILfC SC/090 · Collection · 1920s-1960s

This collection consists of a small three ring binder of typed pages. The notebook is divided into three sections and contains information about various inorganic, plant, and animal fossils. This information includes the name of the fossil, its geological period, the location where it was found and its taxonomic classification.

Lineburg, Bruce
William Crosby Papers
US ILfC SC/088 · Collection · 1940-2000

The collection contains files, photographs, 8mm films and publications relating to railroads and railfans.

Crosby, William S
US ILfC SC/065 · Collection · 1840s-1995

The Chicago Athletic Association Collection contains a number of governance records, including bound volumes of minutes from Board of Director meetings and annual reports dating back to 1890, committee meeting minutes, as well as bound ledgers with financial records.

Other financial and legal records include income statements, contracts, deeds of trust, safe deposit box records, and files regarding trademarks owned by the Association.

The collection also contains documents related to the Association’s acquisition and sale of art, largely oil paintings.

Additionally, the collection boasts a large number of membership materials. These include bound volumes of membership registers, as well as membership resignations and several binders addressing Association privileges and conduct.

The collection also contains typed correspondence, brochures and programs and historical information about the Association, as well as life membership records.

There is an extensive collection of member photographs dating back to the late 1890s.

Unique to the collection are materials related to Olympic athlete and Association member Joie Ray. These include a poster created in support of Ray, a scrapbook with newspaper clippings of his athletic achievements, photographs, race programs, his Association membership cards, a National Track and Field Hall of Fame certificate from 1976 and one of his race uniforms.

Chicago Athletic Association
US ILfC SC/064 · Collection · 1983

This collection contains oral history interviews with Lake Bluff residents about their time living in the town. The interviews were conducted by Catherine Shively over a two month period. The collection contains photocopies of Shively's handwritten notes taken during the interviews, as well as typed copies of the interviews.

Shively, Catherine
Samuel Rosenthal Collection
US ILfC SC/076 · Collection · 1972-1984

This collection includes postcards sent to Samuel Rosenthal from friends and family. It also contains materials on the Ravinia Festival.

Rosenthal, Samuel R.
Marvin Kent Collection
US ILfC SC/082 · Collection · 1880-1898

This collection features correspondence, a petition, and memoranda handwritten by Marvin Kent.

Kent, Marvin, 1816-1908
US ILfC SC/075 · Collection · 1889-1909

This collection contains correspondence to and from Mary Horton Wadsworth, as well as Lake Forest University Commencement programs from 1889. There are also various programs from Presbyterian churches in Massachusetts and Washington D.C. Additionally the collection contains a book of Lake Forest University class meeting minutes and two poetry books, "Drifting Leaves" and "At Easter's Dawn."

Wadsworth, Mary Horton
Yale University Scrapbook
US ILfC SC/070 · Collection · 1870

This scrapbook, compiled by Yale University class agent of many years George Douglas Miller, contains newspaper clippings, photographs, announcements, pamphlets and other written works related to activities and members of the Yale University class of 1870. Among these graduates was the Reverend Dr. James G.K. McClure, the president of Lake Forest College from 1897-1901. McClure was also a trustee of the college.

Other noted members of the class of 1870 include George Bird Grinnell, a naturalist, conservationist and ethnologist and Edward O. Wolcott, United States senator from Colorado from 1889-1901.

Miller, George Douglas