The collection consists of correspondence, family scrapbooks, yearbooks, legal documents, awards, Clifford Barnes's own personal memoir manuscript, group pamphlets/programs and photographs that all originate from the Barnes Reid Family. Overall, the artifacts of this collection shows the family's shared dynamic of moral beliefs and devotion to a life of service.
The collection is split into 3 distinct series-1) Lilace Reid Barnes Documents, 2) Clifford Webster Barnes Documents, and 3) Assorted Reid Barnes Family Documents.
For more information, contact the Lake Forest College Archivist and consult the biographical sketches of the creators/main family members also provided on this page.
Five large-format (professional) photographs, black and white, which represent scenes of plays acted by Lake Forest Players at Mary Aldis's playhouse.
Photograph, black and white, 14" by 10.5". "John Root, Mrs. Charles Hubbard, Martyn Johnson in ? a (tragic play) by Floyd Dell" The stage background, wallpaper and satin drapes, show a stylized garden mixed flower border pattern.
"Charles mather and ? (Lake Forest University Students) in a play by Charles Mather adapted from a short story by Charles Collins" Stamped "Photo by International News Service" and, in pencil, "Compliments of HV Lee."
Photograph, black and white, 6" x 9" in matboard. Under the image, "Mary and Rose in By Products." "Cissy Gizicka and Helen Poole in By-Products by Jo Patterson" Stamped "Frederic H Wagner, Dearborn Ave. and Huron St. Chicago"
Microfilm of two scrapbooks, the originals held by the Chicago Historical Museum, of the Aldis Playhouse