A substantial portion of the Weber & Weber Collection contains documents relating to the Ravinia Festival Park as Bertram Weber worked on a number of architectural projects at the park. These documents include correspondence and architectural...
The Ruth Hendrickson Wood Diaries record her day-to-day life. They contain writing about daily activities, oftentimes noting the weather. The diaries include musings on social engagements and other events. They have also been used to keep track...
This collection contains photographs of Cissy Patterson, as well as her dog. Additionally the collection contains correspondence with Kay McCarter. This correspondence includes letters from both Cissy Patterson and her daughter, Felicia Gizycka,...
This collections contains manuscripts of published and unpublished scholarly and literary works by Professor Frederick C.L. Van Steenderen. Some of the manuscripts are typed, while others are handwritten.
This collection holds materials related to the exhibition held at Lake Forest College entitled “A Retrospective Art Exhibition of the sculpture of Sylvia Shaw Judson, 1897-1978.” The exhibition was planned and executed by students enrolled in a c...
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 han...
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 wit...
This collection consists of a single journal comprised of handwritten, primarily business correspondence from J.H.M Chesney in London to various individuals. At the front of the journal are alphabetical tabs, under which names are written.
This collection consists of documents about inflation, including numerous pamphlets and a magazine article from the Saturday Evening Post. There are also newspaper clippings from the New York Evening Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Journal of ...
This collection consists of one black leather three-ring binder labeled as a price book. It contains mostly business-related handwritten sheets of lists, arranged alphabetically under tabs. The lists record McCutcheon's financial transactio...
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...
This collection consists of a photo album containing black and white photographs, mostly of Riverside Farm, some with people. There are also small black and white photographs of unknown people, each contained within an envelope labeled with photo...
These three scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings containing not only text, but also a number of images. The articles address various aspects of the Spanish-American War, including the origins of the war, battle summaries and war updates, numerou...
This collection contains newspaper clippings, including those about Robert Seyfarth's death, his son Robert Jr. and his wife, Mary Hays Seyfarth, as well as the Brewster Shirt Factory.Additionally, the collection contains documents and corres...
This collection contains photocopied portions of a Rumsey family history written and edited by Jean Rumsey. Rumsey’s writing and the original documents she incorporated into the family history produced a document 1,350 pages in length. Examples ...
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. Additio...