Joseph Medill Patterson Papers
Joseph Medill Patterson's papers consist of correspondence, memoranda, a wide variety of personal and business financial records, cartoons, and other materials. They relate to Patterson's career as co-publisher and publisher of the Chica...
Patterson, Joseph Medill, 1879-1946
The collection consists of personal and professional papers of the architect Edward H. Bennett. The collection is arranged into two series. Series 1 includes correspondence, drafts, and plans from throughout Bennett's career. The most signifi...
Bennett, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1874-1954
Nancy A. Nichols Research Papers
The collection consists of research papers of Nancy A. Nichols, the author of Lake Effect: Two Sisters and a Town's Toxic Legacy (2008). The collection includes notes on interviews and readings; obscure government reports and publications wit...
Nichols, Nancy A.
This collection consists of papers, photographs and items donated by Susan Dart detailing her research and later published book, "Market Square" on the architect Howard Shaw and his work in Lake Forest.For more information or questions, ...
Dart, Susan
J. Howard Wood Family Papers 1857-1959
The Wood Family Papers comprises the story of J. Howard Wood as a student at Lake Forest College from 1918-1922 as well as his life as a graduate student at Harvard from 1922-1926. This collection includes maps and town information of where the fa...
Wood, J. Howard
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...
Weber, Bertram A.
Sylvia Shaw Judson Exhibit Collection
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...
Haskins, Sylvia Shaw Judson, 1897-1978
Chicago Athletic Association Collection
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...
Chicago Athletic Association
George Barr McCutcheon Collection
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...
McCutcheon, George Barr, 1866-1928
Hoffman Family and Riverside Farm Collection
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...
Hoffman Family
Robert Seyfarth Family Collection
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...
Seyfarth, Robert
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 ...
Rumsey, Jean
This collection includes postcards sent to Samuel Rosenthal from friends and family. It also contains materials on the Ravinia Festival.
Rosenthal, Samuel R.
This collection features correspondence, a petition, and memoranda handwritten by Marvin Kent.
Kent, Marvin, 1816-1908
The City of Lake Forest Materials
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 director...
Miller, Arthur H.
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 c...
Lunn, Elizabeth T.
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 includ...
Miller, Arthur H.
Gordon Adamson Calligraphy Collection
This collection contains materials related to calligraphy. The bulk of the collection is made up of journals and newsletters from various calligraphy organizations. It also includes Adamson correspondence and member directories for the Friends o...
Adamson, Gordon