Archives and Special Collections
Exhibits
- Annual Student Symposium program on Lake Effect Environmental Archive, April 10, 2012.
- Architecture Books of the Chicago Renaissance: New Printing and Related Technologies and the Impacts on Collecting by Designers and Clients, 1890s to 1930s. Thursday, August 18, 2011, through Friday, March 30, 2012: Hours of access will be, through August 24, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm M-F; August 25 through December 14, regular in-session library hours: 8 am to midnight M-Th, noon to 6 pm Sat. and 6 to midnight Sun. This exhibit is in conjunction with the Chicago-region-wide “Festival of the Architecture Book, 1511-2011” and its exhibits in many academic and research libraries. Books and plans on view are from this library’s collections from architects’ and clients’ private libraries.
- Ragdale House Speaks, an exhibit on view in Durand Institute through February 18, 2011, highlights the extraordinary 1898-completed home of architect Howard Van Doren Shaw (1869-1926), his family and descendants. Today Ragdale is a City of Lake Forest owned, Ragdale Foundation-leased National Register of Historic Places landmark. The exhibit includes a kiosk displaying the also continuing virtual Ragdale Scrapbook collection, based on the original Scrapbook housed in Special Collections. Architect Shaw designed several campus buildings: Calvin Durand Hall, Glen Rowan House, Hixon Hall, and the western four faculty houses, Campus Circle.
- 150 Years of Lake Forest History in Portraits (in honor of the City of Lake Forest’s Sesquicentennial, 2011): an exhibit adjacent to the Special Collections suite, collections (lower) level of Donnelley and Lee Library, through Friday, March 18, 2011. Open during regular library hours.
- Nature by Design: Drawings of the Foundation for Architecture and Landscape Architecture, 1926-1935: an exhibit including Special Collections drawings, LF-Lake Bluff Historical Society, through Dec. 16, 2010.
- Bolshevists, Communism, and American Anti-Communism, 1917-1960: An Exhibit Mounted in Honor of Labor Day, September 7, 2009 and Continuing through October, 2009, by Guest Curator Jason Mulak and Archivist and Librarian for Special Collections Arthur H. Miller
- Edward H. Bennett: New Light on the Plan of Chicago 1909, a preliminary version of a web exhibit, June 2009, by Arthur H. Miller and Joshua Anderson ’10
- Lincolniana (2009)
- One Hundred Rare and Notable Books (2004)
- African American History Tour of Lake Forest (1997)
- Historic Innovations (2009)
