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Special Collections (non-book, mostly) indexed by name, listed alphabetically

Name of collection, Alphabetically:
A-B   C-E   F-H   I-L   M-N   O-Q   R-S   T -Z

A-B

• Abbey, Wally, photographs (on deposit from CRPA)
• Adams, Annie Lewis, Class of 1893, L.F.U. ‘93 Banner
• Aldis, Mary Reynolds (Aldis, Mary, b. 1872), 1872-1949; see also Tellis collection
• Aldis, Dorothy
• America (Chicago weekly periodical, 1887-91) manuscripts, etc.
• Amtrak, see Dubin
• Anderson, Stanley D.’16 (architect) and Anderson & Ticknor firm
• Anderson, Stanley D. ’16 archive, see Bergmann, Paul
• Anthony, Cornelia Neltnor (in Asmann collection)
• Arpee, Edward collections
• Armour, J. Ogden
• Asmann, Edwin N., ’27 collections and papers, see also Confederate States of America bonds
• Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, see Dubin, O’Kieffe, Currens, and Munson Paddock
• Austrian, Alfred S.
• Baird & Warner, see Sidley & Austin Facilities Analysis, 1984
• Baker, Edward Larrabee, 1869- , scrapbooks
• Barnes/Reid family (the Rev. Clifford W. Barnes, Lilace Reid Barnes, etc.)
• Barr, Mrs. Florentine (Europe trip, 1955)
• Bartholomay, Judith, collection of books and letters relating to poet Howard Nemerov. 
• Beach, George and Mary, see Thorne, Bruce, Memoir, below: related publications
• Beck, Bruce, see Middleton
• Beebe, Lucius, see Arthur Dubin
• Bell, J. J.; his manuscript of his 1933 book Scotland’s Rainbow West
• Bent, Mrs. Marie—see Barr, Mrs. Florentine
• Benedictus, Edouard
• Bennett, Edward H. (preliminary exhibit), finding aid to 2008-donated collection.  Many of the Bennett firm and 1909 Plan of Chicago study photographs of Europe and the Mediterranean are available as prints, etc. from” The Pictured Past” (Chicago) by contacting info@nicepublishing.com.  
• Bentley, Phoebe Norcross (Mrs. Richard)
• Bergmann, Paul collection
• Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828), see Middleton
• Blair, Erle (landscape architect) see Plans, landscape
• Brach, E.J. and Sons, Chicago (Wayne Taylor)
• Bronson, Mrs. Roger (Eleanor)—see Barr, Florentine
• Bross, William papers (correspondence with Mark Hopkins)
• Brown, Bertha Alling
• Buehler, Mignon collection (Henry Rumsey estate, 900 E. Illinois Road, Lake Forest)
• Burger Boat Co., Manitowoc, WI.  See Saville Organ Corp., Saville family
• Burger, Warren, see Lloyd
• Burnett, Leo (Chicago, advertising), see O’Kieffe, DeWitt

C-E

• Carlson, Norman collection: Donald Duke railroad photographs group (400 numbered b & w 8 x 10 prints, California Southern Pacific freight trains, 1940s to 1980s). Location: 003:22.2.2 (four loose-leaf binders).  
• Cary Hill Ski Club (Lake Forest, etc. residents, late 1930s), see Lloyd
• Caxton Club (Chicago)
• Center for Railroad Photography and Art (CRPA)
• Cerny, Jerome (architect), links to see GGL, LFIT, Shirley Paddock
• Chagall, Marc, “Four Seasons:” murals, 1974, Chicago, see Wood-Prince
• Chicago Tribune: see McCutcheon, J.T. collection; Orr, Terry cartoons; Patterson, J.M., papers; Wood, J. Howard ’22 collection
• Chicagoans, index to portraits of notable, in Special Collections books
• Church, Margaret, see Plans, landscape
• Church of St. Mary’s (Lake Forest), see Cookbooks (topics) 
• Church of the Holy Spirit (Lake Forest), see Cookbooks (topics) 
• Chicago Illustrated: 1830-1866 (Chicago: Jevne & Almini, 1866-67) Many of the Kurz lithographs in the series are available through “The Pictured Past” (Chicago) by contact info@nicepublishing.com.  
• City of Lake Forest Sesquicentennial: book Celebrating Lake Forest’s 150 Years: 1861-2011, edited by Susan J. Banks, Susan L. Kelsey, and Arthur H. Miller (Northbrook, Illinois: Gail McGrath & Associates, Inc./Performance Media, 2011), 161 pp.  A listing of images and extended captions for them from Special Collections files, along with a listing of errata. 
• City of Lake Forest Water Works, 1921-1955, with records of the Lake Forest Water Co., etc., 1891-1921.  Water Co.. customer book, 1890s-1921.
• Clark, Edwin Hill, see Plans, Architectural and Spec. Coll. Designer file
• Confederate States of America bonds, 1861-64.
• Cooper, Cecilia.  See Chicago Illustrated.  Medal struck from 1871-destroyed County Bldg. bell (1 of 500, Summer 1872; designed by William Barber; Location: office). 
• Coterie (Lake Forest womens’ literary club, 1890 to present, archives on deposit)
• Coutts, John slides
• Crab Tree Farm, Lake bluff, IL; see catalog and Grace and Scott Durand papers, from the Griffith Grant & Lackie Realtors, Inc. archives, as saved, sorted and organized by local historian and volunteer Shirley M. Paddock. 
• Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942 (view of Cram’s country place Whitehall, Sudbury, MA), see Weber, Paul J., item 17.
• Cramer, Ambrose (architect), see Plans, architectural and Lake Forest Garden Club
• Crosby, William railroad collection
• Cuneo, John, see Cuneo Museum and Gardens
• Cuneo Museum and Gardens (CMG), see also Insull, Samuel
• Currens, Earl x’14 (1910-11) scrapbook collection
• Dart, Susan (Mrs. John T. McCutcheon, Jr.) collections: (1) Market Square and architect Howard Van Doren Shaw (1869-1926); see also Shaw family and (2) Dart’s Natural Foods column, Chicago Tribune and syndicated, 1976-1981
• DeKoven, Reginald
• Desbarats, Summer Colony, History
• Dickey, Duane E. (1910-2003), architect, plans; main finding aid and alternate guide to collection
• Donnelley, Elliott (biog., etc.); see also Elliott Donnelley’s Model Railroad Supplier Catalogs (Lionel, etc.)
• Dubin, Arthur collections (catalog, also photo finding aid); plaster plaque, Snoa Synagogue, Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles.  Prints of many Dubin items are available through “The Pictured Past”(Chicago) by contacting info@nicepublishing .  
• Duke, Donald, railroad photographer, see Carlson, Norm
• Durand family (see LF families reference file)
• Durand, Scott and Grace Garrett (Mrs.), papers and documents, Crab Tree Farm, from the Grrifth Grant & Lackie Realtors, Inc., saved, sorted and organized from forgotten business papers by local historian and volunteer Shirley M. Paddock.  
• Durand & Kasper Company (catalog, LF families reference file—Durand—and Archives Photo File)
• Effective Schools Process^SM archive and collection

F-H

• Farwell, Charles Benjamin, 1823-1903 (U.S. Senator, 1887-1891), portrait cameo
• Farwell family
• Farwell, J.V. & Company (catalog)
• Field, Marshall, 1834-1906, estate of (see Stokes, James G.)
• First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest
• Fisk, John papers
• Fort Dearborn (second, demol. 1857) log segment, Ruth Vernon collection
• Foster, Ellen Adair Orr (Mrs. Volney) papers
• Foundation for Architecture and Landscape Architecture: see also (1) Archives—Historically Related Organizations and (2) Lake Forest Garden Club (deposit, restricted access)
• Frazier & Raftery; Raftery Orr & Fairbank (architects)
• Frazier, Walter (architect)
• Frost & Granger (architects)
• Frost, Charles S. (architect)
• Garden, Hugh M.G. (architect), see Spec. Coll. designers file
• Gassette, Grace (Chicago-born artist, writer), from B. Harvey collection
• Geary, John collections
• Getz family—James R. and Betsy Needham Getz—papers (see also Mettawa, IL); Chicago Educational Television Assoc. (WTTW11; 1953 organizing file), Lake County Historical Society, Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society
• Gizycki, Countess (Cissy Patterson), see Patterson
• Godehn, Paul M., see Alfred S. Austrian
• Goodwin, George—interviews with Frank Lloyd Wright (see Wright)
• Granger, Alfred H. (architect)
• Great Books, see Lloyd
• Griffith Grant and Lackie, Realtors, Inc. archives (GGL), see also Lake Forest Improvement Trust (LFIT)
• Griffith, John
• Haight, John McV., Jr., collection
• Hale, Rosemary collections 
• Hamill family collections
• Hart (Augustin, Jr.) family, see McClure/Hart/Stuart family
  Hart (Max) family, see Spitz family
• Harvey, Bennett, collection (scrapbook on Grace Gassette, artist (Paris): 1910s France and World War I, and her articles to Chicago Journal) 
• Haskins, Sylvia Shaw Judson, see Virginia Stewart collection
• Hayes, Alice Judson, Ragdale Scrapbook (link to file with jpegs)
• Hendrickson scrapbook/commonplace book collection
• Hesler, Alexander, 1823-1895, Chicago Photographer
• Holt family photo collection
• Hopkins, Mark, see Bross
• Hubbard family, see Holt
• Huszagh & Hill, architects (monograph; see also catalog)

I-L

• Insull, Samuel, companies’ financial documents (printed)
• Jackson, Arthur S. and Louise B. estate collection
• Jeffers, Jack, photographs (on deposit, CRPA)
• Jensen, Jens (landscape designer): see Spitz, Joel collection and designers file
• Johnson, Edith (spouse of LF College president Ernest Johnson, 1942-59); correspondence relating to spouse’s 1959 death, etc.
• Johnson, Marshall (Landscape architect)
• Johnson, Philip (architect), see Schulze, Franz collections
• Johnson, Mrs. Wallace—see Barr, Mrs. Florentine
• Laflin, Louis Ellsworth, Jr. collection
• Lake County Historical Society (see Getz)
• Lake Effect Environmental Archive, centered on Lake Effect by Nancy Nichols (2008)
• Lake Forest Cemetery
• Lake Forest Day, see Laflin (local photographs)
• Lake Forest Foundation for Historic Preservation
• Lake Forest Garden Club archives (women’s garden club, on deposit [restricted access]; see also Bentley, Phoebe; Foundation for Architecture and Landscape Architecture)
• Lake Forest Improvement Trust (LFIT)/Market Square
• Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Historical Society, see Getz
• Lake Forest Library (LFL) — garden and art books (on deposit)
• Lake Forest Players, see Aldis, Mary
• Lake Forest Play-readers, see also Laflin, L.E., Jr. and Bentley, Phoebe collections
• Lake Forest (town), see City of Lake Forest, above
• Lake Forest Water Company
  Water Company customer book, 1890s
  Lake Forest Water Works (municipal successor to Lake Forest Water Company and subsidiaries)
• Lake Forest Womens’ Club
• Lake Forester
• Lakeside Classics, RR Donnelley & Sons, 1980s-1990s  —about Lakeside Classics
• Lake Zurich Country Club (see Wood, J. Howard ‘22)
• Leverton, Garrett Theatre Collection
• Liberty magazine, see Patterson, J.M. papers
• Lindeberg, Harrie T., Architect, Collections
• Lloyd, Marion Musser (Mrs. Glen A.) papers

Mac/Mc-N

• MacChesney, General Nathan papers
• McClory, U.S. Representative Robert papers both relating to his Watergate files, House Judiciary Committee, 1973-74, and also to other aspects of his career, 1952-88, memorials after his 1988 death, and legacy.  
• McClure/Hart/Stuart family collections (on deposit)
• McClure, the Rev. James G. K. papers; see also Archives reference presidents’ files, Presidents’ papers, and Bross Foundation
• McCormick, Cyrus II papers; Walden estate house plans
• McCormick, Robert R., see J. M. Patterson Papers (PDF)
• McCutcheon, George Barr papers
• McCutcheon, John T., author, cartoonist, book collector (his pirate book coll., corresp. with A. C. McClurg bookstore, Chicago)
• McCutcheon, John T., Jr., papers; see also Shaw family collections
• Madlener, Mrs. Otto autograph collection
• Manning, Warren (landscape architect)
• Market Square finding aid and short tour, see also Lake Forest Improvement Trust (LFIT) and Lake Forest Garden Club
• Marktown, East Chicago, IN, see Myers, Paul and Shaw, Howard (archit.)  
• Mather, Charles Chambers    
• Meeker family
• Mellody Farm
• Mettawa village records, 1961-85 (files of village president James R. Getz), see Getz
• Middleton, R. H. Bewick wood block and collection
• Midlothian Country Club, Midlothian, IL, see George R. Thorne Presentation
• Milman, Helen Brown (landscape architect), see Lake Forest Garden Club
• Milman (Ralph) & Morphett (architects), see Spec. Coll. Designers file
• Moses, Robert (New York), see Patterson and catalog
• Mueller, Lisel — her American poetry book collection listed, with biographic material, etc.  A finding aid to deposited papers, manuscripts, clippings of reviews, etc. also is available. Chronological list of public readings, some taped. 
• Myers, Paul collection
• Nash, Joseph (artist)
• Nebenzahl, Kenneth collection of writings, etc.
• Neltnor family, West Chicago, IL, see Asmann
• Nemerov, Howard, poet (a collection of his books and correspondence).  See Bartholomay. 
• New York, New York parks, see Patterson (PDF) and catalog
• New York Daily News archives, 1919-1946 (see Patterson, Joseph Medill Papers, etc. fidning aid, below)
• Nichols, Nancy and Lake Effect (2008) collection.  Preliminary descriptive information. Finding aid.
• Nixon, President Richard M., see Lloyd, McClory

O-Q

• O’Kieffe, DeWitt collections 
• Onwentsia Club; see also Lindeberg, Harrie T. (architect) for plans.  For club rosters, histories, etc. see the public catalog and the clubs file.  
• Orr, Montgomery (architect), see Frazier Raftery Orr & Fairbank (architects)
• Orr, 1890- (Carey Orr, 1890-1967) Political, Etc. Cartoons, Chicago Tribune, 1926-1960
• Otis, William A. (architect), see Plans, architectural
• Paddock, Munson railroad collection: books, periodicals, photographs, and papers
• Paddock, Shirley McDonald collections
• Paeth, Louis A. (local resident early 20th C. artist and illustrator)
• Panel of American Women (finding aid)
• Paterson, New Jersey, see Reid (John), photographs
• Patterson, Joseph Medill (1879-1946) collections and family material. Patterson, Joseph Medill Papers (PDF) including archives of the New York Daily News, 1919-46; family correspondence from 1910s to 1946 (finding aid on current website); also clipping service scrapbooks, Nellie Patterson scrapbook, correspondence, and separate photo file. 
• Payne, Eugene B. (Brig. General) Civil War letters, 1862
• Pese, Werner unpublished manuscript on Hitler’s foreign policy
• Presbyterian Church (First, Lake Forest), see Cookbooks (topics)

R-S

• Ragdale, 1230-60 N. Green Bay Road, Lake Forest; 1896-purchased estate of family of architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, and the 1897-completed house named Ragdale by him (information from granddaughter  Alice Hayes in Special Collections reference file, by address): see also Hayes, Alice Judson—Ragdale Scrapbook (including copies of plans and historic photos) and Shaw family, Frances Wells Shaw, etc.  
• Ragdale Foundation
• Raymond, Clifford collection
• Repton, Humphrey (landscape designer), see Lake Forest Library
• Republican Party, see MacChesney
• Reid, Gil, railroad artist
• Reid, John (photographer, Paterson, NJ), see Paddock, Munson
• Reid family (Simon S. and Martha McWilliams), see Barnes
• Richardson, Eugene Stanley, 1916- , and his Vanishing Press (Gurnee, IL)
• Ricketts, C. L. (Coella Lindsay,1859-1941), see George R. Thorne Presentation
• Root, Ralph Rodney (landscape architect), see Lake Forest Garden Club and Plans, landscape
• Rose, Ted photographs (on deposit, CRPA); information on Rose and the collection on the Center’s website
• Rosenthal, Martin
• Rosenthal, Samuel and Marie-Louise
• Rumsey, Henry estate, Lake Forest, see Buehler collection
• Rumsey, Jean (I. P. Rumsey family) papers
• Saville Organ Corporation; Saville family
• Schaffer, Otto (landscape architect)
• Schulze, Franz papers and collections
• Scolnik, Avern B., see Asmann, Edwin collections
• Seymour, Ralph Fletcher
• Shaehan, James W. (James Washington), 1824-1883, writer and author (Chicago Tribune and Chicago Illustrated… (1866-67). 
• Sidley & Austin Chicago Facilities Analysis, 1984
• Shaw, Frances Wells, 1872-1937, papers
• Shaw, Howard Van Doren and Shaw family papers: see Spitz, Joel; Hayes, Alice (Ragdale Scrapbook Digital Collection photos, etc. relating to Ragdale, Howard Shaw, and the Shaw family, 1890s-1980s); Dart, Susan ( her Natural Foods columns); Shaw portrait plaque by daughter Sylvia; architectural plans, see also “Lake Forest Improvement Trust” and “Architectural Plans” 
• Shaw Prairie, largely virgin prairie west of Ragdale house, Howard Shaw family estate, 1897-1986.  
• Simonds, O.C. (landscape architect), see Plans, landscape
• Sloan, Jane (Jane Hunter Sloan, ‘10), poetry collection
• Sloss, James railroad collections, published works, and papers
• Smith, Fredrika Shumway (Mrs. Solomon) literary scrapbooks, etc.
• Smith, Byron Laflin, family in Lake Forest (see also Wood-Prince)
• Spitz, Joel and Maxine Hart Spitz (Glencoe, IL) papers relating to Glencoe, Illinois house Trail Tree, 1925-26; including material relating to architect Howard Van Doren Shaw and his successor Associates, 1926, and landscape gardener Jens Jensen; and Spitz family photographs; see also Plans, architectural
• Stanley, the Rev. Hannibal and family
• Steele, Fletcher, landscape architect (Country Place Era). Prints, etc. of Steele projects across the U.S. are available through “The Pictured Past” (Chicago) by contacting info@nicepublishing. com.
• Stevens, Henry (bookseller)
• Stevenson, Kathy, typescript copy of locally-set novel “The Lake Poet” (2001). 
• Stewart, Virginia collection relating to sculptor Sylvia Shaw Judson Haskins
• Stokes, James G.
• Stuart family, see McClure/Hart/Stuart family

T-Z

• Taylor, Barbara O., see Effective Schools Process^SM
• Taylor, Wayne (of E.J. Brach & Sons)
• Tellis, Blanche Mason papers
• Thorne, Bruce, Memoirs
• Thorne, George Calligraphic Presentation
• United States Mutual Accident Assn. photo album
• University Club (Lake Forest) records
• University of Chicago, see Laflin, Lloyd and McCormick
• Ute tribe, Native Americans (Utah)  see Lloyd Family papers
• Van Sickle, Fred ’83 collection of interviews, etc. from his senior thesis on depression-era Lake Forest
• Van Steenderen, Frederick C.L. Prof. (foreign languages) papers
• Vernon, Ruth (Mrs. David T.) collection 
• Wagstaff, Charles G. (landscape architect)
• Wagstaff & Co. (landscape architects), see Plans, landscape
• Walden estate, see McCormick; house plans by Schmidt Garden & Martin, 1913
• Watergate investigation, 1972-74, see McClory
• Weber, Paul J., architectural and landscape photographer (Country Place Era)  See also Fletcher Steele.  
• Weber and Weber, architects (Chicago); Peter, Bertram and John Weber. 
• Weeks, Francis (Highland Park, IL) slides
• West, Roy (landscape architect), see Plans, landscape
• Whitefield, Jim, cinematographer collection
• Winter, Milo (illustrator, artist) and family
• Work, Robert G. (architect), see Shaw, Howard Van Doren and LFIT
• Wright, Frank Lloyd (architect), see Goodwin
• Wood, Arthur M., Mr. and Mrs. (Pauline Palmer) collection
• Wood, J. Howard ’22 papers (cartoons, photos, etc. relating to Chicago Tribune); see also Addie Hendrickson scrapbook/commonplace book collection
• Wood, Ruth Hendrickson ‘21 desk diaries, 1959-1971
• Wood-Prince, Mr. and Mrs. Alain (Barbara), pamphlets relating to Marc Chagall and his “Four Seasons” outdoor mosaic murals, Chicago.
• Yale University class of 1870 scrapbook, see also Barnes
• Young, Blanche papers 
• Young Womens’ Christian Association (YWCA), see Barnes family (Lilace Barnes)