Mr. and Mrs. James R. Getz Archives and Special Collections
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Archives | Special Collections
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- Some "Historic Innovations" topics for research, Archives Month, October 2009
- Hours, Access, Directions, and Services
- "Permission to Publish" form
- Library Catalog
- Exhibitions -- New for Labor Day, 2009: The Bolshevists, Communism, and American Anti-Communism
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Archives contains Lake Forest College's own history, publications, records, theses, and memorabilia.
Some highlighted features:
- Lake Forest College's Historic Campus: Landscape and Buildings (rev. 2009)
- African American Historical Walking Tour for Students
- Visual Communications Publications (1982-2007), partially processed Summer 2009
- Theater Department/Garrick Players, partially processed summer 2009
Special Collections contains rare books and periodicals, ephemera, maps, prints, manuscripts, photographs, and realia/memorabilia. These are materials not generated by the institution in the course of its operations.
Some highlighted features:
- Effective Schools Process (SM), a collection received in 2008, and in process; some introductory pages and an outline of the structure of the collection (processing in progress, September 2009)
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Edward H. Bennett Collection: Gift of Marcia O. and Edward Bennett III: a preliminary exhibit of a collection
received November 15, 2008 (processing in progress, September 2009)
- Railroad Digitized Collection (selected images); see an overview of the entire Ellliott Donnelley Railroad Library
- Lisel Mueller, Poet
- Finding Aid for the Papers of Joseph Medill Patterson (1879-1946)
(pdf)
- Patterson was the founder of The New York Daily News and its publisher 1919-1946; these Papers were donated in the 1980s by James Patterson, son of J.M. Patterson. For more material relating to Patterson's career prior to News and for more family correspondence and photos, contact Special Collections for descriptions of donations from the late Josephine Patterson Albright and from Alice Albright (Mrs. Michael) Arlen.
- Lake Forest Country Places (updating in progress, September 2009)