Special Collections (non-book, mostly) listed alphabetically
Name of collection, Alphabetically A-B C-E F-H I-L M-N O-Q R-S T -Z
- 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 see Asmann
- 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, and Munson Paddock
- Austrian, Alfred S.
- Barnes/Reid family (the Rev. Clifford W. Barnes, Lilace Reid Barnes, etc.)
- Barr, Mrs. Florentine (Europe trip, 1955)
- Beck, Bruce
- 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
- Bentley, Phoebe Norcross (Mrs. Richard)
- Bergmann, Paul collection
- Bewick, Thomas
- 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
- 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
- Chicago Tribune: see McCutcheon, J.T. collection; Orr, Terry cartoons; Patterson, J.M., papers; Wood, J. Howard ’22 collection
- Church, Margaret, see Plans, landscape
- Clark, Edwin Hill, see Plans, Architectural and Spec. Coll. Designer file
- Confederate States of America bonds, 1861-64.
- Coterie (Lake Forest womens’ literary club, on deposit)
- Coutts, John slides
- 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 collection on Market Square and architect Howard Van Doren Shaw (1869-1926); see also Shaw family
- DeKoven, Reginald
- Donnelley, Elliott
- Dubin, Arthur collections (catalog, also photo finding aid)
- Durand family (see LF families file)
- Durand & Kasper Company (catalog, LF families file--Durand)
- Effective Schools Process (SM) archive and collection
- Farwell family
- Farwell, J.V. & Company (catalog)
- Fisk, John papers
- Fort Dearborn (second, demol. 1857) log segment, see ____________
- Foster, Ellen Adair Orr (Mrs. Volney) papers
- Field, Marshall, 1834-1906, estate of (see Stokes, James G.)
- Foundation for Architecture and Landscape Architecture: see also Archives—Historically Related Organizations and Lake Forest Garden Club
- Frazier Raftery Orr & Fairbank (architects)
- Frazier, Walter (architect)
- Frost & Granger (architects)
- Frost, Charles S. (architect)
- Garden, Hugh M.G. (architect), see Spec. Coll. designers file
- Geary, John collections
- Getz family—James R. and Betsy Needham Getz—papers; see also Mettawa
- 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
- Hale, Rosemary collections
- Hamill family collections
- Hart (Augustin, Jr.) family, see McClure/Hart/Stuart family
Hart (Max) family, see Spitz family
- Hayes, Alice Judson, Ragdale Scrapbook (link to file with jpegs)
- Hesler, Alexander, 1823-1895, Chicago Photographer
- Holt family photo collection
- Hopkins, Mark, see Bross
- Hubbard family, see Holt
- 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 Forest Cemetery
- Lake Forest Country Day School (LFCDS), materials in the College's Visual Communications outside work archives
- Lake Forest Day, see Laflin (local photographs)
- Lake Forest Garden Club (women’s garden club, on deposit; see also Bentley, Phoebe)
- 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 Water Works (Lake Forest Water Company and subsidiaries)
- Lake Forest Womens’ Club
- Lake Forester
- Lakeside Classics, RR Donnelley & Sons, 1980s-1990s
- 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
- MacChesney, General Nathan papers
- McClory, U.S. Representative Robert papers
- 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
- McCormick, Robert R., see Patterson
- McCutcheon, George Barr papers
- McCutcheon, John T. papers; see also Shaw family collections
- Madlener, Mrs. Otto autograph collection
- Manning, Warren (landscape architect)
- Market Square, see 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
- 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 papers and collections (finding aids on website, etc.)
- Myers, Paul collection
- Nebenzahl, Kenneth collection of writings, etc.
- Neltnor family, West Chicago, IL, see Asmann
- New York, New York parks, see Patterson and catalog
- New York Daily News archives, 1919-1946 (see Patterson, Joseph Medill Papers, etc. fidning aid, below)
- Nixon, President Richard M., see Lloyd, McClory
- O’Kieffe, DeWitt collections
- Onwentsia Club; see also Lindeberg, Harrie T. (architect)
- 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 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 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, Cissy Patterson scrapbooks, 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)
- Ragdale, estate of family of architect Howard Van Doren Shaw: see Hayes, Alice Judson—Ragdale Scrapbook and Shaw family
- Ragdale Foundation
- Repton, Humphrey (landscape designer), see Lake Forest Library
- Republican Party, see MacChesney
- Reid, John (photographer, Paterson, NJ), see Paddock, Munson
- Reid family (Simon S. and Martha McWilliams), see Barnes
- Root, Ralph Rodney (landscape architect), see Lake Forest Garden Club and Plans, landscape
- Rose, Ted photographs (on deposit, CRPA)
- 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
- Shaw, Howard Van Doren and Shaw family papers: see Spitz, Joel; Hayes, Alice; Dart, Susan; architectural plans, see also “Lake Forest Improvement Trust” and “Architectural Plans”
- Simonds, O.C. (landscape architect), see Plans, landscape
- Sloss, James railroad collections and papers
- Smith, Fredrika Shumway (Mrs. Solomon) literary scrapbooks, etc.
- Smith, Byron Laflin family in Lake Forest
- Spitz, Joel and Maxine Hart Spitz (Glencoe, IL) papers relating to 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)
- Stevens, Henry (bookseller)
- Stokes, James G.
- Stuart family, see McClure/Hart/Stuart family
Taylor, Barbara O., see Effective Schools Process (SM)
- Taylor, Wayne (of E.J. Brach & Sons)
- Tellis, Blanche Mason papers
- 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
- Wagstaff, Charles G. (landscape architect)
- Wagstaff & Co. (landscape architects), see Plans, landscape
- Walden estate, see McCormick
- Watergate investigation, 1972-74, see McClory
- Weber, Paul J., architectural and landscape photographer (Country Place Era)
- Weeks, Francis (Highland Park, IL) slides
- West, ______ (landscape architect), see Plans, landscape
- 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)
- Yale University, see also Barnes
- Young, Blanche papers
- Young Womens’ Christian Association (YWCA), see Barnes family (Lilace Barnes)