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1. A handwritten history of Lake Bluff at the time of the Illinois Centennial, 1918. Written as a part of a county wide centennial program, the history was researched by the 7th and 8th grade classes of the Lake Bluff School. Some photographs are included .

   Early Industries pg. 61

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2. A handwritten history of Lake Bluff at the time of the Illinois Centennial, 1918. Written as a part of a county wide centennial program, the history was researched by the 7th and 8th grade classes of the Lake Bluff School. Some photographs are included .

   Early Industries pg. 62

   Record Type: Archive

   
3. An invitation to Lake Bluff residents for Leo Grost's retirement dinner. Grost worked for the Village for many years. The letter is written by Howard Wilms. At the bottom of the page is a short biography on Grost, who enlisted in the Army July 1917 and discharged June 1919. Leo was in the 132 Ambulance Company 33rd Division. His father and mother were Frank and Elizabeth Grost. Frank worked at the Cloes Brickyard and Elizabeth as a cook for Mrs. Fowler's hotel.

   Invitation to Leo Grost party

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4. An audio tape interview with Kenneth Masonick - In 1983 Catherine Shively interviewed several longtime Lake Bluff residents using an audio tape recorder. This interview is with Kenneth Masonick

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5. Letter between Vera Flach and Elmer Vliet - A series of letters between Vera Flach and Elmer Vliet totaling 16 pages. In the letters Vera talks about her recollections of old Lake Bluff. Her grandfather Jervice Evans built the Tabernacle and a hotel that later burned. Of an oil painting of her grandfather that hung in the chapel of Hedding College where he was president. Vera talks about sending silverware and the painting. Vliet talks about beginnings of the Lake Forest Lake Bluff Historical Society and of a canon ball that was found by Honorary Director James Getz on Green Bay Road, which was thought to be of French origin dating by the 1700s The Jesuit cross carved in a tree on Michale Mines property, found by John Cole. Also mentions the Lake Bluff Chat October 29, 1910 mentions the death of Dr. Evans Vera died May 28, 1975

   Letters between Flach and Vliet

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