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Friday, December 20, 2024

Cora Salisbury: Jack Benny’s Mentor

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Promotional photo for Cora Folsom Salisbury and Jack Benny, circa 1911. In Lake County's entertainment history, “the man from Waukegan,”...
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Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Meister Brau's Stallion Hitch

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Postcard of the "Original Lowenbrau Brewery Wagon" pulled by Westphalian stallions  at the New York World's Fair 1964-1965. Ru...
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Thursday, October 27, 2022

Dark Souvenirs of the Civil War

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Members of the 19th Illinois Regiment, from  The Nineteenth Illinois: a Memoir of a Regiment of Volunteer Infantry Famous in the Civil War, ...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

Legend of the Lotus

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Linen postcard of map of the Chain O'Lakes, 1949. Dunn Museum, 2016.1.112/9BH1932. The resort era began in Lake County in the 1870s with...
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