Chicago photographer George R. Lawrence (1868-1938) was a renowned inventor of cameras and an innovator of photographic processes.  George L...

World's Fair poster, 1933. Source: online "A Century of Progress International Exposition" was the name of the World's Fa...

October is American Archives Month which celebrates the value of archives and archivists. Archives provide researchers with firsthand fac...

Recently, while arranging photographs in the archives' files, I became re-aquainted with a series of Spanish-American War portraits fea...

One of the perks of the museum being at Lakewood Forest Preserve is that everyday I get to enjoy wildlife and the change in seasons. Today ...

Daniel Wright (1778-1873) is considered Lake County's first  permanent non-native settler. Native Americans were the original stewards ...

During the depression of the mid-1890s, there was a rise in the number of communitarian groups throughout the United States. American utopia...