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Legend of the Lotus

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 people visiting Waukegan's mineral springs to better their...

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Dark Souvenirs of the Civil War

Members of the 19th Illinois Regiment, from The Nineteenth Illinois: a Memoir of a Regiment of Volunteer Infantry Famous in the Civil War, James Henry, 1912. At least eight Lake County men enlisted in...

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Meister Brau's Stallion Hitch

Postcard of the "Original Lowenbrau Brewery Wagon" pulled by Westphalian stallions at the New York World's Fair 1964-1965. Rudi Kurzenberger is holding the team. In 1964, Lowenbrau Brewery of Munich,...

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