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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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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...
View ArticleMeister 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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