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vol35no2_spring2013clr.pdf
Spring 2013, a truly American Church
for Chicago’s Catholics
vol35no1_winter2013clr.pdf
Winter 2013, Old Buildings, New Views
vol34no4_autumn2012clr.pdf
Fall 2012, Hyde Park–Kenwood Stories:
A time to Share
vol34no3_Summer2012clr.pdf
Summer 2012 Dr. Courage and his Muse
vol34no2_Spring2012.pdf
Spring 2012 Bridging Memories at the
Annual Dinner
vol34no1. pdf winter 2011
Winter 2011 - 2012 Hyde Parkers Remember the Good Old Days by Telling Stories
vol33no4_autumn2011.pdf
Autumn 2011 Michael McGuire, Hyde Park's Jeweler, by Francis S. Vandervoort
vol33no3_summer2011.pdf
Summer 2011 Shared Memories in a Storefront
vol33no2_spring2011.pdf
Spring 2011 Annual Dinner and A Half Century of Plasma Physics by Allan N. Kaufman
Vol33no1 Winter 2011
Winter 2011 The Civil War Touches Hyde Park by Francis S. Vandervoort
Vol32no4 autumn2010
Autumn 2010 I'm 21 Now  Reflections on Life in Hyde Park
vol32no3_summer2010
Summer 2010 Chicago's Finest Transportation, The Illinois Electric by John Allen and Roy G. Benedict
 vol 32no 2 Spring 2010  Spring 2010 Annual Meeting Issue
 Winter 10 pdf Winter 2010, Camp Douglas Civil War Camp in Chicago by Mindy Schwartz, MD
Autumn 09_color.pdf Autumn 2009 Reflections on Life in Hyde Park and
A Trip to The Jazz Age
 Summer 09.pdf  Summer 2009 Remembering Len Despres
 Spring, 09. pdf Annual Meeting and article about Paul Cornell's purchase of Hyde Park  Spring 2009 Annual Meeting Issue
 Winter, 09. pdf A Salute to Barak Obama  By Several Hyde Park Historical Society Members
 
 
Autumn, 07.pdf International House of Chicago celebrates its 75th year in 2007 by Claude Weil to the Hyde Park Historical Society.
Summer, 07, pdf  Recent Events at the Society
Spring, 07.pdf Annual Meeting and 2007 Show and Tell  Spring 2007 Annual Meeting issue
Winter, 07.pdf continuation of Article Chicago's Finest Transportation the Illinois Central Electric Railroad  by John Allen and Roy G. Benedict
Autumn, 06. pdf Station Stop, Reform School
 by Claud Weil

Summer06.pdf File of Article Chicago's Finest Transportation The Illinois Central Electric Railroad

by John Allen and Roy G. Benedic
Spring 06.pdf Annual Meeting
Spring 2006 Annual Meeting Issue
 Winter 2006 Newsletter Pdf. file of entire newsletter
Hyde Park and the Wreck of the Lady Elgin
Winter 2006 Newsletter, Hyde Park and the Wreck of the Lady Elgin           by Frances S. Vandervoort
Fall 2005 Newsletter Pdf. file of entire newsletter  Autumn 2005 Newsletter
Spring 2005 Newsletter Pdf. file of entire newsletter
Annual Meeting Issue
Spring 2005 Annual Meeting Issue
Summer 2005 Newsletter Pdf. file of entire newsletter
Memories of Greenwood Row
 by Judy Allen
80 Years in Hyde Park: What's Past is Prologue, December, 1991 [.pdf] Leon M. Despres
The Beginning of the South Shore Country Club: The Founder's Own Story, October, 1992 [.pdf] Lawrence Heyworth
The Big Wheel, Spring, 2000 Patrick Meehan

Ferris Wheel Follow-up

Stephen A. Treffman

The Big Wheel -- for Kids

Kristi Hollingsworth
On Cable Cars and Lunch Rooms: Early Streetcars in Hyde Park-part one, Winter, 1999-2000 [.pdf] part two pdf. Stephen A. Treffman
Addendum:  On the Keller Brothers' Lunchroom    
at the HPHS Headquarters's location circa 1898    
Mary Bell Keller Johnson &
Judy Keller Levantino
Chicago Day at the Worlds Columbian Exposition, October, 1994 [.pdf] James Stronks
Chicago Day at the Worlds Columbian Exposition, October, 1994 [.pdf] James Stronks
The Civilian D-Day: Selling War Bonds from the Air, Spring, 2004 [.pdf] Stephen A. Treffman
Devil in the White City, a review. Spring 2003 Rosellen Brown
An Enduring Gift: Jean Block's Hyde Park Houses Twenty Years Later Winter, 1998/1999 [.pdf]  Stephen A. Treffman

Addendum:  Who Was Jean Block? [.pdf]   

 
Earl B. Dickerson and Hyde Park  December, 1986 [.pdf] Robert J. Blakely
Three articles on the HPHS headquarters building:  

The Keller Brothers' Lunchroom

Mary Bell Keller Johnson &
Judy Keller Levantino

Steve's Lunchroom: Part I
Spring/Summer, 1997[.pdf]

Alta Blakely and Greg Thorson

Steve's Lunchroom: Part II
Summer/Fall, 1997[.pdf]

Alta Blakely
Holding the Lake at Bay in Jackson Park:
            The Stories of the Paved Beach and the Iowa Building
Stephen A. Treffman
Hyde Park at the Beginning of World War II: Campus Reminiscences Fall, 2001
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Yaffa Claire Draznin
Hyde Park's Legacy of Architectural Terra Cotta Ornament, July, 1987 [.pdf] Edward A. Campbell
The Hyde Park Presbyterian Church, Winter, 2001 Mrs. J. F. Gilchrist

Hyde Park Presbyterian Church
-- for Kids

Kristi Hollingsworth
2003 The IC's Commuter Newsletter
John G. Allen
Mary Todd Lincoln's Sad Summer in Hyde Park, Spring, 1998 Jim Stronks
My School Days in Hyde Park, Winter, 2002 Paul H. Nitze
Recollections of Ted Anderson, Winter, 1995 [.pdf] Devereux Bowly
Pioneer Days of the Hyde Park Historical Society, Spring, 1999 Clyde Watkins
The Politics of Robert Picken, Spring, 2003 Jay F. Mulberry
The Quadrangle Club: Notes from HPHS Archives, Winter, 1995 [.pdf] Stephen A. Treffman &
Ed Campbell
Shipwrecks Off Hyde Park, October, 1992 [.pdf] Jim Stronks
A Tale of Hyde Park Park Art, September, 1990 [.pdf] Alta Blakely
William H. Ray: From the Historical Society Archives Stephen A. Treffman
Promontory Point 1937-1987, Summer, 2001 [.pdf] John McDermott, Jr., edited by Victoria Post Ranney

Addendum:  About Alfred Caldwell [.pdf]   

Stephen A. Treffman
The Spirit of Hyde Park--The Mural May, 1990 [.pdf] Astrid Fuller
When Tarzan Went to Harvard, Spring, 2001 Edgar Rice Burroughs
Wheels of Time: A Hyde Park Mural, September, 1983 [.pdf] Zeus Preckwinkle
Wooded Island: In Memoriam, Fall and Winter, 2003 Doug Anderson

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