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Box 2

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Folder 1

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

  • Tribune farm as artist views it: spring planting under way on 1,300-acre experimental tract (1934-04-08)
  • 1934 crop yields on Tribune farm (1934-12-24)
  • Tribune farm's plan for 1936 (1936-05-17)

    • Dates: 1934 - 1936
    Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / I-135, Robert R. McCormick. Illinois properties records / Tribune experimental farms / Maps published in the Tribune

    Sketch maps

     Item — Box: 2, Folder: 2
    Scope and Contents From the Collection:

    This series contains material related to two large tracts of land owned by Col. Robert R. McCormick: Cantigny Farm near Wheaton, Illinois, and the "experimental" farm on the Fox River west of Yorkville in Kendall County, Illinois. Most of this material is various maps and plans, but the series includes some related correspondence and other notes, and illustrations of a proposed remodeling of the house at Cantigny.

    Dates: 1923 - 1936
    Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / I-135, Robert R. McCormick. Illinois properties records / Tribune experimental farms

    Map of the experimental farm

     Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3
    Scope and Contents

    Map in ink on board, and reproductions

    Dates: 1923 - 1936
    Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / I-135, Robert R. McCormick. Illinois properties records / Tribune experimental farms

    Map of the Fox River, 1923

     Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4
    Scope and Contents

  • Sheet no. 15. Little Rock and Fox Townships, Kendall County
  • Sheet no. 16. Little Rock Township, Bristol Township, Kendall County

    • Dates: 1923
    Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / I-135, Robert R. McCormick. Illinois properties records / Tribune experimental farms