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These images represent some visible aspects of my research conducted in 2007 and 2008. |
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| April - assembling early materials | May - Memorial Day at Rosehill Cemetery | June - Harold Washington Library, maps and Lincoln Park clippings file, Social Sciences and History Department | June - assembling postcards, visualizing early Lincoln Park | June - Illinois Regional Archives Depository at Northeastern Illinois University, microfilm records of Common Council files | July - Harold Washington Library, clippings file on microform, Social Sciences and History Department | July - building a visualization of early Lincoln Park | August - assembling cemetery survey materials | August - assimilating project information | August - puzzling the family lots in order to properly place in the cemetery survey (click to view animation) |
September - using a software program to aid in assembling formation of family lots. | September - assembling microfilm copies of the Common Council files | October - Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago’s Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Archives and Records Center, copy of cemetery plat | November - first glimpse of this original Common Council document at the Illinois Regional Depository Archive | November - Chicago Park District, Engineering Collections Active Vault | December - Chicago Park District, Special Collections Archive | December - Chicago Park District, Special Collections Archive, Lincoln Park list of condemned cemetery lots | December - Museum of Funeral Customs in Springfield, Illinois, where I spoke with Jon N. Austin about iron coffins. | December - Graceland Cemetery, first volume of interments, 1860-1870 | January - assembling information by category for this Web Site | February - Illinois Regional Archives Depository, at Northeastern Illinois University | March - looking at an Ante-fire tract book with Welton Pryor Jr., manager of the Guarantee Production department, at the Chicago Title and Trust Company. | |||
 The project began the day before this visit to the Couch Tomb. (click on image for video) |
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February 11, 2007 |
May - Peter Alter, curator at the Chicago History Museum, sharing David Kennison materials. | May- Memorial Day at Oakwoods Cemetery | June - Northwestern University, Deering Library, McCormick Library of Special Collections, Lincoln Park photo scrapbook | June - Harold Washington Library, Social Sciences and History Department | June - Illinois Regional Archives Depository at Northeastern Illinois University | July - assembling materials to visualize the Chicago City Cemetery | August 24 - aftermath of storm, destruction of trees surrounding the Couch Tomb | August - assembling microfilm copies from the Illinois Regional Depository Archives | August - learning about surveys and plats | September - puzzling the lots into proper arrangement with microfilm document containing the definitive clue. | September - successful placement of 172 family lots, covering 600' in length, from Wisconsin St. south to Menomonee St. | September - transcribing and backing up microfilm copies of Common Council files | November - reading on the Google Books Web Site | November - copying the Common Council files for this Web Site at IRAD. | November - Chicago Park District, Engineering Collections Active Vault | December - Chicago Park District, Special Collections Archive | December - driving to Springfield in frozen fog to meet with Dawn Cobb of the Illinois State Museum | December - transcribing the 1870 Lincoln Park Commissioners' meeting minutes | December - assembling the maps for the Web Site introduction | January - Graceland Cemetery | March - first proof of historical marker, sent via e-mail by Sewah Studios | March - Chicago Title and Trust Company, Ante-fire tract book room. |
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