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Illinois Heritage Volume 9 Number 4
July - August 2006

Feature Articles:

bulletC.S. German: Photographer to President-elect Lincoln (page 9)
bulletDay Trips: Tarzan, Mars, and the jungles of Oak Park (page 16)
bulletServing on the Great Lakes: Coeds made money and memories on the Georgian Bay Line (page 18)
bulletYour Obedient Servants: The Presidential Papers Collection of Joseph and Lucille Block go on the road (page 20)
bulletSociety acquires rare portrait of 1879 House of Representatives (page 28)

On the Cover:

College coed Helen Lee Hensleigh sunbathes aboard the S.S. North American, during the summer of 1942. The cruise ship was one of three operated by the New Georgian Line, which chartered Great Lakes excursions from Chicago to Buffalo.  The line hired college students to wait tables and provide entertainment for the passengers.  Photo courtesy Helen Lee Hensleigh Wenger.

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