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April 5, 2024
EVANSTON, Ill. --- An exhibit of 40 photographs displayed on five plasma screens in the corridor between Northwestern University’s main library and Deering Library will take viewers back to Evanston and the Northwestern campus as it looked 100-plus years ago.
Taken by photographer Alexander Hesler, the photos first appeared in an 1887 book that Hesler published in homage of Evanston, the city in which he lived and worked. Library staffers have digitized about 100 images from that book.
Imagine away the gingerbread Victorian bric-a-brac that was the style of the era and you can recognize the few buildings that still exist today. A digitized photograph of the L.D. Norton House -- now Northwestern’s alumni center at the northwest corner of Sheridan and Clark -- boasts lacy porches and a gracious lawn.
To learn more about the digitized exhibition curated by Janet Olson, assistant university archivist, visit online.
