Browsing by Subject/Keyword: people, organizations and landmarks:
Illinois Prairie Path, first trip: May T. Watts, Mollie Salmon, and Floyd Swink with group at Wayne village station (3.35244)
Date: October 19 1963Type: Photographic image
Description:Standing next to the Wayne village station, Floyd Swink speaks to a group gathered for the initial survey of the land that would become the Illinois Prairie Path. Swink appears to be holding a tuft of grass for the group to view. May T. Watts and Mollie Salmon stand to his left.
Extent: 1 slide
Illinois Prairie Path, first trip: Floyd Swink, Helen Turner, May T. Watts, and others near Wheaton (3.35248)
Date: October 19 1963Creator: Sobolik, A. A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Floyd Swink, Helen Turner, May T. Watts, and others walk along the former Chicago, Aurora and Elgin near houses in Wheaton, Illinois, on land that would become part of the Illinois Prairie Path.
Extent: 1 slide
Illinois Prairie Path, first trip: May T. Watts, Floyd Swink, Helen Turner, and others having lunch (3.35260)
Date: October 19 1963Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts, Floyd Swink, Helen Turner, and others have a discussion while stopping for lunch at a park in Batavia near the former Chicago, Aurora and Elgin railway, on land that would become part of the Illinois Prairie Path.
Extent: 1 slide
Illinois Prairie Path, first trip: May T. Watts and Floyd Swink with fellow hikers at a park (3.35264)
Date: October 19 1963Type: Photographic image
Description:May T. Watts and Floyd Swink stopp with fellow hikers at a park in Batavia along the former Chicago, Aurora and Elgin railway, on land that would become part of the Illinois Prairie Path. Helen Turner is seated to the left.
Extent: 1 slide
Illinois Prairie Path, first trip: Floyd Swink's written description (3.35265)
Date: October 19 1963Creator: Swink, Floyd
Type: Document
Description:A type-written narrative from Floyd Swink describing the first walk along the former Chicago, Aurora and Elgin railway, on land that would become part of the Illinois Prairie Path.
Text, from top to bottom:
Saturday, October 19, 1963
the walk inlcuded Wayne, Batavia, and Wheaton,
along the old Chicago, Aurora & Elgin right-of-way;
the tour also inlcuded a walk along the old Geneva
branch, abandoned in 1937; we (or at least I)
then stopped at Perry Lake in Glen Ellyn to watch
the excavation of a mastodon
the walk consisted of Arboretum class members
[handwritten] (Floyd Swink)
Extent: 1 sheet