Hear the story of the motion picture industry in Lake County from the 1890s to 1910s....
beginning with Thomas Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park NJ to Edward Amet's backyard movie studio in Waukegan Illinois and Lake County's connection to Essanay Studios in Chicago. Presented by Nicole Stocker of the Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County. A Libertyville-Mundelein Historical Society program.
The Cook Memorial Public Library District serves communities in northern Lake County, Illinois: Libertyville, Green Oaks, Vernon Hills, Indian Creek, Mettawa, and parts of Mundelein.
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