Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Prairie south of 101st Street |
Accession Number |
2018.524.013 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
This is a photograph featuring the prairie that was south of the Lah home located at 5752 West 101st Avenue after an extensive prairie fire in the 1960s. This area is now part of Memorial Park (formerly Southwest Park). Robert Lah wrote extensively about the area in a paper titled 'Prairie Days in Oak Lawn'. It discusses his personal recollections of the grassland ecosystem that once existed throughout the Oak Lawn area, focusing on the 1950s and 1960s. |
Date |
Circa 1969 |
Classification |
Landscape Nature Parks Disasters/Fires |
Search Terms |
Photos Photographs Pictures Trees Prairie Outdoors |
People |
Lah, Barbara Lah, Robert |