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E.V. Price was the owner of the Bonita Vista estate where Elise Weisenberger Gieser grew up as the daughter of the gardener.

This packet contains information regarding the Gieser family's research into their family tree and history.

Black and white photographs of the Gieser family, their house, and their family store located at the corner where 1st and 2nd Street merge in Highland Park, IL.

Black and white photographs of members of the Gieser family and friends. Includes pictures of Adolph Gieser, Annie Gieser [nee Christensen], Bill [Winsor] Gieser, Fritz and Kay Gieser, Doris Jean Gieser, Clara Waite, Lizzie Gieser, Roy Parker, Foster Cagel, Carl Christensen, Johnnie Claiche, Frederick Cheiver, and Lazarus Cozacar. These photos entail various daily events being captured as the family is established and flourishes.

Black and white photographs of Gieser family home at 1614 Glenview Avenue, Highland Park, IL.

Photographs and a photocopy of the invitation for Elise's birthday celebration held at the site of her former family home on the Bonita Vista Estate, now North Suburban Synagogue Beth El.

The album contains over 30 landscape photographs of the Bonita Vista estate owned by Mr. and Mrs. E.V. Price at 1201 So. Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL. There are no provided dates associated with the photographs. Attached loosely on the inside of the first page there is a small handwritten packet located inside a vanilla colored enveloped that lists some of the locations on the estate and gives descriptions about the photographs themselves. There is also information about Mr. Edward Valentine Price and the gardener Albert Weisenberger.

This photograph album belonged to Marion and Elise Weisenberger, the latter of which became Elise Gieser through marriage. The stamp on the inside cover states that this book was gifted to the two girls during the summer of 1920, but contains photographs that dates between 1915-1922. Subjects include Elise and Marion Weisenberger, their mother Elise and father Albert, Aunt Julia, Hilda, a woman by the name of Hester, and various landscape photographs, including many involving the Gardener’s Cottage that the Weisenberger family lived in at the Bonita Vista estate.