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Highland Park Historical Society Artifacts collection
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Walgreen´s Celebrate 100 Years

Large broadside encapsulates the 100 years that Walgreens spent as part of the Highland Park community, and lists other stores in the same location at the north west corner of First Street and Central Avenue in Highland Park, Illinois. 21 x 78 x 1.5 cm.

Wagon wheel quilt

Pieced, possibly for a woman's circle of the (First) Baptist Church or the first Evangelical Congregational Church. This 1895 block quilt of wagon wheels is an early example community fundraising in Highland Park, Illinois. It contains 564 names. A wheel's center name is probably the church or missionary member sewing that section with the names in the spokes being subscribers to her wheel. 192 x 190 cm.

Villa St. Cyril

This giant foam check celebrates the $10,000 that the Highland Park Rotary Club Charities donated to the Villa St. Cyril Catholic home in 1985. 114.3 x 43.2 cm.

Rotary Club of Highland Park, Illinois.

United States R.O.T.C uniform

Matching blue jacket and trousers set. ( Fort Sheridan served as the site of the first Reserve Officers Training Camp in 1917 with an initial group of 2500 men.)

The East Wind

Oil in canvas painting depicting wind sweeping over a lightly forested prairie. Plaque reads "In Memory of Martha Wood Wolff." 68.5 x 57.0 cm.

Wilder, Tom Milton

Sweeny family portrait

Color photograph of family Mary (Mrs. Michael) Sweeney and her three grandchildren, housed inside a gilded, oval portrait frame. 58 x 42 x 1 cm.

Sun bonnet

Typed Information sheet with artifact reads "Sunbunnet belonging to Alice Alzyna Southworth Hodges made be her about 1906. Widow of William Dyer Hodges, Cobbler, Racine, Wisconsin. Mother of Mauice Hodges, Lunette Hodges Phelps, Ellen Adele Hodges Alderidge "Nana" Our Grandmother, Cora Hodges." Hodges lived in Highland Park, Illinois with her daughter and daughter-in-law in the early 20th century.

Hodges, Alice Alzyna Southworth

Seal skin fur hat

Seal skin fur hat in a 19th century American military style worn by Abraham Golden, 1894-1900, according to donor.

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