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Correspondence, real estate listings, notes, purchase offers, sales agreements, closing statements, surveys, photographs, and other records related to properties for sale in Highland Park, Illinois.

This collection consists of three series: Images, bibliography and artifacts: more than 80 glass slide images of dwellings, landscape and interior of dwelling designed by David Adler and Frances Adler Elkins for Robert and Stella Mandel, a 32 volume descriptive bibliography of their library and artifacts documenting the Mandel family department store.

Records of Gamson's civic involvement in the City of Highland Park Government, Highland Park Community House, League of Women Voters, and Moraine Township Democrats. 2025 Addition includes Gamson's records from her participation in the Highland Park Arts Task Force and subsequent Highland Park Cultural Arts Commission as well as information about the Peter Voulkos sculpture "Miss Nitro".

Two account books for Santi Dairy, Inc., one from July 1951 and the other from May 1953. The books detail the milk, cream, butter, eggs, and cheese delivered to customers and the charges for the dairy products.

Materials in this collection include yearbooks, minutes, announcements, scrapbooks, newspaper publications and programs. Box 1 holds the first accession: announcements, minutes, and sheet music, circa 1950-1989. It is arranged chronologically.
There are two series in the 2014 accession: records and scrapbooks.
Box 3 holds five scrapbooks assembled by members and the Club. One scrapbook contains minutes, clippings and other documents related to scholarship concert, 1956 - 1958. Other scrapbooks are chiefly composed of newspaper clippings and fliers dated 1950 -1973, 1973 - 1990, 1990 - 2006, 2007 - 2010.
Box 2, 1928-2010, holds minutes, treasury ledgers, club bylaws, newspaper drafts and clippings, membership directories, and a club history:
Ledger, July 1929 - May 1981
Secretary's board meeting notebook, February 1928 - June 1938
Treasurer's notebook, May 1960 - May 1981
Treasurer's notebook, August 1981 - May 1994.
Box 4 holds 2024.003 Accession: Membership directories and a scrapbook with fliers, photographs, news clippings and other materials related to the club's activities.

Class images of grammar schools St. James School, Elm Place School, Ravinia School, Deerfield Grammar, Oak Terrace, Lincoln School.

The Hotel Moraine-on-the-Lake Collection contains correspondence, records, promotional material, photographs and items relating to the operation of the Hotel Moraine-on-the-Lake. The collection contains materials from all periods of operation, but focuses mainly on the years between 1960 and 1968 when it operated as a site for industry conventions. The collection also documents the development proposed by Bert Schwartz and the community activism of the Moraine Citizens Committee. The Highland Park Historical Society was active in the last years of the hotel's existence celebrating its history and accruing items that would become this collection. Also documented in this collection is the Hotel Moraine (Highwood, Illinois). The Hotel Moraine (Highwood) is represented by news clippings, photographs, and original architectural plans

The collection consists of records of the Men's Garden Club of Highland Park and subsequent Men's Garden Club of the North Shore and Gardeners of the North Shore. The collection contains an incomplete set of issues of the Garden Club's publication "Garden Pants" from 1939-1968. Also included are Men's Garden Clubs of America Yearbooks (1940-1943), applications for membership (1943-1957), correspondence, project information, metal garden markers, and materials from annual garden club shows.