First day cancellation envelope
- US IlHpHS Cent.col-2.4.70.506.1
- File
- 1969
First day cancellation envelope
1.3 Wooden Nickels, Powell's Camera Mart
Scope and Contents note File contains wooden nickels (6). On one side it has the clover design to commemorate the centennial of Highland Park. One nickel is worth 5 cents in trade. The other side advertises Powell's Camera Mart.
1.17 Gas News: Magazine of Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas Companies
Scope and Contents note File contains an issue of Gas: Magazine of Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas Companies from 1969. There is an article that features the centennials of Highland Park, Glencoe and Winnetka. The article features a photo of the Stupey Cabin and the home of Elisha Gray.
File contains materials related to the Highland Park Centennial Commission. Materials include: Newspaper articles, Highland Park Centennial Commission presents The Flute and Fiddle Club "A Concert of the Century" program, hundredth birthday card to Mayor Lawton from the city staff, memo to the mayor and City Councilmen, correspondence, press release about the centennial, list of Centennial Commission officers and committee members. There are three images from the "World's Gravity Grand Prix" and a press release. The materials in this file are from 1967-1969.
1.5 Centennial Anniversary Dinner Program
Scope and Contents note File contains a program from the Highland Park Centennial Dinner, march 11, 1969. The program is signed by the people that sat at the head table. There is a note accompanied with it from Mary Lawton explaining that she and her husband did not sign it eventhough they were both present at the dinner.
1.6 Centennial Celebration Material
Scope and Contents note File contains materials relatingto the Highland park Centennial Celebration in 1969. Material includes: handbook and business directory, Centennial Dinner notes, photographs, song lyrics to songs about the midwest and Highland Park, and Centennial Dinner Programs (7).
1.7 Highland Park: The First Hundred Years, 1869-1969 [manuscript]
Scope and Contents note File contains a manuscript for the book Highland Park: The First Hundred Years, 1869-1969.
File contains manuscript copy of Hghland Park 1969: A History of City Departments and Local organizations by Pat Hermann, Ruth Rose and Judi Nickol.
Scope and Contents note File contains an issue of the Highland park Herald from March 6, 1969. The Centennial Dinner is promoted on the front cover.
1.12 Highland Park Historical Society Annual Meeting
Scope and Contents note This newsletter promotes the annual meeting of the Historical Society on May 15, 1969 as well as events celebrating the centennial of Highland Park such as a fashion show, house walk, and souvenirs for sale.