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.
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.
This book contains the bonds relating to the Warren Meyer Company from 1916 - 1919, originally founded by Charles Warren. Warren changed partners several times, renaming the enterprise Warren-Meyer and Warren-Dobson, sequentially. J.B. Garnett purchased the store in late 1918 or early 1919 and the the renamed Garnett's sat in the business community through most of the 20th century.