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.
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.
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.
A photograph of the road leading down to the Concord Bridge, which was the site of the battles of Lexington and Concord during the American Revolutionary War.
Group photograph of men wearing military medals, including for the Grand Army of the Republic and Cavalry insignia. Note on back of frame backing states "Left hand corner Geo. S. Rettig, grandfather Jack Rettig." George Rettig served in the U.S. Army 15th Infantry, Company D, during the "Indian Wars." John Finney appears to be third from left in the back row.