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Bag from local store.

Seventeen printed items and ephemera, including postcards, monographs, periodicals, a telephone directory, and silver dollar placed in safe deposit bank in 1971. Series also includes notes from opening, key envelope and engraved plaque.

"Souvenir" to give a "glimpse" of daily life at the home. Includes annual financial report and images.

Scrapbooks of clippings and playbills for Tenthouse Summer Theater.

There are five series in this collection: Scrapbooks, Committees, Financial, General, and Members. Within the Committees series there are two subseries: Contracts, and Events under Committees, and Minutes and Membership Directories under Members.

There are three  scrapbooks.  Each one displays a mix of photographs, letters, ticket stubs, and pamphlets.  Many are incomplete due to deterioration and other preservation issues.  One scrapbook, chiefly arranged chronologically, with some topical pages, appears to have been created for the 25th anniversary of the Ravinia Women's Club, also known as the Ravinia Civics Club and the Ravinia Women's Club The scrapbook includes bylaws, yearbooks, clippings and programs and inter-organizational correspondence.
There are three committees that took part in the Ravinia Woman’s Club; they are Philanthropy, Social, and Village House.  These committees held luncheons, dinner theater, and fashion shows and musical performances.  These events can be found under the two subseries titles of Contracts and Events.  These dates range from 1934-1969.
The financial section of the collection holds various member dues, expenses for events, and the costs involved with running the Club.  It also contains some audits and tax-exempt forms applying for 501c3 not for profit status.  The series ranges from 1916-1969.
General information ranges from 1911-1964.  This topical file holds a mixture of histories, correspondence, outreach, and newspaper clippings.
The Members series of the collection forms the bulk of the Ravinia Woman’s Club records.  It has two subseries the first being the Minutes of the meetings, with dates ranging from 1913-1957.  Within the minutes are also newspaper clippings and letters.  The second subseries are the extensive collection of Membership Directories.  They almost hold a complete history of the Club ranging from 1919-1969.  They help place the Ravinia Woman’s Club into its context by also being associated with the Lyons Township Federation of Women’s Clubs and the Federation of Clubs of the 10th Congressional District of Illinois.

Scrapbook documenting the renovation of the Ravinia Train Station contains color photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings and engineering reports. Compiled by Jeff Stern for the Ravinia Neighorbors Association. Items in the scrapbook date from 1980 to 1993 with the bulk of the items dating from 1981 to 1989.

Manuscript plat book of Highland Park, Illinois.

This collection documents the Metzel family from the Civil War era 1860s through the 1960s. Its contents include a family history, landscape architecture blueprints by celebrated landscape architect, O.C. Simonds, contracts, and images.

A.J. Metzel and his family moved to Highland Park, Illinois in 1912 and developed an elaborately landscaped estate. This collection holds hand-colored images or the estate. The family owned the Cutler Shoe Company in Chicago from 1885-1937. A.J.’s son, Truman became the sole owner of the company in 1929 when his father died. The collection includes a family history written by Truman Thwing Metzel that spans from ca.1860-1960.

Native American prima ballerina Maria Tallchief Barbie doll dressed in Firebird ballet costume in box. 33 cm.
From the back of the box: " Barbie DOLL INSPIRING WOMEN MARIA TALLCHIEF PRIMA BALLERINA. VERY OFTEN YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE, AT THE RIGHT TIME, BUT YOU DON'T KNOW IT."
MARIA TALLCHIEF BECAME THE FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN TO RISE THROUGH THE RANKS AND BECOME PRIMA BALLERINA WITH THE NEW YORK CITY BALLET. HER JOURNEY BEGAN IN FAIRFAX, OKLAHOMA WHERE SHE GREW UP ON THE OSAGE NATION RESERVATION. RECOGNIZING HER EARLY TALENTS AND GIFTS AS A DANCER, HER PARENTS RELOCATED TO LOS ANGELES IN HOPES OF PROVIDING MARIA AND HER SISTER MARJORIE WITH ADVANCED BALLET TRAINING. AT 17, MARIA MOVED TO NEW YORK CITY TO PURSUE HER DREAM OF DANCING PROFESSIONALLY. DESPITE SUGGESTIONS TO CHANGE HER NAME, MARIA REFUSED; INSTEAD, SHE MADE "TALL CHIEF" ONE WORD AND PROUDLY KEPT HER LAST NAME THROUGHOUT HER CAREER.

EARLY IN HER CAREER, MARIA WAS SELECTED TO JOIN THE CORPS DE BALLET WITH THE FAMED BALLET RUSSE DE MONTE CARLO, WHERE SHE MET AND LATER MARRIED CHOREOGRAPHER GEORGE BALANCHINE. GEORGE COFOUNDED THE NEW YORK CITY BALLET WHERE HE CHOREOGRAPHED THE SIGNATURE ROLE IN THE FIREBIRD FOR HIS MUSE, MARIA; HER PERFORMANCE ESTABLISHED MARIA HELPED REIGNITE MARIA AS A PRIMA BALLERINA. INTEREST IN AMERICAN BALLET IN HER ROLE AS THE SUGAR PLUM FAIRY IN THE NUTCRACKER.

AMONG HER ILLUSTRIOUS CREDITS ARE BEING THE FIRST AMERICAN TO DANCE WITH THE PARIS OPERA BALLET AND MOSCOW'S BOLSHOI THEATER. SHE PERFORMED AT THE LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO, AND AFTER RETIREMENT WAS APPOINTED BALLET DIRECTOR AT LYRIC WHERE SHE TAUGHT THE BALANCHINE TECHNIQUE. IN 1974, SHE AND HER SISTER FOUNDED THE CHICAGO CITY BALLET, A BALLET SCHOOL AND DANCE COMPANY, WHICH BECAME THE RESIDENT BALLET COMPANY FOR LYRIC. THROUGHOUT HER CAREER, MARIA BROKE THROUGH BARRIERS AS A NATIVE AMERICAN BALLERINA. SHE IS AN INDUCTEE IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME, ONE OF THE FIRST INDUCTEES IN THE NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HALL OF FAME AND WAS AWARDED THE NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS. SHE IS FEATURED IN THE US AMERICAN WOMEN QUARTERS PROGRAM AND APPEARS ON A COIN BEARING HER LIKENESS AND OSAGE NAME ([symbols]) WHICH MEANS "TWO STANDARDS." MARIA TALLCHIEF'S LIFETIME DEDICATION AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO BALLET CONTINUE TO INSPIRE AND IMPACT THE DANCE WORLD.

Map shows the Highland park Woodlands: the area between Western and Priscilla (east-west) and Euclid and Burchell (north-south). There are drawings of proposed houses in the area as well as restrictions on the lots. The map was drawn by M.B. Schaeffer, June 20, 1936.