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Millard family dwelling and landscape scrapbook ; family photographs
Family photographs and a scrapbook were donated by Olivia Millard. The collection includes photos of the Sylvester Millard House exterior and interior; Lake Michigan and the bluff overlook; the bridge over a ravine to the house; and Everett Lee Millard Jr and Mary Hyde 'Millard in front of new Highland Park sign, parents of Olivia Millard.
Millard family
These two folders, created by the Highland Park Historical Society circa 1970, contain B/W images of the Millard house, portraits of Sylvester and Malcolm Millard, house and family related clippings and some correspondence regarding the City of Highland Park and pamphlets on state Parks and preservation.
Highland Park Historical Society
Mighty Midgets (football team), records
The Highland Park Mighty Midgets football team was comprised of young men and boys from and around Highland Park. This collection contains, logbooks, rosters, newspaper clippings, and playbooks.
Mighty Midgets (football team)
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.
Metzel Family
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.
Men's Garden Club of Highland Park.
Brief biography and detailed narrative of training and Pacific War Theater, 1942-1945 of "Grandpa" Sy Bortz.
Bortz, Seymour A. (Sy)
High school scrapbook with images, captions, descriptions and clippings. Subjects and people documented include classes, school activities, dances (including partners), friends and teachers.
Smeedon, Mary
World War II service papers (copies and originals), insignia ephemera and B/W photos of service man Mario Pasquesi.
Pasquesi, Mario
Maps of Highland Park, Illinois
This collection includes 5 (7 with duplicates) maps of Highland Park, Illinois. They range in date from 1951-1974. The maps include a street guide and an index to numbering.
Highland Park News.