The Herman family collection contains a 1922 map of Highland Park, ephemera and Sparks, a newsletter published by the Elm Place School in Highland Park.
Scrapbook from American Legion Illinois Highland Park Post 145 documents Auxiliary and Auxiliary participation in local, state and national events. Clippings, organizational, pamphlets, photos and Manual of Cermeonies create the scrapbook. Also includes membership list for 1948 Post 145 American Legion Auxiliary.
This collection visually documents 1926 granite War Memorial, in Memorial Park, Highland Park, Illinois designed and installed by James Cady Ewell. Photo negatives show the creation of the sculpture in studio and the final installation.
The collection also includes family history excerpts from Ewell's and Crafts Dudley Watson's biographies and a sound disc of a talk by Watson rerecorded by Watson (and Cady Ewell's) grandson.
Watson also lived and worked in Highland Park, Illinois and was the maternal grandfather of the donor. .
Original glass slide images of the Chicago and Milwaukee line maintenance, construction et al. (current and former) in Ravinia, Highland Park and Highwood, Illinois.
Various papers regarding the Highland Park Building Company; especially its dissolution, plus newspaper clipping, portrait of Hawkins and reproduction of hand-colored photograph of Hawkins in front of bank with a family of six.
