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Block and square quilt

This faded, worn, and partially torn quilt was completed in the block and square pattern/style, with a myriad of colors such as red, blue, green, tan, and white intermingled in the pattern, along with a solid white backing. 155 x 129 cm.

Baseball uniform

Two-piece, short-sleeve, baseball uniform fabricated with grey wool featuring blue stiching and felt lettering "North End A[thletic] C[lub]" on front and "HP" in diamond on sleeve. 131 x 94 cm. Faded.

A reward of $25.00

Framed broadside advertising :A REWARD OF $25.00 Will be paid to tbe first person sending an appropriate name, which will be accepted by the management for the new resort now being built at Ravinia.
The Park is being created at cost of $150,000 for a high-class pleasure resort; consisting of a fine theater; stadium, seating 3000; fine athletic field; refectory and other accommodations and amusements.
No intoxicating drinks of any kind will be sold or allowed to be used on these grounds. The games and entertainments will be confined to those of the highest order.
The theatre will be open the year around.
Greciao or Roman name preferred
Address All replies to
O. P. SISSON,
Amusement Manager.
Higblnod Park, Ill.

Sun bonnet

Typed Information sheet with artifact reads "Sunbunnet belonging to Alice Alzyna Southworth Hodges made be her about 1906. Widow of William Dyer Hodges, Cobbler, Racine, Wisconsin. Mother of Mauice Hodges, Lunette Hodges Phelps, Ellen Adele Hodges Alderidge "Nana" Our Grandmother, Cora Hodges." Hodges lived in Highland Park, Illinois with her daughter and daughter-in-law in the early 20th century.

Hodges, Alice Alzyna Southworth

Northwestern Military Academy

This framed, panoramic black and white photograph shows a group of cadets gathered during muster in the early hours of the morning. 24 x 64 x 1.5 cm.

Wiseman, W.H. (William H.)

Military cadets

Panoramic photograph of Northwest Military Institute cadets. 74 x 23 cm.

Wiseman, S

Sweeny family portrait

Color photograph of family Mary (Mrs. Michael) Sweeney and her three grandchildren, housed inside a gilded, oval portrait frame. 58 x 42 x 1 cm.

United States R.O.T.C uniform

Matching blue jacket and trousers set. ( Fort Sheridan served as the site of the first Reserve Officers Training Camp in 1917 with an initial group of 2500 men.)

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