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Moraine Hotel

Place settings for Moraine Hotel consisting of 6 plates, 2 dishes, 3 cups, a bowl creamer, two silver teaspoons, a butter knife, and two empty match booklets bearing the Hotel Moraine insignia.

Hotel Moraine-on-the-Lake

Hat

White velvet hat with pearl-like embellishments on side. 18.5 cm.

Lyla (Deerfield, Ill.)

City anniversary pins

Two City of Highland Park anniversary pins: "Celebratig 85th" and "Great today, greater tomorrow."

Prescription boxes

Two prescription boxes: "Earl W. Gsell & co. Pharmacists Highland Park Ravinia Directions Inside" : deep garnet color prescription box ; 7.5 x 5.0 x 3.0 cm. Earl W. Gsell & co. Pharmacists Highland Park with prescription written on box : 8.0 x 5.0 x 3.0 cm. Apothacary bottle labels inside.

Moraine Hotel

Framed painting of Hotel Moraine envisioned in the early 20th century. 84 x 71 cm.

Wagon wheel quilt

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.

The East Wind

Oil in canvas painting depicting wind sweeping over a lightly forested prairie. Plaque reads "In Memory of Martha Wood Wolff." 68.5 x 57.0 cm.

Wilder, Tom Milton

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.)

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.

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