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This folder contains various images of pioneers from around Highland Park. Below is a list of the items in this folder along with their dates and their accession numbers.

Railroad conductor standing on the train platform, No Date
8 children preparing to play catch, No Date, 69-102-2
Postcard- Woman taking notes outside the train station, No Date
Postcard- Older gentleman and a seated group of women and children in front of their homes, No Date
Old shed on the alley between St. Johns and Linden ave., No Date, 70-458-1
First School originally Port Clinton but currently known as Elm Place, No Date, 67-108-34
C&ME No. 127 going north passing Laurel Ave., ca. 1912
Group picture of women and children, 8-29-1892
First School originally Port Clinton but currently known as Elm Place [copy], No Date
Old wooden barn originally owned by Chicago Historical Society, No Date, 67-108-29c
Brand Bros original paint shop [copy], ca. 1871, 69-351-1
Elm Place School, No Date, 67-111-2
Arial view of train station, No Date, 70-6-1
Port Clinton School with class standing out front, No Date, 67-151-1
Train station with men waiting for a train, No Date, 70-589-4
Fairview School with class standing outside, 1890, 69-428-1
A view from a rooftop facing west, No Date
Highland Park News with 4 workers standing outside, No Date
Employees of Brand's paint store- Ernest Garling, Eli Ott, Otto Lawrentz, 1895
A view from a rooftop facing east, 1876
Moses Northwestern Department Store on N.W. corner of Central and First St., 1895
Photocopied newspaper article on Moses Northwestern Department Store, 3-11-1969
Highland Park News on St. Johns north of the Present bank, No Date
Brand Art Studio with 2 men standing outside, 1893
Highland Hall at St. Johns and Ravine Dr., No Date
A rock commemorating Capt. Daniel Wright the first settler in Lake County, 1909, 67-242-1
Gray Electric Plant at Beach St., No Date, 69-268-3
Fairview Subdivision, 1895
Highland Park business men, 1898
McDonald's Hall [taken by O.B.Brand] at St. Johns and Central, 1879
MacDonald's Hall [taken by O.B.Brand] at St. Johns and Central, 1890, 69-426-1
St. Johns and Central with brick buildings and busier streets, No Date
St. Johns and Central taken from roof top looking towards MacDonald's Hall, ca.1880
First Fire Chief Andrew Block, December 1889
Ravinia Baseball Stadium, No Date
Horse trough at Forest and Sheridan, No Date
Old Thompson block at the S.E. corner of Central and St. Johns, No Date, 67-393-1
Moses Northwestern Department Store on Central Ave., No Date, 69-357-4
First City Hall building [present site of Community Center], 1898

Scope and Contents note Pioneer to Commuter was published in 1958 by the Rotary Club of Highland Park. This copy was signed "to Mort and Mabel from the T.A. family."

This collections consists of photographs of people from or around Highland Park. At least one image was created by the Brand Brothers Studio. However, a spectrum of photography studios is represented.

The collection contains correspondence, a newspaper clipping, the memorial service program for Jesse Lowe Smith, and newsletters of the Old Timer's Club. The Old Timer's Club met once a year and was composed of teachers who were at Elm Place School when Mr. Jesse Lowe Smith was the principal.
Also included is a photograph of students at Elm Place School dated June 1928, a photograph of the Class of February, 1928: William Nunn, Henry Witten, Bob Phelps, Melvin Cummings, Tom Russell, Jefferson Bennett (Class President), Jesse Craig, Richard Rioux, Rudolph Stricker, Irving Garling.
Martin Bennett, Fred Fell, Alfred Meyer, Selma L. Cook, Jane Holmes, Norma Finley, Edith Kilgore, Helene Borchardt, Grace Lindstrom, Raymond Bock, Sam Ugolini. Florence Skuldy, Mary Wohlbruck, Ruth Durment, Dorothy Anderson, Elinor Fischer. Esther Drake, Isabel Mann, Clifford Thomas, Lee Randall, Mary Mayor. Robert Freeman, Robert Wood, Nelson Forrest, Eugene Masterson, Alice Mulvihill. Dorothy Schadewitz, Miss Lena M. Nixon, Gladys Arnold.
It also contains a photograph of the Class of June, 1928: Miss Etta Grunewald, Amelia Ostrowsky, Mildred Dostalek, Miss Lena M. Nixon, Louise Willard, Almyra Gibson, Muriel Prato, Marion R. Moon, Priscilla Mann. Elizabeth Zimmerman, Muriel M. Mowers, Esther Drake, Barbara Sullivan, Jane Kaufman, MacDonald Lowe, Marco Carani. Barbara Funke, Melvin Finney, Henry B. Clark, Sara Ann McClernan, Robert Fay, Grace Arline Flint, Edward Marder, Glen Christenson. O'Neal Ronzani, Hugo Winkler, William Walker, Ella Hupprich, Sadie L. Coates, Mavern Hamilton, Ray Bock. Elmer M. Nielsen, Theodore Pasquesi, Janet Gaidzik, Kathleen Slack, Irvin Garling, Jesse A. Craig, Walter O'Neill, Melvin Cummings, Harlan Pike (Class President), Frank Goffo, Eva Scott, Florence Warren, Luella Dunn, Nouri Mancogian, Thomas E. Russell, Norman Alfred Gastfield, Charlotte Clark.