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Theodore James Loesch and Simon Peter Loesch I

US IlHpHS 2013.3-009
Item
ca. 1919

Part of Loesch family collection

Theodore Roosevelt

US IlHpHS 1996.5-0818-002
Item
unknown

Part of Jesse Lowe Smith Image Collection

A black and white photograph taken of a portrait/photograph of Theodore Roosevelt.

There is a Tavern in the town

US IlHpHS 1996.5-L-5.0679
Item
circa 1920s

Part of Jesse Lowe Smith Image Collection

Lantern slide with lyrics to a folk song from 1883, "There Is a Tavern in the Town".

Third grade

US IlHpHS visu.elm-1.1-3.34
Item
1895

Part of Visual : Elm Place School

This Indian trail tree plaque

US IlHpHS high.kod-010
Item
1967-04

Part of Highland Park Kodachrome Slide Collection

Historical marker, place at Sheridan Road where it meets Lake-Cook in 1911 by the Daughters of the American Revolution North Shore Chapter, relocated.

This is the site of the first commercial building

US IlHpHS high.sce-01.27
Item
1971

Part of Highland Park scenes

Plaque at bank building (Chase Bank in 2022) at the northeast corner of St. Johns and Central Ave, site of first public Highland Park Building Company edifice.

Thompson, the Clerk of Congress, notifying Washington of his election

US IlHpHS 1996.5-0414
Item
1912-10-12

Part of Jesse Lowe Smith Image Collection

Photographed from "A History of the American People"/ by Wilson, Woodrow.. New York: Harper & Bros, 1902.

Three girls sitting under a tree

US IlHpHS 1996.5-1065
Item
undated

Part of Jesse Lowe Smith Image Collection

Three unidentified girls sitting in wooded area.

Time capsule contents

US IlHpHS 1971.hp150
Series
1969-1971

Seventeen printed items and ephemera, including postcards, monographs, periodicals, a telephone directory, and silver dollar placed in safe deposit bank in 1971. Series also includes notes from opening, key envelope and engraved plaque.

Highland Park Historical Society