Highland Park History

US IlHpHS visu.elm-1.1-3.34
Item
1895

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.

Three men in front of wrought iron gate with angel relief

Item

Part of Highland Park beach event [presentation]

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

Tintypes and ferrotypes

US IlHpHS Orso.Bra-2
Series
ca. 1890-1910

Part of Orson Brand family and studio visual collection

Tintypes and ferrotypes that may include stock photography as well as family and theater images. Images of note include a Highland Park firefighter, an African-American, portraits and staged images.

A number of these photographs indicate Orson B Brand as photographer and appear to have been taken chiefly in the same studio with the same props. There are numerous images that appear to be self portraits by Brand.

Brand, Orson B