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Materials in this collection include yearbooks, minutes, announcements, scrapbooks, newspaper publications and programs. Box 1 holds the first accession: announcements, minutes, and sheet music, circa 1950-1989. It is arranged chronologically.
There are two series in the 2014 accession: records and scrapbooks.
Box 2 holds five scrapbooks assembled by members and the Club. One scrapbook contains minutes, clippings and other documents related to scholarship concert, 1956 - 1958. Other scrapbooks are chiefly composed of newspaper clippings and fliers dated 1950 -1973, 1973 - 1990, 1990 - 2006, 2007 - 2010.
Box 3, 1928-2010, holds minutes, treasury ledgers, club bylaws, newspaper drafts and clippings, and a club history:
Ledger, July 1929 - May 1981
Secretary's board meeting notebook, February 1928 - June 1938
Treasurer's notebook, May 1960 - May 1981
Treasurer's notebook, August 1981 - May 1994.

Eleven histories of local scouting troops on the North Shore of Illinois from formation to mid-20th century, including a research guide and historiography of troops in Deerfield, Evanston, Glencoe, Glenview, Highland Park, Highwood, Kenilworth, Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, Libertyville, Northbrook, Wilmette and Winnetka. Digital manuscripts are available on the Illinois Digital Archive Highland Park History Collection.

Images of Schreiber in US Army uniform, aged 24 and 74.

Young woman's scrapbook detailing activities and friends, including correspondence, dance cards and items from sports events at Fort Sheridan and Notre Dame college.

Youth and first business ventures, 1862-1895 -- Early Sears years, 1895-1908 -- Blacks, politics, and philanthropy, 1908-1912 -- Black schools, political attacks, and the profit sharing plan, 1912-1916 -- World War I, 1916-1918 -- The rescue of Sears and the consolidation of philanthropic endeavors, 1919-1924 -- New philanthropic ventures, 1924-1928 -- The Julius Rosenwald Fund, Hoover, and the Depression, 1928-1930 -- Final year and postmortem, 1931-1949 -- Conclusion.

Article "Advantages of owning club outweigh disadvantages" discusses Highland Park club.

Blueprints and drawings for dwellings built in Highland Park, Illinois for John L. Robinson, Ridge at Northland Avenue, 1938 and P. A. Paulson, (144?) Ravinia Court ( 256 ? Ivy Lane), 1925.

Photographs and medals that belonged to Joseph D. Lang, 6730447, a private in Troop A, 14th Cavalry, stationed at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Photographs chiefly document horse shows and other events at the Fort. Medals include Pistol "D" medal pin, "Rifle" and "Pistol M."