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View on Francis Street (Williamsburg)

US IlHpHS 1996.5-0259
Item
ca. 1911

Part of Jesse Lowe Smith Image Collection

A photograph of a few houses on Francis Street in Wiilliamsburg, Va.

Vouchers and payroll : Approved for payment by City Manager and City Council

US IlHpHS HPLedg-13-vouc.pay
Item
1955-1959

Part of Highland Park Ledgers

W. C. Egan

US IlHpHS 2021.3-1
Item
1917

Part of Berg family collection

W. C. Egan

US IlHpHS 2021.3-02
Item
circa 1900-1917

Part of Berg family collection

Wagon Jack

US IlHpHS Eagle-154-000-00
Item

Part of Walt Durbahn Museum Collection

Wagon wheel quilt

US IlHpHS obj-1974.wag
Item
1895

Part of Artifacts collection

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.

Wagon Wheel Quilt

US-IlHpCH 2022.3-9-OV 16
Item
1896

Part of Evangelical Congregational Church records

Walgreen´s Celebrate 100 Years

US IlHpHS obj-walg.cele
Item
2001

Part of Artifacts collection

Large broadside encapsulates the 100 years that Walgreens spent as part of the Highland Park community, and lists other stores in the same location at the north west corner of First Street and Central Avenue in Highland Park, Illinois. 21 x 78 x 1.5 cm.