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Friends of the Highland Park Public Library (Library Files)

File

Part of Subject Guide to Local History Files in the Jesse Lowe Smith Historical Room

Froe

US IlHpHS obj-Froe
Item
circa 1850-1880

Part of Artifacts collection

Tool, also known as a shake axe, used to split wood at the grain, especially for splitting shingles. Damaged, 2021-2011.

From

US IlHpHS high.kod-168
Item
1971-05

Part of Highland Park Kodachrome Slide Collection

From Chicago's North Shore to Wisconsin and Illinois Farm Fields: Recollections of Illinois Agrinews Columnist Nancy Dinelli-Prill

US IlHpHS 2012.7.3
File
2012

Essays and stories about Highland Park native, Nancy Dinelli-Prill, compiled and published by co-author Patchen.

Dinelli-Prill, Nancy

From Gentryville Ridge looking towards the site of Lincoln Center

US IlHpHS 1996.5-0487
Item
1916-04-28

Part of Jesse Lowe Smith Image Collection

Gentryville Ridge looking towards the site of Lincoln Center, now Lincoln State Park.

From Highland Park classroom to America’s Living Room

US IlHpHS VABHA-1

Part of Vocational Arts and Better Homes in America : From the Highland Park Classroom to America’s Living Room

from House Documents, vol. 133.

US IlHpHS 1996.5-0276
Item
1914-03-15

Part of Jesse Lowe Smith Image Collection

Statehouse, Annapolis, MD, The Fifth Capitol; The Federal Hall, New York, N.Y., Seventh National Capitol.

from House Documents, vol. 133.

US IlHpHS 1996.5-0273
Item
1917-02-11

Part of Jesse Lowe Smith Image Collection

Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, PA : First meeting place of Congress; Congress Hall, Baltimore, MD The Second National Capitol; The Old Courthouse, York, PA, the Third Capitol.