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Highland Park Historical Society Illinois--Lake County--Highland Park With digital objects
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Block and square quilt

Block and square quilt

This faded, worn, and partially torn quilt was completed in the block and square pattern/style, with a myriad of colors such as red, blue, green, tan, and white intermingled in the pattern, along with a solid white backing. 155 x 129 cm.

Baseball uniform

Baseball uniform

Two-piece, short-sleeve, baseball uniform fabricated with grey wool featuring blue stiching and felt lettering "North End A[thletic] C[lub]" on front and "HP" in diamond on sleeve. 131 x 94 cm. Faded.

Bathing suit

Bathing suit

Two-piece Blue woolen swim costume with skirt belonged to one Fannie Everett. 88 x 44 cm.

Wagon wheel quilt

Wagon wheel quilt

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.

Burus Cabin

Burus Cabin

Verso reads "The Old Burns cabin (ill.) on the Swift Farm west side of Ridge road."

Corner

Corner

Looking east on Central Ave. across railroad tracks with view MacDonald's ( McDonald ) Store. Erskine Bank opened in the building a few years later.

Goldburg Place : on Road to Deerfield

Goldburg Place : on Road to Deerfield

Verso reads "Another barn cabin back of the brick house West of C&N track on road from HPark to Deerfield. I thinkg someone called the place Goldbergs. Martin barn."

Lamb's House

Lamb's House

Verso reads Lamb's in section 16 West of Highwood north fo C & N track way off from the main road."

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