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

The Ernest A. Grunsfeld Jr collection contains hand drawn architectural plans, schedules, surveys, detailed notes, and blueprints. The collection is a combination of new construction undertaken by Grunsfled and various collaborators, including alterations Grunsfeld undertook on existing buildings. All the buildings covered are private residences and were built in the area now known as Highland Park, Illinois.

Time period covered is 1929-1998.
Contents: Music Programs, correspondences, hand-written music, news clippings, notes, receipts, photos

This collection visually documents 1926 granite War Memorial, in Memorial Park, Highland Park, Illinois designed and installed by James Cady Ewell. Photo negatives show the creation of the sculpture in studio and the final installation.

The collection also includes family history excerpts from Ewell's and Crafts Dudley Watson's biographies and a sound disc of a talk by Watson rerecorded by Watson (and Cady Ewell's) grandson.

Watson also lived and worked in Highland Park, Illinois and was the maternal grandfather of the donor.
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No. 90 Harry L and No. 94 Oscar W (Lindbloom brothers) worked at Exmoor Country Club.

This collection contains images, clippings, monographs, and other ephemera documenting Exmoor Country Club.

Letters written from Lake County, Illinois soldier home to his parents in Warren Township, Illinois regarding life and events in the Illinois 65th Infantry regiment and on the battlefield. Correspondence, discharge and pension papers, and newspaper article are arranged chronologically. The folder also includes mounted uniform buttons and Army and Regimental pins and the History and Roster of the Sixty-Fifth Illinois Infantry. There are photocopies of all the documents in a second folder

Records, notes and recollections, images regarding first banks in Highland Park. Includes histories and merger information.

Constitution, by-laws, minutes and membership lists of local food cooperative. In folder one there is a copy of the "Chicago Area Food Cooperative Directory." published by Truman College.