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Illinois--Lake County--Highland Park
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Log cabin quilt

This item consists of one red, white, and blue patterned quilt created and donated by Elizabeth Cumming Will in 2003, using fabrics styled after patterns from 1840-1865 for display at Francis Stupey Cabin. 210 x 150 cm. Minor tears repaired by creator 2018.11.

Will, Elizabeth Cumming

The East Wind

Oil in canvas painting depicting wind sweeping over a lightly forested prairie. Plaque reads "In Memory of Martha Wood Wolff." 68.5 x 57.0 cm.

Wilder, Tom Milton

John Byrne Chamberlin, papers

  • US IlHpHS 2015.13
  • Collection
  • 1960

Chamberlin's daily agendas document his life, family and activities. Various clippings, programs and other ephemera are inserted in the volumes. Highland Park (Illinois) subjects and organizations documented include Trinity Episcopal Church (Highland Park, Ill.), the Flute and Fiddle Club, North Shore Chamber Orchestra, schools and school districts, and the Highland Park Chamber of Commerce. Other organizations and events include the inauguration of Illinois Governor James R. Thompson, the American Bicentennial, and the Chicago Bar Association. There are also 2 monthly calendars, 1978-1979.

The diary in the first year of the series begins, "still unemployed."

Chamberlin diary's also documented the weather, deaths in his personal life, as well as what he ate everyday.

Chamberlin, John Byrne

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