Matching blue jacket and trousers set. ( Fort Sheridan served as the site of the first Reserve Officers Training Camp in 1917 with an initial group of 2500 men.)
This giant foam check celebrates the $10,000 that the Highland Park Rotary Club Charities donated to the Villa St. Cyril Catholic home in 1985. 114.3 x 43.2 cm.
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.
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.
