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Finney, John, papers

  • US IlHpHS 2011.4
  • Collection
  • Bulk, 1864-1865

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

Finney, John

A Glimpse of grace

  • US IlHpHS 2011.5
  • Item
  • ca. 1906-1920

Oil painting of unknown landscape by American painter who lived and worked with other artists in Ravinia "Cottages"

Wilder, Tom Milton

Highland Park Hospital - Employee Photographs

  • US IlHpHS 2011.6
  • Collection
  • 1930-1940

The collection consists of photographs of Gertrude Knapmiller Ronzani, Floyd Presley, Theresa Slack, John Frantonius, Marie Knapmiller Frantonius, and John Peterson. Also included are a lady's lace cap, a booklet celebrating the 20th anniversary of the hospital in 1938, a postcard, and a photocopy of the fifteenth census of the United States of 1930, issued by the Department of Commerce - Bureau of the Census.

Ronzani, Gertrude Knapmiller

Freemasons. A. O. Fay Lodge No. 676 (Highland Park, Ill.), papers

  • US IlHpHS 2011.7
  • Collection
  • Bulk, 1970-2006

The bulk of this collection dates from the 1970s-1980s and is comprised of both, inter- and intra-organizational correspondences regarding the activities of the Highland Park Masonic Lodge. Other items in this collection include: member directories, financial records and newspaper clippings.

Freemasons. A. O. Fay Lodge No. 676 (Highland Park, Ill.)

East Wind [graphic]

  • US IlHpHS 2011.8
  • Item
  • ca. 1945-1950

Framed and linen-backed, oil on paper : North-ward view of Beach (current site of North Shore Yacht Club and water treatment plant).

Sinclair, Marjorie Morris

Highland Park High School Class of 1948

  • US IlHpHS 2011.9
  • Collection
  • 1948

Class images of grammar schools St. James School, Elm Place School, Ravina School, Deerfield Grammar, Oak Terrace, Lincoln School.

Highland Park Class of 1948

Ewell Family Collection

  • US IlHpHS 2012.1
  • Collection
  • Bulk, 1926

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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Ewell, James Cady

Julius Rosenwald : the man who built Sears, Roebuck and advanced the cause of Black education in the American South

  • US IlHpHS 2012.10
  • Item
  • 2006

Youth and first business ventures, 1862-1895 -- Early Sears years, 1895-1908 -- Blacks, politics, and philanthropy, 1908-1912 -- Black schools, political attacks, and the profit sharing plan, 1912-1916 -- World War I, 1916-1918 -- The rescue of Sears and the consolidation of philanthropic endeavors, 1919-1924 -- New philanthropic ventures, 1924-1928 -- The Julius Rosenwald Fund, Hoover, and the Depression, 1928-1930 -- Final year and postmortem, 1931-1949 -- Conclusion.

Ascoli, Peter Max, 1942

Henry X Arenberg, papers

  • US IlHpHS 2012.11
  • Collection
  • 1923-1997

Henry X Arenberg's papers chiefly document his role in the civic life of Highland Park, Illinois. The bulk of this collection consists of event planning correspondence, committee participation records, and photographs of historic buildings and locations. It also contains a wide collection of newspaper clippings.

There are 6 series and 2 subseries the the collection. The first series is Oversized, which contains items that were too large to be placed in the other boxes, or awkwardly shaped items. The second series is General. It contains correspondence from committees and events that broadly interested Arenberg; including, but not exclusively, Highland Park or his photography. The third series is People, containing various people of Highland Park. The fourth series is Photographs, which contains general photographs not associated with a subseries, and then 2 subseries. The first subseries is Homes, which contains images of homes from around Highland Park. The second subseries is National Registry, which contains images of homes, monuments, and locations listed on or suggested to be listed on the National Registrar of Historic Places. The fifth series is Preservation, which contains information dealing with actions taken to preserve various locations, monuments, and buildings in Highland Park. The sixth and final series is Publications, which contains various books and articles that involved Henry Arenberg and were published either by himself of via the Highland Park Historical Society.

Arenberg, Henry X

Phelps residence : 1135 Linden (Highland Park, Ill.)

  • US IlHpHS 2012.15
  • Collection
  • 1922, n.d.

Original drawings of dwelling at 1135 Linden (1115 Linden, 1922-1952) in Highland Park, Illinois by architect John S Van Bergen. Photocopies of photographic images with descriptive notations.

Van Bergen, John S.

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