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35mm slides of Highland Park

  • Collection
  • 1870

This collection contains 272 35mm slides and 3 discs with corresponding digital objects. The slides contain photos of architecture around Highland Park (both indoor and outdoor) as well as the railroad, people, maps of Highland Park, advertisements, and newspaper clippings ranging from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century.

Highland Park Historical Society

Titles and deeds

  • US IlHpHS titl.dee
  • Collection
  • 1839-1966

This is an artificial collection created by the Highland Park Historical Society. Much of the donor information for the collection is unknown. The contents of the collection includes abstracts and examinations of title and deeds of warranty and/ or mortgages relating to the Highland Park area. The dates of the materials span from circa 1839-1934.

Chicago Title and Trust Company.

Metzel Family collection

  • US IlHpHS 2012.4
  • Collection
  • Bulk, 1960-1966

This collection documents the Metzel family from the Civil War era 1860s through the 1960s. Its contents include a family history, landscape architecture blueprints by celebrated landscape architect, O.C. Simonds, contracts, and images.

A.J. Metzel and his family moved to Highland Park, Illinois in 1912 and developed an elaborately landscaped estate. This collection holds hand-colored images or the estate. The family owned the Cutler Shoe Company in Chicago from 1885-1937. A.J.’s son, Truman became the sole owner of the company in 1929 when his father died. The collection includes a family history written by Truman Thwing Metzel that spans from ca.1860-1960.

Metzel Family

Brand family business collection

  • US IlHpHS BranFam
  • Collection
  • 1880-1940, 1967

This collection is comprised of record books generated by the Brand Brothers Paint Company. There are 14 books that contain information on the various accounts, jobs, and estimates held by the company. The collection ranges from 1889-1940.

Brand family

Young, Rev. William Atkinson, papers

  • US IlHpHS 2020.1
  • Collection
  • circa 1937-1968

Materials documenting the Highland Park Presbyterian Church in the mid-20th century, including church histories, bulletins, programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other ephemera.

Young, William Atkinson

Pike, C. Harlan collection

  • US IlHpHS 2015.10
  • Collection
  • 1928-1968

The collection contains correspondence, a newspaper clipping, the memorial service program for Jesse Lowe Smith, and newsletters of the Old Timer's Club. The Old Timer's Club met once a year and was composed of teachers who were at Elm Place School when Mr. Jesse Lowe Smith was the principal.
Also included is a photograph of students at Elm Place School dated June 1928, a photograph of the Class of February, 1928: William Nunn, Henry Witten, Bob Phelps, Melvin Cummings, Tom Russell, Jefferson Bennett (Class President), Jesse Craig, Richard Rioux, Rudolph Stricker, Irving Garling.
Martin Bennett, Fred Fell, Alfred Meyer, Selma L. Cook, Jane Holmes, Norma Finley, Edith Kilgore, Helene Borchardt, Grace Lindstrom, Raymond Bock, Sam Ugolini. Florence Skuldy, Mary Wohlbruck, Ruth Durment, Dorothy Anderson, Elinor Fischer. Esther Drake, Isabel Mann, Clifford Thomas, Lee Randall, Mary Mayor. Robert Freeman, Robert Wood, Nelson Forrest, Eugene Masterson, Alice Mulvihill. Dorothy Schadewitz, Miss Lena M. Nixon, Gladys Arnold.
It also contains a photograph of the Class of June, 1928: Miss Etta Grunewald, Amelia Ostrowsky, Mildred Dostalek, Miss Lena M. Nixon, Louise Willard, Almyra Gibson, Muriel Prato, Marion R. Moon, Priscilla Mann. Elizabeth Zimmerman, Muriel M. Mowers, Esther Drake, Barbara Sullivan, Jane Kaufman, MacDonald Lowe, Marco Carani. Barbara Funke, Melvin Finney, Henry B. Clark, Sara Ann McClernan, Robert Fay, Grace Arline Flint, Edward Marder, Glen Christenson. O'Neal Ronzani, Hugo Winkler, William Walker, Ella Hupprich, Sadie L. Coates, Mavern Hamilton, Ray Bock. Elmer M. Nielsen, Theodore Pasquesi, Janet Gaidzik, Kathleen Slack, Irvin Garling, Jesse A. Craig, Walter O'Neill, Melvin Cummings, Harlan Pike (Class President), Frank Goffo, Eva Scott, Florence Warren, Luella Dunn, Nouri Mancogian, Thomas E. Russell, Norman Alfred Gastfield, Charlotte Clark.

Pike, C. Harlan

Ravinia Woman's Club, records

  • US IlHpHS Ravi.wom
  • Collection
  • 1911-1969

There are five series in this collection: Scrapbooks, Committees, Financial, General, and Members. Within the Committees series there are two subseries: Contracts, and Events under Committees, and Minutes and Membership Directories under Members.

There are three  scrapbooks.  Each one displays a mix of photographs, letters, ticket stubs, and pamphlets.  Many are incomplete due to deterioration and other preservation issues.  One scrapbook, chiefly arranged chronologically, with some topical pages, appears to have been created for the 25th anniversary of the Ravinia Women's Club, also known as the Ravinia Civics Club and the Ravinia Women's Club The scrapbook includes bylaws, yearbooks, clippings and programs and inter-organizational correspondence.

There are three committees that took part in the Ravinia Woman’s Club; they are Philanthropy, Social, and Village House. These committees held luncheons, dinner theater, and fashion shows and musical performances. These events can be found under the two subseries titles of Contracts and Events. These dates range from 1934-1969.

The financial section of the collection holds various member dues, expenses for events, and the costs involved with running the Club. It also contains some audits and tax-exempt forms applying for 501c3 not for profit status. The series ranges from 1916-1969.

General information ranges from 1911-1964. This topical file holds a mixture of histories, correspondence, outreach, and newspaper clippings.

The Members series of the collection forms the bulk of the Ravinia Woman’s Club records. It has two subseries the first being the Minutes of the meetings, with dates ranging from 1913-1957. Within the minutes are also newspaper clippings and letters. The second subseries are the extensive collection of Membership Directories. They almost hold a complete history of the Club ranging from 1919-1969. They help place the Ravinia Woman’s Club into its context by also being associated with the Lyons Township Federation of Women’s Clubs and the Federation of Clubs of the 10th Congressional District of Illinois.

Ravinia Civic Association.

Jo Fischer Cartoon Collection

  • US IlHpHS jo.fish
  • Collection
  • Bulk, 1954-1969

This collection is comprised of, ink drawings, manuscript submissions and installments of the comic strip "From Nine to Five" and "Duets" created by cartoonist Jo Fischer. The three manuscript submissions present in this collection are all stylistically different, both in terms of graphics and humor, from his most famous comic strip "From Nine to Five". The variety of dates covered in this collection also demonstrate how "From Nine to Five" evolved over time; While, the original ink drawings found in this collection provide some insight into Mr. Fischer's illustrating process and its evolution over time.

Fischer, Jo

Highland Park : the first hundred years : research responses

  • US IlHpHS high.fir
  • Collection
  • 1966-1969

This collection holds the clippings and other family or biographical information received by the Highland Park Historical Society in response to a questionnaire sent to families who lived in Highland Park, Illinois prior to 1940. Files are arranged alphabetically by last name.

This Highland Park centenary project culminated in the publication of "Highland Park : The First hundred years." The research and writing team included Anna Rigndahl, Lillian Tucker, Ruth Rose, Pat Heyman, Judi Nickol, James Wahlman, Chester Jones, and Marjorie Clavey.

Highland Park Historical Society

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