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Manuscript plat book of Highland Park, Illinois.

Plans for dwelling in pencil.

These are drainage and utility plans for Dale Ave. The diagram focuses on the intersection of Dale and Laurel Aves. The plans were drawn by Y.D.Z. and checked by J.D.H. The plans are from 3-18-91 and revised 4-26-91.

Highland Park has a diversity of churches and synagogues, representing multiple denominations. From the first, a Catholic Church a cabin of oak logs erected by early settlers in 1846 to the Christian Science Church built in 1904 (the building was sold to the City in 1984), this collection comprises documents, service programs, photographs, newspaper articles and other materials pertinent to the Roman Catholic, Evangelical, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, and other Christian churches and materials pertinent to several Jewish synagogues serving the community.

This collections consists of photographs of people from or around Highland Park. At least one image was created by the Brand Brothers Studio. However, a spectrum of photography studios is represented.

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.

Photography of Highland Park, Illinois in 1896, chiefly homes with some landscapes.

Contact sheets and negatives from events at Park District of Highland Park, including Heart Fund Swimming Meet, 1977.