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These architecture plans are the preliminary study of a building for the Highland Park High School Deerfield- Shields Township High School District. This study was completed October 12, 1945. The scale is 1/16in to a foot.

Soldiers letters, chiefly to Highland Park High School principal and community activist Charles Mason.

Post map of Fort Sheridan, Illinois, showing location of principal buildings at Fort Sheridan.

Drawings for buildings at 474 (ex 374) Central Ave, Highland Park, Illinois.

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

This is a map of Lake County, Illinois by George Hale, county surveyor and J.N.Truesdell, clerk of the circuit court, published by L. Gast Bros. and Co., St. Louis. The map is from actual surveys and other authentic sources. The map shows Lake County in 1861. The map includes historical statistics of Lake County dating back to 1834. It also includes an illustration of the Public Square in Waukegan, a Table of Distances and a table of Statistics. There are also several insets: Waukegan, Antioch, Half Day, Millburn, Wauconda Central Part of Lake Forest, Hainesville, Long Grove, Lake Zurich, Libertyville, Deerfield Village, Forksville, Diamond Lake, O'Plain Bridge, and Barrington. There is a note at the bottom of the page: "Copied to preserve historical record in the office of R.M. Lobdell, County Superintendent of Highways, March 1948, by order of the Board of Supervisors of Lake Co., Guy L. Grinnell, Chairman, from old map furnished by the Lake County Historical Society, Bess Dunn, Secretary by R.M.Brown."

World War II service papers (copies and originals), insignia ephemera and B/W photos of service man Mario Pasquesi.

Cookbook created by Highland Park Auxiliary of the Cradle, adoption agency based in Evanston, Illinois.

Family photographs and a scrapbook were donated by Olivia Millard. The collection includes photos of the Sylvester Millard House exterior and interior; Lake Michigan and the bluff overlook; the bridge over a ravine to the house; and Everett Lee Millard Jr and Mary Hyde 'Millard in front of new Highland Park sign, parents of Olivia Millard.

The collection consists of family correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, a copper engraving plate, programs and a United States Army honorable discharge certificate to Daniel L. Cobb.