Part of Artifacts collection
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.
Seventeen printed items and ephemera, including postcards, monographs, periodicals, a telephone directory, and silver dollar placed in safe deposit bank in 1971. Series also includes notes from opening, key envelope and engraved plaque.
Highland Park Historical Society
Residential corner.
Street with view of homes.
Residential scene.
Park at southwest corner of Central Ave. and St. Johns.
Park at southwest corner of Central Ave. and St. Johns.
Construction on Central Ave. at Sheridan Road looking west and north.
F. J. Siljestrom Coal and Material
Part of Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad photograph collection
Central Ave. road construction
Construction on Central Ave. on median in front of Highland Park theater looking west.