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Homefinders at Highland Park Real Estate Files
Correspondence, real estate listings, notes, purchase offers, sales agreements, closing statements, surveys, photographs, and other records related to properties for sale in Highland Park, Illinois.
Homefinders at Highland Park
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 of 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
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
This collection consists of three series: Images, bibliography and artifacts: more than 80 glass slide images of dwellings, landscape and interior of dwelling designed by David Adler and Frances Adler Elkins for Robert and Stella Mandel, a 32 volume descriptive bibliography of their library and artifacts documenting the Mandel family department store.
Mandel family
Ravinia Depot renovation scrapbook
Scrapbook documenting the renovation of the Ravinia Train Station contains color photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings and engineering reports. Compiled by Jeff Stern for the Ravinia Neighorbors Association. Items in the scrapbook date from 1980 to 1993 with the bulk of the items dating from 1981 to 1989.
Stern, Jeffery L
History of the Highland Park Army and Center
The Highland Park Army and Navy Center opened it doors to young men from Fort Sheridan and the Great Lakes Naval Station July 4, 1917. Located at 380 Central Ave in Highland Park, Illinois, an average of 2000 young men visited the Center weekly. This the story by the founders of this community center for military members away from home.
Tellis, Blanche Mason
Records of Gamson's civic involvement in the City of Highland Park Government, Highland Park Community House, League of Women Voters, and Moraine Township Democrats. 2025 Addition includes Gamson's records from her participation in the Highland Park Arts Task Force and subsequent Highland Park Cultural Arts Commission as well as information about the Peter Voulkos sculpture "Miss Nitro".
Gamson, Bryna G.
American Legion Post 145, records
American Legion . Illinois. Highland Park Dumaresq Spencer Post No. 145.
Two account books for Santi Dairy, Inc., one from July 1951 and the other from May 1953. The books detail the milk, cream, butter, eggs, and cheese delivered to customers and the charges for the dairy products.
Santi Dairy, Inc.
Highland Park Music Club, records
Materials in this collection include yearbooks, minutes, announcements, scrapbooks, newspaper publications and programs. Box 1 holds the first accession: announcements, minutes, and sheet music, circa 1950-1989. It is arranged chronologically.
There are two series in the 2014 accession: records and scrapbooks.
Box 3 holds five scrapbooks assembled by members and the Club. One scrapbook contains minutes, clippings and other documents related to scholarship concert, 1956 - 1958. Other scrapbooks are chiefly composed of newspaper clippings and fliers dated 1950 -1973, 1973 - 1990, 1990 - 2006, 2007 - 2010.
Box 2, 1928-2010, holds minutes, treasury ledgers, club bylaws, newspaper drafts and clippings, membership directories, and a club history:
Ledger, July 1929 - May 1981
Secretary's board meeting notebook, February 1928 - June 1938
Treasurer's notebook, May 1960 - May 1981
Treasurer's notebook, August 1981 - May 1994.
Box 4 holds 2024.003 Accession: Membership directories and a scrapbook with fliers, photographs, news clippings and other materials related to the club's activities.
Highland Park Music Club