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This folder contains more information, documentation, and pamphlets regarding flower shows that the Ravinia Garden Club has either attended or hosted in the past. In addition to a few choice photographs, advertisements, and newspaper articles, this folder has a few pamphlets. The flower show pamphlets included in this particular are “Garden and Flower Show” (1933), the 15th Annual Chicago Flower Show (1941), “It’s Environmental, my Dear” (1986), “Sailing Ships to Space Shuttles” (1991), “Mystery at the Mansion” (1992), “Grace Notes” (1996), “Summer Solstice” (1997), “Water Works” (1998), and “Y2K” (1999). There are two pamphlets that do not have dates listed on them; “Red, White, and….. Green”, and “Flying Manes”.

State charter and articles of incorporation of the Ravinia Garden Club

This folder contains various images of transportation from around Highland Park. Below is a list of the items in this folder along with their dates and their accession numbers.

Cobb family going for a sleigh ride, 1909, 67-320-4
Teamed delivery wagon, No Date, 70-259-1
Postcard- Older gentelman in a Phaton on a farm, No Date
Artie Booth Denzel with a wagon, No Date
Anthony O'Donnell and Clarence Pfister working as repairmen for Illinois Bell, 1910, 69-329-3
Postcard- Mr. and Mrs. Oheaher (sp) in their Phaeton, No Date, 70-708-1
Exmoor Country Club taxi, No Date, 70-210-2
Denzel Wagon single shaft, No Date
Jimmy Findley with Denzel Truck with lights, ca. 1910
Public Serive Co. of Highland Park at picnic, 9-7-1916

This folder contains various images of Bowman Dairy from Highland Park. Below is a list of the items in this folder along with their dates and their accession numbers.

Bowman Dairy Company building, No Date, 98-2-2
Bowman Dairy Co. delivery men with teamed wagons lined up in front of the building, No Date, 98-2-3
Bowman Dairy Co. close up of building at Vine and Green Bay Rd., No Date
Bowman Dairy Co. delivery wagon being pulled along infront of the building, No Date, 98-2-5
Bowman Dairy Co. delivery wagon posing at a corner, No Date, 98-2-8
Bowman Dairy Co. delivery wagons coming down the street, No Date, 98-2-6

This folder contains an unbound copy of “The Handbook for Flower Shows”, authored by the National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc., and published in 1999.