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

Florence Pier, No Date
Fletcher's Pier, No Date
Fletcher's Pier, No Date
Grey Electric Company, No Date

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

Highland Park Day Parade with men from the army marching, 8-12-1915, 67-231-5
Same image as above with army men holding a flag, 8-12-1915, 67-231-4
Highland Park Day Parade children in a car with American flag decorations, 8-12-1915, 67-235-3
Highland Park Day Parade with men from the navy plaing instraments and marching in front of the Northwestern Hotel at St. John and Central Ave., 8-12-1915, 67-231-1
Highland Park Day Parade- Men from Great Lakes Naval Station, 8-12-1915
Highland Park Day Parade- men from the navy in a car dressed as a boat, 8-12-1915
Highland Park Day Parade- cars dressed with flowers and flags, 8-12-1915
Highland Park Day Parade- Nuns marching, 8-12-1915, 67-27-2
Highland Park Day Parade with teamed horses pulling wagons dressed as floats, 8-12-1915, 98-2-7
Highland Park Day Parade- cars driving past people, 8-12-1915, 67-231-2
Highland Park Day Parade car going down the road as a float, 8-12-1915
Highland Park Day Parade army men marching with guns, 8-12-1915, 67-231-6
Highland Park Day Parade team drawn wagons dressed as floats, 8-12-1915, 67-231-15
Highland Park Day Parade- Reliable Laundry Co. team drawn Float, 8-12-1915, 67-231-14
Highland Park Day Parade- Boy Souts and North Shore Council float, 8-12-1915
Highland Park Day Parade- Navy's marching band and Navymen following the band, ca. 1915-1925, accession number is unreadable
Highland Park Day Parade viewers prepare for the event, 8-12-1915
Highland Park Day Parade- a lodge marching under its banner, 8-12-1915, 67-231-18
Highland Park Day Parade- Highland Park State Bank with Ray Erskine, No Date, 67-82-61

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

Y.M.C.A. Group sitting in and standing next to a car [organizations and churches], No Date, 67-231-17
Boy scout troup with Jesse Lowe Smith in the lead [torn corner], No Date, 67-231-13
Postcard- Army and Navy Center in Highland Park, No Date
Fire Department, 1917
St. Mary's Catholic Church on Green Bay Rd., No Date, 69-341-4
St. Mary's Catholic Church after a fire, ca. 1907-1908, 70-261-1
St. Mary's Catholic Church, No Date, 69-341-3
Highland Park Presbyterian Church, ca. 1920
First United Evangelical Church, No Date
Zion Lutheran Church, No Date, 69-340-2
The congregation of a church, No Date
The congregation of a church, No Date
First Baptist Church on Laurel Ave., ca. 1908
A large 2 story brick Italianate style church, 1920
First Presbyterian Church [taken by Brand Studios", No Date

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

St. Johns and Central with bank, No Date, 69-367-2
St. Johns and Central with close up of a bank, No Date
St. Johns and Central with close up of the bank on the corner, No Date

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

Posibly the Waverly Bridge, No Date
Early style wooden bridge with a man fishing, No Date
Early wooden bridge being connected to a modern bridge [news article], 1942
Early style wooden bridge with homes in the background, No Date
Bridge over ravine at Port Clinton, No Date
Hazel Ave. bridge, No Date
Forest Ave. bridge, 1910
Photocopy of 4 postcards- Wildwood, Egandale, Beach trail, and Waverly Ave. [2 are in color], No Date
3 page newspaper story [photocopied] about bridge repairs, 1981
Photocopy of "One of the many pretty drives", No Date
Photocopy of East Central Ave. bridge, No Date
Photocopy of Egandale wooden bridge, No Date
Photocopy of Waverly Ave. bridge, No Date
Newspaper article of Bicycle bridge, No Date
Proposed trunk sanitary sewer and bridge replacement program, 1957
2 page newspaper article of people's varring uses of an overpass, 1965
Early style wooden bridge with a man fishing [copy of first image], No Date
Moraine bridge construction, with child climbing on scaffolding, No Date

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

Inside the Electric Power Plant located at Elm Place crossing and owned by Fredrick Cushing and Frank Hawkins, ca. 1890
Exterior of the Electric Power Plant located at Elm Place crossing and owned by Fredrick Cushing and Frank Hawkins, ca. 1890

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 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 collection is comprised of images used in the film created about Highland Park Film entitled 'The History of Highland Park'. There are 2 boxes with the first box having 5 folders of various images. Topics range from churches to parades and piers. The second box has 8 folders ranging from buildings to bridges and other various buildings around Highland Park.

The bulk of the images date from the 1869 founding of Highland Park, Illinois to the early 20th century.