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This folder contains images from Highland Park's City Hall. Below are a list of items that can be found in this folder with its associated date and accession number.

Dubin, Dubin, and Moutoussamy business card, No Date
The Highlander meeting pamphlet, 1948
Our Home Town pamphlet vol. 1, 1947
Our Home Town pamphlet vol. 1, 1948
Our Home Town pamphlet vol. 2, 1948
City Hall photograph, 1976
City Hall photograph, 1976
City Hall photograph, ca. 1930
Police station photograph, No Date
Photograph of a map of Highland Park from 1872, No Date, 69-270-5
Govenor Otto Kerner and Mrs. Clarence, 1968
Photocopied picture of City Hall, No Date
Photocopied picture of City Hall, No Date
Photocopied picture of City Hall, No Date
Photocopied picture of City Hall, No Date
Lighting recommendation for City Hall- proposal, 1929

This folder contains images from in and around Highland Park. Below are a list of items that can be found in this folder with its associated date and accession number.

Highland Park Fire Dept. with chief Adolph Gieser (at left), 1900
This photo shows a horse being watered at the Yerkes Watering Trough on the corner of Sheridan Road and Forest Avenue, ca. 1910, 70-824-1
Older gentleman posing for a waist up portrait, No Date
4 gentlemen sitting around a cup of coffee (Names on back: Les Keley, Dr. Rudford DOS), ca. 1960-1970
Highland Park Day parade at Central and St. Johns ave. picturing navy men in a long boat float, 1915

This folder contains images from an unidentified photo album. Below are a list of items that can be found in this folder with its associated date.

Virginia, Mariana, Louise Ruffner by a pond, No Date
Elizabeth Tuttle dressed as a nurse, No Date
Carqueville Cousins dressed as colonialists, No Date
Jennie Hyde, 1918
Jeenie Hyde, 1918
Virginia, Marianna, Louise Ruffner by a fence, No Date

This series contains miscellaneous images of Highland Park. Below is a list of the items in this folder along with their dates and accession numbers.

Only Elephant in Highland Park- with costumed rider on a palomino horse, No Date
Drawn team attached to covered buggy with driver in front of a home for sale, No Date
Frederick Fischer in memorium plaque, ca. 1914
Brand family plot, No Date
Brand family plot, No Date
Westerdy R.S.- hitched oxen, parked car in front of home and open road, No Date
Sheep on the Sheridan Farm (Later the Sunset Sub.), No Date
Olympic torch celebration, 2002
Olympic torch celebration, 2002
Column topper, No Date
Easement of a building, No Date
Ravinia Park Arch, No Date
Contact sheet for Walt Durban project, No Date
Class emblem on wall hanging, No Date
Slavery-foe Edward Coles, second governor of Illinois, set the pace for anti-slavery forces. This historic painting depicts him freeing slaves he brought from his Virginia home in 1819. This painting hands in the Illinois State house., No Date, 70-122-13

This series also contains ovrsize images of Highland Park. Below is a list of the items in this folder along with their dates and accession numbers.

Large Church, No Date
Trinity Episcopal Church, Highland Park, 1996
Football posters - HPHS 60th anniversary, 1967, 68-527-1a,b
Football posters - HPHS 60th anniversary, 1967, 68-527-1a,b
Engraving of Highland Hall- A prepatory and college institution, ca. 1880
The republican inner circle- sent to Ira, each member signed the bottom, No Date

This sub series contains images of individual families posing for portraits. Below is a list of the items in this folder along with their dates.

6 people sitting on the steps of a building, No Date

Freberg family on N.E. corner of St. Johns Dr. and Elm Place (L to R: John Freberg, Selma Freberg (Skidmore), Edward Freberg, Johanna Freberg, Alma Freberg (Wightman), Lillie Freberg (Loveson), ca. 1910

(back to front, left to right) Alfred Moses, Bertha Loeb, Herman Loeb, M. Moses, Great Grandmother Yetta Lobe, Great Grandfather Moses Loeb (parents of fannie Moses and frand folks of Bertha Moses Loeb), Fannie Moses, Lee Loeb on lap of Yetta Loeb, No Date

Mr. William Hipwell and family- Highland Park Historical Society Home, ca. 1885

This sub series also contains oversize images of individual families posing for portraits. Below is a list of the items in this folder along with their dates.

Phillip, Herman, Ben, Bob, Seymore, Andrew, Jim, Harry, Father Milton, Sons of Issac Goldberg, 6-15-1921
Richard Julius Tillman and his family [on silk screen] information of family on back [goes with glass slide], ca. 1906

This sub series contains images that show the street constructions that improved mobility around Highland Park. Below is a list of the items in this folder along with their dates.

Office of construction company- man and woman outside, No Date
Sheridan Rd. in reconstruction, 1925
Sheridan Rd. at Deere Park, 1925
Sheridan Rd. with workers working on the construction, 1925
Sheridan Rd. with close up of workers with heavy machinery, 1925
Construction Camp at Highland Park, 1925
Jackie and his team, Beach Street, 1925
Loading at Beach Street, 1925
Sheridan Road with cement being poured, 1925
Me [B.W.Aten] near Beach Street, 1925
Sheridan Road with workers arranging the fallen cement, 1925
Construction Camp at Highland Park, low building, 1925
Sheridan Rd. construction, laying wires for vibration, 1925
Deere Park, additional sewer and water job- far away image, 1926
Deere Park, additional sewer and water job- close up of machinery, 1926
Paving Green Bay Rd., Highland Park- crew, 9-20-1928
Paving Green Bay Rd., Highland Park, 9-20-1928
Central Ave. paving, Highland Pk. Looking west from Green Bay Nolan and Pits residences are noted on photo.

This sub series contains images from the Zimmer family. Below is a list of the items in this folder along with their dates.

Unidentified baby in wicker carriage with white parasol, No Date, 69-181-1
Mrs. Beneduk Knudsdon? Grandmother of Mrs. Ethel Smith and Mother of Mrs. Roy Zimmer, ca. 1900-1910, 69-180-1
68-496-3 : old snowplow by Nora Zimmerman, 1918.

This collection is made up of general photographs from the Highland Park Historical Society archives. It is comprised of 17 (artificial_ series with 29 sub series. The series are divided into topics with the sub series dividing some of the larger series into more specific smaller topics, while remaining general. The topics that are covered in this collection include places, locations, buildings, negatives, and people. Many of the images were done at the Brand Brothers Studio in Highland Park. Their photographic contribution to the documentation of Highland Park through the years is vitally important and the majority of the images held by HPHS.

This series contains images of various peoples from Highland Park. They have been organized into 10 sub series ranging from portraits to families, to licenses. Many of the images in this series were done by the Brand Brothers Studio. George H. Cumming (s) (1894-1967) wedding party photo, circa 1919.