Five artifacts that detail Marion Weisenberger attending the Ravinia School from grades 1-4 between the years of 1918-1922. Three are black and white class photographs, while the last is comprised of two class photographs glued to black scrap-booking paper.
This photograph album belonged to Marion and Elise Weisenberger, the latter of which became Elise Gieser through marriage. The stamp on the inside cover states that this book was gifted to the two girls during the summer of 1920, but contains photographs that dates between 1915-1922. Subjects include Elise and Marion Weisenberger, their mother Elise and father Albert, Aunt Julia, Hilda, a woman by the name of Hester, and various landscape photographs, including many involving the Gardener’s Cottage that the Weisenberger family lived in at the Bonita Vista estate.
The album contains over 30 landscape photographs of the Bonita Vista estate owned by Mr. and Mrs. E.V. Price at 1201 So. Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL. There are no provided dates associated with the photographs. Attached loosely on the inside of the first page there is a small handwritten packet located inside a vanilla colored enveloped that lists some of the locations on the estate and gives descriptions about the photographs themselves. There is also information about Mr. Edward Valentine Price and the gardener Albert Weisenberger.
Photographs and a photocopy of the invitation for Elise's birthday celebration held at the site of her former family home on the Bonita Vista Estate, now North Suburban Synagogue Beth El.
This Fire Chief Medallion belonged to Adolph Gieser. It was awarded to him by the International Association of Fire Engineers during their 39th annual convention between the dates of September 19th-22nd, 1911. The metal casting is a bronze colored, and the attached faded and frayed ribbon is red.