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Highland Park Fire Department Collection

  • US IlHpHS Dept.Fir
  • Collection
  • 1889-1989, No Date

This collection was created by a committee developing a centennial exhibit for the Highland Park Fire Department. The dates range from 1889 to 1989 with the opening of the exhibit. The items found in this collection are various images, newspaper articles, an exhibit proposal, various reports from the fire house, a yearbook created for the centennial, and a uniform.

Highland Park Fire Department

Chief Fire Marshall's belt

  • US IlHpHS 2014.5
  • Item
  • circa 1889-1899

Belt worn by Andrew Bock, Chief Fire Marshall of the Highland Park Fire Deprtment. Raised, embossed leather reads "Chief" on front and raised, embossed letters "HPFD" on fastner.

Highland Park Fire Department.

Chaplain George D. Rice Lantern slides

  • US IlHpHS chap.ric
  • Collection
  • 1890 - 1920

The collection is comprised of 470 lantern slides positives, chiefly in black and white. The slides range in date from the late 1890’s to the mid-1910’s. The largest series (93 slides) are illustrated biblical passages of the Old Testament. The collection also comprises images of the Spanish-American War, the U.S. Navy, the Wreck of the Maine in Havana, Cuba (1898), the Battle of Bacolod (1902), and the Second Boer War (1899-1902). Included in the slides are images of China, Alaska, Cuba, Philippines, and several unidentified locations and portraits.

Rice, Chaplain George D.

Beach

  • US IlHpHS Visu.Pho-1.17/3.4-1.17
  • Subseries
  • 1900-1976, No Date
  • Part of Visual Photograph

This sub series contains images of the beach, specifically Lake Michigan's beach front. Below is a list of the items in this folder along with their dates and accession numbers.

Park Avenue Beach- Arial shot of water station, shore, and lake front homes, No Date
Park Avenue Beach- 6 young ladies tanning, 1941
Ducks on a Lake, 11-20-1968
Park Avenue Beach, 1976
Park Avenue Beach, 1939
Park Avenue Beach, 1969
Sets of women and children enjoying the beach front (reprint), No Date
Lake Michigan sail boat lot, ca. 1970
Aerial view of Ravine drive beach and Schaffner house, now owned by park District. Photo by Milt Merner, 1969
Copy from above- different angle, No Date
Photo looking out onto Lake Michigan, 1976
Seagull, No Date
Littered beach front- rocks, debry, and trash, No Date
Eroding coast line, 1969
Littered beach front- dead fish, No Date
Couple walking along Lake Michigan shore, 1970, 70-609-2
Photocopies of beaches and Ravinia, No Date
Caroline Pecbles Edwards, 1915
Steel Pier at North Deere Park, No Date
2 older men and 1 older woman on the beach by their clothes line, No Date
The Highland Park Beach, 1914
Women and children sitting/playing at Moraine Beach, ca. 1900, 69-346-1
Copy from above, ca. 1910
Y.M.C. Life saving station, No Date
"Le Bristolsher Lesluonlns" A boat moored on a beach [taken by Orson Brand], No Date
Boat house and sandy beach, No Date
Boot check at the foot of Park Ave., 1912
Lester Green and his first dog Rip at the old pier, No Date

Telephone directories collection

  • US IlHpHS Tele.dir
  • Collection
  • 1890-2014

Various Highland Park and neighboring communities arranged chronologically and by decade, white and yellow pages : 1890-1999 ; 1999-2000 ; 2001 ; 2002 ; 2002-2003 ; 2004-2005 ; 2007 ; 2008-2009 ; 2009-2010 (2) ; 2010 ; 2010-2011 ; 2011-2012 (2) ; 2012 ; 2013 ; 2013-2014 ; 2014 (2).
Issues dated 1908-1913 have been digitized and are available on the Library's website via the link below.

Highland Park Historical Society

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