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Highland Park Building Company

  • US IlHpHS BuilCom
  • Collection
  • 1870 - 1925

Business records, including ledgers, letter books, stock certificates and minutes from the Highland Park Building Company.

Highland Park Building Company

Visual : Elm Place School

  • US IlHpHS visu.elm
  • Collection
  • 1870-1933

This collection documents early Highland Park and Elm Place School. It is a series of class photographs and teaching aids. The collection has been arranged into 5 series with a list of each item in that series. They are mostly black and white and a few have been damaged. They are all 4x5. These slides may have been taken chiefly by Jesse Lowe Smith. Brand Studio may also be responsible for some of the photography.

Elm Place School.

35mm slides of Highland Park

  • Collection
  • 1870

This collection contains 272 35mm slides and 3 discs with corresponding digital objects. The slides contain photos of architecture around Highland Park (both indoor and outdoor) as well as the railroad, people, maps of Highland Park, advertisements, and newspaper clippings ranging from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century.

Highland Park Historical Society

Individual file

  • US IlHpHS Indv.Fil
  • Collection
  • 1872-2002

The Individual File is comprised of resources documenting individuals and families of prominence who were born, lived or worked in Highland Park, Illinois. The collection is made up of 2.5 linear feet of periodical clippings; biographies and personal narratives; correspondence; photographs; ephemera; and legal records; dating from 1872 to 2002. This is an artificial collection that is arranged alphabetically by family name.

Highland Park Historical Society

Highland Park Business Records

  • US IlHpHS BusiRec
  • Collection
  • 1873-1930

This is an assorted collection of business records of various businesses and business owners from Highland Park.

Highland Park Ice Company

Bertha Baker Collection

  • US IlHpHS Bert.bak
  • Series
  • 1874 - 1896

The first scrapbook titled "Autographs" was a gift from her parents given at the age of 15. It contains personal notes and drawings sent to Bertha, including one from her future husband Frank Green. The second scrapbook is a mixture of Bertha's poetry as well as reviews of her recitations.

Green, Bertha Baker

Orson Brand family and studio visual collection

  • Orso.Bra
  • Collection
  • 1874-1956

This collection contains images and advertisements from the Brand Brothers Studio. Images range from the Brand family at various events to other local families and even individual people. All advertisements for this collection are for the Brand Brothers Studio and range from calling cards to calendars.

Brand, Orson B

Brand family business collection

  • US IlHpHS BranFam
  • Collection
  • 1880-1940, 1967

This collection is comprised of record books generated by the Brand Brothers Paint Company. There are 14 books that contain information on the various accounts, jobs, and estimates held by the company. The collection ranges from 1889-1940.

Brand family

Log structures

  • US IlHpHS log.str
  • Collection
  • circa 1880-1997

Digital objects of log cabins photographed around the turn of the 19th-20th century, possibly as part of a project for the North Shore Daughters of the American Revolution. Digitized by Joe Piersen.

Cobb Family Collection

  • US IlHpHS 2015.9
  • Collection
  • 1882-1952

The collection consists of family correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, a copper engraving plate, programs and a United States Army honorable discharge certificate to Daniel L. Cobb.

Cobb family

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