- US IHigp 304
- Collection
- 1927-2019
The collection contains awards, reports, administrative documents, publicity, tax records, photographs, and related materials about the activities of the Ravinia Garden Club and its members.
Ravinia Garden Club
The collection contains awards, reports, administrative documents, publicity, tax records, photographs, and related materials about the activities of the Ravinia Garden Club and its members.
Ravinia Garden Club
The collection consists of records of the Men's Garden Club of Highland Park and subsequent Men's Garden Club of the North Shore and Gardeners of the North Shore. The collection contains an incomplete set of issues of the Garden Club's publication "Garden Pants" from 1939-1968. Also included are Men's Garden Clubs of America Yearbooks (1940-1943), applications for membership (1943-1957), correspondence, project information, metal garden markers, and materials from annual garden club shows.
Men's Garden Club of Highland Park.
This collection regards the Gieser family, their descendants, and extended relatives from the turn of the 19th century to the present day in Highland Park. This collection pertains to the members of this family, as well as those who would eventually marry into the family, specifically Elise Weisenberger who married William Gieser. The collection contains a significant number of photographs and albums, Deerfield yearbooks, and other artifacts such as Adolph Gieser's fire chief medallion, and a DVD containing an interview with Elise Weisenberger Gieser about her family and her life on the Bonita Vista estate as the daughter of the gardener.
Gieser Family
Subject Guide to Local History Files in the Jesse Lowe Smith Historical Room
This is a topical file, arranged alphabetically by subject. Subjects include people, places, buildings and events in Highland Park, Illinois.
Highland Park Public Library
Smith, Jesse Lowe, Superintendent of Schools, Highland Park, Illinois
Contact sheets and negatives from events at Park District of Highland Park, including Heart Fund Swimming Meet, 1977.
Heimovics, John O
Records, including meeting minutes, by-laws, programs, yearbooks, and financial records.
The Ossoli Club of Highland Park
Highlander : Weekly Bulletin of the Highland Park Rotary Club
Bound weekly bulletins, v1-v19, noting programs, membership, attendance, editorials and other organization business.
Rotary Club of Highland Park, Illinois.
Playbills, photos. clipping and correspondence regarding actor's tenure at local venues, including The Music Theater (located adjacent to Villa Moderne) and the Tenthouse Theater in the Round. Photograph subjects include Mayele Gabor; Bill Krott (Stage Manager) ; David Tihmar (Director); Jimmy Kommack; Bill Hayes; Lisa Drake; and Ward Orhman; Monica Van Vooren; and Tom Williams as well as pictures of the Men's Chorus room exterior and interior; the Music Theater; the Theater in the Round in season and before demolition; and the Villa Moderne. Original order has been maintained. Correspondence copies with the Library have been kept physically in the collection.
Addtionally, there are 2 broadsides, 1 framed, for 1954 productions of "Anything Goes" and "Showboat" at the Music Theater, billed as "Chicago's Theater in the Country."
Williams, Tom