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Scrapbook of Ellen Truax, chiefly news clippings on history of Highland Park, beginning with the establishment of historic route marks on Green Bay Road to the 1950 inauguration

Scrapbook of professional photographs of Highland Park home interior and exterior in Central and Laurel Avenues area. Images on the interior wall include a young man in a Northwestern Military Academy Uniform, pendants for the academy and the University of Michigan and hunting ephemera.

Scope and Contents note Box 1 includes photographs; letters; ticket stubs; pamphlets. Box 2 including photographs; letter;, pamphlets.

December, 1920
Panama Canal, Panama City and vicinity
46 b/w photos
29 color postcards

• large insurance ledger made of fiber board used as a scrapbook
• ledger measures 11.25" X 17.5"
• Front cover reads: Policy (illegible word), Insurance Company of North America
  Contents:
• large loose photo of sailing ship
• 23 pages devoted to news clippings on North Shore drownings, Young Men's Lifesaving Club in Highland Park, fundraisers for the Club boathouse, articles praising the Club; building contracts for boathouse
• large newspaper photo of Eastland disaster
• article dated 1915-05-08 on sinking of Lusitania
• postcards of ships, bridges, lifesaving stations in Michigan, Illinois,and Indiana, some addressed to Roland Brand
• b/w photos of ships, lighthouses, unidentified persons
• newsclippings on Highland Park parade
• news article on water intake pipe repair