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This is a topical file, arranged alphabetically by subject. Subjects include people, places, buildings and events in Highland Park, Illinois.

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 [old 1201 Sheridan] as the daughter of the gardener.

Records, including meeting minutes, by-laws, programs, yearbooks, and financial records.

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.

Bound weekly bulletins, v1-v19, noting programs, membership, attendance, editorials and other organization business.

6 black and white photographs of Water Filtration Plant, Highland Park, Ill., Pearse, Greeley and Hansen, Engineers, Priester Construction Co., completed June 1930.

Telephone directory of Lake Forest and Lake Bluff that includes section on Highland Park and Highwood

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.

Copy of Mamie Dorsh's Eight and a Half- Going On Nine and an August 1987 District 107 School News with an article about a fund established in memory of Mamie Dorsch.