Highland Park History

US IlHpHS 1996.5-6.0796
Item

Part of Jesse Lowe Smith Image Collection

A black and white photograph taken of an unidentified tomb or monument in India by Jesse Lowe Smith.

US IHigp 2013.02.14
Collection
circa 1950-1963

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

Titles and deeds

US IlHpHS titl.dee
Collection
1839-1966

This is an artificial collection created by the Highland Park Historical Society. Much of the donor information for the collection is unknown. The contents of the collection includes abstracts and examinations of title and deeds of warranty and/ or mortgages relating to the Highland Park area. The dates of the materials span from circa 1839-1934.

Chicago Title and Trust Company.

Title card

US IlHpHS high.kod-060
Item
1979

Part of Highland Park Kodachrome Slide Collection

Presentation title card reading "Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first."

Tintypes and ferrotypes

US IlHpHS Orso.Bra-2
Series
ca. 1890-1910

Part of Orson Brand family and studio visual collection

Tintypes and ferrotypes that may include stock photography as well as family and theater images. Images of note include a Highland Park firefighter, an African-American, portraits and staged images.

A number of these photographs indicate Orson B Brand as photographer and appear to have been taken chiefly in the same studio with the same props. There are numerous images that appear to be self portraits by Brand.

Brand, Orson B

Time Schedule High Holidays

US IlHpHS 2015.3-3-9.20
File
undated

Part of Sholom A. Singer papers

File contains typewritten and handwritten notes on the timing schedule of the High Holiday services.

Time capsule contents

US IlHpHS 1971.hp150
Series
1969-1971

Seventeen printed items and ephemera, including postcards, monographs, periodicals, a telephone directory, and silver dollar placed in safe deposit bank in 1971. Series also includes notes from opening, key envelope and engraved plaque.

Highland Park Historical Society

Tillman Family