Highland Park History

US IlHpHS 2015.3-4-13.11
File
1949-1974

File contains: typewritten and handwritten sermon about Rabbi Stephen Wise; "Stephen Samuel Wise" by Nelson Glueck and Shalom Spiegel, Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Vol. 18 (1948-1949) pp. xxiii-xxv; obituary news clippings from 1949; handwritten notes; "Prohibition and Social Psychology" by Hugo Munsterberg; KAM Isaiah Israel Bulletin, March 27, 1974, includes "From the Rabbi's Desk" a letter about the centennial of the birth of Rabbi Stephen Wise, written by Rabbi Hayim Goren Perelmuter; Congress Weekly: A Review of Jewish Interests, Vol. 16, No. 16 (May 2, 1949); handwritten and typewritten notes.

With Patton in WWII : Interview with WWII veteran

Part of The Highland Park Senior TV Production Team audio visual collection

W.M. Sweetland

US IlHpHS 003
Item
1896

Part of 35mm slides of Highland Park

Wolcott family on porch

2022.3-2-1
Item
1924-08

Part of Reverend Peter Clark Wolcott, D.D., papers

Rev. Peter Clark Wolcott (1856-1931), Elinor Louise Smith Wolcott (ELW in diaries) with grandchildren Lyman Wolcott (Wolcott) Prior (1914-1985) and Elizabeth (Betsy) Prior (1919-1962) next to Irene Clara Stevens Prior (1889-1981) with Percy Henry Prior, Jr. (1920-2016) and holding Jeanne Irene Prior Ropiequet (1924-2009), Mary Elizabeth Wolcott Prior (1886-1977) and grandson Rev. Henry Wolcott Prior (1922-2000) on right side at the parsonage.
Donors notes: I met Aunt Mary, Uncle Lyman Pierce Prior (1888-1969) and Wolcott in Florida on semester break in 1966. Lyman moved to Jacksonville, Fla. after he got his music degree at Northwestern in 1910, he and Mary got married in HP in 1911.