A photograph taken of what seems to be a public exhibition of school children's artwork, depicting various species of "Winter Birds" indigenous to the areas surrounding Highland Park. While records do not exist to corroborate this conjecture, there is a high probability that this photo was taken during the time that Jesse Lowe Smith was a school teacher, and that these are the works of his students.
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.
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.
