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  1. McKnight-Nash Realty Co. & Predecessors - 009

    Real estate records, predecessors of McKnight-Nash Realty Co., 1920s-1950s. These records were from predecessor firms. Names and approximate dates of firms were found in examining the records. The largest proportion of records are from the R. M. Johnston Co., 340 Linden Ave., [1920's-1950's]. Previous companies include: Eddington Realty, 410 Linden, began 1917; Eddington & Allen 410 Linden, early 1940's; A.R. Eddington Realty Co.,410 Linde...

    Record Type: Archive

  2. New Trier High School - 058

    Records of New Trier Township High School, 1901-present. New Trier Township High School was founded in 1901 in Winnetka. The collection, donated by many people over the years, includes a variety of material such as yearbooks, student publications, class material, parent and board of education materials.

    Record Type: Archive

  3. New Trier Township School Treasurer - 039

    Records of the New Trier Township School Treasurer, 1875-2003. This collection includes board minutes, school district deeds and other legal/real estate documents pertaining to all schools in New Trier Township, including Winnetka, Wilmette, Avoca, New Trier Township High School, Glencoe, Kenilowrth schools.

    Record Type: Archive

  4. North Shore Associates - 048

    North Shore Associates records, 1973-2010. This collection consists of membership directories for the woman's organization from 1973 through 2010. North Shore Associates was formed in 1946 as the Intermediary Group of the Woman's Club of Wilmette. In 1950, they were forced to sever ties to the Woman's Club because of the policy of the National Organization of Women's Clubs forbidding local groups from having more than one auxilliary group. ...

    Record Type: Archive

  5. North Shore Harmonizers Women's Barbershop Chorus - 026

    The records of the North Shore Harmonizers Women's Barbershop Chorus consist almost entirely of scrapbooks with newspaper clippings, photographs, programs for both "Bowl" and "Spring" performances between 1953 and 1996. There are 20 of scrapbooks and loose papers of newsletters and programs. This choral group was started in 1952 by Evelyn Karna Larson Frisby (1904-1996) as a special interest group of the Wilmette Women's Club. For the first t...

    Record Type: Archive

  6. North Shore Mothers' Clubs - 037

    Records of the North Shore Mothers' Clubs, 1939-1988. These records consist of three separate groups of one larger organization, the first one being the North Shore Young Mother's Club, started in 1927. The other two: the North Shore Junior Mother's Club and the North Shore Mothers Study Group were formed as the women aged and continued to want to be involved. The Study Group was for mothers whose children were older and it was founded in 19...

    Record Type: Archive

  7. Northridge Woman's Club - 038

    Records of the Northridge Woman's Club, 1930-2018. This collection includes historical information, minutes, and membership handbooks. The Northridge Women's Club was founded in 1930 and disbanded in 2018. During their history, they changed their name from Northridge Woman's Club to Northridge Women's Club.

    Record Type: Archive

  8. Oral History Recordings - 060

    Oral History Recordings, 1975-2015. These are recorded oral interviews, originally recorded on cassette tapes and later, as digital files. The cassette tapes were digitized in 2017 and stored on an external hard drive. The cassettes have been retained. The following list is in order by tape number. Tapes numbered 201-235 are about WWII service. For furrther information about these recordings, see the Oral History Index and other material on t...

    Record Type: Archive

  9. Ralph Klinge Papers - 014

    Ralph Klinge Papers, 1953-1980 There are records from two organizations in this collection which include the Wilmette Recreation Board and the Curtis Curling Center. Box 1 and some of Box 2 includes biographical data on Mr. Klinge and Minutes, and financial records of the Recreation Board (a board of the Village of Wilmette). Part of Box 2 and Box 3 has files on the Curtis Curling Center.

    Record Type: Archive

  10. Samuel McClain Civil War Letters - 011

    Samuel McClain Civil War Letters (reproductions), 1864. There are 31 pages in all of photocopied letters from Samuel McClain to his wife, Lucinda. During the Civil War, Mr. McClain was a member of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Regiment 144, Company I (later merged with Company B, according to his letters).

    Record Type: Archive

  11. Schneider Band Sheet Music Collection - 045

    Schneider Band sheet music collection, 1909-1924. This sheet music collection belonged to Frank M. Schneider who was the leader of a dance band in addition to the Gross Point Band. This collection is from the dance band. It was donated by his daughter, Marcella Schneider Ortegel Uttenreuther on Jan. 11, 2006. The music dates from 1909 to 1926 with the majority of the music from the teens. The music has no cover art and includes orchestral arra...

    Record Type: Archive

  12. School District 37 - 057

    Records of School District 37, 1870-2010. School District 37 was founded in 1870. This collection includes some brief histories, newsletters for students and parents, annual reports, and some student material.

    Record Type: Archive

  13. Sheridan Shore Yacht Club - 063

    Records of the Sheridan Shore Yacht Club, 1922-2014. The Sheridan Shore Yacht Club (SSYC) was founded in 1923. In 1922, it operated under the name North Shore Yacht Club, but only for that year. The club grew out of the Evanston Boat Club. Its first home was in the studio of Benjamin Marshall on the Wilmette Harbor. In 1937, the club moved to its own clubhouse constructed that year. The clubhouse remains to this day, having undergone some addi...

    Record Type: Archive

  14. Sisters of Christian Charity/Mallinckrodt High School - 064

    This collection contains material from the earliest days of Mallinckrodt High School to the present day condominiums and park space. There is some correspondence about a sewer issue in 1922, before the school opened in 1923. Mallinckrodt High School closed in 1960. This archive contains materials from Mallinckrodt College, the 4 year institution, including a number of course catalogs, pamphlets, and other materials. Within this archive, the...

    Record Type: Archive

  15. Snider-Cazel Drugs - 027

    Records of the Snider - Cazel drugstore, Snider-Cazel Drugs. These records were found in 2000 at 1167 Wilmette Ave. where Snider-Cazel Drugs had been located. The archive contains materials on Prohibition, Excise Tax documents,1923 and Sales of Intoxicating Liquors, 1927-1928

    Record Type: Archive

  16. Stanley Kellogg Gage papers - 041

    These papers, most of which were collected by Stanley Kellogg Gage (1877-1952), document the life of the Gage family in New Jersey, northern Illinois, Chicago, and Wilmette. Stanley K. Gage's grandfather, John Gage (1802-1890), ran the first flour mill in Chicago in 1836. He and his wife, Portia Kellogg Gage (1813-1903), had five children who survived childhood: Jared (1834-1868), Asahel (1836-1893), Henry H. (1842-1911), John Porcius (1846-193...

    Record Type: Archive

  17. Thomas C. Thompson Company - 047

    Records of the Thomas C. Thompson Company, 1946-1981. These records includes annual reports, stock certificates, meeting minutes and real estate documents for the firm, Thomas C. Thompson Company. The records are from the era when the business was located in Highland Park, not Wilmette. The firm was established in Chicago in 1890 by Thomas C. Thompson. The Thompsons and the company moved to Wilmette in 1900, where they remained at 1419 Cen...

    Record Type: Archive

  18. Village of Wilmette Permit Collection - 043

    Village of Wilmette Permit Collection, 1933-early 1950s. This collection includes Village of Wilmette building applications spanning from 1933 until the early 1950s, with the majority from the mid to late 1940s. Categories of permits include occupancy, alteration, sign, moving, and most commonly building permits. Each application provides the owner, valuation of the property, general contractor, and other workman who might apply such as plum...

    Record Type: Archive

  19. Village of Wilmette Village Clerk Records - 008

    Records of the Wilmette Village Clerk, 1841-1973.

    Record Type: Archive

  20. Wilbus and Addendum - 010

    Records of Wilbus, the Wilmette bus system, 1974-1995. The Board of Trustees of the Village of Wilmette voted to begin its own bus system on an experimental basis. Service began March 18, 1974, and was so successful that no thought was given to discontinuing the experiment. Instead ridership steadily increased. The system had been planned and initially was managed by Northwestern students under the firm name of OTR Planning Consultants, I...

    Record Type: Archive

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