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Highland Park Public Library Celebrates 125 years.

A documentary celebrating the 125th Anniversary.

125th Anniversary Sponsors

The Library thanks the following for their generous sponsorship of the Library's 125th anniversary celebration:
Alvin H. Baum Family Fund
 
Friends of the Highland Park Public Library
 

Whitehall of Deerfield

 

Paint Plus & More, Inc
 

Cari and Michael Sacks
Amy Wang, Quinn & Cailyn Douglas

 

Michael and Gail Brenner & Family  Mark Fine and Kevin, Merrill Lynch -Northbrook 
City of Highland Park Cultural Arts Commission  Trillium Foundation 

 

Media Sponsor 

 

Leah & Les Alexrod / My Kind of Town
Tours and Events
Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management
Complete Cleaning Company, Inc. Keyth Technologies
Ralph and Nancy Mantynband Northern Weathermakers
Fred Orkin Jeffrey & Carol Lazar

 

A History of the Highland Park Public Library

 

View the 1930 Corner Stone Laying Ceremony

 At the July 7, 1887 meeting of the City Council, a number of citizens presented a petition requesting that the council establish and maintain a public library.

Great Events in Library History

Library Staff Celebrates the 125th Anniversary

Library Staff

Decades of Reading

Abraham Lincoln: A History.  John Hay and John G. Nicolay

The Adventures of Sherlock...

Cabbages and Kings.   “O. Henry”

The Call of the Wild.  Jack...

Chicago Poems.  Carl Sandburg

Death in Venice.  Thomas Mann

...

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years.  Carl Sandburg

The Age of Innocence.  ...

American Ballads and Folk Songs.  John and Alan Lomax

And Then There Were None....

All The King’s Men.  Robert Penn Warren

Animal Farm.  George Orwell...

The Adventures of Augie March.  Saul Bellow

Advise and Consent.  Allen Drury...

2001: A Space Odyssey.  Arthur C. Clarke

The Agony and the Ecstasy.  Irving...

1876.  Gore Vidal

All The President’s Men.  Carl Bernstein and Bob...

All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten.  Robert Fulgham

American Journey:...

Alias Grace.  Margaret Atwood

Along Came a Spider.  James Patterson

...

Any Human Heart.  William Boyd

Arthur and George.  Julian Barnes

...

 

1890s

Dickson Experimental Sound Films
Early Edison Company Films

1900s

The Great Train Robbery
Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune)&

1910s

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 
Male and Female
Snow White
The Wonderful Wizard  of Oz

...

 

1887

Berliner, Emile.  "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" (http://hplibrary.org/music-blog/125-years-ago-sound)

1890s

Joplin, Scott. “Maple Leaf Rag”
Sousa, John Philip. “Stars and Stripes Forever”

1900s

Caruso, Enrico. Pagliacci, “Vesti la giubba”
Cohan, George. “Give...

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