Highland Park Public Library Exhibit
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Highland Park Public Library Exhibit
Sara Bartels, Eric Newman, Jeanette Hopperton
Highland Park LibraryLibrary established in 1887
In McDonald StoreRoom in the City Hall1905 Carnegie Building was built1930- Carnegie library torn down and new
library builtExisting building is 1930 building with
multiple renovations
HPPL Interesting Facts 1900- 35 books destroyed due to contagion 1918- Library closed for 6 days for coal strike
and 16 days for influenza epidemic 1905 cornerstone from Carnegie building
placed inside 1930 Cornerstone- which cannot be opened until the year 5105 A.D. as specified in the 1905 HPPL News lettter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAT8WWaES78&feature=youtu.be HPPL had 400 reproductions of paintings that
you could borrow with your library card for 6 weeks
Celebrating 125 years Jane Conway, Director of HPPL
contacted CeciliaWanted to showcase rich history of
the HPPL for 125th anniversary 2 events to promote and celebrate
the history of the library
History Room All archives are stored within the
historical room at HPPL Houses history of the library,
Highland park and surrounding counties
Arranged in acid free folders in file cabinets by subject
Dedicated to Jesse Lowe Smith Built by the WPA
What We Did? Assessed the collectionResearched the history of the libraryMarked what we thought would be
interesting for the exhibitCategorized by groupings:
History of the library buildingOperations of the libraryCommunity outreach/ programming
What we still need to do?Create Exhibit placards describing
each objectArrange and highlight objects within
the 6 display cases in the library
What we would have liked to do?Online exhibit of artifacts Scanned and digitized items Had an online/ interactive portion of the
exhibit Highlighted the other interesting artifacts
and documents that the history room houses such as newspaper articles from the day after the Chicago Fire, campaign poster from Lincoln’s presidential election