Exhibits
Several participating libraries have expanded the use of their online digitized records through customized online exhibits featuring images from Digital Past and further information on various topics.

Newest Exhibit:

• Cook Memorial Public Library District's Veterans History Project contains transcripts of interviews with veterans as well as pictures from their time in the service. In conjunction with the Library of Congress, we are interviewing local veterans and preserving their memories of their wartime experiences.
• Cook Memorial Public Library District presents Brides of Yester-Year, featuring 9 vintage wedding dresses from 1875 to 1917. The dresses are displayed in the Ansel B. Cook House, the museum of the Libertyville-Mundelein Historical Society. This exhibit showcases many different views of the dresses as well as the life stories of the brides and their grooms.
• Visit Cook Memorial Public Library District's Meet Me at the Fair exhibit. The Lake County Fair was held at the Libertyville Fairgrounds from 1858 to 1925. Experience the flavor of the fair through vintage post cards from the early 1900s. Watch the horse races, take a spin on a carnival ride, or explore the midway through the eyes of a child.
• Historical postcards illustrate Growing Up In Libertyville In the Thirties and Forties, an online exhibit based on a memoir sent to Cook Memorial Public Library District by former Libertyville residents Murrell and Don Boyd. Enjoy tales from their childhood and youth as they describe small town life in a simpler time.
• Cook Memorial Public Library District , along with the Libertyville-Mundelein Historical Society, has identified over 20 houses that were mail order homes in Libertyville . Pictures and descriptions of the houses are featured, along with images from the catalogs that advertised them. The exhibit also includes information on documenting a mail order house, a bibliography of books on the subject in Cook Library, and a list of related websites for patrons to explore the topic further.
• The Glencoe Public Library, in collaboration with the Glencoe Historical Society, provides access to images of homes designated as historic and/or architecturally significant in the Glencoe area.  Including in the Glencoe Historical and Architectural Survey are homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright including the home pictured at 790 Sheridan Road.  (Currently unavailable)
•  The Lake Forest Academy has digitized some of the academy's historic past.  The first students arrived at Lake Forest Academy in 1858.  In addition to the Academy's Articles and Images of LFA and Ferry Hall History exhibit, you could search DigitalPast to discover that Miss Harlean Harlow Carpenter (later known as Jean Harlow) was accepted to the school in 1926.  Not without controversy, Miss Carpenter refused to wear the traditional oxford shoes in favor of heels.  The digital archives include correspondence between the headmistress and Miss Carpenter's doctor. (Currently unavailable)
• Mount Prospect Public Library has created 3 exhibits featuring Homes & Street Scenes, Schools & Public Library, and Businesses and Business Scenes. (Currently unavailable)
• Park Ridge Public Library has digitized photos from community organizations and residents for their Pieces of Park Ridge collection.
• Park Ridge Public Library has digitized The History of Park Ridge, 1841-1926, written by the Park Ridge Community Church Circle and published in 1926 by Edison Press in Chicago, Illinois. Among the 115 pages are thirty-five illustrations and photographs of early Park Ridge.
• Park Ridge Public Library has digitized A History of Park Ridge, written by Orvis F. Jordan, copyright 1961, is a book that details the early history of Park Ridge through the 1950s.
• Park Ridge Public Library has digitized a collection of 1467 index cards and newspaper articles about local residents in the service which were gathered by the Mel Tierney American Legion Post during World War II
• Skokie Public Library has digitized a collection of newspaper articles, audio recordings, and a memoir about the attempt of the National Socialist Party of America (neo-Nazis) to hold a rally in Skokie, Illinois in 1977 and 1978. The Attempted Nazi March of 1977 and 1978 in Skokie . Also included are articles about the 1982 CBS-television movie Skokie, a "docudrama" about these events starring Danny Kaye. Added in 2002, the Skokie History Digitization Project includes more than 450 photographs, maps, and documents from the Skokie Historical Society. This collection documents the history of Niles Center and Skokie from the early 1800s to the 1990s. Explore the history of the Skokie Fire Department and the Dr. Louise Klehm archive.
• Wilmette Public Library's Children of Wilmette in World War I is their newest web exhibit of their Local History Collection and features pamphlets, pictures and newspaper articles from the World War I era that illustrate how the children of Wilmette contributed to the war effort 1917-1919.
• Wilmette Public Library's new digital exhibit, Letters from the Gold Fields to Wilmette, features images and transcripts of letters written by Wilmette resident, Alexander McDaniel, to his wife while he prospected for gold during the California Gold Rush of 1849.
• Wilmette Public Library's Letters from Soldiers of World War I is now available. During World War I, the Woman's Committee of the Wilmette Guard prepared knitted sweaters, caps, scarves, socks and "wristlets" for military personnel stationed at nearby facilities and also to some units in France. A loose-leaf scrapbook of letters of appreciation to the committee written by World War I servicemen has been digitized and is available, with searchable transcripts. Digital versions of three photographs related to this collection are also in the database.