Accession No. RARE.2024.0077: Purchased, 2016 April
[identification of item], Elsie Hiliger Photographs, SPEC.RARE.MMS.0396, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University
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Processed by: David Mezick, 2024 November; Finding aid written by: David Mezick, 2024 November
Elsie Hiliger was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1893. In the 1910s, she moved to Los Angeles, California. Elsie married Ross H. Rook in the 1920s and took his last name. She died in Van Nuys, California in 1969.
The Elsie Hiliger Photographs, dated circa 1905 to circa 1925, contain photographs, most of which are portraits of Elsie Hiliger. Also included are photographs of a sawmill or logging camp in Mount Shasta, California, a portrait of vaudeville performer and ragtime singer Gene Greene, and other unidentified people. All but one of the photographs are pasted to pages from a photograph album.