Books and other texts can link us intellectually to the past but photographs and films of other eras take us into those past moments.  Photographs from 1911 are not exactly rare but they are precious.  Film showing motion was only just becoming more available in 1911 so a film of New York City in that year is a very special resource.  A Swedish documentary film company sought to document the most celebrated sites in the world at that time.  Look here to see its film of a New York street scene in 1911.

There are  no films of Mount Prospect in 1911.  The  town was only just beginning to make a name for itself at that time.  There are some photographs of the people and a business, however.  Go to the Illinois Digital Archives to see children of Louis F. Busse and workers at the Wille Brothers Company in photographs taken around 1911.  The original photographs are in the collection of the Mount Prospect Historical Society.