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Special Elgin Maroon Yearbook Sale! $10.00 Limited Time Offer! We are offering for sale a limited number of old Elgin High School (Elgin Maroons) yearbooks. These are duplicates already represented in our collection and the funds generated from their sale will be used for additional Museum acquisitions. These historical yearbooks are being offered in the Museum Store on a first-come, first served basis. There are only a few copies available for each year listed, so come in now to get the edition you want! These make great gifts for your Elgin relatives and are valuable just for the old pictures! Only $10 each! The Museum Store is open during Museum hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 12:00–4:00 PM Yearbooks available:
Museum Store The museum has a newly remodeled gift store and orientation center! We offer many books about Elgin, written by local authors such as E.C. Alft and William Briska. The nationally distributed video, Circle of Time, the story of the Elgin Watch Factory, produced by the Society and Grindstone Productions in 2002, is also available. Many of the store items - ornaments, T-shirts, jewelry, and reproduction miniature windmill - are exclusively sold at Old Main. We now accept Mastercard and Visa for purchases over $20. For security reasons please do not send your credit card number if ordering by mail, please call the Museum and order over the phone instead. Stop in at the Museum to see the full selection of merchandise, including T-shirts, mugs, posters, and books. The store also has children's items and interesting gifts with a historical theme. Some of the items we offer are featured below. You can order these items by sending a check or money order payable to Elgin Area Historical Society. Prices shown include shipping and handling. These items make great gifts for history buffs. The Society's book about the Elgin National Watch Company is the only book-length history of the company. New for this holiday season are Elgin-themed earthenware bird feeders and locally-made crockery. Stop in and do some shopping!
Books and Videos Available for Purchase 
New books offered in the store! There Used To Be Volume I and Volume II are the latest books on local history published by the Elgin Area Historical Society. Author Steve Stroud researched and compiled hundreds of photos of Elgin's old houses - some still standing and others that have vanished from the Elgin landscape. Many of these photos have been unseen for decades. Others were reproduced from glass plate negatives in the Museum's collection and some have never been published. Both volumes of There Used To Be feature a range of homes from high-style mansions to worker's cottages. We have the second edition of the book Elgin Time: A History of the Elgin National Watch Company, 1864 to 1968 by E. C. Mike Alft and Bill Briska. This limited edition, 120 page hard cover book is the world's only book-length history of the company. The Society's books can be purchased by mail, in the Museum Store, or at the following locations.
To order by mail, print this page and send it to the Elgin Area Historical Society, 360 Park St., Elgin IL 60120 along with your check made payable to the Elgin Area Historical Society. Be sure to include your shipping address! Society members receive a 10% discount on all Museum Store purchases. Mail Order Pricing for Books, Non-Members (members deduct 10%)
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