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- Description:
- Modern air raid shelter in the home of Lynn G. Kellogg, 741 Cleo Street, Lansing, Mich. Leonard Crispin, Air Raid Warden. Captain Charles Decker assisting. From No. 1 Fire Station.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- A man with a fire extinguisher. On back of photograph: "Hillcrest Village Chief Fire Warden Mr. Wisner." There are several Wisners in the Lansing city directories in the 1940s.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- This collection consists of approximately 320 photographs from Lansing Civilian Defense preparedness activities, circa 1942 to 1944. Subjects include training and preparation for air raids, bombing, and blackouts; fundraising and recycling; Red Cross and medical preparation; communications including homing pigeons; public safety, police, and fire; vocational education; the draft; parades; and other related activities. The Civilian Defense Control Center was located in the old City Hall on the northeast corner of Capitol and Ottawa avenues. A poster showing all of the official United States Civilian Defense insignia can be seen <a href="https://images.northwestern.edu/multiresimages/inu:dil-23949900-48cb-43a0-9255-1788e52211ac">here</a>.
- Date Created:
- [1942 TO 1944]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Five unidentified men, some with the Auxiliary Firemen insignia on their arm bands, at a fire hydrant with a hose. The back reads "Learning how to disconnect hose after Auxiliary Firemen have finished practice at School for Blind."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- A class of women with a male instructor, looking at machine parts and a blueprint, at Eastern High School.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Hose, shovels, fire extinguishers, stretchers, and other air raid preparations in a basement.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Children give tin cans for theatre tickets at the Gladmer Theater. The cans were to be recycled for the war effort.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Five unidentified men in an office, four seated and one standing.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Air raid staff and volunteers, July 1943. Left to right: James R. Davis, Coordinator of Ingham County and Lansing Defense Council; Mrs. J. S. Bateman, Secretary to the Coordinator; Mrs. Durward Robson, Director of the Civilian Defense Volunteer Organization; Mrs. Bernice Cook, volunteer; Mrs. Edna Reese, volunteer.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- On back of photo: "V. F. W. Hall. Chaplin - Carpenter. Captain, Sam Fisher. Apelgate, Judge Louis E. Coash, W. E. Rouse. Fire Chief Paul Lefke."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
