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- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A parade on a dirt road, sometime in the late 19th or early 20th century. In this photograph two white heavily decorated horses pull a decorated carriage with an unidentified driver and a female passenger with a parasol.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- The Kent County Sheriff's Posse, seventeen mounted sheriffs, in the Lansing Centennial Parade of Transportation on East Michigan Avenue. Several troups of mounted police from around the state participated in the parade. Altman's Mens Store, the Esquire Theater, Murton Opticians, Jim's Cocktail Bar, Lansing Cafe, and Mattison's Jewelry are all visible in the background. Originally part of the Carl Dalrymple Collection.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- According to Hazel Proctor's book "Old Lansing Town" (p. 52), this photograph shows the first horse-drawn streetcars in Lansing. The intersection is Michigan and Washington avenues, looking toward the City National Bank.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Luther Baker captured John Wilkes Booth with Buckskin, and rode this horse in various military events in the 1860s. This photograph was taken by Cheney and Christmas of Lansing, in front of the State Capitol.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Four unidentified men in a field, with a horsedrawn wagon full of soil. Some of the men are holding shovels. Gift of Janice Bedford Nagele.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Two views. Photo a shows the Jenison building which housed the S. H. Knox & Co. 5 & 10 Cent Store, which was listed at 121-123 North Washington Avenue in the 1910 Lansing city directory. Gift of Leona Galvin Giles.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Children and adults on a horse-drawn wagon in an unidentified parade. The cabin has a sign on the side "In the 40s" noting that the scene of the float is 1840s pioneer life. The street is paved with brick.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- This series includes many forms of transportation in Lansing and Ingham County, Michigan: air travel, automobile, boat, horsedrawn, and streetcar railroads.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
