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- Description:
- "This posed photo was taken at Walter French Junior High School gymnasium soon after it was opened in 1926. The boys and girls did not have gym together. They posed together for the picture." The photograph was taken by Hiram Marple, for R. C. Leavenworth Commercial Photographers. The photograph is numbered #9686. Two copies.
- Date Created:
- 1926-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ford Ceasar Collection
- Description:
- "Machine Shop class with Mr. Kenneth Barnes (upper right), instructor, 1958. Technical High School was organized in 1944 after Sexton High School was opened. It ran until 1960 when separate buildings at each high school were built to house the program."
- Date Created:
- 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ford Ceasar Collection
- Description:
- "Third Ward School was built on South Street in 1876. It was added to in 1892 and was abandoned for school purposes in 1914. In 1963 it was being used by the Christman Company as a store house."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ford Ceasar Collection
- Description:
- "School site bought 1909 - $1,000. 10-room building built 1913 cost $33,500.00. Adjacent lots were purchased 1914 for $800.00. In October 1925 two wings were added - cost $150,000.00. Allen School and Kalamazoo School were the largest schools, each capable of accomodating 6-700 pupils." [From display card with photograph.]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ford Ceasar Collection
- Description:
- Miss Opal Lewton makes the dedication address at the new elementary school named in her honor, 1957.
- Date Created:
- 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ford Ceasar Collection
- Description:
- "Cherry Street School was built in 1894 to replace Ward School Three located on South Street. It was discontinued for classroom use in 1934 and rented for two years. Beginning in 1937 it housed the maintenance department until the department was moved into the old Shaberg-Detrick Hardware building which the school board acquired about 1940. The Cherry building was then remodeled and became offices for an architect firm which still retain it as of 1963."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ford Ceasar Collection
- Date Created:
- [1870 TO 1996]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ford Ceasar Collection
- Description:
- A group photograph of several Lansing Public Schools teachers and employees behind posters showing dividends, assets, membership, and other information about the Teachers' Credit Union, for the years 1949 to 1951. The Credit Union was formed in 1936 or 1937.
- Date Created:
- 1951-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ford Ceasar Collection
- Description:
- Eastern High School band marching in the Oldsmobile Parade, south in front of the Gladmer Theater, October 1960.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ford Ceasar Collection
- Description:
- "One of the first - This two-room frame school, built in 1870 in the 100 block of South Mill Street, cost $3,000. It was the original Larch Street School, preceding the brick structure erected in 1888. Pilgrim Congregational Church used this building for a time, starting in about 1893." According to Aldinger's "History and Growth of the Lansing Public Schools" (Vol. 1), the church bought this building in approximately 1888 or 1889. Then in 1892 the school district rented it back from the church to be used to accomodate its growing demands for the rest of that year.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ford Ceasar Collection
