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- Date Issued:
- 1986-01-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Linda talks about obtaining two degrees before being hired at Fisher in August 1978. She recalls her first impressions of the plant and talks about her many duties as newsletter editor and photographer. Linda describes an incident when the flash from her camera triggered the fire suppression system in the paint booth.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-11-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Sam tells of being hired in May 1971 and being put on "the worst job" - welding wheelhouses. He tells of transferring to Security seven months later. Sam talks about his duties dealing with strikes, discharges, occasional fights, and describes an industrial accident in 1982 that claimed the lives of three men. He tells about GM outsourcing Security to Pinkerton and his last years before retirement.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-12-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- This is a group of nine newspaper clippings on various topics, collected by Alfred Seymour. Themes include: The murder of Pearl Britten (May 29, 1923). Newspaper title and date not known. Article about "M. Quad" (Charles B. Lewis), long-time Detroit Free Press writer. Detroit Free Press, Sept. 10, 1922, p. 3. Review of James Oliver Curwood's book "The Country Beyond" and Zane Grey's "The Day of the Beast." Detroit Free Press, Sept. 10, 1922, p. 4. Short article on a car accident involving Alfred Seymour's car. Lansing State Journal, Jan. 6, 1922, p. 9. Obituary for Marcia H. Potter. Lansing State Journal, Sept. 5, 1948, p. 4. Short article about O. A. "Rusty" Graves, employee of the Michigan Public Service Commission. Newspaper title and date not known, 1945. Obituary for Louis O. Staelens. Lansing State Journal April 7, 1961. Article about 80th birthday of Mrs. Arthur A. Campbell. Lansing State Journal February 25, 1943. Obituary for Emma L. Campbell. Lansing State Journal December 23, 1943.
- Date Created:
- [1922 TO 1961]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- Car is in front of Capital City Body Works.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Two wood burning locomotives met head on. Two copies. Originally part of the Carl Dalrymple Collection.
- Date Created:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Two views of a wrecked car being towed away following an accident, at the intersection of North Capitol Avenue and West Shiawassee Street. The circa 1890 townhouses located along the south side of the 200 block of West Shiawassee can be seen in the background. Photo b shows a tow truck operator with a jacket labeled Downtown Shell Service. Originally from the Carl Dalrymple collection.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Theresa talks about being born in Lansing and raised in Missouri. She describes being hired in August 1977 after standing in line to submit an application. Theresa discusses working in the Trim Shop, seniority rights, the impact of night shift on family life, friendships in the factory, and a fatal accident.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-03-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Marvin Grinstern talks about his employment at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, MI, from 1965 and 1975. Grinstern describes growing up in Lansing, farming, visiting his father at the plant, as a boy, during the 1937 strike and finally joining his father and other relatives at REO. Grinstern also talks about a fatal accident on the shop floor, managers abusing their position, the REO bankruptcy, the plant closing, and the resulting shock, depression and suicides among workers. Grinstern laments the loss of manufacturing companies and jobs in Lansing and remarks on the great changes that came to factories in the wake of unionization and women in the workplace. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-12-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
