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- Description:
- An unidentifed Lansing Fire Department staff member seated at the Watchman's Desk in the new Station No. 1. This control desk could receive alarms and code messages, ring warning bells, operate apparatus-floor doors, control traffic signals in congested downtown areas, and other functions. A photograph of the same desk, with a page of text but no indivduals, has also been printed in the booklet "Lansing Fire Department: Dedicated to the Saving of Life and Property" which was published in approximately 1950. The brochure credits George Beak, Communications Division, and Frank Mainville, Press Photographer, for the photographs in the booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Notes:
- Security guard from the McInerney Spring and Wire Company shooting a flare gun over a river.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- An unidentifed Lansing Fire Department staff member seated at the Watchman's Desk in the new Station No. 1. This control desk could receive alarms and code messages, ring warning bells, operate apparatus-floor doors, control traffic signals in congested downtown areas, and other functions. A photograph of the same desk, with a page of text but no indivduals, has also been printed in the booklet "Lansing Fire Department: Dedicated to the Saving of Life and Property" which was published in approximately 1950. The brochure credits George Beak, Communications Division, and Frank Mainville, Press Photographer, for the photographs in the booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Notes:
- Group portrait of patrolmen in uniform with night sticks standing on steps of the old Police Station in 1907. Note on back of photo reads: "1st row: John Quick / Charlie Hunt / David Dunlap / O'Mara / John F. O'Leary / Hickcocks / Randall / 2nd row: Preston W. Porter / John Mackie / George Wells, Jr. / 3rd row: Winfred Jones / Frank L. Curby / Peter Viergever. Dog Watch leaving Police Headquarters 3 pm."
- Date Created:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Portrait of a security guard on the telephone at McInerney Spring and Wire Company.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Portrait of a security guard in uniform from the McInerney Spring and Wire Company.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Security guard from McInerney Spring and Wire Company shooting a flare gun outdoors.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
