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- Description:
- Four undated Christmas cards from J. Edgar Hoover, or his organization J. Edgar Hoover and Associates, to Chief Alfred Seymour.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A snapshot of Alfred Seymour outdoors, sitting in a chair, with some other unidentified men around him. On the back of the photograph: "Police Dep't, guests of Judge Wiest. August 1937." Judge Howard Wiest and his family owned the Shagbark estate in Williamston and held annual ox roasts and other events on the property.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A souvenir photo card of an open topped touring car labeled "P.U.C. 139" with a sign board at the side that reads "At Glen Cove on Pike's Peak." There are eight passengers in the car. The photograph is labeled "K. Killion, Colorado Springs Driver. Policemen Hamburg. Dr. and Mrs. Amos Ogden Taylor, Altoona, Penn., Chief and Mrs. Alfred J. Seymour, Lansing, Mich. June 28, 1928." A second copy of the card reads "Driver J. Killian, Colorado Springs. Schliewen, Hamburg, Germany. Chief and Mrs. Alfred J. Seymour, Lansing Michigan."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- Chief Alfred Seymour at left, with a large crowd outside a long building with several roof vents. The photograph was taken on October 29, 1916, during evangelist Billy Sunday's "campaign" in Detroit (September 10-November 6, 1916). Sunday likely met Seymour in Detroit, and then asked him to serve as security during his Buffalo, New York, stop in early 1917.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A snapshot of Billy Sunday standing next to a car.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- From a group of more than 80 letters, telegrams, and other materials from or concerning the International Association of Chiefs of Police and Alfred Seymour's involvement, this is five excerpts from police publications that have to do with Seymour and the I. A. C. P. Included are: A portrait of Seymour and an article on the 40th anniversary convention of the I. A. C. P. in "National Police Officer," August 1933. An article about the 46th anniversary of the I. A. C. P. in "Police Chiefs' Newsletter" vol. v no. 9, September 1938. An article about the 50th anniversary of the I. A. C. P. and the group's second "war conference" in "Police Chiefs' Newsletter" vol. x no. 7-8-9, July-August-September 1943. A cover article on Chief Seymour in "Police Chiefs' News," September 1951. A notice of Seymour's death in "Police Chief" vol. 20 no. 7, July 1953.
- Date Created:
- [1933 TO 1953]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A group photograph of uniformed police with evangelist Billy Sunday. Alfred Seymour is seated to the right of the man holding a white hat. The others are not identified.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- Alfred Seymour's Life Member certificate from the International Association of Chiefs of Police, dated March 13, 1945, and an I. A. C. P. membership directory from 1929.
- Date Created:
- [1929 TO 1945]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- Two pages of song lyrics, for an untitled song sung to the tune of "Since Jesus Came Into My Heart" (with "Since Billy came into Detroit" instead), and an altered version of "Just Before the Battle, Mother."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- This scrapbook contains clippings of poetry by Edgar Guest from unidentified newspapers. Guest was born in England and moved to the United States as a boy. His first poem was published in the Detroit Free Press in 1898, and he was also the only person ever to have been named Poet Laureate for the state of Michigan. He wrote over 11,000 poems during his lifetime. The scrapbook may have been kept by Alfred Seymour's wife Maude. More than 75% of the pages have not been used. Due to the item's fragility it has not been digitized in full, only its cover. Contact the library for more information.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
