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- Description:
- Defense officials on top of Olds Tower watching city response to surprise blackout. Seven men are in the photograph, all unidentified.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- A group of unidentified men during a blackout. One wears a shirt with "Rhodes Drayage" (a Lansing moving company) on the back, and another has the Auxiliary Firemen civil defense insignia on his arm band.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Flash-shot of the the Hatbox Store, 335 S. Washington Ave., Lansing, Mich., as the street lights were turned on following the blackout of August 12, 1942.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Five unidentified men with Auxiliary Firemen insignia arm bands, at a fire hydrant with a hose. On back of photograph: "Fire unit at first surprise blackout, Lansing."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- This collection consists of approximately 320 photographs from Lansing Civilian Defense preparedness activities, circa 1942 to 1944. Subjects include training and preparation for air raids, bombing, and blackouts; fundraising and recycling; Red Cross and medical preparation; communications including homing pigeons; public safety, police, and fire; vocational education; the draft; parades; and other related activities. The Civilian Defense Control Center was located in the old City Hall on the northeast corner of Capitol and Ottawa avenues. A poster showing all of the official United States Civilian Defense insignia can be seen <a href="https://images.northwestern.edu/multiresimages/inu:dil-23949900-48cb-43a0-9255-1788e52211ac">here</a>.
- Date Created:
- [1942 TO 1944]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Mayor Sam Street Hughes at a table with microphones during a WJIM radio broadcast, Lansing, Mich.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Lights burning in the Hatbox Store, 335 S. Washington Ave., Lansing, Mich., during a blackout on August 12, 1942.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Lights burning in the Hatbox Store display windows, 335 S. Washington Ave., Lansing, Mich., during a blackout on August 12, 1942.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Back of photo reads: "Emergency Ambulance and Nurses Taken during Blackout Test Incident, Corner Clippert Street and East Kalamazoo Street, August 12, 1942."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- A group of unidentified men involved in a blackout incident.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
