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- Description:
- Photo of Jasper C. Davis, Lansing. City Engineer of Lansing. Worked for Union Pacific at Denver, CO; Green Cananea Consolidated Mining Co. of Cananea, Mexico. Graduate of University of Michigan, 1895. Active in Masonic Lodge, Lansing, Chapter 9 and the Lansing boat club. Graduated Lansing High School. Lived on Seymour Street.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo of Willard Freeman Hopkins, Lansing. Graduate of Michigan State College. Employed in Ben Davis' bank. A vice president of the Chicago Trust Co. Sister is Bessie Hopkins. They came from Kalamazoo. Attended Boat Club parties on No. Washington Ave. A young father in 1900. Died in Chicago, IL.
- Date Created:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo of three chiefs of the Lansing Fire Department. From left, Tom Wescott, Alex Cline, and Ned Burton or Mr. Bonner. Chief Wescott was one of the founders of the Lansing Fire Department in 1857, elected "chief engineer" June 17, 1872; also a charter member of the Grand River Boat Club in the same year.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Sam B. Taylor, Charles A. Towne, George C. Cooper, and M. J. Buck in a boat on a horse-drawn trailer. The boat is labeled "G.R.B.C." for Grand River Boat Club. Originally part of the Carl Dalrymple Collection.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- The Lansing Boat Club, founded in the 1870s, had its headquarters on Pine Lake. The clubhouse was built on piles driven in the lake bottom, near the southwest shore. The above picture, taken in 1890, shows an interior room. Two copies. Originally part of the Carl Dalrymple Collection.
- Date Created:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Notes:
- First O-Wash-Ta-Nong Club House at Reeds Lake, erected 1886. Was located at North end of what is now John Collins Park. Photo circa 1888.
- Date Created:
- 1888-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- Photo of Jasper C. Davis, Lansing. City Engineer of Lansing. Worked for Union Pacific at Denver, CO; Green Cananea Consolidated Mining Co. of Cananea, Mexico. Graduate of University of Michigan, 1895. Active in Masonic Lodge, Lansing, Chapter 9 and the Lansing boat club. Graduated Lansing High School. Lived on Seymour Street.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- This view shows Miller's Landing at Reed's Lake. The pavilion can be seen in the background. Row boats are upside down on saw horses. Two dogs stand on the dock with a man. A boy sits on the dock in the foreground. Ca. 1880.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- This view shows the O-Wash-Ta-Nong Boat Club at Reed's Lake. A hitching rail is featured in the front. A young girl and a man are standing at the rail new the fence entrance to the club. Two men are standing on the porch of the club and someone is walking towards the entrance.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
