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- Description:
- Two boxes of Lansing Civic Players materials, including many playbills, clippings, brochures, ticket stubs, and press kits for "Ladies in Retirement" (1942) and several 1940s performances.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civic Players Collection
- Description:
- A collection of papers from the Lawrence family, who lived in Lansing for many years around the turn of the century, mostly in the 700 block of West Shiawassee Street. The collection contains three boxes of glass plate negatives taken by siblings Albert E. (A.E.L.) and Harriet (Hattie) Lawrence. These glass plate negatives have been separated out into Series 1 (2015-10-005.001) and each individual photograph is cataloged. The remainder of the collection is represented by the container list only, and those items can be seen on request in the library. Other siblings were William W., Ella H., and Frank H. Lawrence. Their father Henry North Lawrence also had a sister named Harriet, for whom his daughter may have been named. Brothers William and Frank kept several ledgers. Frank's seem to be more of an educational practice in record keeping, while William's served as both daily financial accounting and a diary of his thoughts or notes on happenings. The accounting and diary entries are often mixed together on the same page. There are also many theatre programs from all of the early 20th-century theatres around Lansing, most likely collected by William W. Lawrence. Henry North Lawrence was involved in the printing and insurance businesses. In this collection are a number of his business and accounting ledgers, as well as files of documentation from the businesses, especially the Wolverine and Peninsular Mutual Fire Insurance companies for which he served as secretary to the board. He was also the Deputy Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Michigan for some years in the late 19th century. There are several cabinet cards, prints of Albert and Hattie's photographs and from Lansing photography studios, not always identified. The collection also includes calling cards representing a number of important early Lansing families, a catalog of the phonograph records Hattie Lawrence owned, a booklet from the First Presbyterian Church dedicated to the memory of Henry North Lawrence, and a rolled broadsheet printing of "Pioneer Recollections" by James H. Lawrence concerning his move to Branch County, Michigan, in 1835. These materials were originally collected by David Caterino, a library volunteer and local history enthusiast.
- Date Created:
- [1830 TO 1930]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lawrence Family Collection
- Description:
- This collection includes files for each production from the first in 1966 to the final one in 2009. Materials include clippings and performance programs, and photographs. Information below taken from the BoarsHead web site: BoarsHead Theater was a 250-seat Equity/IATSE house in the heart of Lansing, Michigan. Founded in 1966, BoarsHead Theater was Mid-Michigan's only professional resident theater and the state's longest continually running professional theater. Each season the theater produced six Mainstage productions. As an AEA/IATSE company, BoarsHead attracted artists from Chicago, New York, Detroit and around the nation. The Theatre closed in December 2009 and Lansing Community College decided not to pursue a partnership in 2010 that would have kept it functioning.
- Date Created:
- [1966 TO 2009]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- BoarsHead Theatre
- Description:
- A collection of materials gifted by Lille Foster. Includes Voices of Lansing Sesquicentennial booklet, Sunday school song book, 1873 Lansing City Directory, Baird's Opera House and other programs, 1904 Lansing High School catalogue, "Childhood Memories by The Four Farrand Girls", Edith Lille Pattengill 1902 diploma from High School of the City of Lansing, other certificates, and a Town Crier periodical.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lillle Foster
- Description:
- Sign at the State Theatre, East Lansing, advertising a Civilian Defense Show, including showings of "Rings of Steel," "Fighting the Fire Bomb," "Ready on the Home Front," "Any Bonds Today" (sung by Bugs Bunny), and a presentation by East Lansing's Victory Speaker. A 45 minute continous program.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Notes:
- Two men and a woman in costume on a stage. One man appears to be dressed as a hobo or clown. The other man is wearing a tux and appears to be a magician. He is holding a flag with a skull on it.
- Date Created:
- 1949-02-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Two men and a woman in costume on a stage. One man, wearing a tuxedo, appears to be a magician performing a magic trick for the woman. The other man appears to be a clown or hobo and is pulling a cloth out of the magicians tux.
- Date Created:
- 1949-02-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Two students on set
- Date Created:
- 1948-11-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- A man points to a figure on the wall with a cane, a woman stands next to him, posing.
- Date Created:
- 1948-05-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Close up of a man wearing a hat; he is singing or talking.
- Date Created:
- 1948-05-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
