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- Description:
- A memo to Mr. E. A. Meyer from a manager of the Michigan Branch of Olds Motor Works regarding payroll for employee Thomas Watkins of Bement Street in Lansing. Includes a payroll rate card and an office release slip for Watkins.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- A memo to D. S. Eddins, Lansing, from G. W. Craig, Minneapolis, regarding new employee Minor J. McGuan.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- This small collection, created by Blanche Mabel Wood (October 4, 1882 - May 15, 1966), includes newspaper clippings about her, Mary L. "Minnie" Sherman, and John and Charlotte Broad. The Broads owned a home at 424 North Cedar Street in Lansing. Minnie was Charlotte's daughter from a first marriage. Mabel's mother died when she was five, and her father brought her to the home of the Broads, who were his distant cousins. Mabel graduated from high school in Lansing and also attended Olivet College. She was a teacher in the Lansing schools until 1949. The collection includes her correspondence with Minnie and others; samples of her poetry and other writing; clippings about her and the family she lived with; small notebooks from Minnie's club involvements in Lansing; and other biographical information.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Mabel Wood Collection
- Description:
- Correspondence between Emory Whipple Olds (R. E. Olds' brother) regarding accounts. Blue imprint Curved Dash Oldsmobile image from Milwaukee.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- A letter from Stanley DePree, Army Services Forces, Detroit Ordnance District, to Olds Motor Works. The letter is in regards to employment history of Mrs. Sophie Siwek (formerly Miss Sophie Stampski).
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- A memo to H. S. Weir, Lansing, from E. F. Glenny, New York, regarding wage rate changes for J. S. Tuxbury (Salesman) and William Offerman (Shop Foreman).
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- Letter regarding REO the Fifth production costs. Letterhead has REO factory image with company name in car headlight.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- This collection contains personal and business documents, photographs, and artifacts of Ransom Eli Olds (1864-1950). The materials resulted from a relationship established between RE Olds Anderson (the grandson of Ransom Eli Olds) and B. L. "Bill" Porterfield that began in 1998. At that time, Mr. Porterfield was seeking funding for an Oldsmobile/GM Heritage Center. Subsequently, they collaborated on a book based on Mr. Anderson's life experiences and his relationship with his grandfather. In one meeting, Mr. Anderson invited Mr. Porterfield to go through some file cabinets and storage boxes found in Ransom Eli Olds' office after he passed away in 1950. The materials had been moved from Olds' personal office on the tenth floor of the Olds Tower (later renamed Boji Tower), to the Ransom Fidelity Company office on the seventh floor. The materials that Olds had kept stored in his office were the last known cache of documents, photographs, and artifacts pertaining to Ransom Eli Olds, the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, the Olds Motor Works, REO, and several other companies formed by him. Mr. Porterfield wrote, "Most of the materials looked like they had been hastily boxed up with little organization or protection." Mr. Anderson allowed Mr. Porterfield to remove the materials from his office in order to sort, organize, and research them for possible inclusion in a second book based on the materials. Mr. Anderson granted Mr. Porterfield ownership of a small portion of the materials in return for his time and expenses. The remainder were returned to Mr. Anderson's family. Mr. Porterfield donated some of what he received to the Forest Parke Library and Archives to form this collection. The remainder were donated to the RE Olds Transportation Museum.
- Date Created:
- [1892 TO 1952]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- A letter to A. Sandberg, Office and Budget Manager, Oldsmobile, from A. C. Baird, Resident Comptroller, Chevrolet-Atlanta. The letter is in regard to a payroll record for John C. Peek.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- This is an artificial collection of materials associated with a young woman named June Wood who lived on Lansing's East Side. They were found when a later owner was doing interior renovation, inside the ceiling of a home on Fairview Street in 2018. Because of where they were stored for many years, the documents are covered in coal dust. Most dated materials are from the 1930s. The collection includes correspondence of June's, and what appears to be a government class notebook or scrapbook. School grade cards for both June and her brother Theodore are also included. June Florence Wood was born in Lansing on June 24, 1920, to Florence and Herbert Wood. She had several siblings. On December 20, 1940, she married Robert Claxton Robinson, who was from New Jersey. He joined the Army and they relocated to Hawaii, among other locations. June Wood Robinson died on January 8, 1998, and is buried in the Massachusetts National Cemetery with her husband who died in 2017.
- Date Created:
- [1932 TO 1937]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- June Wood Robinson Collection
