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- Description:
- Several unidentified men and a horse and buggy in front of a wood-frame building with the name H. P. French across the awning, possibly in Charlotte, Mich. According to the 1907-1908 Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory, an H. P. French operated a "Coin Controlled Machine Company" in Charlotte. The same H. P. French was likely the operator of Waverly Park near Lansing in about 1912.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Two horse-drawn carriages stopped on an iron bridge, probably in Charlotte, Michigan. The bridge has a sign with the year 1886. A man is sitting up on one of the trusses.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ellison Glass Negative Collection
- Description:
- The Birt Darling Collection includes mainly what appear to be research notes for various historical articles he was working on. Subjects represented include family history (Kedzie, Seymour, Shaull), aviation (Ivan Driggs), properties (Burcham), regional history (Charlotte), archaeology, and correspondence on miscellaneous topics. There is also a typed manuscript entitled "An Account of the Capture of J. Wilkes Booth, the Assassin of Abraham Lincoln, written by Lieutenant L. C. Baker who had charge of the party which made the capture." (penciled in "should read Luther Byron Baker"), and a radio script from 1946 entitled "North Lansing Against the World." Birt Darling was a freelance writer and an editor for the Lansing State Journal for about 40 years, authored "City in the Forest", and was a leader in archaeology initiatives in Michigan.
- Date Created:
- [1927 TO 1965]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Birt Darling Collection
- Date Created:
- [1870 TO 1996]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ford Ceasar Collection
- Date Created:
- [1870 TO 1996]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ford Ceasar Collection
- Description:
- The Birt Darling Collection includes mainly what appear to be research notes for various historical articles he was working on. Subjects represented include family history (Kedzie, Seymour, Shaull), aviation (Ivan Driggs), properties (Burcham), regional history (Charlotte), archaeology, and correspondence on miscellaneous topics. There is also a typed manuscript entitled "An Account of the Capture of J. Wilkes Booth, the Assassin of Abraham Lincoln, written by Lieutenant L. C. Baker who had charge of the party which made the capture." (penciled in "should read Luther Byron Baker"), and a radio script from 1946 entitled "North Lansing Against the World." Birt Darling was a freelance writer and an editor for the Lansing State Journal for about 40 years, authored "City in the Forest", and was a leader in archaeology initiatives in Michigan.
- Date Created:
- [1927 TO 1965]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Birt Darling Collection
- Description:
- Two horse-drawn carriages stopped on an iron bridge, probably in Charlotte, Michigan. The bridge has a sign with the year 1886. A man is sitting up on one of the trusses.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ellison Glass Negative Collection
- Description:
- Several unidentified men and a horse and buggy in front of a wood-frame building with the name H. P. French across the awning, possibly in Charlotte, Mich. According to the 1907-1908 Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory, an H. P. French operated a "Coin Controlled Machine Company" in Charlotte. The same H. P. French was likely the operator of Waverly Park near Lansing in about 1912.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
