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- Description:
- A small collection of souvenir calendars from Lansing area businesses, primarily the Lansing Ice and Fuel Company. The collector was one of the last two remaining customers of this company, and kept her coal burning furnace operating until about 1970. The calendars are mainly stock photography or art, with a business's address stamped or printed on the exterior. About 50 calendars are included in the collection.
- Date Created:
- [1940 TO 1960]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Maude Wilcox Stolz Calendar Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Three unidentified men in a doorway of the Dodge Block. Bicycles are parked on the sidewalk. F. W. Moore Wood and Coal, Gardner and Robertson Druggists, F. S. Porter Lawyer, J. J. Zimmer, and F. R. Nice Dentist are all visible. The Dodge Block was located at northeast corner of Ottawa Street and Washington Avenue.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- This collection contains six three-ring binders of site evaluation and Limited Commercial Remedial Action Plan (RAP) material created by Soil and Materials Engineers, Inc. (SME) for the Lansing Board of Water and Light, concerning its Ottawa Street Station. The Board of Water and Light operated a coal-fired power generation plant at this six-acre site from the 1930s until 1990, and parts of the site were also used for manufacturing, warehousing, and retail gasoline sales. Addresses containing the site are 330 North Grand Avenue, south to 312 North Grand Avenue, and 209 East Ottawa Street, Section 16, Township 4 North, Range 2 West, Ingham County, Lansing, Michigan. An original study was done for BWL and submitted to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality in 1999. This report represents the sixth revision, published September 29, 2008.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ottawa Street Station Remedial Action Plan
- Description:
- Four views. Photos a and b are of the Board of Water and Light coal storage towers on the east side of the Grand River in North Lansing. Photo c shows the BWL Dye Conditioning Plant on Cedar Street. Photo d is of the dam, pump station, and coal towers in North Lansing.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Located at 310 Franklin (Grand River Avenue). Photo shows Grandpa Reck (second from the right) in the late 1800s (per Helen Reck in April 1995).
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Two views.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Men standing next to three trucks, in front of coal piles, with train tracks in the foreground.
- Date Created:
- 1938-11-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- This collection contains six three-ring binders of site evaluation and Limited Commercial Remedial Action Plan (RAP) material created by Soil and Materials Engineers, Inc. (SME) for the Lansing Board of Water and Light, concerning its Ottawa Street Station. The Board of Water and Light operated a coal-fired power generation plant at this six-acre site from the 1930s until 1990, and parts of the site were also used for manufacturing, warehousing, and retail gasoline sales. Addresses containing the site are 330 North Grand Avenue, south to 312 North Grand Avenue, and 209 East Ottawa Street, Section 16, Township 4 North, Range 2 West, Ingham County, Lansing, Michigan. An original study was done for BWL and submitted to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality in 1999. This report represents the sixth revision, published September 29, 2008.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ottawa Street Station Remedial Action Plan
- Notes:
- View of the RR Crossing from several hundred feet east of Eastern avenue, looking west down the tracks.
- Date Created:
- 1937-09-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
