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- Description:
- A photo album of snapshots (mostly color, some vintage) and a few postcards, showing restored Reo and Diamond Reo fire engines, as well as trucks, lawn mowers, and school buses. Approximately 275 images including about ten 34mm slides, a larger photo print, and correspondence items items in the back pocket of the album. Many of the photographs were taken at vintage-automobile shows; others were exchanged between collectors or purchased from automobile photo dealers. Some have identifying information written on the back sides, or a note with the photo. Locations of the photographs/vehicles are both national and international in nature, not limited to the Lansing area or Michigan. Photographs in this collection have not been digitized.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Reo Fire Engine and Truck Photographs
- Description:
- A customized Olds vehicle used by the Lansing Police Department. The words "Dept. of Public Safety" are printed on the side. The number "116" is visible on the image.
- Date Created:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Cart brought from Japan by Mr. Jack. Elaborately painted 2-wheel cart, filled with ferns and flowers.
- Date Created:
- 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Early open touring car, probably a Ford. (Henry Ford's collection).
- Date Created:
- 1926-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- President Lubbers at Pfeiffer Ford with the Renault Lectric Leopard.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Four AG Store semi trucks parked. "Star Transfer Line" is on the door of the cab.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- A truck photographed in Fulton St. Park. The front end of the pictured conveyance shows an exposed engine block stamped “Frontenac.” Radiator grille, headlamps, and spoke wheels with thin rubber tires ("all weather Goodyear") complete the front end. Two men are sitting in the truck, one in the drivers' seat with his hand on the steering column and the other in the front passenger seat with one leg hanging out the doorless entry. The body of the truck is lettered “The Covered Wagon”. There appear to be two bench seats behind the front seats above which is a canvas roof. Several men and one boy are standing behind the vehicle on the curb.
- Date Created:
- 1927-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- A truck from the 1930s owned by Star Transfer Line, Grand Rapids to Detroit. There's also sign on the side about Interstate Motor Carriers System. Star Transfer Line, 134 Grandville Avenue SW, was owned by the Bylenga family. C. W. Mills Paper Company, 206 Grandville Avenue SW, is visible in the background.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Woman in car and woman standing next to it
- Date Created:
- 1948-09-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Three men with car
- Date Created:
- 1947-10-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
