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- Description:
- The 200 block of South Washington Avenue. Businesses Muir's Drugs, The Cotton Shop, and W. L. Douglas Shoe Co. can be seen in the background.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- This collection consists of two boxes of black and white prints and negatives from the Lansing Board of Water and Light, dating from approximately 1930 to 1968. Most are water damaged and not identified. There are hundreds of 3" x 4" negatives, many of which have been water damaged and emulsion is stuck to paper sleeves or other negatives in the sleeve. Many of the photograph prints are early Polaroid Panchromatic Land Roll film (type 42) and are badly curled. Subjects that have been identified include: Dye Water Conditioning Plant Ottawa Street Power Plant Unidentified homes and other residential/undeveloped areas Machinery and structural details Steam line and water main construction in urban and residential areas Construction of pump stations and other utility facilities Due to the condition of this collection, most materials have not been digitized. Contact the library for more information.
- Date Created:
- [1930 TO 1950]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Board of Water and Light Photographs
- Description:
- Gift of Howell Carnegie District Library.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- This municipal auditorium given to the city by businessman W. K. Prudden, opened in 1916.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- This collection contains two City of Lansing payroll ledgers, one for the Health Department (August 15, 1923 to March 15, 1924), and one for Public Works (December 29, 1920 to April 25, 1923). The Public Works ledger is a typed record organized by check number, listing the name of the employee, the amount of the check, and whether the check was cashed. The pages of the ledger are placed in reverse chronological order. The Health Department has only one completed, two-sided page of records. It lists employee name, check number, amount, and whether the check was cashed. Employees were paid on the 15th and last day of each month in this time period.
- Date Created:
- [1920 TO 1924]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- City of Lansing Payroll Ledgers
- Description:
- Now known as the Capital Area District Library Mason branch. People in photo from left to right: Kent Sagendorph (author) Alla Parke (librarian), Vernon Brown (publisher).
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Sixteen views of the Board of Water and Light Ottawa Street Power Station prior to its sale to Accident Fund in 2007. Photo a shows the east side of the grounds from the top, showing holding pits and rail spur. Photo b shows inside the smokestack. Photo c shows the BWL river fountain, which was removed during the renovation of the Ottawa plant by the Accident Fund. Photo e shows an Otto Ziegler brass plaque. Photo f shows an information board.
- Date Created:
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Likely taken shortly after it opened in 1894. Lansing's City Hall with a large clock tower was built next to it in 1897 and is not yet present here. Gift of Howell Carnegie District Library.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- City Hall is on the left, located on North Capitol Avenue. The Post Office is at right, on the corner with West Michigan Avenue. The view is across the State Capitol grounds.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection