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- Description:
- A snapshot of Billy Sunday standing next to a car.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- From a group of more than 80 letters, telegrams, and other materials from or concerning the International Association of Chiefs of Police and Alfred Seymour's involvement, this is 85 pages of correspondence dating from 1932 to 1940. Seymour was a charter member of the organization and served as its president for a time. While active in the I. A. C. P., he worked to support the appointment of J. Edgar Hoover as Director of the new Federal Bureau of Investigation. Several letters between Hoover and Seymour are part of this correspondence.
- Date Created:
- [1932 TO 1940]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- This is a group of four clippings of special full illustraton pages from the Michigan State Digest. The pages are to do with Lansing, and include a page each on: "Lansing's Guardians of the Peace" (the Lansing Police Department, with portraits of officers and Chief Alfred Seymour at center) Public officials (portraits of city department heads, aldermen, and other municipal leaders) "Varied Industrial Activity" (photographs of ten manufacturing facilities and city utility plants) "Lansing's Welfare Societies" and "The Lansing Life Underwriters Association" (portraits of people active in both of those areas) The Michigan State Digest was an independent newspaper published in Lansing from about 1926 to 1950.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- Chief Alfred Seymour at left, with a large crowd outside a long building with several roof vents. The photograph was taken on October 29, 1916, during evangelist Billy Sunday's "campaign" in Detroit (September 10-November 6, 1916). Sunday likely met Seymour in Detroit, and then asked him to serve as security during his Buffalo, New York, stop in early 1917.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A souvenir photo card of an open topped touring car labeled "P.U.C. 139" with a sign board at the side that reads "At Glen Cove on Pike's Peak." There are eight passengers in the car. The photograph is labeled "K. Killion, Colorado Springs Driver. Policemen Hamburg. Dr. and Mrs. Amos Ogden Taylor, Altoona, Penn., Chief and Mrs. Alfred J. Seymour, Lansing, Mich. June 28, 1928." A second copy of the card reads "Driver J. Killian, Colorado Springs. Schliewen, Hamburg, Germany. Chief and Mrs. Alfred J. Seymour, Lansing Michigan."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A snapshot of evangelist Billy Sunday, Chief Alfred Seymour, and an unidentified man.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- Materials related to the events of the C.I.O. sit-down strikes and the "labor holiday" on June 7th, 1937. The group includes newspaper articles and a personal statement of Chief Seymour handwritten by him and typed with slight revisions. Strikes in Lansing occurred at the REO plant, the Capitol City Wrecking and Lumber Company, with threats of action at other locations in the city. On the "labor holiday" itself, City Hall, the Knapps department store, and many other businesses were closed due to the various threats. A crowd threatened to attack the jail to break out prisoners being held on strike-related charges, and Seymour was not supported by the Mayor, the State Police, the Governor, Prosecutors, or Judges in his attempts to prevent incident, though it was ultimately resolved without bloodshed.
- Date Created:
- 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A group of banquet programs and notes from Lansing Police Department annual banquest, a 1935 Lansing Traffic Club banquet, Chief Seymour's retirement farewell, and other events. Some items are in PDF format and are linked below. The attached files also include photographs of a souvenir cast metal trolley car from the Traffic Club banquet in 1935.
- Date Created:
- [1925 TO 1937]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- This scrapbook contains approximately 100 pages of newspaper clippings collected by Alfred Seymour. The clippings cover a wide variety of topics and people, many of whom appear to have been friends and acquaintances of Chief Seymour from Detroit, Lansing, and elsewhere. Many of the clippings are local obituaries and marriage announcements. There are several loose items in the book, including some receipts for tuition at M.A.C. and membership in women's guilds for Maude Seymour. Due to the item's fragility it has not been digitized in full, only its cover. An index to death notices, obituaries, engagement, marriage, and anniversary announcements found in the scrapbook is linked below. Most announcements do not include a date or newspaper source. Contact the library for more information.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- This is a group of nine newspaper clippings on various topics, collected by Alfred Seymour. Themes include: The murder of Pearl Britten (May 29, 1923). Newspaper title and date not known. Article about "M. Quad" (Charles B. Lewis), long-time Detroit Free Press writer. Detroit Free Press, Sept. 10, 1922, p. 3. Review of James Oliver Curwood's book "The Country Beyond" and Zane Grey's "The Day of the Beast." Detroit Free Press, Sept. 10, 1922, p. 4. Short article on a car accident involving Alfred Seymour's car. Lansing State Journal, Jan. 6, 1922, p. 9. Obituary for Marcia H. Potter. Lansing State Journal, Sept. 5, 1948, p. 4. Short article about O. A. "Rusty" Graves, employee of the Michigan Public Service Commission. Newspaper title and date not known, 1945. Obituary for Louis O. Staelens. Lansing State Journal April 7, 1961. Article about 80th birthday of Mrs. Arthur A. Campbell. Lansing State Journal February 25, 1943. Obituary for Emma L. Campbell. Lansing State Journal December 23, 1943.
- Date Created:
- [1922 TO 1961]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A cabinet card of a Detroit streetcorner scene, showing some men in front of a building and a police officer identified as Lyman W. Blakely.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A formal portrait of Alfred Seymour.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A sepia-tone portrait of Alfred Seymour in a Lansing police uniform.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- Materials related to the International Association of Chiefs of Police annual conventions, and some side activities such as a trip to Havana after a St. Petersburg (Florida) convention, and the International Association of Identification conference. The majority of this group is programs, for the convention sessions themselves, as well as banquet dinners and luncheons, and entertainment provided at the events. There is some related memorabilia from trips and tours such as tickets and brochures. The materials were Seymour's own, and some contain his handwritten notes.
- Date Created:
- [1921 TO 1955]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A group of 13 items (letters, memos, envelopes), mostly correspondence to Chief Alfred Seymour. The group includes a letter from then Vice President Calvin Coolidge thanking him for the police department's assistance when he visited Lansing, and several letters sent to Seymour upon his retirement in 1937.
- Date Created:
- [1922 TO 1937]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A group photograph of uniformed police. Chief Alfred Seymour is seated at the center of the photo (in uniform coat with no brass buttons). The others are not identified.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- This is a group of three newspaper clippings from the Washington Herald (December 12, 1934) concerning the Hotel Kerns fire in Lansing.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- This group of Seymour's personal ephemera items includes: An envelope from Charles F. Rhodes, Chief of Police, Pontiac, Mich. to Alfred Seymour (postmarked 1919). A memorial card from the funeral of Claude E. Cady (Nov. 30, 1953). A memorial card for Julia A. Staelens (d. 1957). A memorial card for Louis O. Staelens (d. April 5, 1961). A note to Seymour with envelope on Suwannee Hotel (St. Petersburg, Fla.) stationery. An anniversary card from a florist shop, to Chief Seymour and family from The Industrial news (March 6, 1925).
- Date Created:
- [1919 TO 1961]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- Left to right: unidentified Lieutenant, Captain O'Brien, and Chief Alfred Seymour. Likely taken outside the old Lansing City Hall or Post Office Annex.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A snapshot of two women on the porch of a small cottage. The photograph is labeled "Cottage E. Blaney Park. State Police Convention. Mrs. Seymour, Mrs. Ball." Two copies.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A snapshot of an elderly Alfred Seymour.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A handwritten, undated list of Chief Seymour's resolutions. The list is written on the back of a page from a 1932 directory of automobile license numbers with owners, addresses, auto model, and engine serial number, most from Flint.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- An unidentified group of men and women with Alfred Seymour (standing in back, fourth from left). The photo is labeled "International Convention of Chiefs of Police at Baltimore, Maryland, 1937. Picture taken in Hotel New Yorker in New York City, 1937."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A panorama photograph of many people outside a revival barn, likely in Buffalo, New York, in 1917. Most of the people have a ribbon pinned to their coats that reads "Good Bye Billy, God Bless You." At the center is Evangelist Billy Sunday (standing, in long coat, holding books and papers), and kneeling to the right of Sunday is Chief Alfred Seymour (in police uniform). Seymour provided security service to Sunday during his revival stop in Buffalo. An example of the ribbons seen in the photos is included in this collection. See record <a href="http://cadl.pastperfectonline.com/archive/2EEA725E-E20D-49E3-BC97-166038720280">2016-02-003.007</a>.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A group of 41 newspaper clippings concerning Alfred Seymour and the Lansing Police Department. Some are "flashback" historical news articles. When known, the newspaper title and date are included in each clipping's file name.
- Date Created:
- [1922 TO 1993]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- "Collier Luncheon to President Peter J. Siccardi, International Association of Chiefs of Police Convention. Ambassador Hotel, Atlantic City, N. J., July 8th, 1935."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A group portrait of several people, mostly men, who are wearing medals, plus a few children. All are standing along the side of a lake. The photograph is labeled "Police Convention Escanaba 1929."
- Date Created:
- 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A snapshot of women carrying an Amerian flag, in front of a truck. The building in the background is the Celibeth Tavern. The photograph is labeled "Police State Convention. Blaney Park Aug 1935. Police Ball Game. Mrs. Marx, Mrs. Norwalk, Mrs. Robinson."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- "Wives of Chiefs, 32nd Annual Convention of International Association of Police Chiefs. Sunken Gardens, Garfield Park, Ind'pls, Ind. July 14, 1925." Some children are also in the photo, as are police officers in uniform and other men in the background with the cars.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A real-photo postcard of Alfred Seymour and another officer, probably from the Buffalo (N. Y.) police.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A snapshot of evangelist Billy Sunday standing outside the entrance to a building.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- Alfred Seymour's Life Member certificate from the International Association of Chiefs of Police, dated March 13, 1945, and an I. A. C. P. membership directory from 1929.
- Date Created:
- [1929 TO 1945]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- Alfred Seymour's annual membership certificates for the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police, for the years 1941, 1942, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, and 1951.
- Date Created:
- [1941 TO 1951]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- There are seven unused sheets (all the same design) in the collection.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- Chief Alfred Seymour and nursing students - the Class of 1920 at Sparrow Hospital. The students are not identified.
- Date Created:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- Alfred Seymour standing beside a REO sedan on Capitol Avenue. The car has a 1934 Michigan license plate "F 30925." City Hall and the post office can be seen in the background. This photo was likely taken during Seymour's retirement.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- An invitation, admission documents, and other items from the January 1933 inauguration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The group includes a March 4, 1933, entry pass for Alfred Seymour, then on duty for the U. S. Bureau of Investigation. The pass is signed by J. Edgar Hoover. The Inauguration Program has only been partially digitized (see image files). For more information, contact the library.
- Date Created:
- [1929 TO 1945]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A group photograph of Detroit police officers in uniform outside a Police Station building. Alfred Seymour is among them, but the individuals are not identified.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A snapshot of an unidentified man standing next to a car.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- "Annual Convention, Police Chiefs, Sheriffs, and Prosecuting Attys, Lansing, Mich., Sept. 20-21-22, 1921." Chief Alfred Seymour is the man at the center front who is not wearing or holding a hat. The others are not identified.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- Alfred Seymour (right) and an unidentified man. The photo is labeled "The two oldest members of the State Police Convention held at Ishpeming, Mich., Aug. 1937." Two copies.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A photograph of two unidentified women being transported in a wicker pedicab or rickshaw, with several others in the background. The photograph is stamped "Photo by Fred Hess & Son, 166 S. Virginia Ave., Atlantic City, N. J." It is possible this photograph was taken during the International Association of Chiefs of Police convention in that was held in Atlantic City in 1935.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A photograph of Alfred Seymour at the front entrance of the Studebaker Corporation's Administration Building, being handed the keys to a "President" model car. This style of photograph was typical for public relations use.
- Date Created:
- 1939-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- "National Police Conference of the United States, New York City, N. Y., May Third to Seventh, 1921."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- An envelope postmarked Bay City, Michigan, July 31, 1919, addressed to Mr. Alfred J. Seymour, 334 Burlingame Ave., Detroit, Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A snapshot of four men in the street near a plan bridge. The photograph is labeled "Police State Convention, Blaney park, August 1935. Don Leonard. Olie Oleander." Blaney Park is in the upper peninsula of Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- An excerpt from an issue of The Policemen's News (Vol. 12 No. 3, October 1920, pp. 20-24, 32-33). The article is "Conducting Police Work in Lansing, Michigan" by T. Carl Sheil.
- Date Created:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- A cabinet card of a Detroit police officer, identified as Berton Giardin.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- This scrapbook contains clippings of poetry by Edgar Guest from unidentified newspapers. Guest was born in England and moved to the United States as a boy. His first poem was published in the Detroit Free Press in 1898, and he was also the only person ever to have been named Poet Laureate for the state of Michigan. He wrote over 11,000 poems during his lifetime. The scrapbook may have been kept by Alfred Seymour's wife Maude. More than 75% of the pages have not been used. Due to the item's fragility it has not been digitized in full, only its cover. Contact the library for more information.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- Programs for the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police annual conferences for the years 1947, 1948, and 1949. Also included is Chief Seymour's report on his attendance at the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Atlantic City (N. J.) in 1935, submitted to the President and members of the MACP.
- Date Created:
- [1935 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection