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- Description:
- A pictorial look at Lansing's history, edited by Hazel P. Proctor. The book is a compilation of reprinted, loaned photographs from private individuals, as well as from area historical collections. Although each photograph has a descriptive caption, there is no source citation with each, or key to specific sources elsewhere in the book. It was published by Great Lakes Federal Savings. Categories in the book include: Maps Views from Above Street Scenes Businesses Services Transportation Residences Schools Churches People Recreation Disasters
- Date Created:
- 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Digitized Books
- Description:
- Cover is missing. Contents: "The City of Lansing" by G. Walter Meade. "Brief Biography of the First Builders of Lansing" by J. E. Warner Pages with photographs and text about several early Lansing businesses, organizations, schools, churches, etc.
- Date Created:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Digitized Books
- Description:
- A small booklet edited and published by Willis Murray, with a handwritten note on the first page: "Printed by a young man, on a 'Toy Press,' Sept. 1890." Later in the booklet a paragraph written by Dr. D. A. Locke of Lansing notes that it was produced under "most trying circumstances" by a young man who had been ill and was trying to support his mother. It consists mostly of local advertising, and about four or five pages of historical essay, with some penciled in annotations.
- Date Created:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Digitized Books
- Description:
- This item is constructed like a photograph album, but it is not known how many copies of it were produced. Handwritten inside the cover is the following: "Presented to Public Library of Lansing, Mich. by Wagenvoord and Co. Bookbinders and Fred J. Wagenvoord, Photographer." The book includes photographs of flooded Lansing, each identified. They are as follows: 1: A view of Lansing (identification not legible due to damage) 2: Washington Avenue North 3: Grand River in North Lansing 4: A view of North Lansing 5: Liederkrantz/Arbeiter Hall 6: Liederkrantz Hall 7: Saginaw Street Bridge 8: A home on Saginaw Street 9: Saginaw Street East 10: Lake Shore Depot 11: Lake Shore Railroad Yards 12: Untitled view 13: Untitled view including Rikerd Lumber Company 14: River Street 15: River Street 16: River Street 17: Main Street East 18: Untitled view High resolution TIF files of each image in the album are available. Contact library staff for more information.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Digitized Books
- Description:
- A history of the railroad line which ran through Ingham, Clinton, Gratiot, and Isabella counties, by Ford Stevens Ceasar.
- Date Created:
- 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Digitized Books
- Description:
- A pictorial look at Lansing's history, edited by Hazel P. Proctor. The book is a compilation of reprinted, loaned photographs from private individuals, as well as from area historical collections. Although each photograph has a descriptive caption, there is no source citation with each, or key to specific sources elsewhere in the book. It was published by Great Lakes Federal Savings. Categories in the book include: Maps Views from Above Street Scenes Businesses Services Transportation Residences Schools Churches People Recreation Disasters
- Date Created:
- 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Digitized Books
- Description:
- This item is constructed like a photograph album, but it is not known how many copies of it were produced. Handwritten inside the cover is the following: "Presented to Public Library of Lansing, Mich. by Wagenvoord and Co. Bookbinders and Fred J. Wagenvoord, Photographer." The book includes photographs of flooded Lansing, each identified. They are as follows: 1: A view of Lansing (identification not legible due to damage) 2: Washington Avenue North 3: Grand River in North Lansing 4: A view of North Lansing 5: Liederkrantz/Arbeiter Hall 6: Liederkrantz Hall 7: Saginaw Street Bridge 8: A home on Saginaw Street 9: Saginaw Street East 10: Lake Shore Depot 11: Lake Shore Railroad Yards 12: Untitled view 13: Untitled view including Rikerd Lumber Company 14: River Street 15: River Street 16: River Street 17: Main Street East 18: Untitled view High resolution TIF files of each image in the album are available. Contact library staff for more information.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Digitized Books
- Description:
- A history of the railroad line which ran through Ingham, Clinton, Gratiot, and Isabella counties, by Ford Stevens Ceasar.
- Date Created:
- 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Digitized Books
- Description:
- A small booklet edited and published by Willis Murray, with a handwritten note on the first page: "Printed by a young man, on a 'Toy Press,' Sept. 1890." Later in the booklet a paragraph written by Dr. D. A. Locke of Lansing notes that it was produced under "most trying circumstances" by a young man who had been ill and was trying to support his mother. It consists mostly of local advertising, and about four or five pages of historical essay, with some penciled in annotations.
- Date Created:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Digitized Books
- Description:
- Cover is missing. Contents: "The City of Lansing" by G. Walter Meade. "Brief Biography of the First Builders of Lansing" by J. E. Warner Pages with photographs and text about several early Lansing businesses, organizations, schools, churches, etc.
- Date Created:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Digitized Books
