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- Description:
- A letter to A. Sandberg, Olds Motor Works, from H. M. Switzer, Paymaster, United Motors Service Inc., concerning employee records for Melvin J. Deer.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- This collection was created by John Sherwood Bennett. He was born on October 18, 1848 in London, England. He arrived in the U.S. by port of New Orleans on November 28, 1853 at age 5. He died on July 25, 1929 in Lansing, MI. John married Sarah in 1873 who was born in 1853 in England and died in 1923. He is buried at Mt. Hope cemetery and was mayor of Lansing from 1908-1911. The collection contains bankbooks, advertisements, correspondence, ledgers, masonic materials, photographs, poems, and receipts.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- John S. Bennett Collection
- Description:
- A collection of scrapbooks from J.H. Moores. Contains a scrapbook of advertisements and newspaper clippings related to J.H. Moores various business ventures, including fruit and vegetable marketing, real estate, and lumber. Also contains newspaper clippings regarding the death of the Moores' daughter, Josephine Moores West in 1900. One scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, letters to J.H. Moores about a testimonial banquet at the Masonic Temple in 1910 by the Lansing Business Men's Association. Also includes newspaper clippings on L.H. Field, William McPherson Jr., and W.K. Prudden as well as Lansing State Savings Bank advertisements. J.H. Moores served as President of Lansing's Business Men's Organization in 1913.
- Date Created:
- [1866 TO 1917]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- J.H. Moores Collection
- Description:
- A memo to A. Sandberg, Lansing, Michigan, from G. H. Smith, Philadelphia Zone, regarding the personnel record of William H. Roth.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- A memo to D. S. Eddins, General Sales Manager, Lansing, to J. H. East, Branch Manager, Washington, D. C., regarding a pay change for a Mr. McGuan of the Washington branch.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- A handwritten list of what appears to be automotive parts, sent on an internal memo form to E. C. Burke.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- Regarding stockholders' meeting. Olds Motor Works letterhead with factory vignettes and Curved Dash Olds image
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- This is a small collection of mostly photographs and some correspondence belonging to Helena (Lena) Noch. She and her parents John and Augusta, and younger brother Paul, immigrated from Germany in 1889 when she was about six or seven years old. Her father worked at the R. G. Grammel company as a harness maker, and also at some of the automotive-related industries in the Lansing area. Paul also worked for Grammel, and was employed by the Olds Motor Works. They lived in North Lansing at 1316 Center Street. Information about their deaths, whether Helena or her brother were married, or other personal information is not known other than that her father, John Noch, is buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Sometimes their name is spelled Nock. The photographs are not identified but the same people appear in several of them. Some were taken in various German cities. These date from about 1880 to 1930. Correspondence in this collection consists mainly of postcards sent to Helena with brief reminders about social events and personal news from a woman named Mary G. (dated 1938-1949). There is also a letter to Paul Noch concerning a treatment he underwent at the Bernarr Macfadden Healthatorium in Chicago, Illinois, dated 1911.
- Date Created:
- [1880 TO 1943]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Helena Noch Collection
- Description:
- A typed resignation letter from D. Kenneth Laub to S. E. Skinner, General Manager of the Olds Motor Works.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson 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
