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- Description:
- Located at the east end of Allegan St.
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- Engine House Number 2 with firefighters and wagon in front. Was located at 1128 North Washington Avenue from about 1890 to 1962, known as the North End station. Three copies.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Lansing Fire Department at 112 East Allegan Street where Capital Savings and Loan building would stand in 1960 with City Hall on the floor above. Fire fighters and engines are in front.
- Date Created:
- 1895-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A photograph of Chief Hugh F. Fisher and his wife Gertrude in front of one of two John Bean high pressure fog trucks used by the Lansing Fire Department. The truck is parked inside on the apparatus floor of Station No. 1 and surrounded by many floral arrangements. A photograph of a similar fog truck with information about the trucks has also been printed in the booklet "Lansing Fire Department: Dedicated to the Saving of Life and Property" which was published in approximately 1950. The brochure credits George Beak, Communications Division, and Frank Mainville, Press Photographer, for the photographs in the booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- Four unidentified Lansing fire fighters standing in front of the No. 3 65-foot hydraulic aerial ladder truck. The building it is parked near is also not identified. Snow is visible in the foreground. A photograph of the same truck, in front of the old Central Fire Station and without indivduals, also been printed in the booklet "Lansing Fire Department: Dedicated to the Saving of Life and Property" which was published in approximately 1950. The brochure credits George Beak, Communications Division, and Frank Mainville, Press Photographer, for the photographs in the booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- Engine House Number 2 at 1128 North Washington Avenue (circa 1890 to 1962). Fire firefighters and wagon in front. North End Fire Department. This photograph appears in "Pictorial Souvenir Book of the Police and Fire Departments, Lansing, Michigan" (1913) by Harry Wilkinson.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photograph of the Central Fire Station and some of the equipment in 1925, Lansing. At left is the first old hand pumper used to extinquish fires in Lansing, purchased in 1858. It was later sold to the City of Cheyboygan, Michigan. Then purchased for the sum of $45 by J.P. Edmonds who presented it to the museum of Michigan Historical Society. It was stored in the Turner Building on North Turner Street.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo of first self-propelled (automobile pumper) fire engine, October, 1908, Lansing. Chassis built in the Olds Motor Works in Lansing and shipped to the Webb Pumper Company in St. Louis, Missouri for installation of pumper equipment. This was the first instance of a motor vehicle being used as a water pumper for a fire department. J. P. Edmonds was, at that time, serving in the police and fire department which purchased this vehicle at a cost of $6,000. This pumper was given its first real test at the Downey House fire in 1912. Representatives of fire departments from cities all over the United States came to Lansing to see it in operation on test cases.
- Date Created:
- [1908 TO 1910]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo of the Central Fire Station, Lansing, and some firefighting vehicles. The hand fire engine was purchased in 1858. The first auto pumper, middle, purchased in 1908. The Seagrave, right, purchased in 1925. Officials in the photo were part of the "old" Fire Board from 1908: J.P. Edmonds, L.E. Imes, Ed Smith, John Bohnet, and Hugo Delfs, Chief.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Located at 1305 S Cedar.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- One of the Lansing Fire Department pump engines on a hydraulic lift in the new Station No. 1 machine shop. This print has adhesive and moisture damage. Similar photographs appear in the booklet "Lansing Fire Department: Dedicated to the Saving of Life and Property" which was published in approximately 1950. The brochure credits George Beak, Communications Division, and Frank Mainville, Press Photographer, for the photographs in the booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- This is a group of digital of photographs scanned from an album owned by the Lansing Fire Department in its historical collection. These photographs primarily document the construction and opening of Station No. 1 (now Station 42, the "Big House") at 120 East Shiawassee Street in downtown Lansing, from 1948 to 1949. The station was dedicated in 1949. The photo album also contains some older historical photographs, many undated, which have been included here. The people in the photographs have not been identified. The original photographs are 8" x 10" black and white prints, several with moisture, mold, or glue damage. A few have been hand tinted. They were all scanned in color. The Forest Parke Library and Archives at CADL is grateful to the Lansing Fire Department for allowing us to share these photographs. If you are interested in accessing the originals, please contact the Fire Department directly.
- Date Created:
- [1908 TO 1951]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- An unidentified man stands near the horse harnesses attached to an early Lansing Fire Department pump wagon.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A hand-tinted photograph of two pumping engines with hoses set up to spray water into a lake or river. Some unidentified men are in the photograph. The two engines are seen from a different angle in photograph LFD-F09.002. The photographer and location are not identified.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- 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 photograph of the Lansing Fire Department on Allegan between Grand and Washington streets. Along the street is Bidwell Threshers, the Central Fire Station, Charles Smith & Son Saloon, and Queen's Lunch Counter. One of the wagons is labeled Chemical No. 1. There is mostly illegible pencil writing on the front of the photo's mount that includes "Chief Delfs" - Hugo Delfs was the fire chief at the time of the photograph. The front of the photograph is stamped F. J. Christopher, 1142 S. Washington Ave., Lansing. On the back is "Amateur Photo by Edward Abbey, Lansing, Mich." This photograph appears on page 88 in J. P. Edmonds' book Early Lansing History.
- Date Created:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ford Ceasar Collection
- Description:
- Auto Fire Engine, Chief's Car, Auto Chemical Engine. The Central Fire Station was located at the east end of Allegan St.
- Date Created:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- A Lansing Fire Department water pump wagon.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A view of the apparatus floor of the new Station No. 1. In the foreground is one of the First Aid cars. Ladder trucks and pump engines can also be seen. This photograph appears in the booklet "Lansing Fire Department: Dedicated to the Saving of Life and Property" which was published in approximately 1950. The brochure credits George Beak, Communications Division, and Frank Mainville, Press Photographer, for the photographs in the booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- A photograph of one of two John Bean high pressure fog trucks used by the Lansing Fire Department, parked inside on the apparatus floor of Station No. 1. The truck is surrounded by many floral arrangements, and two uniformed men are in the photograph. The man on the right is likely Chief Hugh F. Fisher. A photograph of a similar fog truck with information about the trucks has also been printed in the booklet "Lansing Fire Department: Dedicated to the Saving of Life and Property" which was published in approximately 1950. The brochure credits George Beak, Communications Division, and Frank Mainville, Press Photographer, for the photographs in the booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- A hand-tinted photograph of one of two John Bean high pressure fog trucks used by the Lansing Fire Department, parked inside on the apparatus floor of Station No. 1. The truck is surrounded by many floral arrangements. This photograph was likely taken in November, 1949, around the time of the station's dedication. A photograph of a similar fog truck with information about the trucks has also been printed in the booklet "Lansing Fire Department: Dedicated to the Saving of Life and Property" which was published in approximately 1950. The brochure credits George Beak, Communications Division, and Frank Mainville, Press Photographer, for the photographs in the booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- A photograph of two pumping engines with hoses set up to spray water into a lake or river. The two engines are seen from a different angle in photograph LFD-F09.001. The photographer and location are not identified.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- Lansing Fire Department Number 4 at 230 Bingham Street. East Side Fire Department with fire fighters and vehicles in front. This photograph appears in "Pictorial Souvenir Book of the Police and Fire Departments, Lansing, Michigan" (1913) by Harry Wilkinson.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo shows vehicle labeled "Fog Fire Fighter" in a parade at E. Ottawa Street and Washington Avenue, Lansing (Mich.). The door of the truck is also marked "John Bean Mfg. Co." The Senate Grill restaurant can be seen in the corner building at left.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Lansing Fire Department Number 3 at 630 West Hillsdale Street. West Side Fire Department with fire fighters and vehicles in front. This photograph appears in "Pictorial Souvenir Book of the Police and Fire Departments, Lansing, Michigan" (1913) by Harry Wilkinson.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Lansing Fire Department in front of Number 1 Station on East Side of Allegan Street where Capital Savings and Loan building would stand in 1960. Fire fighters and engines are in front. Image has been partially hand tinted. Originally part of the Carl Dalrymple Collection.
- Date Created:
- 1905-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A hand-tinted 1908 photograph of Lansing firefighters standing next to and riding on the first motorized apparatus, in front of the old Central Fire Station. The stone sign dated 1904 can be seen in the background on the building. The photographer and firefighters are not identified.
- Date Created:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- A photograph of one of two John Bean high pressure fog trucks used by the Lansing Fire Department, parked inside on the apparatus floor of Station No. 1. The truck is surrounded by many floral arrangements. A photograph of a similar fog truck with information about the trucks has also been printed in the booklet "Lansing Fire Department: Dedicated to the Saving of Life and Property" which was published in approximately 1950. The brochure credits George Beak, Communications Division, and Frank Mainville, Press Photographer, for the photographs in the booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- Lansing Fire Department staff in formal dress uniform, standing in a line in front of the fire apparatus at the new Station No. 1. The view is along the Grand Avenue side of the building. A similar photograph appears on the back cover of the booklet "Lansing Fire Department: Dedicated to the Saving of Life and Property" which was published in approximately 1950. The brochure credits George Beak, Communications Division, and Frank Mainville, Press Photographer, for the photographs in the booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- A view of what is described in LFD history as the World's First Motorized Apparatus which was placed into service December 17, 1908. Firefighters appear to be spraying box cars on nearby train tracks. Individuals in this photograph are not identified.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- Lansing Fire Department Number 5, located at 1439 South Washington Street at Baker Street. Fire fighters and vehicles in front. This photograph appears in "Pictorial Souvenir Book of the Police and Fire Departments, Lansing, Michigan" (1913) by Harry Wilkinson. Two copies.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Car, turned on its side, burns on street in Detroit, Michigan during race riots of 1943, with fire engine arriving at scene and crowd of people in background.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1943-06-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Armed police officers walk single-file between fire trucks and hoses.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library AudioVisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1967-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Smoke pours out of fourth-story window of Woolworth department store on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, with ladders extending from fire trucks in street in front of building.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1937-08-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Notes:
- The image shows a fire truck that was photographed in front of residences. Two men are seated in the vehicle, and five other men are posed beside it. The men appear to be wearing ordinary shirts and trousers rather than fireman's uniforms.
- Date Created:
- 1926-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- Located at the east end of Allegan St.
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- Lansing Fire Department Number 4 at 230 Bingham Street. East Side Fire Department with fire fighters and vehicles in front. This photograph appears in "Pictorial Souvenir Book of the Police and Fire Departments, Lansing, Michigan" (1913) by Harry Wilkinson.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A photograph of Chief Hugh F. Fisher and his wife Gertrude in front of one of two John Bean high pressure fog trucks used by the Lansing Fire Department. The truck is parked inside on the apparatus floor of Station No. 1 and surrounded by many floral arrangements. A photograph of a similar fog truck with information about the trucks has also been printed in the booklet "Lansing Fire Department: Dedicated to the Saving of Life and Property" which was published in approximately 1950. The brochure credits George Beak, Communications Division, and Frank Mainville, Press Photographer, for the photographs in the booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- Lansing Fire Department Number 3 at 630 West Hillsdale Street. West Side Fire Department with fire fighters and vehicles in front. This photograph appears in "Pictorial Souvenir Book of the Police and Fire Departments, Lansing, Michigan" (1913) by Harry Wilkinson.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Men marching down street. View down Monroe Avenue (Monroe Center) from Fulton Street.
- Date Created:
- 1941-08-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Firemen putting out a fire at the Columbia Storage Company located at 435-439 Ionia Avenue SW.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Grand Rapids Fire Station #1, located at 38 LaGrave SE. The station was designed by the architects Williamson & Crow and built in 1910.
- Date Created:
- 1949-09-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Men and women riding Fire Department truck
- Date Created:
- 1941-08-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- A view of the apparatus floor of the new Station No. 1. In the foreground is one of the First Aid cars. Ladder trucks and pump engines can also be seen. This photograph appears in the booklet "Lansing Fire Department: Dedicated to the Saving of Life and Property" which was published in approximately 1950. The brochure credits George Beak, Communications Division, and Frank Mainville, Press Photographer, for the photographs in the booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- A photograph of one of two John Bean high pressure fog trucks used by the Lansing Fire Department, parked inside on the apparatus floor of Station No. 1. The truck is surrounded by many floral arrangements, and two uniformed men are in the photograph. The man on the right is likely Chief Hugh F. Fisher. A photograph of a similar fog truck with information about the trucks has also been printed in the booklet "Lansing Fire Department: Dedicated to the Saving of Life and Property" which was published in approximately 1950. The brochure credits George Beak, Communications Division, and Frank Mainville, Press Photographer, for the photographs in the booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- A photograph of the Lansing Fire Department on Allegan between Grand and Washington streets. Along the street is Bidwell Threshers, the Central Fire Station, Charles Smith & Son Saloon, and Queen's Lunch Counter. One of the wagons is labeled Chemical No. 1. There is mostly illegible pencil writing on the front of the photo's mount that includes "Chief Delfs" - Hugo Delfs was the fire chief at the time of the photograph. The front of the photograph is stamped F. J. Christopher, 1142 S. Washington Ave., Lansing. On the back is "Amateur Photo by Edward Abbey, Lansing, Mich." This photograph appears on page 88 in J. P. Edmonds' book Early Lansing History.
- Date Created:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ford Ceasar Collection
- Description:
- A hand-tinted photograph of two pumping engines with hoses set up to spray water into a lake or river. Some unidentified men are in the photograph. The two engines are seen from a different angle in photograph LFD-F09.002. The photographer and location are not identified.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- An unidentified man stands near the horse harnesses attached to an early Lansing Fire Department pump wagon.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- This is a group of digital of photographs scanned from an album owned by the Lansing Fire Department in its historical collection. These photographs primarily document the construction and opening of Station No. 1 (now Station 42, the "Big House") at 120 East Shiawassee Street in downtown Lansing, from 1948 to 1949. The station was dedicated in 1949. The photo album also contains some older historical photographs, many undated, which have been included here. The people in the photographs have not been identified. The original photographs are 8" x 10" black and white prints, several with moisture, mold, or glue damage. A few have been hand tinted. They were all scanned in color. The Forest Parke Library and Archives at CADL is grateful to the Lansing Fire Department for allowing us to share these photographs. If you are interested in accessing the originals, please contact the Fire Department directly.
- Date Created:
- [1908 TO 1951]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- Auto Fire Engine, Chief's Car, Auto Chemical Engine. The Central Fire Station was located at the east end of Allegan St.
- Date Created:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- A Lansing Fire Department water pump wagon.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Open pick-up style fire truck, with bell mounted in front of steering column and lettering โDept Public Safetyโ on the hood. A hose and other unidentifiable equipment can be seen in the bed of the truck. The tires are mounted on open spoke wheels. In the background is a large wood-frame house with front porch.
- Date Created:
- 1925-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Damaged front end of fire truck
- Date Created:
- 1948-10-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- This view shows the Post Office building, with piles of rubble almost burying an auto. The front part of a fire engine can be seen on the right.
- Date Created:
- 1924-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- A group of ten men in uniform stand in front of a Fire Department Ladder Truck. Two men are seated inside the cab of the truck, and one man is seated at the rear of the truck. Two boys stand near the front of the truck against the brick building in the background. The truck's lettering on the cab reads: Department Public Safety. Note: Image labeled as 1267-1254, o1254 not on file.
- Date Created:
- 1937-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Fireman getting into cab of fire engine
- Date Created:
- 1949-08-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Man hosing down overturned semi truck, many people gathered as Hermitage truck tries to right semi
- Date Created:
- 1948-09-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Fireman getting into cab of fire engine
- Date Created:
- 1949-08-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of the Wolverine Company #3 firefighters with pumper. Horse-drawn carriage is visible in the background. Ca. 1865
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- New Grand Rapids Fire Department fire truck which was able to deliver near-maximum capacity of 1,250 gallons of water a minute.
- Date Created:
- 1944-10-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- A fire engine is parked on a roadway beside a body of water, perhaps a river, with unidentified brick buildings in the background. Hoses connected to the fire engine are hanging down into the river. A group of men in topcoats and hats are standing around, and a second fire engine can be seen on the left side of the image
- Date Created:
- 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Firemen using hoses
- Date Created:
- 1948-05-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Man hosing down overturned semi truck, many people gathered as Hermitage truck tries to right semi
- Date Created:
- 1948-09-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- Smoke pours out of fourth-story window of Woolworth department store on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, with ladders extending from fire trucks in street in front of building.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1937-08-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Smoke pours out of fourth-story window of Woolworth department store on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, with ladders extending from fire trucks in street in front of building.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1937-08-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- One of the Lansing Fire Department pump engines on a hydraulic lift in the new Station No. 1 machine shop. This print has adhesive and moisture damage. Similar photographs appear in the booklet "Lansing Fire Department: Dedicated to the Saving of Life and Property" which was published in approximately 1950. The brochure credits George Beak, Communications Division, and Frank Mainville, Press Photographer, for the photographs in the booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- Photo of the Central Fire Station, Lansing, and some firefighting vehicles. The hand fire engine was purchased in 1858. The first auto pumper, middle, purchased in 1908. The Seagrave, right, purchased in 1925. Officials in the photo were part of the "old" Fire Board from 1908: J.P. Edmonds, L.E. Imes, Ed Smith, John Bohnet, and Hugo Delfs, Chief.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Engine House Number 2 with firefighters and wagon in front. Was located at 1128 North Washington Avenue from about 1890 to 1962, known as the North End station. Three copies.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Located at 1305 S Cedar.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- Car, turned on its side, burns on street in Detroit, Michigan during race riots of 1943, with fire engine arriving at scene and crowd of people in background. "Times were tough for all, but for the Negro community, times were even tougher, Blacks were excluded from all public housing except the Brewster projects, many lived in homes without indoor plumbing, yet they paid rent two to three times higher than families in white districts, Blacks were also confronted with a segregated military, discrimination in public accommodations, and unfair treatment by police ... the summer of 1941 saw an epidemic of street corner fights involving blacks and Polish youths who were terrorizing black neighborhoods in Detroit and Hamtramck ... by 1943 the number of blacks in Detroit had doubled since 1933 to 200,000 and racial tensions in the city grew accordingly, to protest unfair conditions, some blacks began a "bumping campaign"--walking into whites on the streets and bumping them off the sidewalks, or nudging them in elevators ... Mayor Edward Jeffries Jr. and Governor Harry Kelly asked President Roosevelt for help in restoring order, federal troops in armored cars and jeeps with automatic weapons moved down Woodward, the sight of the troops with their overwhelming firepower cooled the fervor of the rioters and the mobs began to melt away ... the toll was appalling, the 36 hours of rioting claimed 34 lives, 25 of them black, more than 1,800 were arrested for looting and other incidents, the vast majority black, thirteen murders remained unsolved," from Detroit News article, The 1943 Detroit race riots, by Vivian M. Baulch and Patricia Zacharias.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1943-06-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Car, turned on its side, burns on street in Detroit, Michigan during race riots of 1943, with fire engine arriving at scene and crowd of people in background.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1943-06-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Car, turned on its side, burns on street in Detroit, Michigan during race riots of 1943, with fire engine arriving at scene and crowd of people in background.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1943-06-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Smoke pours out of fourth-story window of Woolworth department store on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, with ladders extending from fire trucks in street in front of building.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1937-08-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Armed police officers walk single-file between fire trucks and hoses.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library AudioVisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1967-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Car, turned on its side, burns on street in Detroit, Michigan during race riots of 1943, with fire engine arriving at scene and crowd of people in background.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1943-06-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Smoke pours out of fourth-story window of Woolworth department store on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, with ladders extending from fire trucks in street in front of building.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1937-08-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Car, turned on its side, burns on street in Detroit, Michigan during race riots of 1943, with fire engine arriving at scene and crowd of people in background.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1943-06-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Smoke pours out of fourth-story window of Woolworth department store on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, with ladders extending from fire trucks in street in front of building.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1937-08-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Lansing Fire Department at 112 East Allegan Street where Capital Savings and Loan building would stand in 1960 with City Hall on the floor above. Fire fighters and engines are in front.
- Date Created:
- 1895-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- 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:
- Engine House Number 2 at 1128 North Washington Avenue (circa 1890 to 1962). Fire firefighters and wagon in front. North End Fire Department. This photograph appears in "Pictorial Souvenir Book of the Police and Fire Departments, Lansing, Michigan" (1913) by Harry Wilkinson.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photograph of the Central Fire Station and some of the equipment in 1925, Lansing. At left is the first old hand pumper used to extinquish fires in Lansing, purchased in 1858. It was later sold to the City of Cheyboygan, Michigan. Then purchased for the sum of $45 by J.P. Edmonds who presented it to the museum of Michigan Historical Society. It was stored in the Turner Building on North Turner Street.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo of first self-propelled (automobile pumper) fire engine, October, 1908, Lansing. Chassis built in the Olds Motor Works in Lansing and shipped to the Webb Pumper Company in St. Louis, Missouri for installation of pumper equipment. This was the first instance of a motor vehicle being used as a water pumper for a fire department. J. P. Edmonds was, at that time, serving in the police and fire department which purchased this vehicle at a cost of $6,000. This pumper was given its first real test at the Downey House fire in 1912. Representatives of fire departments from cities all over the United States came to Lansing to see it in operation on test cases.
- Date Created:
- [1908 TO 1910]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A hand-tinted photograph of one of two John Bean high pressure fog trucks used by the Lansing Fire Department, parked inside on the apparatus floor of Station No. 1. The truck is surrounded by many floral arrangements. This photograph was likely taken in November, 1949, around the time of the station's dedication. A photograph of a similar fog truck with information about the trucks has also been printed in the booklet "Lansing Fire Department: Dedicated to the Saving of Life and Property" which was published in approximately 1950. The brochure credits George Beak, Communications Division, and Frank Mainville, Press Photographer, for the photographs in the booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- Lansing Fire Department staff in formal dress uniform, standing in a line in front of the fire apparatus at the new Station No. 1. The view is along the Grand Avenue side of the building. A similar photograph appears on the back cover of the booklet "Lansing Fire Department: Dedicated to the Saving of Life and Property" which was published in approximately 1950. The brochure credits George Beak, Communications Division, and Frank Mainville, Press Photographer, for the photographs in the booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- Four unidentified Lansing fire fighters standing in front of the No. 3 65-foot hydraulic aerial ladder truck. The building it is parked near is also not identified. Snow is visible in the foreground. A photograph of the same truck, in front of the old Central Fire Station and without indivduals, also been printed in the booklet "Lansing Fire Department: Dedicated to the Saving of Life and Property" which was published in approximately 1950. The brochure credits George Beak, Communications Division, and Frank Mainville, Press Photographer, for the photographs in the booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- A photograph of two pumping engines with hoses set up to spray water into a lake or river. The two engines are seen from a different angle in photograph LFD-F09.001. The photographer and location are not identified.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- Photo shows vehicle labeled "Fog Fire Fighter" in a parade at E. Ottawa Street and Washington Avenue, Lansing (Mich.). The door of the truck is also marked "John Bean Mfg. Co." The Senate Grill restaurant can be seen in the corner building at left.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Lansing Fire Department in front of Number 1 Station on East Side of Allegan Street where Capital Savings and Loan building would stand in 1960. Fire fighters and engines are in front. Image has been partially hand tinted. Originally part of the Carl Dalrymple Collection.
- Date Created:
- 1905-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A hand-tinted 1908 photograph of Lansing firefighters standing next to and riding on the first motorized apparatus, in front of the old Central Fire Station. The stone sign dated 1904 can be seen in the background on the building. The photographer and firefighters are not identified.
- Date Created:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- A photograph of one of two John Bean high pressure fog trucks used by the Lansing Fire Department, parked inside on the apparatus floor of Station No. 1. The truck is surrounded by many floral arrangements. A photograph of a similar fog truck with information about the trucks has also been printed in the booklet "Lansing Fire Department: Dedicated to the Saving of Life and Property" which was published in approximately 1950. The brochure credits George Beak, Communications Division, and Frank Mainville, Press Photographer, for the photographs in the booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- A view of what is described in LFD history as the World's First Motorized Apparatus which was placed into service December 17, 1908. Firefighters appear to be spraying box cars on nearby train tracks. Individuals in this photograph are not identified.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Description:
- Lansing Fire Department Number 5, located at 1439 South Washington Street at Baker Street. Fire fighters and vehicles in front. This photograph appears in "Pictorial Souvenir Book of the Police and Fire Departments, Lansing, Michigan" (1913) by Harry Wilkinson. Two copies.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection