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- 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:
- 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:
- 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 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 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
