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- Description:
- This is a small collection of assorted family papers from the Edmond family of Lansing. It spans from 1850 to 1989 with the majority of the materials dating to prior to 1900. Items include club membership cards, event invitations and wedding announcements for many of Lansing's society families, business and personal accounting notes and diaries, and other personal records such as National Guard service certificates. The collection also includes some manuscript material: an essay about early Lansing, a description of a Bement Co. Labor Day parade float photograph, poetry by James P. Edmonds' father-in-law N. B. Jones, and others. John W. Edmonds was a prominent Lansing pioneer. He moved from New York State in 1854 and established a trunk and leather goods business, eventually partnering with Charles Cannell, a partnership that would last 36 years. Their business was succeeded by the Liebermann Trunk Co. Edmonds was also an organizer of the Lansing Fire Department and served as chief engineer for a time. He was Second Ward alderman, and also treasurer of the local school board for 12 years. His son James P. Edmonds served as City Treasurer before co-founding the Bates & Edmonds Company, which manufactured motors, in 1899. He was also known as an unofficial historian for the city of Lansing, collecting many early photographs and memorabilia. He wrote "Early Lansing History" which was published in 1944. See also the Edmonds Photograph Collection (2018-06-003).
- Date Created:
- [1850 TO 1989]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Family Papers Collection
- Description:
- Charlie Spagnuolo and Julane Quick talk about the Italian families who immigrated and settled in Lansing, at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- Robert "Rock" Hudson talks about the process of researching an old house and the resources that he consulted in the Lansing area, at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- July 2003: Wilbur Howard, president of the Lansing Area African-American Genealogical Society, gives a talk entitled "There Can Be No American History Without African-American History" at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Date Created:
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- April 1999: Jerry Roe talks about the legacy of politics in the city of Lansing, at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Date Created:
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- This is a collection of Lansing and regional photographic prints and negatives assembled by David Caterino. Image subjects represent a wide cross-reference of people, buildings, scenery, and events. Most are identified. They have been grouped into 27 subject series (list below) that were established by the collector. Series 27, Lansing Photographers, consists mainly of unidentified studio portraits gathered primarily to identify early Lansing photographers. The subjects of the photographs in those boxes is less significant than the photographers' stamps on cabinet cards and other formats. Most of the information is complementary to research published by David V. Tinder, available online <a href="http://clements.umich.edu/eadadd/tinder_directory.pdf">here</a>.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- June 2004: Historical Society of Greater Lansing President Linda Peckham talks about deep New York state connections held by many Lansing settlers, at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Date Created:
- 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- Guest speaker Val Berryman, MSU Museum curator, talks about the history of Christmas with a special emphasis on the character of Santa Claus, at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- Guest speaker Helen Jones Earley of the Oldsmobile History Center shares stories from the life of Lansing automotive pioneer R. E. Olds at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- An oral history from Phyllis Fitzpatrick, career GM Oldsmobile employee. The interview consists of two parts, recorded on August 24, 1990, as part of the "Voices of Lansing" oral history project. Phyllis Fitzpatrick was interviewed by Geneva Kebler Wiskemann at the Fitzpatrick home at Paradise Bay, Beaver Island (Mich.). A transcript for this recording is included with the audio links below.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Voices of Lansing Oral Histories
- Description:
- "Meet Your City" is a series of videotaped lectures and presentations on local history or nostalgic topics that were made primarily at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center in Lansing between 1998 and 2004. The Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center is part of the City of Lansing Parks and Recreation department. Sometimes videos credit the City of Lansing as a producer, or CITY-TV, the city's cable access channel. Many of the videos have no opening or end credits, and are simply casual videotaped recordings of presentations, while others have been more formally produced. In several cases, curator Elizabeth Homer or others introduce the speakers, but often there is no introduction. Some of the presentations include a question and answer segment at the end. The VHS and VHS-C recordings were digitally converted by the Forest Parke Library & Archives at CADL beginning in November 2016. MYC (Meet Your City) ID numbers assigned during the original project point to at least 57 videos having been created, although the numbering of the programs does not correspond with chronological order. The library holds MYC1-MYC17, MYC20-MYC21, MYC24-MYC28, and MYC30-MYC57. No administrative material is on file with these recordings. Please contact FPLA/CADL at localhistory@cadl.org or (517) 367-6313 for more information.
- Date Created:
- [1998 TO 2004]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- April 2004: Lansing Liederkranz members Boots Teddy and Henry Lambrecht share personal stories of their German heritage and history of the German community in Lansing, at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Date Created:
- 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- An oral history from Maxwell E. Murninghan, a former City Council member and Mayor of Lansing who had involvements with the printing industry and real estate. Mr. Murninghan was interviewed by Joanne Jager at the Lansing Public Library on November 5, 1990. A transcript for this recording has not been completed.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Voices of Lansing Oral Histories
- Description:
- November 1998: Geneva Kebler Wiskemann talks about how life was in Lansing around the turn of the century in 1899, at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Date Created:
- 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- April 1999: Jerry Roe gives an overview of the history of politics in Michigan, at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Date Created:
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- October 2004: Nathalie Winans shares the story of Lansing pioneer family the Wards, focusing on her great-great uncle Ulysses D. Ward, at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Date Created:
- 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- Guest speaker Val Berryman, MSU Museum curator, takes participants on a nostalgic walk through Lansing during Christmas, at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- Craig Whitford presents a look at the history of aviation in Lansing, at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- An oral history of Geneva Kebler Wiskemann, concerning her career at the Archives of Michigan, the fire at the State Office Building in 1951, and her personal memories and experiences from life in Lansing. She was interviewed by Joyce Moffatt at the Lansing Civic Players Firehouse in March of 1990. One document in the records for the Voices of Lansing project notes that the interview on March 6, 1990, was a "false start." Both this and a second interview done on March 11, 1990, are linked below, along with a single transcript that was in the file.
- Date Created:
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Voices of Lansing Oral Histories