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- 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:
- John R. Weaver, seated in a convertible Oldsmobile, presumably at a car show. The car is parked on a carpet with "Oldsmobile" in large letters.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- John Weaver Collection
- Notes:
- The main floor exhibit of automobiles is filled with people standing, so that only the roofs of the autos on display are visible. A few signs stand out for Graham and Chrysler. The balconies are also filled with people, sitting. A ray of light from some projection equipment is coming from a projection room at the back.
- Date Created:
- 1935-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- John R. Weaver, seated in a convertible Oldsmobile, presumably at a car show. The car is parked on a carpet with "Oldsmobile" in large letters.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- John Weaver Collection
- Notes:
- One man stands in the center of an exhibit of ten automobiles in the George Welsh Civic Auditorium. Two small signs are visible, one with "Packard" and another "Lincoln."
- Date Created:
- 1935-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- International pickup trucks, panel trucks, and station wagons on display at the 1935 Auto Show at the George Welsh Civic Auditorium.
- Date Created:
- 1935-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of the main floor of the George Welsh Civic Auditorium with about 20 cars on display. A garden display in the center of the room. Individuals signs for Plymouth, Graham, Lafayette.
- Date Created:
- 1935-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- A welcome banner hangs at the entrance to an exhibit hall full of autos. A sign for Studebaker "smart to to seen in, smarter to buy."
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Array of exhibits at the 1935 Auto Show in the George Welsh Civic Auditorium. Signs for Ronda Tire, Arvin Car Heaters, Zenith Radio, Van's Radio Refrigerator, "Extra Conveniences in Leonard Refrigerators, American-Bosch Radios, and Maytag Washing machine.
- Date Created:
- 1935-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Crowds at the 1935 Auto Show around an Oldsmobile.
- Date Created:
- 1935-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
