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- Description:
- This is a scrapbook that includes the headlines and articles from regular and special edition Lansing State Journal newspapers and other area papers such as the Detroit Free Press, for the day of the Hotel Kerns Fire (December 11, 1934) and about two weeks following. The articles detail names of deceased, injured, and missing, as well as follow-up investigation efforts and cleanup from the fire. A copy of the "Lansing Capital Times" (Vol. 1 No. 14, Oct. 22 - Nov. 4, 1986) with a cover story on the hotel fire is also included. The scrapbook has been made out of an old accounting ledger, and the source is unknown.
- Date Created:
- 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Hotel Kerns Fire Scrapbook
- Description:
- This scrapbook contains clippings of poetry by Edgar Guest from unidentified newspapers. Guest was born in England and moved to the United States as a boy. His first poem was published in the Detroit Free Press in 1898, and he was also the only person ever to have been named Poet Laureate for the state of Michigan. He wrote over 11,000 poems during his lifetime. The scrapbook may have been kept by Alfred Seymour's wife Maude. More than 75% of the pages have not been used. Due to the item's fragility it has not been digitized in full, only its cover. Contact the library for more information.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- Two scrapbooks of material collected by Marie and Lloyd Weyant of Lansing. The Weyants were long-time telephone company employees who later operated the Airport Grille, a restaurant near the Lansing airport, as well as a sister restaurant near the Grand Rapids airport in Kent County. Their daughter Marion "Babe" Weyant (later Ruth) was a well-known pilot. Mrs. Weyant also ran a business selling paper goods such as napkins and stationery. The scrapbooks consist primarily of clippings and greeting cards. The clippings are generally Lansing State Journal articles of human interest (obituaries, articles about a person's retirement, anniversaries) or articles from a variety of sources on state and national topics, such as the governor of Michigan or the Kennedy family. Greeting cards include birthday, mother's and father's day, and other holiday cards from the Weyants' children and others. There are also high school graduation announcements from Lansing and other schools in Michigan, and a number of funeral cards. Of note is a large advertisement inside the front cover of one scrapbook for a new brand of beer being sold at the Frank Preuss market in Lansing, undated. There is a silk first place ribbon in the Antler category from the M. A. C. Farmers Week in 1942. Some material from the International Order of Job's Daughters and the Order of the Eastern Star Chapter No. 30 (both Dewitt, Mich.) dating to the early 1960s is also included. Due to the fragility of these scrapbooks the contents have not been digitized. Contact the library for more information or to access the materials.
- Date Created:
- [1930 TO 1965]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Marie and Lloyd Weyant Scrapbooks
- Description:
- This collection contains a scrapbook of newspaper clippings. The book is inscribed, "Mrs. F.S. Lawrence, Aug. 6, 1890, Lansing, Mich." The clippings are pasted over text of a book identified as "Specimens, Chicago Type Foundry" on cover. The clippings include death notices, anecdotes, and miscellaneous articles on people and events. Fred S. Lawrence was born March 21, 1857, married on October 8, 1879, and died on October 22, 1944. S. Jeanette Bender (Lawrence) was born June 13, 1858 and died December 31, 1944. Both are buried in Lansing's Evergreen Cemetery. Fred helped orgranize Larewnce and Van Buren Printing Co. around 1879 and was a manager of the State Republican for 9 years prior. The Lawrence's lived at 412 W. Ottawa Street in 1929.
- Date Created:
- [1890 TO 1927]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- S. Jeanette Lawrence Scrapbook
15. Lansing Jaycees
- Description:
- Lansing Jaycees. This collection includes a wide range of administrative and program material, as well as scrapbooks, awards, and other documentation of Jaycees activities since the founding in 1929. The majority of the material dates from the 1970s to the 1990s. The collection has not been fully processed. The Container List here is taken from a rough inventory of the material done in 2015-2016. Please click on Container List items to read descriptions of the contents in each folder. Contact the library with any questions about this collection. Jaycees history: The Lansing Jaycees were founded in November 1929. The father of the Michigan Jaycees, Bill Otto, helped organize the Lansing chapter and guided it throughout the earliest years of its history. The chapter began existence with 74 members, and has provided many different types of service and support to the greater Lansing area, from planting thousands of flower beds to improvement of land and facilities at the Capital City Airport.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Jaycees
- Description:
- This collection consists primarily of a scrapbook that was assembled by Sarah Morlok Cotton, one of the famous Morlok Quadruplets born in Lansing in 1930. There is also a folder of loose clippings, and four photographs of the girls when they were young. The scrapbook includes mainly local and national newspaper clippings about the quads' birth, their parents, special occasions such as their birthdays, and performances that they gave. Obituaries for the parents and two of the quads (who passed away during the time the scrapbook was being created), personal correspondence, and some information about the girls' health statistics are also part of the book.
- Date Created:
- [1930 TO 2006]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Morlok Family Scrapbook
- Description:
- From an undated essay found in the collection: "The Unity Club was founded October 15, 1895, by Mrs. N. B. Jones, Mrs. C. D. Dodge, and Mrs. Lillian Rork, with a membership of twelve. The first five meetings were held at the homes of the members. Dec. 19th '95 the club met at the Pilgrim Chapel on Larch Street. The membership had increased to thirty-four. The club motto is 'Be a candle in the window if you cannot be a star in the sky.'" The ame was changed in 1942 to "Unity Literary Club." And "It was first a library club. Gradually it took on civic work and charity work until at the present time it has delegates to the Club House Association Board, delegates to Ingham County Home Association, and a Visiting Nurses Association committee. The membership is now limited to seventy-five." The club was broken up into four divisions and meeting organization rotated among them. Each meeting usually involved presentation of an essay or two, a book review, news and current events, and a discussion. Topics ranged from global politics to housekeeping and family life. This collection consists of a mostly disassembled Memory Book that was likely kept by founder Mrs. Charles D. Dodge (Arta Ruhammah Jane Snyder Dodge, July 24, 1852 - January 29, 1946). The material dates from the club's beginning into the mid 1940s. Included are the club's annual handbooks, correspondence, newspaper clippings, programs and ephemera from club events, some handwritten and typed essays, photographs, and a file of correspondence from a French girl, Alice Labat, to an unnamed "Benefactress" during 1918-1920.
- Date Created:
- [1895 TO 1945]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Unity Club Collection
- Description:
- This blank ledger book consists of pasted-in prescription slips usually with the C. J. Rouser Capital Drug Store pharmacy logo at top, completed by area doctors (sometimes not signed, or just an initial). They have Bates numbering stamps or transcribed Bates numbers on them but most are not dated. The earliest dates seen on some are July 1906, and the latest September 1906. The pharmacy was located at 123 South Washington Avenue in downtown Lansing, Michigan, during the era of this ledger. Over the years they had other locations in the city, and were in business for well over a century. Due to the fragility of the ledger, it has not been digitized. Contact the library for more information.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Rouser Drug Store Prescription Ledger
19. Walter G. Rogers
- Description:
- This collection contains one scrapbook of photographs and correspondence as well as several loose photographs of Walter G. Rogers and his family. The ten loose photographs are unidentified and contain vacation photos, outdoor shots, and individual shots of children and adults. These photographs have not been digitized. The scrapbook contains photos of numerous indiviuals including members of several families, Central Elementary School and Townsend Street School class photos, Lambda Rho Tau group at Lansing High School, and the Lansing High School softball team of 1913. The correspondence consists of wedding invitations, birth announcments, post cards, and other notes and letters. Walter G. Rogers was a Major and quartermaster general and his son Wadsworth Rogers was a lieutenant in the army. Walter G. Rogers died on September 9, 1965, having been a Lansing resident for 47 years before moving to Detroit and then West Palm Beach, Florida. He was active in many Lansing organizations and councils including Knights Templar, Spanish American War Veterans, VFW, and American Legion, and was Lansing postmaster from 1920 to 1932, among other involvements.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Walter G. Rogers
- Description:
- This collection contains materials from the YWCA Social Study Club. The Club existed from 1925 to 1987 and was an organization for friendship among married women in Lansing and to support the YWCA in the spirit of good citizenship. Contents include: a 50th Anniversary certificate, annual reports, and yearbooks with clippings and photographs. The collection was donated by the Social Study Club via Mrs. Charles E. Millar upon its closing in 1987. The library also has a large YWCA collection.
- Date Created:
- [1925 TO 1987]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- YWCA Social Study Club