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- Description:
- Two small scrapbooks of mostly newspaper clippings, a mix of local news items, obituaries, news items related to World War I, and poetry or humorous writing from national sources. A few photographs and ephemeral items are also pasted in. One of the scrapbooks includes a short written family history of the Dryer family, beginning with Von Dryer, a Holland weaver who moved to London, his descendants immigrating to Boston in 1677, and eventually E. A. Dryer, the grandfather of Howe Dryer, moving to Michigan. Howe and Alice Dryer were listed in the city directories in the late 1910s and early 1920s as living at 1018 West Michigan Avenue in Lansing. Some of the clippings mention them living in Delta as well. The last dated item in the scrapbooks is a birthday telegram to Mrs. Dryer from "The Kids" dated 1930.
- Date Created:
- [1891 TO 1892]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Diaries, Ledgers, and Albums
- Description:
- This small collection includes single albums, diaries, and ledgers from various sources, gathered by David Caterino, most likely from estate sales. Each item in the collection has its own sub-record with digitized material associated when possible.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Diaries, Ledgers, and Albums
- Description:
- A tan leather and marbled paper-bound "Forget-Me-Not Album" presented to Mr. Wesley Emery, teacher at Lansing's First Ward (Cedar Street) School in December, 1861. The book has several engravings of classical portraits in between blank pages for signatures. Most pages are not used, but those that are were inscribed by the following former students to Mr. Emery: Louise Turner, 1863 Nelia S. Rankin 1873 Carrie M. Limebeck 1863 Nellie E. Washburn 1863 J. M. Barrett 1862 Helen Bigelow 1862 Elitha (no last name) 1862 Emma Young 1862 There is also one unsigned piece of poetry written in and dated 1874. Mr. Emery served as a teacher and school principal off and on in the early Lansing schools, in addition to running a book and stationery store with his son, and working as a traveling school book salesman throughout Michigan.
- Date Created:
- [1862 TO 1873]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Diaries, Ledgers, and Albums
- Description:
- One photograph album from the early 20th century, created by a woman named Kittie F. Kent, who worked as a clerk at Olds in Lansing for a number of years. Themes in the album's photographs include trips to Niagara Falls and Washington, D. C. (1920), South Carolina or California; snapshots of friends and family; on campus at M. S. C.; at Pine Lake; many pictures of cats; snapshots of men in military dress; homes in the 700 block of West Willow Street; snapshots of mostly female coworkers from the Olds plant in the 1910s and 1920s. About half of the album's pages are blank, and some pages have loose photographs tucked between. Two representative images have been scanned. For further information please contact the libary.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Diaries, Ledgers, and Albums
- Description:
- A small purple cloth-bound autograph album with silver embossing on the cover, owned by Angie Lazelle of Delta Center, Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Most of the autographs and notes from friends and family date from the early 1880s. Inside the front cover is written "A Christmas present by my mother." On several of the pages, Angie has written in updates on marriage or other life events for the people who signed the book. There are also quotations and poetry copied in as well as what seems to be handwriting practice on some of the pages. Angie Lazelle married Albert E. Parsons on August 1, 1888.
- Date Created:
- [1881 TO 1883]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Diaries, Ledgers, and Albums
- Description:
- A black marbled paper-bound ledger belonging to John H. Arbaugh. The entries in the ledger date from 1869 to 1905 and look to be household or trade accounts with various individuals and businesses. John Hill Arbaugh was the father of Frank N. Arbaugh, who was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and first came to Lansing in 1896. Frank Arbaugh eventually ran a large department store in Lansing. John's father was a friend of John Hill, a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, and named his first son after him. Most pages in the ledger are unused.
- Date Created:
- [1869 TO 1905]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Diaries, Ledgers, and Albums
- Description:
- A red marbled paper-bound diary for the year 1891. This diary belonged to Gertrude Deland, and the year she wrote in it she was employed as a clerk for the Superintendent of Public Instruction in the Michigan state capitol building. She was born in 1870, and most of her life she lived in Jackson. Throughout her diary, she mentions socializing with many people of prominence in early Lansing history. The first few entries are about a New Year's Eve ball, at which she danced with outgoing Governor Cyrus Luce, and it is clear that she and her family were connected in Lansing society. Other names mentioned include Bement, Beale, Moffatt, Loomis, Buck, Davis, Hagadorn, and many more. Most of the diary is very matter-of-fact recording of daily activities such as taking care of her sick aunt, playing with Homer (a nephew?), going to church with family, visiting friends, attending women's club meetings, and visiting Jackson, Detroit, and other Michigan places. Loose items pasted in include a list of friends who married during 1891, and a list of dresses in her wardrobe that year. She owned 20 dresses in 1891.
- Date Created:
- [1891 TO 1892]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Diaries, Ledgers, and Albums
- Description:
- A handwritten diary with covers missing, by an unidentified author. The diary dates from July 4, 1898, to August 18, 1899, and mentions its author's birth date as April 22, 1875. Library staff's best guess is that the author was Grace Robson, whose sister Bertha (Baker) and nephew Wendell are frequently referred to in the diary. A clipping noting the bankruptcy of the Robson Brothers mercantile business in 1899 is tucked in the diary; Grace's father Robert was one of the three brothers. The author wrote about her daily activities, including going to church, working on needlework, meeting with friends, the clothes she wore, riding "wheels" (bicycles), shopping in Lansing, and working in an office for a Mr. Davis and Mr. Page. A list of books she read in 1898 is inside the back cover. Highlights of the diary include a Phrenologist visit on December 19, 1898, and references to watching the Pilgrim Church fire and one of Lansing's early African-American families, the Dungeys, one of whom worked as a janitor in Mr. Davis' office. She mentions an Ernest Gibbs often; he may have been a suitor of hers. There are also frequent references to Lotie and Harlow (Newell). In the 1898 and 1900 Lansing City Directories, there were several businesses run by men with the last name Davis, as well as Davises who worked for several state agencies. There is only one Page, a John T. Page who was Superintendent of Public Works in 1898. No Davis was employed there in that year. The diary author did not specify the type of work she was engaged in other than writing bills, though in one instance she mentions a new German "sidewalk man" in the office. In both 1898 and 1900 directories, a Grace Robson, clerk at the Board of Public Works and resident of her parents' home at 107 N. Walnut St., is listed.
- Date Created:
- [1898 TO 1899]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Diaries, Ledgers, and Albums
- Description:
- A small purple cloth-bound autograph album with silver embossing on the cover, owned by Angie Lazelle of Delta Center, Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Most of the autographs and notes from friends and family date from the early 1880s. Inside the front cover is written "A Christmas present by my mother." On several of the pages, Angie has written in updates on marriage or other life events for the people who signed the book. There are also quotations and poetry copied in as well as what seems to be handwriting practice on some of the pages. Angie Lazelle married Albert E. Parsons on August 1, 1888.
- Date Created:
- [1881 TO 1883]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Diaries, Ledgers, and Albums
- Description:
- A tan leather and marbled paper-bound "Forget-Me-Not Album" presented to Mr. Wesley Emery, teacher at Lansing's First Ward (Cedar Street) School in December, 1861. The book has several engravings of classical portraits in between blank pages for signatures. Most pages are not used, but those that are were inscribed by the following former students to Mr. Emery: Louise Turner, 1863 Nelia S. Rankin 1873 Carrie M. Limebeck 1863 Nellie E. Washburn 1863 J. M. Barrett 1862 Helen Bigelow 1862 Elitha (no last name) 1862 Emma Young 1862 There is also one unsigned piece of poetry written in and dated 1874. Mr. Emery served as a teacher and school principal off and on in the early Lansing schools, in addition to running a book and stationery store with his son, and working as a traveling school book salesman throughout Michigan.
- Date Created:
- [1862 TO 1873]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Diaries, Ledgers, and Albums