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- Description:
- This collection includes three photo albums and several loose photographs from the Leonard family of Lansing, Michigan. Chauncey Bloomfield Leonard (1860-1941) was born near Ann Arbor and came to Lansing as a child. He began work in the grocery business when he was 13 under John Whiteley. In 1881 he married Emma E. Parker, the daughter of Daniel Parker, Civil War veteran and builder of Buck's Opera House among other buildings and homes in Lansing. They had one daughter Iva May. Mrs. Leonard, who perhaps went by the nickname Effie, was involved with many social clubs in Lansing and served as president of the Club House Association for two years. Iva May married Walter M. Goodrich, an executive at the Reo factory. C. B. Leonard, as he was known, used either Chauncey or Chester as his first name. His own grocery store, known as C. B. Leonard Cottage Grocery, was at the side of a home in the 300 block of South Butler Boulevard in Lansing until 1901 when he sold to Shank & Reynolds. It was then in a couple of locations on West Lenawee until his retirement from the grocery business in 1920. Under him, several successful Lansing grocers were trained, such as Maynard W. Wise, Ora H. Bailey, and Fred Weaver. Following retirement, Leonard became a salesman and collector for the Lawrence Baking Company. The photograph albums in this collection mostly contain family snapshots, as well as photos from travel out west to Colorado, Utah, California, and Mexico, or to Washington, D. C. and New York. There are several from trips to smaller lakes in Michigan as well as Traverse City or Grand Haven. Most photographs date from the 1910s and 1920s. The photographs in the albums slightly duplicate one another in that all the same events and activities are pictured in all three, but variations of scenes and events, as well as unique images, are in each album. Subjects pictured include boating, fishing, and swimming; picnics; cats and dogs; family and friends; homes on Butler Boulevard or West Washtenaw Street in Lansing. The Cottage Grocery appears in a few of the older loose photographs.
- Date Created:
- [1907 TO 1955]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Leonard Family Collection
- Description:
- Below North Lansing dam. Identification based on features of the river in this low-water condition and the buildings seen on the right end of the bridge. One African-American young man is seen fishing. An African-American young woman is also present.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing City Planning Division Photographs
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- Monochromatic glass plate negative taken of the sein winch aboard the fishing boat HAZEL, taken in Rogers City in July 1916, according to the handwritten note on the envelope which previously held the negative.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Monochromatic glass plate negative taken of two fisherman clad in waders holding a seine aboard the boat HAZEL, taken in Rogers City in July 1916, according to the handwritten note on the envelope which previously held the negative. A bin, stenciled with "HAZEL" holding other seine nets is on the deck beside them. Two stacks of similar bins are in the foreground on the right.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting a Ford Motel T carrying a giant fish and there men through shallow water. "Series No. 831 Freak Fish 12 Des." and "Made in USA," are printed on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1927-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting people fishing along the riverfront, south of the Ambassador Bridge. In the background are ships and the downtown skyline. Printed on verso: The Ambassador Bridge. The World's longest International Suspension bridge, linking Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Almost two miles long, it has five traffic lanes and an 8 ft. sidewalk for pedestrians. Detroit, in addition to being the 'World's Motor Capitol' also ranks as the second port in tonnage volume in the United States. The Detroit River is one of the world's busiest waterways. Fisherman enjoy the ever fascinating river panorama. Plastichrome® by Colourpicture Publishers, Inc. Boston 15, Mass., U.S.A., Pub. by the Hiawatha Card Co., P.O. Box 56, Ypsilanti, Mich., Color by Lucy Gridley
- Date Issued:
- 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- United States Inspectors' License to Pilots certificate, serial number 20641, issued to Charles A. Porter on May 4, 1912, certifying that he is a Special Class Pilot of lake steam vessels of 10 gross tons and under on the fishing grounds of Lake Huron. The certificate is signed by U.S. Local Inspectors of Steam Vessels for the district of Port Huron, Willis W. Stewart, the Inspector of Hulls, and Frank Van Lieu, the Inspector of Boilers. The inspector's signatures are also on the verso along with several other fields reaffirming information on the recto.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Monochromatic glass plate negative taken of two fisherman clad in waders setting the sein aboard the boat HAZEL, taken in Rogers City in July 1916, according to the handwritten note on the envelope which previously held the negative.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Notes:
- Photograph of man holding a large catfish next to a woman in a white dress and wide-brimmed hat, circa 1920
- Date Created:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Collection:
- Stories of Summer (project)
