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- Description:
- A "Pearl Mills" wagon full of bags of flour, at the corner of Turner Street and Grand River Avenue in North Lansing. Pearl Mills, later the Breisch Milling Company, operated at that location for 75 years before being torn down in August of 1926 to be replaced by a "modern oil and repair station" (Lansing State Journal, May 19, 1926, page 2). In the photograph from left to right are employees George E. Palmer, Frank Chaffee, and the wagon driver Del Baker. The photograph was donated by Mrs. George Palmer.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Henkel's Extra Fancy Flour, 1855-1935, displays bags of "Henkel's Best" flour.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- Shows the Dimond Flouring Mill in winter, with horses and sleighs in front. It was built in the early 1850s by Isaac Dimond in what is now Dimondale, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ellison Glass Negative Collection
- Description:
- Located at 1205 Turner. One of 9 variations. "We wouldn't spend our good money telling you that White Poppy Flour is the Best Flour if we didn't have the goods to back up our statement."
- Date Created:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- Located at 1205 Turner.
- Date Created:
- 1888-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- The Thoman Flour Mill looking south on North Grand Avenue toward Ottawa Street. The mill, which operated for nearly a century at this location, was razed in 1957 for parking.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Ford Ceasar Collection
- Description:
- The Breisch family of Lansing, Michigan, included Christian Breisch (1863-1924), manager of Pearl Mills and North Lansing Mill Company which produced "Morning Glory" flour, owner of the Christian Breisch Corporation founded in 1886, founding father of the Michigan Bean Jobbers Association, of which he was president in 1918; his wife Emma Breisch (nee Cushing) (1865-1952); her father, Thomas R. Cushing (1831-1915), a realtor in Detroit, Michigan; and the children of Christian and Emma Breisch; their daughter Gertrude Irene Breisch Jarred (1890-1952); their son Harold C. Breisch (1893-1949); their daughter Louise R. Breisch (1905-2003). The contents of the different series in this collection are as follows: <a href="http://cadl.pastperfectonline.com/archive/24D4D491-8FCA-42D5-9CF7-803489284852">Series 1: Family Papers</a> <a href="http://cadl.pastperfectonline.com/archive/88C36A06-CA49-4942-9767-345609862941">Series 2: Business Papers</a> <a href="http://cadl.pastperfectonline.com/archive/91539DD1-FEEB-407B-BA16-290376821224">Series 3: Photographs</a> <a href="http://cadl.pastperfectonline.com/archive/23759BA6-FBE5-4043-BEFE-367919964038">Series 4: Artifacts</a>
- Date Created:
- [1897 TO 1952]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Breisch Family Collection
