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- Description:
- Plan for the Konaske Airship, designed by Art Konaske of 180 Mack Street, stapled to a two page note to Russell A. Alger Jr. written on Hotel Griswold stationery, and dated February 17, 1916. The plan shows a profile cut-away of a small military airship with a enclosed gondola with two seats--one for the pilot, and the other for a gunner. The airship's balloon is outfitted with an airfoil, and both vertical and horizontal propellers are employed for lift and propulsion. The note reads: Mr. Russell A. Alger, Dear Sir, Enclosed find blueprint circular of airship, which I hope may prove of interest to you. It is going to be a sure winner and as I am told, you are "Pres. of Aviation Club." Would be glad to have interview at your convenience to explain details and mfg. etc. A phone call will find me at above hotel--Rm 416 for appointment for interview which shall try to make of much interest to you. Thanking you in advance for cause[?] I am sir. Yours very truly, A[?]. J. Barker Phone Cherry 10 - Rm 416
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Advertisement mailed by George P. Way of 30 Adelaide Street, Detroit, Michigan to James T. Thing of 313 North Greenleaf Avenue, Whittier, California. Included are an envelope, return envelope, order form, advertisement for the Blowena, and a type-written letter. Way writes, on behalf of his Artificial Ear Drum Company, attempting to persuade Thing to purchase both an artificial ear drum, as well as a device called the Blowena for seven dollars. The included advertisement explains that the Blowena is a rubber tube intended to relieve "catarrh, hay fever, cold in the head and influenza, or any irritation of the nose and throat, but particularly for CATARRHAL DEAFNESS" by allowing a user to blow air from their mouth, through the device where a medicated sponge is housed, into their ear. "Let us hear the conclusion of tile whoe mutter. Hear good until ref his command for this is the whole thing [sic]" is handwritten in pencil on the verso of the envelope.
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- A package of 14 documents related to a dispute between brothers Charles E. and James Frank Duryea regarding dates their automobile was produced. Items include correspondence (some with R. E. Olds), copied magazine and newspaper clippings, testimonial statements, and a small flyer on the history of the Duryea business.
- Date Created:
- [1931 TO 1943]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- Written on back: "House at Edmund Place, Detroit, 1898-1901." The female passenger is not identified.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- A group of four Curved Dash Oldsmobile cars on a road under moss-covered trees, in Florida. The passengers of each car are not identified, with the exception of R. E. Olds, who is in the darker suit in the car at the far left. The photograph is marked "W. R. M.," "Ormond," and an unclear number that may be "555." Likely this photograph was taken by a photographer or studio with the initials "W. R. M." in the town of Ormond, Florida, which is near Daytona Beach where R. E. Olds eventually owned an apartment building.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- A photo of R. E. Olds and two unidentified passengers in an 1897 model Olds which is the same model as the one in the Smithsonian Institution. Lansing's first gas-powered car. Written on back: "R. E. Olds first build this car in 1897."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- An early copy photograph showing Olds with one of his vehicles. In his handwriting on the back: "To be returned to R. E. Olds, Lansing, Mich."
- Date Created:
- 1894-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- An original cabinet card taken by Lansing photographers Cassey and Riley in about 1892, showing a young R. E. Olds at the steering lever of his second self-propelled vehicle. (His first was constructed by him in 1886-1887). The passenger is not identified. On the back is a typed pasted-on note: "Second car built by RE Olds - later sold to a firm in Bombay, India."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Description:
- An oral history from Robert "Bob" Huxtable. He grew up on a family farm in the Delta Mills area of greater Lansing in the early 20th century, attended MSU, and spent most of his career in the paper and printing industry. He had a strong interest in automobiles and was the owner of a Curved Dash Oldsmobile, to which he made some modifications. He also liked inventing things and was working on a soda machine at the time of this interview. Bob Huxtable was interviewed by James Walkinshaw and Helen Jones Earley on August 11, 1988 at the Oldsmobile History Center in the Oldsmobile Education and Development Center, North. The original audio recording of this interview has several instances of distortion and other problems that were not able to be corrected during the digitization process. A transcript for this recording is linked below with the audio file.
- Date Created:
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Voices of Lansing Oral Histories
- Description:
- A copy photograph of the first REO Roadster, built in October, 1904. The photograph is numbered 4294.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
