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- Description:
- A view across a dirt road into a wooded area with several canvas tents, bicycles, a temporary wooden stage, and an American flag. A banner reads "Camp Hobson, U.S. Recruiting Service." This was likely a temporary recruiting station for the Spanish American War, named for Navy Lieutenant Richmond P. Hobson, who in June and July of 1898 was a prisoner of war in Cuba and had received a great deal of media attention following his intentional sinking of the U. S. S. Merrimac to obstruct a harbor entry. Note on sleeve: "No. 29. July 1, 1898. 3 pm. Snap shot medium. Opr. Al."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lawrence Family Collection
- Description:
- Possibly Colonel Lucius H. Ives on horseback with a post of the Grand Army of the Republic, in Mason, Michigan. The photograph is taken from the south side of the second county courthouse, looking to the north.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- This is a collection of the papers of Jackson K. Elmer and family. Elmer was born in New York in 1840, and moved to Michigan in 1853 after the death of his father. He spent most of his adult life in Mason. He was married to Mary E. Bond in 1866, and they had a daughter Dora D. Elmer. Both his wife and daughter's correspondence and other materials including schoolwork and text books are part of this collection. Elmer was initially involved in carpentry and construction after learning the trade following public school in Rome, Michigan. He operated a carpentry and building business in partnership with a half brother Lyman W. Baker. He also served for the Union in the Civil War, first enlisting as a sergeant and then receiving promotions to second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and adjutant. There is significant correspondence with military organizations and friends, and other paperwork related to his military service. There are several warranty deeds for a piece of land in Ingham County between Mason and Lansing along the "State Road" which may have been where the Elmer, Baker, & Co. construction business or his future endeavors in mercantile, coal, and grocery was located. Elmer also owned 80 acres in Section 6, Aurelius Township, which he managed but never farmed himself. The collection also includes a large number of calling cards, carte de visite photographs and other portraits and photographs, as well as small ledgers, travel diaries, and account books. One of the earliest account books is for the Primary School Interest Fund account that was kept at the Bank of Michigan for 1839-1841, which was probably not Elmer's personal record. He used blank pages later in the volume for his household and Elmer & Baker business accounting and drafts of correspondence. This reuse of items is common in the collection, especially in bound volumes.
- Date Created:
- [1839 TO 1929]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Elmer Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- During World War II the Civil Air Patrol in Lansing trained men in aviation fundamentals, taguht flying, and had civil duties to perform. Show above are Lt. Carl W. Dalrymple (left), Lt. Harry Wilson in the cockpit, and an unknown Private at the prop. Gift of Carl Dalrymple.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A group of women in military dress marching in a Bond Drive Victory parade, some playing trumpets. Several downtown Lansing businesses can be seen in the background.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- See "Lansing Metropolitan" Fall/Winter 1995, p.7-12, where photos show Lucille making 105 mm artillery shells and gun tubes circa 1944.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A crowd snapshot featuring a man in uniform saluting, during a send-off event for World War II draftees in Lansing. All in the photograph are unidentified.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
