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- Description:
- Photograph of the Central Fire Station and some of the equipment in 1925, Lansing. At left is the first old hand pumper used to extinquish fires in Lansing, purchased in 1858. It was later sold to the City of Cheyboygan, Michigan. Then purchased for the sum of $45 by J.P. Edmonds who presented it to the museum of Michigan Historical Society. It was stored in the Turner Building on North Turner Street.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo of first self-propelled (automobile pumper) fire engine, October, 1908, Lansing. Chassis built in the Olds Motor Works in Lansing and shipped to the Webb Pumper Company in St. Louis, Missouri for installation of pumper equipment. This was the first instance of a motor vehicle being used as a water pumper for a fire department. J. P. Edmonds was, at that time, serving in the police and fire department which purchased this vehicle at a cost of $6,000. This pumper was given its first real test at the Downey House fire in 1912. Representatives of fire departments from cities all over the United States came to Lansing to see it in operation on test cases.
- Date Created:
- [1908 TO 1910]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo of the Central Fire Station, Lansing, and some firefighting vehicles. The hand fire engine was purchased in 1858. The first auto pumper, middle, purchased in 1908. The Seagrave, right, purchased in 1925. Officials in the photo were part of the "old" Fire Board from 1908: J.P. Edmonds, L.E. Imes, Ed Smith, John Bohnet, and Hugo Delfs, Chief.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A woman and a little boy in a hat pumpng water from an outdoor well inot a cup. Note on sleeve: "214. July 2, 1900. Opr. Al. Quick move."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lawrence Family Collection
- Description:
- Two women standing on a water pump platform, nine copies.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Mead Family Collection
- Notes:
- View from Leonard Street bridge. Log booms on east bank of the Grand River. Men are sitting on logs. Coldbrook water station is in the background on the right.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- An exhibit of Flint and Walling (Kendallville, IN) products with two company representatives showing electric water pumps, Hoosier Water Service.
- Date Created:
- 1946-01-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Grand Rapids City Water Works Department pumping station at the corner of Coldbrook and Monroe. The Grand River is behind the building.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- At Fulton Street a section of a coffer dam is constructed in order to lay the pipe.amera. The men are: John J. Rens, City Inspector, Clayton Meyers, Jack VanderBrink, Henry Sikkema, and Ralph Williams. On top of the high bank in the background are billboards for Litscher Electric Co., and Security Storage and Transfer Co.
- Date Created:
- 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- This view shows the North Ionia School in the front bottom, Leonard Street bridge in the background on the right and the Coldbrook water station in the middle. Logs are floating in the Grand River.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
