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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:
- Photograph of Lansing Fire Department in September, 1895. Captain Hugo Delphs was fire chief at the time. The fire house was located in the ground floor of the City Hall building which stood at 112 East Allegan, later the site of the Capital Savings and Loan Association.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo of three chiefs of the Lansing Fire Department. From left, Tom Wescott, Alex Cline, and Ned Burton or Mr. Bonner. Chief Wescott was one of the founders of the Lansing Fire Department in 1857, elected "chief engineer" June 17, 1872; also a charter member of the Grand River Boat Club in the same year.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo of the Lansing Board of Police and Fire Commissioners. Sitting-L.E. Imes, Clerk-P.F. Gray, John Bohnet, J.E. Warner, J.P. Edmonds, H.C. Hedges. Standing-Chief Henry Behrendt, President E.L. Smith, Chief Hugo Delfs.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photograph of horse-drawn Fire Engine Number 2 in front of Engine House No. 2, Lansing. Located at 1128 North Washington Avenue, known as the North End station. Same as <a href="https://cadl.pastperfectonline.com/archive/0770D4E1-B763-4DA5-9FB7-721033723400">this photograph</a>.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo of three chiefs of the Lansing Fire Department. From left, Tom Wescott, Alex Cline, and Ned Burton or Mr. Bonner. Chief Wescott was one of the founders of the Lansing Fire Department in 1857, elected "chief engineer" June 17, 1872; also a charter member of the Grand River Boat Club in the same year.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photograph of Lansing Fire Department in September, 1895. Captain Hugo Delphs was fire chief at the time. The fire house was located in the ground floor of the City Hall building which stood at 112 East Allegan, later the site of the Capital Savings and Loan Association.
- 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
