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- Description:
- Photograph of steamboat docking at Waverly Park, Lansing. Waverly Park, originally known as Leadley's Park, was an amusement park located on the northeast side of the Grand River at Waverly Road. The riverboats picked up patrons at a dock at Logan Street (renamed Martin Luther King Blvd.). Two copies.
- Date Created:
- 1905-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photograph of view looking north on Capitol Avenue from Michigan Avenue, Lansing. City Hall and the Post Office are on the right.
- Date Created:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo of Mrs. W. H. Chapman, Lansing. Photographed by B. F. Hall.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photograph of Washington and Michigan Avenues, Lansing, on the occasion of a circus parade. Note observers on rooftops. The Bank building is visible at the corner of South Washington, and next door at 103 are the Woodbury boot and shoe store, and J. H. Moores' timber and land offices on the second floor. Three copies.
- Date Created:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo of Harry Turner, Lansing. Photographed by H. Holborn, St. Louis, MO.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photograph of view of Michigan Avenue east of the bridge over the Grand River, Lansing. The scene showing several railroad cars was near the Michigan Central train depot. The Stevens and Taylor Artificial Stoneworks is in the background. Store on the right selling Imported Liquor and Tobacco and Detroit Ale and Porter. Sign on horse drawn cart says, "Upper River Ice."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photograph of the brick Lansing House under construction, Lansing, in 1866. Built by Col. Lafayette C. Baker with a portion of the money he received for the capture of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. Baker was head of the secret service in Washington, D.C. The hotel was badly damaged by fire in 1876. Henry J. Downey, in 1889, purchased the hotel and reopened it as the Downey House. In 1937 the hotel was razed by the Downey estate who then leased the land to the J. W. Knapp Co. who erected a modern department store on the site.
- Date Created:
- 1866-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photograph of view looking northeast from an upper story of the Capitol Building, Lansing.
- Date Created:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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
