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- Description:
- A man rolls up a fire hose. There are two copies of this photograph. On back of copy 1: "Negative #308. W. C. Hanley of the Legion Auxiliary Firemen Squad." Copy 2 reads "American Legion Auxiliary Fire Squad. Hose handling training class. Rolling up hose after use."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- A damaged photograph of Lansing's Fire Chief Hugo Delfs in dress uniform, holding a trophy. This photograph was a gift of Mrs. Robert Richards to the Lansing Public Library in 1984.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A group of unidentified men with a hose and ladder.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Four unidentified men on a ladder with a hose at the side of Lansing's fire station no. 4. On back of photograph: "Event: Graduation Exercises of Auxiliary Firemen. Captain Fred Alber in Charge."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Lansing Fire Department at 112 East Allegan Street where Capital Savings and Loan building would stand in 1960 with City Hall on the floor above. Fire fighters and engines are in front.
- Date Created:
- 1895-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Two women and a man with rope and a fire extinguisher. On back of photo: "Lashing equipment to go aloft."
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Engine House Number 2 at 1128 North Washington Avenue (circa 1890 to 1962). Fire firefighters and wagon in front. North End Fire Department. This photograph appears in "Pictorial Souvenir Book of the Police and Fire Departments, Lansing, Michigan" (1913) by Harry Wilkinson.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- 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:
- Fire Station building with officers and vehicles in front. This station was built in 1904 at 125 South Grand Avenue and served until 1949. The building was demolished in 1951.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
