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- Description:
- This is a group of four clippings of special full illustraton pages from the Michigan State Digest. The pages are to do with Lansing, and include a page each on: "Lansing's Guardians of the Peace" (the Lansing Police Department, with portraits of officers and Chief Alfred Seymour at center) Public officials (portraits of city department heads, aldermen, and other municipal leaders) "Varied Industrial Activity" (photographs of ten manufacturing facilities and city utility plants) "Lansing's Welfare Societies" and "The Lansing Life Underwriters Association" (portraits of people active in both of those areas) The Michigan State Digest was an independent newspaper published in Lansing from about 1926 to 1950.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- Located at 615 Capitol Avenue North.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Eight books containing Detroit Police Department rules and regulations, Federal and State Court law of arrest, the Municipal Manual for the City of Detroit, and the constitution of the Metropolitan Police Relief Society. A representative sample of covers and title pages for these materials has been scanned. For more information contact the library.
- Date Created:
- [1879 TO 1914]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Description:
- Located at 116 West Allegan Street. Boston Insurance Company, Western Department, is also visible. The Style Shop opened in 1917 under the leadership of W. E. Seaman, and was in business until 1971.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- The Arbeiter Unterstutzung Verein (Worker Support Club) Hall located at 608 North Grand Avenue. The society was organized in 1875 and built its first hall in 1882; at one time it had over 500 members. The building in this photograph was dedicated in 1905. The gardens in back were the location for many social events. The society was closed out in 1931 due to lack of younger membership, at the time the last of the viable Michigan Arbeiter societies. It was an insurance organization that provided illness and death benefits, mainly for members of Lansing's German-American community, and also a social organization.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Eight books containing Detroit Police Department rules and regulations, Federal and State Court law of arrest, the Municipal Manual for the City of Detroit, and the constitution of the Metropolitan Police Relief Society. A representative sample of covers and title pages for these materials has been scanned. For more information contact the library.
- Date Created:
- [1879 TO 1914]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Alfred Seymour Collection
- Notes:
- Robert Loomis writes in his diary of his time spent as a state senator and occasionally records the vote count for pieces of legislation. Additionally, he writes about the insurance industry, as well as meetings and services at his church.
- Date Created:
- 1897-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- A man holding two items, a "Life Annuity Contract" from Wheaton College in Wheaton. Illinois and a check from Wheaton College for $125.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Robert Loomis writes of the meetings he attended as a member of the Kent County Board of Auditors, as well as his involvement with his church. He also writes of a fire in San Fransisco and its impact on the insurance business.
- Date Created:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Oral history interview with America Reyes. Interviewed by Penny Burillo. Spanish language recording. Summary in English and Spanish. February 11, 2016. América Reyes was born in El Realito, Tamaulipas, Mexico. She lived in Mexico for all of her childhood. She came to the United States when she was 22 years old and lived in Dallas, Texas. She married there and had two sons and one daughter. In 1997, América and her mother and brothers came to Walkerville, Michigan. They began working as migrants, picking vegetables in the fields. América now works at Michigan Freeze Pack. She wants to stay in Michigan in the future.
- Date Created:
- 2016-02-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
