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- Description:
- One booklet with a black leather cover that is stamped in gold-colored text which shows "Municipal Manual of the City of Detroit, 1900-1901." The booklet is 112 pages in length and is printed in black text on faintly yellowed paper. It includes general facts about the city, names of city officials, names of various committees and commissions and their members, annual salaries, terms of office, rules of order for the Common Council, ward boundary descriptions, street railway routes, values of city real estate, and a summary of assessed valuations for city taxes. There is also a table of contents in the back of the manual as well as a fold-out street map of the city. On a blank page at the back of the manual, a handwritten note shows " Clarence Arthur Cotton, Secretary to Mayor, Detroit, Mich., December 31, 1900. Compliments to Mayor's Secretary of 2001."
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Anniversaries
- Description:
- Staple-bound booklet advocating for the election of Democrat William Barlum Thompson over Republican George P. Codd in the 1906 mayoral election, based on Codd's support for higher fares for the Detroit United Railway. The booklet contains several political cartoons illustrating its point.
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Page from the November 4, 1916 issue of the Detroit Saturday Night. One side of the page includes headline reading "Detroit Saloons are Loyal to Marx" and fifteen photographs of business with signs and advertisements supporting Oscar Bruno Marx for mayor of the City of Detroit. The opposite side of the page includes headline reading "The Thrilling Michigan-Syracuse Football Battle" and six photographs of a football game between the University of Michigan and Syracuse University on October 28, 1916.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Political History
- Description:
- Half-folded handwritten letter and envelope sent by Hazel Hope Pingree on behalf of her mother Frances Pingree to Mrs. Emma Stark Hampton of 970 Woodward Avenue concerning the funeral for Hazen S. Pingree, postmarked July 1st, 1901. Both the letter and the envelope are on black-bordered paper indicating mourning. The note reads: Mrs. Pingree would appreciate your [presence?] at the funeral services of her husband, which takes place on Saturday afternoon at two o'clock. Should you desire to accompany the family to the cemetery - carriages will be provided. Kindly reply.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Sheet music for the "Pingree March", by Ida Thorpe Barton, published by the Whitney-Marvin Music Co. Dedicated to Hon. Hazen S. Pingree, Mayor of Detroit. The cover illustration features a potato, telephone, and municipal lighting tower.
- Date Issued:
- 1895-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Music
- Description:
- Sepia-toned stereoscopic photo card of Hazen S. Pingree's funeral procession, on July 6. 1901. Uniformed Soldiers stand in the front of his coffin as it is wheeled down the street. Men in suits walk at the side of the wagon. Men on horseback are in the background. "A.J. Doughty, Detroit" are printed on the left edge of the card.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Carte de visite bearing a sepia-toned half-length portrait photograph of Zachariah Chandler. He is wearing a suit jacket, shirt, and bowtie. Written in script on the verso, "Z. Chandler". Also, stamped on the verso, the hallmark of the photographer "Marratt, Artistic Photographer, Nos. 131 & 133 Woodward Ave, Detroit, Mich."
- Date Issued:
- 1851-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Half-folded handwritten letter and envelope sent by Hazel Hope Pingree on behalf of her mother Frances Pingree to Mrs. Emma Stark Hampton of 970 Woodward Avenue thanking her for the roses she sent in condolence for Hazen S. Pingree, postmarked July 30, 1901. Both the letter and the envelope are on black-bordered paper indicating mourning. The note reads: My dear Mrs. Hampton, Mother wishes me to write and express to you our grateful appreciation of the beautiful roses which you so thoughtfully sent her, during the sad days of waiting. Yours most sincerely, Hazel Hope Pingree.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- This 4-page letter was handwritten in black ink on slightly yellowed paper by William C. Maybury who was the Mayor of the City of Detroit. The paper is printed with the Executive Office letterhead at the top and shows a watermark that consists of a shield and crown emblem with the words, "Pure Linen Stock." The four pages were bound at the top with a narrow pink ribbon (not shown in the digital images). The text of the letter has been transcribed as follows: "December 31st 1900 Midnight To His Honor - The Mayor of Detroit in 2001 and to the generation whose privilege - and I hope pleasure - it will be to read the letters in this box contained. Health and Greeting - The papers herein contained and now for the first time brought to light by you - after a retirement of one hundred years - were prepared at my request by men and women prominent in the activities of Detroit at the close of the nineteenth Century. Our chief desire and purpose is to convey to you across the long span of the Century a brief and concise statement of the present and past conditions of the community in which we live and to give you as clear an insight as is possible into the social, religious, moral, commercial and political affairs of Detroit and of the times in which we live. There will be given to you testimony from living witnesses of the events chronicled and of conditions described. From testimony so transmitted you will be the better able to discern what advancement you have made from the modest beginnings of which we are witnesses. We are well aware that the century closing has been marvelous in its achievements and we might be fairly excused for believing that the ultimate limits of possibilities has been accomplished in many ways. But on the contrary we do not so believe, because the past has thought us that what seemed to be impossible has been already accomplished and we would therefore not be greatly surprised at more wonderful accomplishments in the future. We communicate by telegraph and telephone over distances that at the opening on the nineteenth century were insurmountable. We travel at a rate of speed not dreamed of then. The power of electricity has been marvelously applied while compressed air and other agencies are now undergoing promising experiment. We travel by railroad and with steam power from Detroit to Chicago in less than eight hours and to New York City by several routes, in less than twenty hours. How much faster are you traveling? How much further have you annihilated time and space, and what agencies are you employing to which we are now strangers? We talk over long distance telephones to the most remote parts of our own land, and with a fair degree of practical success. Are you talking to foreign lands, and to the islands of the sea by the same method? And thus throughout all the various pathways of human progress the papers in this box will bring to you a correct knowledge of present conditions, and possibly words more or less, prophetic of the future. How correct our prophecies may prove we know not, for we write them with hesitation and doubt, but yet with hopefulness. We write in full anticipation that you will stand upon a vantage ground of experience far higher and more resplendent than our own. We ask therefore, for those who assume to prophesy, your kindliest consideration, and judgment, especially when we assure you that our prophets are not without honor, even in their own Century and in their own times. If we may judge from the history of human life as so far told - and of all experience very few - if any - of the 300,000 souls now inhabiting Detroit - will live here when you open this box; which we so solemnly close. And yet it may be possible that such which we now accept from faith may be to you certainty and knowledge - and possibly that knowledge may be accompanied by consciousness that we are witnesses and even listeners to the voices that interpret our words. We humbly ask that you accept for usefulness all that may tend to information and to good, and that you may look most kindly upon that which time has changed or which may have passed out of the realms of live and living. May we be permitted to express one hope - in our hearts - superior to all others - that whatever failures the coming century may have in store - in things material and temporal - you may realize that as a nation, people, and city, you have grown in righteousness for it is this that exalts a nation. Respectfully and affectionately submitted, William C. Maybury Mayor Written hastily and in the last hours of the century at my home on the southwest Corner of streets now called 8th St and Lafayette Avenue - near where I was born."
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Anniversaries
- Description:
- Soft cover booklet containing a transcript of eulogies for the late Zachariah Chandler, delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday, January 28, 1880.
- Date Issued:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Autographed sepia toned seated portrait photograph of Hazen S. Pingree. He is in a wooden chair beside a small table, wearing a dark suit and holding pince nez glasses in right hand, his left hand sitting on the chair's arm rest. Pingree has a mustache and goatee but is almost bald. He is looking to the right of the camera. His signature is in the bottom right corner.
- Date Issued:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo showing a head to knees image of William C. Maybury, Mayor of Detroit. He is wearing a white shirt with a high collar and a dark-colored tie. His dark-colored suit includes a long coat with a vest. He is holding a pair of glasses in his right hand. An embossed label in the gray frame area below the image shows "C. M. Hayes & Co., Detroit" and a handwritten note shows "Description on reverse side." Handwriting on the verso shows: "Detroit, Mich., December 31, 1900. This portrait of the Mayor of Detroit, William C. Maybury, was made with a Dallmeyer Lens, on Seed Dry Plate, and a silver emulsion printing out paper called Aristo Platino, all of which are considered to be the best tools for ordinary photographic portraiture at this time. The exposure of the plate was two seconds in subdued light. The developing agent, pyrogallic acid. The paper print exposure about thirty minutes in sunlight. Toning agent, gold and platinum. Fixing solution, hypo-sulphite soda. The makers of the photograph are: C. M. Hayes & Co., Inc., Photographers 246 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich. C. M. Hayes, President F. A. Goodrich, Vice-President and Treasurer Frederick H. Holt, Secretary."
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Anniversaries
- Description:
- Black and white portrait photograph of Hazen S. Pingree posed seated at a table, wearing a dark suit and holding pince nez glasses in right hand. "Copyrighted 1890 by C.M. Hayes & Co., Detroit," is printed in the lower right corner.
- Date Issued:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Mounted black and white photograph of Hazen S. Pingree posed while turning the first shovel at first grading of Grand Boulevard on August 10, 1891. Men surround Pingree to his right and behind him, while a wagon and a horse can be seen to his left. Pingree is looking directly at the camera with a shovel full of dirt and rock in his hands. He is wearing a suit, hat, and has a mustache and goatee.
- Date Issued:
- 1891-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- VHS tape containing a message from Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick offering his congratulations to Athenia Harris upon her retirement after working for the City of Detroit for thirty years, as well as his apology for being absent from her retirement party. Kilpatrick is filmed in front of a General Motors display. A title card dates the video to January 22, 2003. The video is on a T-05 tape , with a title label on the top, housed within a clear plastic case.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Political History
- Description:
- Half-folded handwritten letter from writer Julian Hawthorne in Philadelphia, to Eli Ransom Sutton of the University of Michigan, dated May 2, 1902, concerning the proposition of writing a biography of Hazen S. Pingree. The letter is on Julian Hawthorne's stationery. The letter reads: 1208 Spruce St. Phila. May 2, 1902 My dear Sutton, I have looked through the type-written book you finally sent me. I am [?] written you briefly, agreeing, for reasons which I partially indicate, my object in doing so. I have received no communication since then from Mrs. Pingree or any one acting in his behalf; [?] since the correspondence hitherto has been between you and me, I will now number my first [?] on the subject, and thoughts[?] to it above. Let me say, in passing, that the book of memorabilia[?] has great [?] judgment and diligence, and would, I think, fulfill the [?] for which it was completed[?]. I wish also to express my [?] of our unfailing [?] and look [?] throughout these [?]. But Mrs. Pingree seems to have been maligned by his friends. The biography of a man like her late husband is a [?], and should not be treated or regarded like a matter of bargaining for a parcel of merchandise.. When I was first invited to consider the biography, I had no anticipation of such treatment as I have received. The proposition which I first made was [?] to the interests of both parties. It was desirable that the biography should be brought out in a form adequate to the reputation both of the subject and of the writer--a dignified and thorough book, such as would be generally recognized as a worthy and acceptable ambition[?] to the march[?] of our epoch. The sum I asked for my work--ten thousand dollars--would have repaid me in some degree for the [?] of labor which I wanted to devote to it; and I should have made such magnitude with the [?] as would have [?] to Mrs. Pingree returns[?] which would[?] in the [?] have [?] this expenditure[?]. No attention was paid by her to my proposition, and I understand that the letter was [?] to her. Meanwhile, time went by; and time in relation to the issue of a biography, in this hurrying and forgetting age, is of great importance. The book might now to be nearing completion, and to have been [?] thoroughly[?] [?] by the ambitious[?]. It has been constantly delayed, to its serious detriment; our [?] then next insofar, it might as well be [?] altogether. Especially is this the case in view of the fact that the widow of Governor Pingree has thought it [?] to publish a [?] manuscript of her late husband, instead of an [?] biography. She will truly incur the risk of ridicule form Gov. Pingree admirers, who knowing his financial circumstances, will question the motives of her conduct and such[?] to cast doubt upon her loyalty to him. I am bound to say, in justice[?] to myself, am not of [?] to the memory of Gov. Pingree, that the only thing which can now save this book from contempt and regret[?] will be my name-or that of some literary name as well known and of good standing-upon the page. I can [?] save it; but if the matter be further delayed, I will not save it, and I will feel compelled to decline to have anything to do with it. My reputation will not allow me to connect myself with a failure. I must ask a word about the financial aspect of this affair. I calculated my average[?] [?] from literary work in a year at $15,000. When therefore I undertake to spend four to five months on this biography for $2500. Mrs. Pingree will understand that I am [?] making her a percent of an equal amount. I would gladly give more than that if I could afford, for the sake of receiving[?] the memory of a Great American from [?] or misconception; but that is the limit of which I am able to do. Mrs. Pingree must [?] make no misconception as to the matters which have prompted me to make the concession I have made. I can make no more. If she wishes me to write the book, I must repeat that she take action upon my [?] at once[?]. A check for $2500 must be sent to me immediately, and an agreement drawn up to pay me one half of the sum received as royalties, after the said royalties shall have repaid her the advance to me of $2500. Unless I hear from her to this effect on or before May 10th, I shall conclude that she has decided not to go on with the negotiations, and will return the typewritten volume of memorabilia. Meanwhile I remain available [?] Julian Hawthorne Let me know how to [?] with the [?]
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Sheet music for the "Pingree Memorial March (Played in Memory of Governor Pingree)", by C. A. Grimm, published by the C. W. Marvin Publishing Co. Hazen S. Pingree is featured on the front cover in an image by C.M. Hayes & Co. Printed on front cover: Played at the funeral of ex-gov. Pingree by 150 musicians.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Music
- Description:
- Staple-bound booklet distributed by the Committee of Citizens of Detroit containing lyrics set to popular songs critical of James Couzens and his plan for a municipally-owned street railway system. The booklet contains the songs "Jim Is Only Blowing Bubbles," "Jim, It Must Be Rare," "We'll Be All Out of Luck But Jim," "I've Got Some Bad News, Honey," "Oh, Jimmy, No Jimme," "We Can't Have This Any More," "The Mayor is Here Again," "Tell Me Why Folks Are Doubtful," "Carry Me Back to the Beginning," "I'll Build a Line," "There's a Long, Long Trail," "Blame All Your Troubles on the D.U.R.," "I'm Always Chasing Issues," "Everybody's Knockin' It," "Mayor Jim Has a Whim," "I'm Dreaming Dreams," "Vote It Down," "It's the Wrong Way," "Our Mayor Would Like a Car Line," "There's a Deal in the Land of Detroit," "Our Mayor Wants Fifteen Millions," "Keep the Home Fires Burning," "It's the Wrong Way to Build a Car Line," "Couzens Has a Plan," "Scots, Wha' Hae Wi' Wallace Bled," "A Neat Little Home of My Own," "Tipperary," "Mr. Mayor, Your Little Plan Won't Do," "What's the use of Dreaming," and "Jim Cousins has a Street Car Scheme." "Detroit May 1920 2020 Forest Ave [?]," is handwritten and "Received Mayor's Executive Secretarial, MAR 20 1992," is stamped on the cover.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Mounted sepia toned group portrait photograph taken of Mayor Hazen S. Pingree, the Aldermen of the Detroit Common Council, and newspaper men posed standing in roughly three rows, behind Mount Vernon, on October 22, 1893. The 22 men wear coats and hold their hats at their sides. Photograph date October 22, 1893 "Luke C. Dillon, Photographer to Mount Vernon. Office at Pullman's Gallery. No. 935 Pennsylvania Ave. P.O. Box 655, Washington D.C.," is stamped on the verso, and "Oct. 22, 1893, Detroit Aldermen, Mayor Pingree, & newspaper men at Mount Vernon," is handwritten on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Cabinet card bearing a sepia-toned photograph taken of uniformed soldiers and men in dark suits and hats escorting a wagon carrying Hazen S. Pingree's casket during his funeral procession on July 6, 1901. The photo is mounted on a black card with an embossed border.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Sepia toned photograph of Hazen S. Pingree with a straight beard seated in a baluster-backed chair with right arm resting on a table, holding a pince-nez in his right hand. The photo is signed by the photographer C.M. Hayes, and "C.M. Hayes & Co. Detroit, Mich.," is embossed in the lower left corner.
- Date Issued:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Sepia-toned oval-shaped head-and-shoulders portrait photograph of John Christian Lodge, wearing a herringbone tweed suit, a light-colored tie, and a shirt with a rounded collar. A backdrop painted with foliage is behind him. The photo is signed by the photographer, "C.M. Hayes 08."
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Black and white photograph of Mayor Hazen S. Pingree and daughter Hazel on horseback at the grading of Grand Boulevard on August 10, 1891. A crowd of men, and several children are gathered around the Pingrees. A boarded walkway runs across the foreground, extending from wooden stairs on the left edge of the frame.
- Date Issued:
- 1891-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- This slightly yellowed paper envelope contained a 4-page letter and that was written by William C. Maybury, Mayor of Detroit. The upper left corner is printed with the return address of the Executive Office. A handwritten note on the right side of the envelope shows "First paper to be opened - Greeting of the Mayor of Detroit, 1900, to the Mayor & people of 2001."
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Anniversaries
- Description:
- Envelope, preprinted with the return address, "Office of the Mayor, Detroit, Michigan, addressed to Hazen S. Pingree at the Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. The envelope is postmarked January 3, 1894. The envelope was opened on its right edge. One stamp has been torn off, the other, is a 2¢ stamp Columbian issue.
- Date Issued:
- 1894-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Handwritten letter with envelope from writer Julian Hawthorne in Philadelphia, to Eli Ransom Sutton of the University of Michigan, postmarked May 12, 1902, concerning the prospect of writing a biography of Hazen S. Pingree. The letter is on Colonial Press stationery, however the letterhead has been crossed out. The letter reads: 1208 Spruce St. Phila. April 23, 1902 My dear Sutton, I have [?] considered your letter, and this is what I think. You have been at a lot of pains about the thing, out of [?], and I want to do all possible in the [?]. If the book is to be such as I can be[?] in four months. I am willing to undertake it for $2500, and half of whatever royalties may come in after this sum has been [?] by then[?]. The $2500 to be paid to me upon the ratifying of this understanding. The materials on [?] to be sent to me here, and I will then engage to furnish[?] the complete copy for the book, 350pp on or before Oct. 1st 1902. If Mrs. Pingree consents[?] to this, I would like to have the above minimum[?] fulfilled in[?] once. Of course I regret, on other accounts besides my own. There the book is to be curtailed: it would have made a splendid 2-vol. work. But I will do my best with it out of regard for the subject, one of the best of Americans. As [?] work, I will only [?] to bear in mind that I am cordially mistaken in it, and should more than plan to [?] help then. [?] Julian Hawthorne
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- This 3-page certificate was typewritten in blue ink on slightly yellowed paper that lists the names of the writers whose letters were sealed in the century box (time capsule) at midnight on December 31, 1900. The subject for each writer is listed next to his/her name. The first page is printed with the letterhead of the Executive Office (Mayor's Office) at the top and the pages show a watermark that consists of a shield and crown emblem with the words, "Pure Linen Stock." The three pages are bound at the top with three brass grommets. On the last page, the certificate has been signed by the Mayor's Secretary, Clarence A. Cotton, and also sealed with a gold-colored embossed foil seal.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Anniversaries
- Description:
- One tri-fold political handbill from the Detroit mayoral election of 1889. The handbill is printed in black text on yellowed paper and is entitled "The Tax-Payers', Business Men's and Workingmen's Candidate. For Reform in Municipal Government. Hazen S. Pingree, The Republican Nominee for Mayor." The inside pages give biographical information about the candidate, his service in the Civil War, his shoe business, a list of prominent supporters, and his letter of acceptance as mayoral nominee.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Political History
- Description:
- Mayor from 1993-2003.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1889 and 1895.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- An oral history interview of Tony Benavides. Mr. Benavides moved to Lansing from Mexico at the age of 15 to work in migrant camps with his family. As an adult he served as director of the Cristo Rey Community Center, and worked for 33 years at Schmidt's (then L&L) grocery store. He was elected mayor of Lansing in 2003 and held the position for two years. The interview with Mr. Benavides was conducted by David Votta at an unknown location sometime in 2009. For this interview, no rights release form is on file and no transcript has been produced. To access the audio recording, please contact the library. A summary of the interview appears on pages 9-11 of the <a href="http://www.cadl.org/lhonline/Lansing 150 OH Booklet.pdf">Lansing 150 Sesquicentennial Oral Histories Booklet</a> booklet.
- Date Created:
- 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing 150 Oral Histories
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- An oral history from Ralph Crego, a former mayor of Lansing. The interview was recorded on July 18, 1988, as part of the "Voices of Lansing" oral history project. Ralph Crego was interviewed by Joanne Jager of the Lansing Public Library. Rights release forms for this interview were never completed. A previous interview, also with no release form, was made on June 20, 1988 (see 1991-05-001.004). For this interview, a transcript is on file. The oral history recordings and transcript may be accessed within the library only at this time.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Voices of Lansing Oral Histories
- Description:
- Mayor 1941.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- "Thanks for signing my petition." Sam Street Hughes later served as mayor of Lansing.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1918-1919 and 1922.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A program, a baseball hat, and three small penants from the City of Lansing 2018 inaugural event, which took place at the Lansing Center on January 1, 2018. Sworn into office that day were new Mayor Andy Schor, returning City Clerk Chris Swope, and new/returning City Council members Kathie Dunbar (At-Large); Peter Spadafore (At-Large); Jeremy Garza (Second Ward); and Brian T. Jackson (Fourth Ward).
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing 2018 Inaugural Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1922-1923.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- This collection was created by John Sherwood Bennett. He was born on October 18, 1848 in London, England. He arrived in the U.S. by port of New Orleans on November 28, 1853 at age 5. He died on July 25, 1929 in Lansing, MI. John married Sarah in 1873 who was born in 1853 in England and died in 1923. He is buried at Mt. Hope cemetery and was mayor of Lansing from 1908-1911. The collection contains bankbooks, advertisements, correspondence, ledgers, masonic materials, photographs, poems, and receipts.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- John S. Bennett Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1908-1911.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo of Joseph E. Warner, Warner joined the Spalding and Rogers North American Circus in 1853 and was involved in the circus busineess at least until 1887. He served as Mayor of Lansing for one year, 1878. He was born in New York state in 1832 and came to Michigan with his family at the age of four. He died on May 21, 1914.
- Date Created:
- 1878-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1961-1965.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor from 1992-1993.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Gerald Graves was Mayor of Lansing, 1969 to 1981.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1884-1885.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- An oral history from Maxwell E. Murninghan, a former City Council member and Mayor of Lansing who had involvements with the printing industry and real estate. Mr. Murninghan was interviewed by Joanne Jager at the Lansing Public Library on November 5, 1990. A transcript for this recording has not been completed.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Voices of Lansing Oral Histories
- Description:
- Mayor 1897-1899.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1872-1873 and 1876.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Order of girls: Helen on top, Edna, Wilma, Sarah.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Defense officials and Mayor Hughes attend a blackout survey party following a surprise practice blackout. They are standing in front of a telephone bank.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Mayor 1871 and 1881.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1867.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A group of men seated in Council Chambers in the old Lansing City Hall, in about 1915. On an enclosed memo from Charlotte Dunnebacke, the following men are identified: Front row, second from left: Dr. John G. Rulison, Third Ward Councilman. Third from left, John McClellan, Clerk of Cemetery and Park Commission and Board of Police and Fire Commissioners. Fourth from left, J. Gottlieb Reutter, Mayor. Second row, fourth from left: Joseph Dunnebacke, City Attorney.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Order of girls: Sarah, Helen, Wilma, Edna.
- Date Created:
- 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1896.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1890-1891.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1863-1865.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- On reverse: handwritten notations by David Caterino: "Charles J. Davis Res., 1326 E. Michigan, Lansing, Michigan" Davis served as mayor of Lansing, 1897-1899.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Postcard Collection
- Description:
- Home of physician Ira H. Bartholomew and his wife Effie. Ira Bartholomew also served as Mayor of Lansing.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A copy photo of a painted portrait of James F. Hammell. He was the mayor of Lansing, 1900-1903, and owned the Hammell Cigar Company.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1933-1941.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- An interview of Jim Reutter, conducted by Bill Dansby in the Forest Parke Library and Archives, Capital Area District Libraries, in 2009. Mr. Reutter was the grandson of mayor Gottlieb Reutter and his family was involved with the Lansing Liederkranz German organization for many years. No transcript has been produced. No summary appears in the <a href="http://www.cadl.org/lhonline/Lansing 150 OH Booklet.pdf">Lansing 150 Sesquicentennial Oral Histories Booklet</a> booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing 150 Oral Histories
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- In this photo the Morlock quadruplets are pictured in the backyard of Peter Gray's home in Jackson, Michigan. The order of the quadruplets is Edna, Sarah, Wilma, Helen. They are pictured with the wife of Jackson Prison and Mrs. McCullough, her friend. Two copies.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor of Lansing, 1878. Two copies.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1888.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1931-1932.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1923-1926.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor from 1993-2003.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor Sam Street Hughes at a table with microphones during a WJIM radio broadcast, Lansing, Mich.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Civilian Defense
- Description:
- Currently located at 3900 Stabler Street. Text reads, "Superintendent Dwight Rich (left), Mrs. Loyde Darling, Mayor Ralph Crego, and Benjamin Leyer Principal, place a box of mementos in the cornerstone at the cornerstone ceremonies, Everett High School. February 1959." Image has been hand tinted.
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1866.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Currently located at 3900 Stabler Street. Mayor Ralph Crego giving a speech at the Everett High School cornerstone laying, February 1959. Image has been hand tinted. Originally part of the Carl Dalrymple Collection.
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1920-1921.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- An interview with Joanne Crego Hacker, the daughter of Lansing mayor Ralph Crego. She graduated from Sexton High School and Michigan State University. The interview, conducted by Marilyn Culpepper, is mostly concerning her father. No transcript has been produced. A summary appears on page 16 of the <a href="http://www.cadl.org/lhonline/Lansing 150 OH Booklet.pdf">Lansing 150 Sesquicentennial Oral Histories Booklet</a> booklet.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing 150 Oral Histories
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- An oral history from Gerald W. Graves, a former mayor of the City of Lansing. He was born in Alpena (Mich.), attended Michigan State University and the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy, and at age 24 was the youngest sea captain in U. S. history. He was elected to the Michigan State Legislature in 1950 and served as Lansing's mayor from 1969 to 1981. He was interviewed by Joanne Jager at the Lansing Public Library Local History Room on October 30, with a follow-up interview on November 12, 1990. A transcript for this recording has not been completed.
- Date Created:
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Voices of Lansing Oral Histories
- Description:
- Gray was Lansing Mayor and later the warden of Jackson Prison. This photo was taken in the backyard of his home in Jackson, Michigan. The bows and dresses were made by their mother. Order of quadruplets is Helen, Wilma, Sarah, Edna.
- Date Created:
- 1935-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor Green's grandson.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor from 1993-2003.
- Date Created:
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A group of men, presumably medical students, with "Old Doc Naegle" at the University of Michigan Anatomical Laboratory entrance. The building was completed in 1889. The photograph is inscribed on the back by a Dr. Haze, likely Dr. William H. Haze who practiced medicine in Lansing for many years and also served as mayor in 1866.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1941-1942. He was also a judge.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- A portrait of Lawton T. Hemans with his signature, extracted from an unidentified publication. Hemans served as a teacher in Aurelius Township; a mayor of Mason (1892, at age 27); and many other public service roles in Ingham County and the state of Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1894.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo shows Mrs. Bertha Patterson (nanny), Edna, Mrs. Sadie Morlock, Mrs. Peter Gray, Mrs. McCullough, Helen, Wilma, Mrs. Peter Gray's sister. Mrs. Patterson lived on Pearl Street and she and her husband would occassionally babysit if Sadie had to go to town to Sears Roebuck for dress making materials for the girls.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1868-1869.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1927-1930.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- An oral history from Ralph Crego, a former mayor of Lansing. The interview was recorded on June 20, 1988, as part of the "Voices of Lansing" oral history project. Ralph Crego was interviewed by Joanne Jager of the Lansing Public Library. Rights release forms for this interview were never completed. A second interview, also with no release form, was made on July 18, 1988 (see 1991-05-001.005). For that interview, a transcript is on file. The oral history recordings and transcript may be accessed within the library only at this time.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Voices of Lansing Oral Histories
- Description:
- Mayor 1887.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Mayor 1912-1917.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- An engraving of O. M. Barnes, who with his son Orlando F. Barnes was a prominent business leader in early Lansing, Mich.. Both served as mayor of the city as well. This portrait is extracted from an unidentified publication.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Lansing's then Mayor Ralph Crego addresses a drama class at Walter French Junior High School.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- This collection was donated by its creator, Gerald W. Graves, who served as the Mayor of Lansing from 1969 to 1981. He included a letter briefly itemizing the materials, such as his tax plan, veto messages, and the annual State of the City addresses. Materials also include economic development and capital improvement project information. The majority of the materials are photocopies rather than originals.
- Date Created:
- [1970 TO 1981]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Gerald W. Graves Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- In an episode of "This is Kalamazoo," Mayor Paul Todd discusses topics covered in the annual meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors. Todd speaks in detail about housing projects in New York City and the relationship between "slums" and problem areas for police, land use in the Netherlands, a scientific presentation concerning the future of atomic bombs, civilian defense, and the future of the Soviet Union.
- Date Issued:
- 1950-07-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Second Mayor in 1860.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection