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- Description:
- An interview of Betty Price, conducted by Bill Dansby in the Forest Parke Library and Archives, Capital Area District Libraries, in 2009. Mrs. Price and her husband owned the Liebermann's store in downtown Lansing, and she traveled the world buying goods for the store. No transcript has been produced. A summary appears on page 29-30 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
- Description:
- Principal Source is a publication of the Principal Shopping District. Container lists are updated as we add new titles and issues to the collection.
- Date Created:
- [1999 TO 2007]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Newspapers and Periodicals Collection
- Description:
- Shop Local Lansing is published by Ken Whitinger. Container lists are updated as we add new titles and issues to the collection.
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Newspapers and Periodicals Collection
- Description:
- Profiles Magazine is made up of and funded by advertisements. Container lists are updated as we add new titles and issues to the collection.
- Date Created:
- [1994 TO 1998]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Newspapers and Periodicals Collection
- Description:
- Lansing City Guide for Visitors and Shoppers is published by the Lansing City Guide Publishing Company. Container lists are updated as we add new titles and issues to the collection.
- Date Created:
- [1924 TO 1925]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Newspapers and Periodicals Collection
- Description:
- The Official Shopper Container lists are updated as we add new titles and issues to the collection.
- Date Created:
- 1963-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Newspapers and Periodicals Collection
- Description:
- East Side Shopping Guide was a guide to East Side Merchants. Container lists are updated as we add new titles and issues to the collection.
- Date Created:
- 1939-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Newspapers and Periodicals Collection
- Description:
- An interview of Louise Shumway Roe, conducted by David Votta in the Forest Parke Library and Archives, Capital Area District Libraries, in 2009. Mrs. Roe was the granddaughter of F. N. Arbaugh, who operated Arbaugh's department store in Lansing, Mich. No transcript has been produced. A summary appears on page 31-32 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
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1934-03-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Notes:
- Woman shaking man's hand, inside a store.
- Date Created:
- 1949-04-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Crowd at a bus stop in front of Kamber Clothes and Zondervan Book Store, located at 39 and 41 Monroe Avenue in downtown Grand Rapids.
- Date Created:
- 1949-11-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- An interior of the Luidberg's grocery store in Grand Rapids showing a grocer and customer.
- Date Created:
- 1940-12-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Woman sitting and being shown fur coat by another woman
- Date Created:
- 1949-04-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Man standing at display of LaSalle razor blades in a shop.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Woman and two girls shopping for dolls at Herpolsheimer Company Department Store.
- Date Created:
- 1938-12-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Man and woman looking at model trains.
- Date Created:
- 1939-12-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Main floor of a large store crowded with shoppers, mostly women, and sales clerks. In view are cosmetic counters and display cases.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- Profiles Magazine is made up of and funded by advertisements. Container lists are updated as we add new titles and issues to the collection.
- Date Created:
- [1994 TO 1998]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Newspapers and Periodicals Collection
- Notes:
- Photographic postcard showing Leonard Street Produce Market, Grand Rapids, Mich. Shows vegetables displayed on counters in booths, with a center aisle. Light poles down the center aisle, full of people. Dec. 9, 1932 purchase date stamp on back.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Woman looking at dolls, Christmas 1939.
- Date Created:
- 1939-12-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- This view shows the Rice & Moore Grocery on Monroe Avenue. The police headquarters were located upstairs. Bushel baskets of fruits and vegetables are displayed outside the store. Several men stand about the sidewalk.
- Date Created:
- 1875-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- This view shows several businesses that lined Monroe. Among them are H. Leonard crockery, O. A. Ball the Clothier, a tobacco store, and Lyon & Cody grocers. Several horse-drawn wagons are farther down the street.
- Date Created:
- 1870-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- This view shows the corner of Division Avenue and Monroe Street. Peck's Drug Store is on the left center. Across the street a meat market can be seen, as well as DeJonge & Vanstrien flour & feed, and J. Gezon & Son grocery. Tucker Furniture & Commission is located in the center of the photo. St. Mark's Church is in the background on the right.
- Date Created:
- 1875-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Three women in fur coats shopping at the perfume counter at Herpolsheimer Company Department Store.
- Date Created:
- 1938-12-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Woman looking in mirror, holding a tea cup
- Date Created:
- 1949-04-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Mr. Freeman Comstock showing a woman a refrigerator at Comstock's Store, located at 232 Bond Avenue NW.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Two women standing with fur coat
- Date Created:
- 1949-04-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Monroe Avenue view. Sweet's Hotel is the background to the left. The middle building advertises shoes and boots. Construction materials are in the right bottom of the pictue. Horse-drawn wagons line the streets.
- Date Created:
- 1865-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Crowd of people crossing the street. Buildings on Monroe Avenue are decorated for Christmas.
- Date Created:
- 1939-12-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Man and woman standing at a display of LaSalle razor blades at LaSalle in a shop.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View looking west on Monroe Avenue. Herpolsheimer's is on the left. The Pantlind Hotel can be seen in the distance.
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Woman trying on fur coat as man and woman look on
- Date Created:
- 1949-04-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Saleswoman behind a counter, selling another woman accessories
- Date Created:
- 1948-05-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Man with packages and teddy bear.
- Date Created:
- 1940-12-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- This view shows the Luce Building which housed the Commercial College, the Grand Rapids branch of Foster Brothers, a dentist, Rodman's and Earle's hosiery and notions. The stores have their wares displayed out on the sidewalk. This later became the site of Herpolsheimer's.
- Date Created:
- 1875-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Woman viewing a window display of mannequins in women's dresses at Steketee's in downtown Grand Rapids during the Christmas season.
- Date Created:
- 1938-11-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Sketch of Collins Hall, built in 1855, burned in 1871.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Woman looking at demi-tas cups
- Date Created:
- 1949-04-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Man and two little girls looking at slippers.
- Date Created:
- 1939-12-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Sweet's Hotel at Campau Square. Other businesses featured: Queen Ins. Co., Home Ins. Co., and Phenix Ins Co.; office of Dr. Aiken, E. S. Pierce & Co Great Wardrobe. Cable car is advertising the Star Clothing House.
- Date Created:
- 1872-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Saleswoman behind a counter, helping another woman.
- Date Created:
- 1948-05-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Crowd at a bus stop in front of Kamber Clothes and Zondervan Book Store, located at 39 and 41 Monroe Avenue in downtown Grand Rapids.
- Date Created:
- 1949-11-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Mr. Freeman Comstock showing a woman a refrigerator at the Comstock's Store, located at 232 Bond Avenue NW.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Two women looking at books at Herpolsheimer Company Department Store.
- Date Created:
- 1938-12-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1934-03-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- An interview of Louise Shumway Roe, conducted by David Votta in the Forest Parke Library and Archives, Capital Area District Libraries, in 2009. Mrs. Roe was the granddaughter of F. N. Arbaugh, who operated Arbaugh's department store in Lansing, Mich. No transcript has been produced. A summary appears on page 31-32 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
- Description:
- An interview of Betty Price, conducted by Bill Dansby in the Forest Parke Library and Archives, Capital Area District Libraries, in 2009. Mrs. Price and her husband owned the Liebermann's store in downtown Lansing, and she traveled the world buying goods for the store. No transcript has been produced. A summary appears on page 29-30 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
- Description:
- Principal Source is a publication of the Principal Shopping District. Container lists are updated as we add new titles and issues to the collection.
- Date Created:
- [1999 TO 2007]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Newspapers and Periodicals Collection
- Description:
- East Side Shopping Guide was a guide to East Side Merchants. Container lists are updated as we add new titles and issues to the collection.
- Date Created:
- 1939-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Newspapers and Periodicals Collection
- Description:
- Shop Local Lansing is published by Ken Whitinger. Container lists are updated as we add new titles and issues to the collection.
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Newspapers and Periodicals Collection
- Description:
- The Official Shopper Container lists are updated as we add new titles and issues to the collection.
- Date Created:
- 1963-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Newspapers and Periodicals Collection
- Description:
- Lansing City Guide for Visitors and Shoppers is published by the Lansing City Guide Publishing Company. Container lists are updated as we add new titles and issues to the collection.
- Date Created:
- [1924 TO 1925]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Newspapers and Periodicals Collection