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Title
Flood, Piatt Power House, ice floes, Lansing, 1904
Creator
James P. Edmonds

Institution
Capital Area District Library

Subject
Floods Michigan Lansing

Subject
Floods 1900-1940

Subject
Floods

Item Number
JQ01i009

Relation
NULL

Type
image

Format
tiff

Description
Photograph of flooding at Piatt Power House in March, 1904, Lansing. Extensive ice floes. In 1898, the Lansing City Council authorized the Piatt brothers to build an electric power plant that later became the Lansing Board of Water and Light. Located at the site of the Moores Park Dam.

Flood, Piatt Power House, ice floes, Lansing, 1904

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