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Title
Angled view of Central Fire Station and Fire Equipment, Lansing
Creator
James P. Edmonds

Institution
Capital Area District Library

Subject
Fire engines

Subject
Fire houses

Subject
Firefighters Michigan

Item Number
JQ01j004

Relation
NULL

Type
image

Format
tiff

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.

Angled view of Central Fire Station and Fire Equipment, Lansing

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