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Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Artillery shells pass through a continuous automatic paint-spraying operation in which protective coatings are applied to all inside and outside surfaces. Location: a converted Midwest auto plant

Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Artillery shells pass thro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A bearing of a big forge hammer is removed for overhauling as the maker of a popular American car switches over to production of machine guns for the Air Force. Every machine in the plant must be in perfect condition for big orders in the months to come. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

A bearing of a big forge hammer is removed for overhauling as the make...

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Conversion. Auto plant to 75- and 155-mm shell production. The work of pointing shells must be conducted with care. Shells must be perfect to insure accurate performance. But high standards of accuracy are nothing new to the former automobile plant where these shells are being made. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Conversion. Auto plant to 75- and 155-mm shell production. The work of...

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Stockbridge Water Tower, Adjacent to Village Hall (115 East Elizabeth Street), Stockbridge, Ingham County, MI

Stockbridge Water Tower, Adjacent to Village Hall (115 East Elizabeth ...

Significance: Stockbridge's 1912 vintage water tower is an early example of an elliptical bottom tank patented in 1907 by the Chicago Bridge & Iron Works, probably the leading producer of such structures in the... More

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River Avenue, west ramp area, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River...

Significance: The Hughes Flying Service buildings are significant for their role in the training of pilots during World War II under the Civilian Pilots Training Program. Future commercial pilots enrolled in t... More

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River Avenue, west ramp area, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River...

Significance: The Hughes Flying Service buildings are significant for their role in the training of pilots during World War II under the Civilian Pilots Training Program. Future commercial pilots enrolled in t... More

Capital City Airport, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingha...

Significance: The Capital City Regional Airport complex is significant for its diverse representation of the development of the airport industry. Aviation activity is represented from 1925, with the first offi... More

Herrmann House, 520 North Capitol Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Herrmann House, 520 North Capitol Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

1987 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The Herrman House was built in 1894 for John Herrman on Lot 10, Block 69 in Lansing, Michigan. Mr. Herrman was a prominent tailor and leading mem... More

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham...

Significance: The Diamond Reo Motor Plant, situated in an industrial area near downtown Lansing, consists of the only known extant and little altered structures associated with Ransom Eli Olds' successful ventu... More

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County...

Significance: The primary unique qualities of this bridge are associated with the integration of three basic design types within one structure, which originally blended in with the surrounding architecture and ... More

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County...

Significance: The primary unique qualities of this bridge are associated with the integration of three basic design types within one structure, which originally blended in with the surrounding architecture and ... More

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County...

Significance: The primary unique qualities of this bridge are associated with the integration of three basic design types within one structure, which originally blended in with the surrounding architecture and ... More

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. American power in the air grows rapidly as machine guns of the finest quality pour from production lines to arm the planes that are coming steadily from other lines. These guns, entirely completed and ready to fire, await shipment from the large converted auto plant which made them. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. American power in the air g...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Conversion. Auto engines to military truck engines. Forging weapons for war. Crankshafts for military trucks are shaped on a huge Erie forging press served by an endless chain conveyor. Site: a Midwest auto plant converted to war production

Conversion. Auto engines to military truck engines. Forging weapons fo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Capital City Airport, Wood Garage, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, Wood Garage, North side of Grand River Avenue, L...

Significance: The Wood Garage contributes to the significance of the West Ramp because of its historic use as a field maintenance structure. Survey number: HAER MI-320-H

Capital City Airport, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingha...

Significance: The Capital City Regional Airport complex is significant for its diverse representation of the development of the airport industry. Aviation activity is represented from 1925, with the first offi... More

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham...

Significance: The Diamond Reo Motor Plant, situated in an industrial area near downtown Lansing, consists of the only known extant and little altered structures associated with Ransom Eli Olds' successful ventu... More

Capital City Airport, Francis Aviation, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, Francis Aviation, North side of Grand River Aven...

Significance: The Francis Aviation buildings are significant for two reasons, the first being that one of the hangars in the complex is the second oldest hangar erected at the Capital City Airport, after the Cl... More

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County...

Significance: The primary unique qualities of this bridge are associated with the integration of three basic design types within one structure, which originally blended in with the surrounding architecture and ... More

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County...

Significance: The primary unique qualities of this bridge are associated with the integration of three basic design types within one structure, which originally blended in with the surrounding architecture and ... More

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County...

Significance: The primary unique qualities of this bridge are associated with the integration of three basic design types within one structure, which originally blended in with the surrounding architecture and ... More

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County...

Significance: The primary unique qualities of this bridge are associated with the integration of three basic design types within one structure, which originally blended in with the surrounding architecture and ... More

Accurate workmanship is required to make perfectly uniform shells for the Army. Inspectors are on the alert to reject those which fail to meet requirements. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Accurate workmanship is required to make perfectly uniform shells for ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Auto engines to military truck engines. Forging weapons for war. Crankshafts for military trucks are shaped on a huge Erie forging press served by an endless chain conveyor. Site: a Midwest auto plant converted to war production

Conversion. Auto engines to military truck engines. Forging weapons fo...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Contact print either attached to or in original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War ... More

It's hard to recognize the production layout of a well-known auto plant in machine lines that win with wartime production. It's shells instead of auto parts now--but American industry can turn out the orders for war as well as for peace. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

It's hard to recognize the production layout of a well-known auto plan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

516 Hogsback Road (House), Mason, Ingham County, MI

516 Hogsback Road (House), Mason, Ingham County, MI

Significance: Modest farmhouse of Greek Revival character, representative of the early days of permanent settlement in the region. / This well proportioned mid-nineteenth century farmhouse is representative of ... More

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham...

Significance: The Diamond Reo Motor Plant, situated in an industrial area near downtown Lansing, consists of the only known extant and little altered structures associated with Ransom Eli Olds' successful ventu... More

Ransom E. Olds House, 720 Washington Avenue & Main Street, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Ransom E. Olds House, 720 Washington Avenue & Main Street, Lansing, In...

Significance: 20th century mansion representative of the taste, materials and craftsmanship of its era. / Date of construction: 1904. Architect: D.D. Moon. Brick and stone. Two-and-a-half stories; L-plan; ap... More

Ransom E. Olds House, 720 Washington Avenue & Main Street, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Ransom E. Olds House, 720 Washington Avenue & Main Street, Lansing, In...

Significance: 20th century mansion representative of the taste, materials and craftsmanship of its era. / Date of construction: 1904. Architect: D.D. Moon. Brick and stone. Two-and-a-half stories; L-plan; ap... More

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County...

Significance: The primary unique qualities of this bridge are associated with the integration of three basic design types within one structure, which originally blended in with the surrounding architecture and ... More

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A former automotive worker in a converted auto plant sights through the precision-made breech of a machine gun for the Air Corps. One of thousands of examples of the way American enterprise threw its technical skill and its tremendous mass production facilities behind the war production drive. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A former automotive worker ...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Capital City Airport, Capital City Aviation, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, Capital City Aviation, North side of Grand River...

Significance: Capital City Aviation is associated with the 60' x 60' metal hangar located at the southeast corner of the West Ramp complex of buildings. This hangar is typical of the all-metal, pre-engineered ... More

St. Katherine's Episcopal Chapel, 4650 Meridian Road, Williamston, Ingham County, MI

St. Katherine's Episcopal Chapel, 4650 Meridian Road, Williamston, Ing...

Significance: This pleasant chapel was built in 1887 and is reminiscent of Medieval, English, country architecture. Although simple in design and workmanship it remains almost entirely in its original state. /... More

St. Katherine's Episcopal Chapel, 4650 Meridian Road, Williamston, Ingham County, MI

St. Katherine's Episcopal Chapel, 4650 Meridian Road, Williamston, Ing...

Significance: This pleasant chapel was built in 1887 and is reminiscent of Medieval, English, country architecture. Although simple in design and workmanship it remains almost entirely in its original state. /... More

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River Avenue, west ramp area, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River...

Significance: The Hughes Flying Service buildings are significant for their role in the training of pilots during World War II under the Civilian Pilots Training Program. Future commercial pilots enrolled in t... More

516 Hogsback Road (House), Mason, Ingham County, MI

516 Hogsback Road (House), Mason, Ingham County, MI

Significance: Modest farmhouse of Greek Revival character, representative of the early days of permanent settlement in the region. / This well proportioned mid-nineteenth century farmhouse is representative of ... More

Capital City Airport, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingha...

Significance: The Capital City Regional Airport complex is significant for its diverse representation of the development of the airport industry. Aviation activity is represented from 1925, with the first offi... More

Capital City Airport, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingha...

Significance: The Capital City Regional Airport complex is significant for its diverse representation of the development of the airport industry. Aviation activity is represented from 1925, with the first offi... More

Herrmann House, 520 North Capitol Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Herrmann House, 520 North Capitol Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

1987 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The Herrman House was built in 1894 for John Herrman on Lot 10, Block 69 in Lansing, Michigan. Mr. Herrman was a prominent tailor and leading mem... More

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County...

Significance: The primary unique qualities of this bridge are associated with the integration of three basic design types within one structure, which originally blended in with the surrounding architecture and ... More

Topographic map of the counties of Ingham & Livingston, Michigan /

Topographic map of the counties of Ingham & Livingston, Michigan /

"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1895 by David S. Harleyin the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the eastern District of Penna." LC Land ownership maps, 333 Available also through the Lib... More

Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Inspection and finishing operations on artillery shells in a converted Midwest auto plant. Workers keep pace with conveyors that were formerly used to speed production of automobile parts

Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Inspection and finishing o...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. He used to make automobile parts. Now the big auto plant in which he works is using his skill to make machine guns for the Air Corps. After each operation, the gun barrels are racked on trucks for removal to succeeding operations. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. He used to make automobile ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Auto engines to military truck engines. Forging weapons for war. Crankshafts for military trucks are shaped on a huge Erie forging press served by an endless chain conveyor. Site: a Midwest auto plant converted to war production

Conversion. Auto engines to military truck engines. Forging weapons fo...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Stockbridge Water Tower, Adjacent to Village Hall (115 East Elizabeth Street), Stockbridge, Ingham County, MI

Stockbridge Water Tower, Adjacent to Village Hall (115 East Elizabeth ...

Significance: Stockbridge's 1912 vintage water tower is an early example of an elliptical bottom tank patented in 1907 by the Chicago Bridge & Iron Works, probably the leading producer of such structures in the... More

St. Katherine's Episcopal Chapel, 4650 Meridian Road, Williamston, Ingham County, MI

St. Katherine's Episcopal Chapel, 4650 Meridian Road, Williamston, Ing...

Significance: This pleasant chapel was built in 1887 and is reminiscent of Medieval, English, country architecture. Although simple in design and workmanship it remains almost entirely in its original state. /... More

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River Avenue, west ramp area, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River...

Significance: The Hughes Flying Service buildings are significant for their role in the training of pilots during World War II under the Civilian Pilots Training Program. Future commercial pilots enrolled in t... More

Capital City Airport, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingha...

Significance: The Capital City Regional Airport complex is significant for its diverse representation of the development of the airport industry. Aviation activity is represented from 1925, with the first offi... More

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham...

Significance: The Diamond Reo Motor Plant, situated in an industrial area near downtown Lansing, consists of the only known extant and little altered structures associated with Ransom Eli Olds' successful ventu... More

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham...

Significance: The Diamond Reo Motor Plant, situated in an industrial area near downtown Lansing, consists of the only known extant and little altered structures associated with Ransom Eli Olds' successful ventu... More

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County...

Significance: The primary unique qualities of this bridge are associated with the integration of three basic design types within one structure, which originally blended in with the surrounding architecture and ... More

A bronze collar is fitted on a shell for the Army in a converted automobile plant. Much of the production machinery was switched to the new work with little change, some was changed more radically and some new machinery was installed. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

A bronze collar is fitted on a shell for the Army in a converted autom...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A huge forge manner is taken off its regular peacetime duties in an automobile plant and put on war Production. When workmen have finished their conversion job, the big fellow began shaping crankshafts for defense. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

A huge forge manner is taken off its regular peacetime duties in an au...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A big auto plant changes over to the production of machine guns for the Air Force. Electricians begin running power lines to the new machine locations. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

A big auto plant changes over to the production of machine guns for th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan

Jan 1892. 13 Sheet(s). Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Capital City Airport, Capital City Aviation, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, Capital City Aviation, North side of Grand River...

Significance: Capital City Aviation is associated with the 60' x 60' metal hangar located at the southeast corner of the West Ramp complex of buildings. This hangar is typical of the all-metal, pre-engineered ... More

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River Avenue, west ramp area, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River...

Significance: The Hughes Flying Service buildings are significant for their role in the training of pilots during World War II under the Civilian Pilots Training Program. Future commercial pilots enrolled in t... More

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River Avenue, west ramp area, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River...

Significance: The Hughes Flying Service buildings are significant for their role in the training of pilots during World War II under the Civilian Pilots Training Program. Future commercial pilots enrolled in t... More

Capital City Airport, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingha...

Significance: The Capital City Regional Airport complex is significant for its diverse representation of the development of the airport industry. Aviation activity is represented from 1925, with the first offi... More

Herrmann House, 520 North Capitol Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Herrmann House, 520 North Capitol Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

1987 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The Herrman House was built in 1894 for John Herrman on Lot 10, Block 69 in Lansing, Michigan. Mr. Herrman was a prominent tailor and leading mem... More

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham...

Significance: The Diamond Reo Motor Plant, situated in an industrial area near downtown Lansing, consists of the only known extant and little altered structures associated with Ransom Eli Olds' successful ventu... More

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County...

Significance: The primary unique qualities of this bridge are associated with the integration of three basic design types within one structure, which originally blended in with the surrounding architecture and ... More

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County...

Significance: The primary unique qualities of this bridge are associated with the integration of three basic design types within one structure, which originally blended in with the surrounding architecture and ... More

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River Avenue, west ramp area, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River...

Significance: The Hughes Flying Service buildings are significant for their role in the training of pilots during World War II under the Civilian Pilots Training Program. Future commercial pilots enrolled in t... More

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River Avenue, west ramp area, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River...

Significance: The Hughes Flying Service buildings are significant for their role in the training of pilots during World War II under the Civilian Pilots Training Program. Future commercial pilots enrolled in t... More

516 Hogsback Road (House), Mason, Ingham County, MI

516 Hogsback Road (House), Mason, Ingham County, MI

Significance: Modest farmhouse of Greek Revival character, representative of the early days of permanent settlement in the region. / This well proportioned mid-nineteenth century farmhouse is representative of ... More

Capital City Airport, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingha...

Significance: The Capital City Regional Airport complex is significant for its diverse representation of the development of the airport industry. Aviation activity is represented from 1925, with the first offi... More

Capital City Airport, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingha...

Significance: The Capital City Regional Airport complex is significant for its diverse representation of the development of the airport industry. Aviation activity is represented from 1925, with the first offi... More

Herrmann House, 520 North Capitol Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Herrmann House, 520 North Capitol Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

1987 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The Herrman House was built in 1894 for John Herrman on Lot 10, Block 69 in Lansing, Michigan. Mr. Herrman was a prominent tailor and leading mem... More

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham...

Significance: The Diamond Reo Motor Plant, situated in an industrial area near downtown Lansing, consists of the only known extant and little altered structures associated with Ransom Eli Olds' successful ventu... More

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham...

Significance: The Diamond Reo Motor Plant, situated in an industrial area near downtown Lansing, consists of the only known extant and little altered structures associated with Ransom Eli Olds' successful ventu... More

Capital City Airport, Francis Aviation, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, Francis Aviation, North side of Grand River Aven...

Significance: The Francis Aviation buildings are significant for two reasons, the first being that one of the hangars in the complex is the second oldest hangar erected at the Capital City Airport, after the Cl... More

Capital City Airport, Club Hangar, North side of Grand River Avenue, west ramp area, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, Club Hangar, North side of Grand River Avenue, w...

Significance: The Club Hangar is the most significant of all of the West Ramp buildings. Not only is it an excellent example of a hangar as a building type, but it is also the oldest existing structure at the ... More

Capital City Airport, Club Hangar, North side of Grand River Avenue, west ramp area, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, Club Hangar, North side of Grand River Avenue, w...

Significance: The Club Hangar is the most significant of all of the West Ramp buildings. Not only is it an excellent example of a hangar as a building type, but it is also the oldest existing structure at the ... More

Capital City Airport, State Hangar, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, State Hangar, North side of Grand River Avenue, ...

Public domain photograph of attic, house frame, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County...

Significance: The primary unique qualities of this bridge are associated with the integration of three basic design types within one structure, which originally blended in with the surrounding architecture and ... More

Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Finished artillery shells are carefully gauged to ensure perfectly uniform ammunition for our fighting men. A converted Midwest auto plant is now producing these shells as efficiently as it turned out parts for automobiles

Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Finished artillery shells ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. Day and night, the conversion of a big auto manufacturing plant to the production of machine guns for the Air Corps continues without letup until the job is done. Electricians extending power lines are often among the first at the new machine locations. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. Day and night, the conversi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A big auto plant changes over to the production of machine guns for the Air Corps. Electricians begin running power lines to the new machine locations. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A big auto plant changes ov...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Auto parts to aircraft landing gear. Like a sculptor working in marble, this toolmaker is carving a die (a process known as diecasting) from a piece of solid tool steel for use in the production of forgings for aircraft landing gear. The machining is being done in a converted Midwest automobile plant

Conversion. Auto parts to aircraft landing gear. Like a sculptor worki...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Auto engines to military truck engines. Forging weapons for war. Crankshafts for military trucks are shaped on a huge Erie forging press served by an endless chain conveyor. Site: a Midwest auto plant converted to war production

Conversion. Auto engines to military truck engines. Forging weapons fo...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River Avenue, west ramp area, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River...

Significance: The Hughes Flying Service buildings are significant for their role in the training of pilots during World War II under the Civilian Pilots Training Program. Future commercial pilots enrolled in t... More

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River Avenue, west ramp area, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, Hughes Flying Service, North side of Grand River...

Significance: The Hughes Flying Service buildings are significant for their role in the training of pilots during World War II under the Civilian Pilots Training Program. Future commercial pilots enrolled in t... More

516 Hogsback Road (House), Mason, Ingham County, MI

516 Hogsback Road (House), Mason, Ingham County, MI

Significance: Modest farmhouse of Greek Revival character, representative of the early days of permanent settlement in the region. / This well proportioned mid-nineteenth century farmhouse is representative of ... More

516 Hogsback Road (House), Mason, Ingham County, MI

516 Hogsback Road (House), Mason, Ingham County, MI

Significance: Modest farmhouse of Greek Revival character, representative of the early days of permanent settlement in the region. / This well proportioned mid-nineteenth century farmhouse is representative of ... More

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham...

Significance: The Diamond Reo Motor Plant, situated in an industrial area near downtown Lansing, consists of the only known extant and little altered structures associated with Ransom Eli Olds' successful ventu... More

Ransom E. Olds House, 720 Washington Avenue & Main Street, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Ransom E. Olds House, 720 Washington Avenue & Main Street, Lansing, In...

Significance: 20th century mansion representative of the taste, materials and craftsmanship of its era. / Date of construction: 1904. Architect: D.D. Moon. Brick and stone. Two-and-a-half stories; L-plan; ap... More

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County...

Significance: The primary unique qualities of this bridge are associated with the integration of three basic design types within one structure, which originally blended in with the surrounding architecture and ... More

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Shiawassee Street Bridge, Spanning Grand River, Lansing, Ingham County...

Significance: The primary unique qualities of this bridge are associated with the integration of three basic design types within one structure, which originally blended in with the surrounding architecture and ... More

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. Tidiness and order contribute to plant morale and efficiency. A former auto plant now turning out machine guns is straining every resource to get top production, but it still keeps the maintenance men busy cleaning and painting the building and equipment. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. Tidiness and order contribu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A huge forge hammer in an automobile plant is converted to war work. The importance of the auto in American life is proving to be tremendous advantage as the the great automotive plants pool their resources in the mightiest war production effort the world has ever seen. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

A huge forge hammer in an automobile plant is converted to war work. T...

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Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A grinding operation on the breech of a machine gun for the Air Corps. The adaptability of grinding machines to this work helped speed the conversion of the auto factory which is now making these guns. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A grinding operation on the...

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Their brawn and their skill serve democracy in the forge plant of an automobile factory now working full capacity on production of shells for the Army. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Their brawn and their skill serve democracy in the forge plant of an a...

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America's huge production machine is really rolling now. A plant that was producing a popular car a short time ago is now operating even more efficiently on the manufacture of shells for the Army. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

America's huge production machine is really rolling now. A plant that ...

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In a big automobile plant changing over to production of shells, this "Cat Skinner" (tractor operator) was kept busy for some time pulling, turning and bulldozing machines into new location. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

In a big automobile plant changing over to production of shells, this ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Auto parts to aircraft landing gear. Like a sculptor working in marble, this toolmaker is carving a die (a process known as diecasting) from a piece of solid steel for use in the production of forgings for aircraft landing gear. The machining is being done in a converted Midwest automobile plant

Conversion. Auto parts to aircraft landing gear. Like a sculptor worki...

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A number of forging operations are required to produce a shell for the Army. Experienced auto plant workers do this work as efficiently as they did parts for the family car. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

A number of forging operations are required to produce a shell for the...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

St. Katherine's Episcopal Chapel, 4650 Meridian Road, Williamston, Ingham County, MI

St. Katherine's Episcopal Chapel, 4650 Meridian Road, Williamston, Ing...

Significance: This pleasant chapel was built in 1887 and is reminiscent of Medieval, English, country architecture. Although simple in design and workmanship it remains almost entirely in its original state. /... More

Capital City Airport, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Capital City Airport, North side of Grand River Avenue, Lansing, Ingha...

Significance: The Capital City Regional Airport complex is significant for its diverse representation of the development of the airport industry. Aviation activity is represented from 1925, with the first offi... More

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham County, MI

Diamond Reo Motor Plant, 2100 South Washington Street, Lansing, Ingham...

Significance: The Diamond Reo Motor Plant, situated in an industrial area near downtown Lansing, consists of the only known extant and little altered structures associated with Ransom Eli Olds' successful ventu... More

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