Historical Albion Michigan
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Albion College

  • Winter-Lau Field, Albion College
  • Indian Studies at Albion College
  • President of Albion College 1877-1898
  • Observatory at Albion College
  • 1918 Albion College War Special yearbook.
  • World War I Albion College soldiers
  • Albion College President John W. Laird
  • Commercial Building, Albion College
  • Ira Mayhew
  • Student Army Training Corps at Albion College
  • College SATC "False Armistice Day"
  • Albion College Bell House
  • An Albion College $2 Bill
  • The 1889-90 Albion College Currency LM-157
  • Historic Albion College Medals in Colorado
  • Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Once Albion College Prof
  • Gwen Dew Recollections of Albion College
  • Republican Party 75th Anniversary Medal designed by Albion College Grad
  • Smallpox epidemic claimed life of Albion College Student

    Artifacts, such as bottles

  • Gem Dairy bottle
  • Albion Station Bottle Shop
  • George Juckett
  • Porr & Gassette bottle
  • Albion Bottling Works
  • Starr half-pint milk bottle
  • The Key to the City of Albion
  • Clarence Township Dog Tag 1903
  • Zolota Oil Drops Box
  • Pre-Historic Megalodon Shark Tooth
  • Coldpack Milk bottle
  • Archie Miller Druggist Bottle
  • Albion Bottling Works
  • The Milk Bottle Book of Michigan
  • Albion Bottling Works
  • John Wochholz Beverage and Token
  • J. W. Brant Company Bottle
  • Numismatic artifacts

    Automobile Related

  • Woody's Service Center
  • Albion Motor Sales
  • 1912 Albion Garage
  • Overland Auto Dealership
  • Overland Auto Dealership
  • AAA Circa 1940
  • Dennis Benjamin Oldsmobile
  • Chrysler-Plymouth dealership
  • AAA Traffic Survey June 2, 1967
  • Dodge Dealership of Louis Striker
  • Albion automobile postcard, 1913
  • Hi-Speed Gas Station
  • Tanner's Service Station
  • Albion Enco Station
  • Albion Garage Sales Agency

    Banks and banking

  • Bank of Albion
  • Springport State Savings Bank
  • City Bank & Trust Company Time-Temperature Sign
  • City Bank & Trust Company Time-Temperature Sign
  • Time-Temperature Sign
  • The Stone Mill
  • Bank building once Crowell Flour Mill
  • Former Bank building was Jesse Crowell Mill
  • City Bank at Five Points
  • Penny Savings Folder Albion State Bank
  • Dr. Charles E. Slocum
  • The Orange Eagle
  • First President of Commercial & Savings Bank
  • Commercial & Savings Bank
  • The 1886 Peabody Bank Failure
  • Bank Failure headlines
  • The bank that closed for good at Christmas
  • The bank that closed at Christmas
  • The 1886 Peabody Bank Failure
  • Albion National Banknote
  • Albion Banknote
  • Albion National Banknotes
  • Albion Banknote in National Numismatic Collection
  • Albion Banknote at auction
  • The Albion $10 Banknote
  • Albion State Bank School Savings Program
  • Farewell, Huntington Bank
  • City Bank Employees in the 1950s

    Bars, Taverns, and Saloons

  • Tomchak Tavern in 1939
  • Tomchak Grocery and Tavern
  • Dubina building in 2002
  • Ivanski Tavern
  • Interior of Saloon on W. Porter St.
  • McGuire Brothers Saloon

    Books and Authors

  • Albion's Milestones and Memories
  • Albion in the 20th Century
  • Michigan's Irish Hills
  • The Miriam Cookbook
  • Mayhew s Practical-Bookkeeping
  • Growing Up in Albion
  • Cameron by Dr. Patricia Averill
  • A Man of Salt and Trees: The Life of Joy Morton
  • Ancestral Roots by Looney and Cool
  • The Erastus Covey diary
  • Jack Hood Vaughn: boxer and ambassador
  • Corn Borer: Picking Instructions and Information
  • Growing Up In Albion
  • Albion Postcards
  • 1894 Souvenir of the City of Albion Michigan
  • Albion-Marshall February 1917 Telephone book
  • 1932 ALBION COOKBOOK
  • Kill the Gringo autobiography of Jack H. Vaughn
  • Memoirs of Dr. James L. Curtis
  • Kalamazoo River Book
  • Dr. Charles E. Slocum
  • Albion Woman Featured In Novel About 1918 Spanish Influenza Epidemic
  • M. F. K. Fisher author of cookbooks
  • Jack Hood Vaughn: Peace Corps and Planned Parenthood
  • The Hon. Ira Mayhew
  • M. F. K. Fisher cooking author

    Bridges

  • Road Project Bridge
  • Interurban Railway Bridge
  • Albion Street bridge collapses
  • Eaton Street Bridge Plaque
  • The Porter Street Footbridge in 1924
  • Territorial Road
  • A bridge over the stream in the North part of town
  • Bridge by Riverside Cemetery
  • Interurban Bridge Trestle
  • Haven Road Bridge
  • Cass Street Bridge during 1908 Flood
  • Cass Street Bridge
  • The Cass Street Bridge

    Businesses

  • August Baader
  • Yankee Stadium Plaza
  • Prouty Lock
  • Dickerson Cleaners
  • Albion Beverage Company
  • Caines Paint and Wallpaper
  • Caines Paint and Wallpaper
  • Felisky Barber Shop
  • Albion Telephone Operators
  • Albion Bottling Works
  • Cartwright Shoes
  • Bullens
  • Mounteer Bakery
  • Robert Cascarelli (1856-1932)
  • Porter Bike Shop
  • The Union Store
  • Albion Businessmen 1950
  • Dick's Shoes
  • Cascarellis fruit store
  • The Snug Barbershop in 1911
  • Albion Telephone Operators
  • Telegraph Operator
  • J. C. Penney store window
  • James Peabody (1829-1903)
  • Albion Paint Spot
  • Isabell DuPark
  • Hahn Shoe Hospital
  • Hahn Clothing
  • Frank A. Gross garbage truck
  • Helpy Selfy Laundromat
  • Tucker's store
  • Isabella Maitland metal tag
  • Mounteer Bakery
  • Cigar Boxes
  • Phillip Hartung Photography Wagon
  • George Encke, Apiarist
  • Citizen's Lumber Dates Back To 1890s
  • George Juckett, Soda Pop Maker
  • Trampoline Court Once Existed Here
  • The Star Bakery
  • Frosts Shoe Store
  • Darrow Boats
  • Lewis W. Pryor Junkyard
  • Darleen Wellington Miller
  • 1894 Jewitt & Knapp Dry Goods Store
  • Albion Hatchery Building
  • The Egg House
  • Albion Gold Mine
  • Albion Chamber of Commerce
  • Cement Casket Company
  • Albion Telephone Operators
  • Wolcott Union Windmill Company
  • J. W. Brant Company
  • Groff Brothers Lumber Yard
  • Felisky Barbershop
  • Alfred N. Steele 1901-1959
  • Durkee & Beilfuss
  • The Ice Plant
  • Phillip Hartung Photography Wagon
  • The Snug, 1915
  • Lee Cheung Chinese Laundry
  • Jewett & Knapp Company
  • Bullens Big Busy Store
  • Frank Bennett
  • Albion Elevator
  • William Steel, 1875
  • Norman H. Wiener
  • Nowlin Bean Elevator
  • Wolverine Cablevision
  • Bullen & Tucker
  • Darrow Boat building

    Celebrations

  • 1958 Birthday Party
  • A Sunday School Picnic
  • Albion 175 Years Old
  • Old Fashoned Days
  • Mother's Day
  • Mother's Day Envelope
  • Memorial Day
  • Poppy Day
  • 1912 Parade
  • 1944 parade
  • 1954 Parade
  • Arbor Day
  • Arbor Day, 1955
  • Earth Day, 1970
  • 1925 July 4 Celebration In Albion
  • Emancipation Day
  • Calhoun County Fair
  • Calhoun County Fair
  • Calhoun County Fair
  • Calhoun County Fair Token
  • 1897 Fair Badge
  • 1898 Fair
  • Albion Fairgrounds
  • Albion Fairgrounds
  • Albion Chamber of Commerce Ball Drop
  • Frontier Days Preceded Festival of the Forks
  • Frontier Days Jail
  • Festival of the Forks
  • Festival of the Forks Week
  • Festival Trade Dollars
  • Festival of the Forks Trade Dollars
  • Festival of the Forks 40th Anniversary
  • Labor Day
  • 1915 Homecoming Arch
  • Thanksgiving
  • Eagle Parade
  • Everywhere, Everywhere, Christmas Tonight
  • Christmas traditions
  • Santa Claus In Albion
  • Christmas Turkeys
  • It Still Means Merry Christmas
  • A Winter Scene For Christmas
  • Christmas 1902
  • 1949 Christmas Parade
  • Santa Claus, 1953
  • 1954 Christmas Parade
  • 1954 Albion Christmas Parade
  • Santa Claus circa 1960
  • Christmas in the 1970s
  • Christmas Club
  • Starr Commonwealth Christmas Stamps
  • Christmas Seals
  • Christmas Seals
  • Albion Action Center Christmas Gifts
  • Eagles Parade
  • Depression Parade
  • Centennial Pageant
  • 1935 Albion Centennial Parade
  • Centennial Queen Court
  • Albion Centennial Queen 1935
  • Albion Victory Day Photograph, 1919
  • Honoring the Greatest Generation

    Cemeteries

  • Frank showing the Harrington Urn
  • Old fence around Riverside Cemetery
  • Tombstone of Dr. Isaac Grant
  • Nathan Wood Tombstone
  • The Cemetery Pond, circa 1905
  • South Albion Cemetery
  • The Tombstone of Philip Weitzel
  • The Strangers Ground
  • Tombstone of Dr. Isaac Grant (1759-1841)
  • The G.A.R. Monument
  • The Old Gravel Road
  • Gold Star Park at Riverside Cemetery
  • The headless Flora
  • The Pond circa 1905, Riverside Cemetery
  • GAR new tombstones
  • Caleb Wild Hammill and his wife Maude
  • The Tombstone of Donald Dungey (1917-1922)
  • 1938 bridge by Riverside Cemetery
  • The white wooden fence
  • Interior of the Riverside Abbey Mausoleum
  • Mary Russell Warner at Riverside Cemetery
  • Levi Wild (1781-1844) at Riverside Cemetery
  • A postcard photograph taken around 1908
  • Abbey Mausoleum
  • Captain Seth Worth
  • Trooper Gary Rampy
  • Barry tombstone company inscription mark
  • The Riverside Cemetery Office
  • From Bomb Parts To Flower Urns
  • Benjamin Barnes Ford
  • Someone Who Never Died.
  • Miss Julia McCune
  • Cemetery Bridge, circa 1920
  • Reed Cemetery
  • Sheldon Mausoleum
  • Tombstone of Tenney Peabody
  • 1920 map of Albion
  • The Original Land Purchase for Riverside Cemetery
  • Riverside Cemetery Historical Marker
  • The Old Steel-Arch Cemetery Bridge
  • The Old Riverside Cemetery Office
  • Riverside Abbey Mausoleum Restoration
  • Peabody grave
  • Page from www.findagrave
  • State Historic Site Marker
  • The David Duncan Tombstone

    Census

  • Census 2000 Logo
  • 1930 U.S. Census listing of Joseph Bommarito family
  • 1910 Census Badge
  • Sample ledger sheet from 1940 Census
  • Albion's 2020 U.S. Census Results/a>
  • Kate Bromeling (1874-1935)
  • 1920 U.S. Census page from Albion, Michigan
  • Lithuanian Census Badge, 1923, Obverse side
  • Excerpt from page 23, showing line 34
  • 1910 Census Badge
  • William Rush Merriam (1849-1931)
  • Three Stooges Movie poster.
  • The Boy With The US Census
  • 1900 Census Badge
  • Census Postcard 1965 Philadelphia Hall
  • Denver Post full page feature ad in late 1950
  • U.S. Census taker near Waupaca, Wisconsin
  • Census Enumerators Instruction Manual from 1910
  • 1922 Estonian Census Enumerator's Badge
  • The 1910 Instructions to the Enumerator's manual

    Churches and Places of Worship see also Religion

  • Early Albion Church History
  • 1st Baptist Church
  • St. John's Catholic Church Celebrates 150 YEARS!
  • Orthodox Church in 1928
  • The Bell from St. James Episcopal Church
  • Farewell, First Presbyterian Church
  • Holy Ascension Orthodox Church
  • Holy Ascension Orthodox Church 100TH Anniversary
  • Albion Free Methodist Church 100 Years Old
  • St. James Church Bell
  • Russian Baptist Church (Part 1)
  • Russian Baptist Church Choir
  • Russian Baptist Church (2nd Article)
  • Russian Baptist Church in 1995
  • Eckford Free Methodist Church
  • A Sunday School Picnic
  • GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY

    City Government and beyond

  • Albion City Marshals
  • Mayor Charles F. Austin
  • National Recovery Administration
  • 1954-55 Albion City Council
  • Eight Albion Mayors circa 1930
  • 1965 Albion City Officials
  • 1930 era City Hall and Fire Station
  • Albion's first Village President, George Hannahs (1823-1906)
  • Roland Remley, Albion's first City Manager
  • The Candidates of 1954
  • Judge William Henry Hinebaugh (1867-1943)
  • 1962 photograph of the Albion Dog Pound
  • 1915 "Dog Tax" tag for the City of Albion
  • Secretary of State Offices in Albion on Aug 7, 2016
  • Albion 1911 Dog Tag
  • The Silent Policeman
  • Carmi C. Olds
  • Harlan Whitney, 1890s Albion City Engineer
  • Arza L. McCutcheon
  • The Dog Warden
  • Rev. William H. Brockway
  • Arza McCutcheon, Albion's Justice of the Peace
  • Samuel Dickie
  • Election Tickets from Albion Township
  • Mayor Wiener at Cornerstone Laying Ceremony

    Clubs and Social Organizations

  • Leisure Hour Club
  • Three-Quarters-Century Club
  • Mr. Bobby Parker in 2003
  • Masonic Murat Lodge Token
  • Boosters & Knockers Club
  • Duck Lake Endeavor Society, ca 1910
  • Officers of the Moose from the year 1940
  • Camp Fire Girls 1945
  • 1952 Troop 60
  • Boy Scout Troop One
  • Boy Scouts Troop 59, July 1945
  • Boy Scout Troop 60, circa 1954
  • Albion Conservation Club
  • Robert "Bobby" Parker, Eagle Scout
  • The Children of E.L.T. in 1956
  • Albion Stamp Club
  • Boy Scout Bus, 1962
  • Albion once had numerous Lodge organizations
  • Albion Rifle Rangers
  • A Sunday School Picnic
  • American Legion
  • Three-Quarters Century Club
  • Eagle's Parade
  • Captain Harrison Soule
  • The Graves Brothers
  • CCC Camp
  • Edward Anderson
  • Albion Rod and Gun Club 1896
  • Christmas Club

    Coins and Numismatics

    Dairies

  • Humphrey Dairy, mid-1920s
  • Starr half-pint milk bottle
  • The Maple City Dairy Company Building, 1920
  • Gold Top Dairy Half-Pint Milk Bottle
  • Sweeney Milk
  • Two Haven Hills Dairy Cows
  • 1941 GEM Diary (photographs thanks to Gerald Dean)
  • Coldpack Milk Bottle, 1928
  • Chain Dairies bottle cap.
  • Home Dairy
  • Albion Milk Dealers Bottle
  • Maple City Dairy Company

    The Dew Family

  • Gwen Dew promoting her new book in 1943
  • Gwen Dew with Jaycee Leadership
  • 1999 Michigan History Magazine featuring Gwen Dew
  • Gwen Dew on the lecture circuit during World War II
  • Emperor Hirohito tipping his hat to Gwen Dew
  • Gwen Dew's newly engraved tombstone, 2009
  • Hiroshima, 1946 photographed by Gwen Dew
  • Gwen Dew WWII Reporter POW
  • 1923 Albionian Yearbook Portrait of Gwen Dew
  • Gwen Dew, Arrival in Detroit on July 16, 1937
  • Albion High Class of 1920
  • Gwen Dew Voice Recording
  • Gwen Dew Returning from Japanese Prison Camp
  • Albion florist Arthur H. Dew
  • Gwendolyn Dew at her Detroit FTD Office Desk
  • Louise E. Dew
  • Gwen Dew and Michigan Captain Bennie Oosterbaan
  • Around the World With Gwen Dew

    Disaster, Crime, and bad news

  • The 1886 Peabody Bank Failure
  • 1908 Flood, view of Cass Street Bridge
  • Dutch Elm disease
  • August 31, 1919 fire in the Eslow Block
  • Chickens Floating on a Doghouse
  • East Erie St. Bridge as the Waters were Receding
  • The Bank that Closed For Good at Christmas
  • The Church Jewelry Store Collapsing in the Flood of 1908
  • Linden Avenue during the 1908 Flood
  • Cass St. bridge, photographed by Donald M. Bennett
  • 1908 Flood
  • 1908 Reconstruction after the Great Flood
  • The East bridge on E. Erie St.
  • Malleable Tornado of 1913
  • Murder of Warren Hooper for State Representative 1944
  • Bank Failure 100 Years Ago
  • Fatal accidental electrocution
  • Irate Depositors Met at Opera House
  • View of flood
  • Malleable debris of 1913 tornado
  • Malleable Pattern Building after the tornado of 1913
  • The work of two dogs
  • 1914 Collapse of the old N. Albion St. bridge
  • West Park Trailer Camp fire
  • Peabody/Gothic Mill Fire
  • Flood of 1908 Clinton Street Bridge from a distance
  • Springport tornado damage, June 6, 1917
  • Michigan Central Freight House
  • The Death Scoreboards
  • The Flood of 1914 at Bath Mills
  • Donald Dungey
  • New Year Day Tragedy at railroad crossing
  • The flood of March, 1956
  • Henry A. Perine
  • Stolen Diamonds, Part One.
  • Stolen Diamonds, Part Two.
  • The Great Flood of 1908 Revisited
  • Diamond theft
  • The Sheep Massacre Part 1
  • The Sheep Massacre Part 2
  • Purple Gang
  • Purple Gang
  • Ponto Sink Hole
  • Albion National Banknotes
  • Purple Gang
  • Downtown Albion After the Flood of 1908
  • Eslow Fire Burning
  • Eslow Fire Damage
  • The Electrocution Postcard
  • Angry Depositors Meeting
  • Cass Street Bridge during 1908 flood
  • Bank Failure Article, The Numismatist, 1998

    Downtown Albion

  • Albion in 1908
  • The Western side of Superior Street in 1939
  • Sheldon-Ismon building
  • The Hurley Block
  • Maher building
  • 1894 View of N. Superior Street
  • Dalyrmple Block 1907
  • Lottie Eslow building
  • GAR Hall and Methodist Church
  • 400 block of S. Superior St.
  • Streetscape of Eslow Block in 1910
  • 1894 photograph of the Eslow Block
  • 1971 photograph of the Tuchtenhagen clock
  • Eagle Temple
  • Albion Market Place
  • 201 block of South Superior Street
  • Shuffleboard in action at Cascarelli's
  • International Order of Odd Fellows
  • Sidewalk Days, July 15-17, 1965
  • The Lottie Eslow Block
  • 300 block of S. Superior St.
  • GAR hall being demolished
  • South Superior Street
  • The new street lights, by Walter Grant
  • Eagle Temple
  • Late 1940s view of the Perkins Block
  • The Callahan Block in 1894
  • The Sheldon Block
  • 1930s era photograph of the Parker-Kessler Block
  • 200 block of S. Superior St.
  • Parker-Kessler Block in the mid 1930s
  • Lloyd building
  • Women's Christian Temperance Union building
  • Pavluchik building
  • Koroluk building
  • The 1962 Back To School Ball Drop
  • The Brockway Block
  • Community Drinking Cup
  • Union Store
  • John G. Fox
  • Women's Christian Temperance Union Building
  • Clift Block circa 1870
  • Winter in downtown Albion, 1910
  • Market Place Aerial
  • Gilson E. Murdock
  • J.C. Penney Storefront
  • Parker-Kessler Building, Downtown Albion 1930s
  • 300 block of S. Superior St.
  • The Comfort Station
  • Walter Peabody

    Drug Stores

  • Hadley H. Sheldon, Druggist
  • Colon C. Billinghurst
  • Van Gorden's drugstore
  • Brownridge Drugs
  • FEDCO
  • Archie Miller Druggist
  • Fred Nesbitt, druggist, 1938
  • Parks Drug Store
  • Bruce Kinmont, Druggist
  • Comstock Brothers

    Dutchtown

  • Dutchtown 1954 season
  • June, 1955
  • Water Ballet (end scene)
  • Municipal Bath House
  • Dutchtown Concession stand
  • Bathhouse
  • 1920s photograph
  • Dutchtown Swimming Hole
  • Albion youth once swam at Dutchtown
  • Dutchtown Bridge

    Employees

  • Gale Manufacturing Company
  • The Malleable Girls
  • The Malleable Core Room child workers
  • The Jolly Albion telephone operators
  • 1960 Mc-Graw Edison Service Award Employees
  • Albion Malleable Iron Company
  • Thompsons Flowers shop
  • Paperboys of the Albion Evening Recorder
  • Gale Manufacturing leadership, 1954 photograph
  • Gale Manufacturing leadership
  • The Trine workers on scaffolds
  • J.W. Brant Co. Worker
  • The Trines at a bricklaying job
  • The 1944 Albion Gas Light Company
  • The Local Corning Glass Works American Flint Glassworkers
  • Corning Glass negotiations
  • Consumers Power employees, 1937
  • Paperboys, Albion Recorder
  • Liberty Loan
  • Trailer Park
  • Trailer West Park Camp
  • Company Housing pt 1
  • Company Housing pt 2
  • IGA Supermarket clerk of the week
  • The Original Union at the Malleable
  • The last of the alphabet
  • Maleable Iron Company Workers
  • Pizza Pete and Frank
  • Service Caster employees
  • Albion Jolly Operators
  • Service Caster Workers and Officials
  • 1938 Malleable Officials
  • Mexican-American Workers at the West Park Trailers
  • The Gale Supervisors
  • Gale Manufacturing Company Workers

    Energy

  • Albion's Electrical System Began in 1888
  • Jesse Crowell
  • Water-powered electric power house
  • Commonwealth Power Company
  • The Albion Gas Light Company Gas Manufacturing Plant Site
  • Consumers Power Company Powerhouse Building 1993
  • Louis C. McDougal (1874-1938)
  • The 1944 Albion Gas Light Company picnic
  • The Consumer s Power Booth
  • MUR Passenger Depot and Consumer's Power Depo
  • 1937 Consumers Power Company Employees
  • Commonwealth Power Company
  • The manufactured gas plant as it looked in the 1930s
  • Coal mine railroad, circa 1914
  • 1923 drawing of Albion Coal Mine Map close up
  • Albion Oil Boom
  • Consumer's Powerhouse
  • 1931 Sackrider Farm
  • Electric Coal Mine on Sandstone Road
  • 1923 Electric Coal Mine on Sandstone Road
  • Coalmine Shafts 1923
  • Jesse Crowell

    Ethnic Histories (see also Genealogy and Lithuanian Culture)

  • Cameron
  • Lithuanians in Albion
  • Recollections of Pioneering Albion
  • Local Black History
  • Civil War Experiences of a German Emigrant
  • Albion Ethnic Make Up
  • Lithuanians in Albion
  • 19th Century Black History in Albion

    Factories and industry

  • Hayes-Wheel Hub Factory
  • Union Steel from above
  • Union Steel, Huron Street Location
  • Albion Malleable Iron Company merges with Hayes Industries
  • Top part of July 8, 1920 issue of The Hub
  • Workers at the Gale Manufacturing Company, 1915
  • Malleable photograph, circa 1910
  • The Malleable Girls
  • The Malleable Core Room child workers
  • Lonergan Manufacturing Company Flower Urn
  • Coolerator Division Workers
  • Albion Malleable Iron Company in 1930
  • Albion Malleable Iron Company
  • The Original Malleable Office Building
  • Titus Russell (1885-1954)
  • The Albion Bolt Company building circa 1920
  • Union Steel plant
  • 1948 Tour of Union Steel by Albion High School Students
  • J.W. Brant Co. Workers
  • Corning Glass Works-American Flint Glassworkers
  • Industrialist Clarence B. Hayes (1866-1955)
  • The Corning Glass Works Union Contract Negotiators
  • McGraw-Edison Humidifier
  • Nellie Groff (1875-1960) circa 1891
  • Cook Manufacturing
  • Gale plow foundry
  • 1921 artist's depiction of Union Steel Products
  • Service Caster & Truck Company
  • The Malleable office executive parking
  • Gale Foundary in the 1880s
  • Gale Manufacturing Company, in the 1880s
  • Albion Malleable Foremen and Supervisors
  • The Original Union at the Malleable
  • The Union Steel Stove Mounters, Local No. 67
  • Warren S. Kessler
  • Warren Scott Kessler and step-son, Harry Parker
  • Service Caster employees, circa 1940
  • Hayes Wheel Company 1
  • National Spring and Wire Company
  • Albion Malleable chips
  • Service Caster Workers and Officials
  • 1938 Malleable Officials
  • Elliott C. Gale,circa 1880s
  • The Gale Supervisors and Foremen
  • Henry Kirke White Sr.
  • Albert E. F. White
  • Augustus Gale
  • Original Gale Manufacturing Company, 1877
  • Two of the Malleable chip
  • Gale Token Reverse Side
  • Circle-A-Tor Downtown Albion, 1954
  • Harry B. Parker
  • Gale Manufacturing Company
  • First Union Steel Location in 1905

    Families

  • The Wochholz Twins
  • Asahel Warner
  • Ismon Family Property
  • Frank M. Simmons
  • Robertson
  • Union Family
  • Cascarelli, ca. 1910
  • The Truss Family
  • Truss Family
  • Juliet Calhoun Blakeley, 1913
  • Landon Family Family Pioneer Days Letters
  • Helen and Louise Hull
  • Charles C. Blakely
  • Deacon Jim McGuire
  • McGuire Family photograph, circa 1890
  • Jay Snyder
  • Lynn Bogue Hunt Family
  • Kerr
  • Curtis family
  • Ruth Connor
  • Doolittle
  • William Edward Ansterburg
  • The Benham Family Reunion in 1912

    Farms

  • Centennial Farm
  • Centennial Farm
  • The Howell Farm
  • Eckford Farmer was Chairman of Spring Arbor Seminary

    Fire Department

  • Albion Fire House, 1894
  • June, 1956
  • Albion Firemen 4
  • City Paint Shop carriage barn
  • Albion Fire Department with the bees
  • The Entrance to the Albion Fire Department
  • Fire Chief, Frederick Peabody (1862-1934)
  • Albion Fire Station in 1910
  • Albion Fire Department circa 1908
  • A Fireman's Diary
  • Albion Union Hose Co.
  • Albion Union Hose Company No. 2, in 1883
  • 1894 Fireman's Hall

    Genealogy

  • Crest of the Medieval Dukes of Pomerania
  • Michigan State Library-Museum Complex
  • Naturalization Records in State Archives
  • Morton Allen Directory showing Ship Arrivals
  • Ship Records
  • The Konstantine Kondratas family
  • Declaration of Intention form
  • Lithuanian Message board detail
  • Kondrat Lithuanian List
  • www.findagrave.com
  • Alien Registration Forms

    Grocers

  • Tyszko Grocery in 1939
  • A & P Supermarket
  • Rustenholtz Super Market
  • Pavluchik Grocery
  • Driscoll s Market
  • A & P Store in 1955
  • IGA Bicycle give-away on June 10, 1967
  • Pavluchik Grocery
  • Church & Broas Grocery
  • A & P Supermarket
  • The Central Grocery
  • Carrigan Grocery
  • Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.
  • Albion Foodland
  • Mymochod Market
  • Bogue Grocery

    Healthcare and Hospitals

  • Grant Hospital, 114 W. Erie St.
  • Dr. Stephen Munroe (1813-1890)
  • Rev. Andrew J. Leggett (1869-1919)
  • 1921 U of M graduation photo of Dr. Gordon Sindecuse
  • Advertisement from page 93 of the 1885 Albion City Directory
  • Willoughby O'Donoughue, 1st Mich Engineers & Mechanics
  • AlbionCityHospital,1911
  • Mother-Daughter Physicians in the 1880s
  • Dr. Horace May and Caroline Hovey
  • Sheldon Memorial Hospital
  • James W. Sheldon Memorial Hospital
  • Dr. Elmore Palmer
  • James W. Sheldon Memorial Hospital
  • The Open Door of Dr. Lawrence J. Heidenreich
  • James W. Sheldon
  • Laying the cornerstone for the Sheldon Memorial Hospital
  • Sheldon Memorial Radio Token
  • Dr. Elizabeth Palmer
  • Albions World War II Red Cross Volunteers
  • Albion City Hospital at 111-113 W. Ash St.
  • Albion City Hospital on W. Ash St
  • A History of Healthcare Facilities in Albion

    Horses

  • Lewis Pryor Wagon
  • Winter view of First Baptist Church
  • Downtown Livery
  • Elms Buggy Co.
  • Phillip Hartung Photography Wagon
  • Elms Buggy Company
  • Phillip Hartung Photography Wagon
  • Thompson and Courtright Livery 1911

    Hotels, Motels and Inns

  • Star Lite Motel Postcards
  • Commercial Hotel building
  • Commercial Hotel
  • Parker Hotel
  • 1955 postcard photograph of the Parker Inn
  • Howard Boone, Elevator Operator
  • The Star Lite Motel
  • 1926 Postcard of Parker Inn Hotel
  • Parker Inn token
  • Hotel Albion in 1895
  • Commercial Hotel
  • The Commercial Hotel Tokens

    Houses

  • The Fitch House
  • Charles A Smith, House Mover
  • Charles Ensign House
  • Phineas Graves House
  • Maher House Once Stood on Parker Inn Site

    Kalamazoo River see also Bridges, Dutchtown, and Mills

  • An Historical Review of the Use and Development of the Kalamazoo River through Albion
  • Kalamazoo River Book
  • 1907 Fish Ladder at the Dam
  • The river wall in Victory Park on April 23, 2007
  • 1978 River Dredging
  • Emmons Carriage Barn, Then (circa 1910)
  • The Forks in 1832
  • 1978 Dredging of the Kalamazoo by the Mead Brothers
  • Kalamazoo

    Lithuanian Culture

  • Lithuanians in Albion
  • They came from Kobrin
  • Lithuanians in Albion
  • The front of this card features denars of Grand Duke Algirdas
  • The Euro is Coming to Lithuania
  • Displaced Persons Periodicals
  • Detroit Lithuanian Club Token, Obverse side
  • Crucifixion Mausoleum
  • Juozas Zikaras (1881-1944)
  • Pal-Waukee Patch detail
  • Lithuanians in Albion
  • Saint Domininks Society

    Maps

  • Irwin Avenue Map 1927
  • Map showing the town of Daninvick
  • 1858 Village Plat Map
  • The Map of Adrian (named in the lower right)
  • 1866 Bird's Eye View of Albion
  • 1920 map of Albion showing the "Foreign Settlement."
  • 19th century map of Kobrin
  • 1927 map
  • Railroad Service Maps
  • 1890 Bird's eye view of Albion NW
  • 1890 Bird's Eye View of Albion SW
  • 1890 Bird's eye view of Albion SE
  • 1890 Bird's Eye View of Albion South central
  • 1890 Bird's Eye View of Albion central downtown
  • 1890 Bird's Eye View of Albion NE
  • Map of Albion, March 1, 1908
  • Map Showing Location of Racetrack
  • 1918 Insurance Map of Albion
  • 1835 Map of Calhoun County, Michigan
  • Albion Plat Map 1836
  • Map of the Fairgrounds in Albion

    Mills

  • Newburg Mill dam
  • Circa 1963 Photograph of Newburg Mill
  • Stone Mill and Office in 1915.
  • Albion's Stone Mill in 1858
  • Former Bank Building was Mill of Jesse Crowell
  • Newburg Mills Complex
  • Stone Mill and the Albion Elevator Building
  • The White Mill
  • White Mill, 1953
  • The White Mill

    Music

  • Goodwill Singers
  • Gar Dickerson Conducting the Albion City Band
  • The Partello Band, circa 1901
  • Choir at Washington Gardner High School
  • Priscilla Felisky
  • The Bohm Saxophone Quartet
  • The Junior Division winners
  • Hang Your Hat in Albion sheet music
  • Band shell August 10, 1965
  • Spring Vocal Festival, May 12, 1961
  • Bennard's Melodies
  • The old (ca. 1941) City Band Shell
  • Montran sheet music "In the Heart of a Fool"
  • Hang Your Hat in Albion
  • Jack Howard Band circa 1942
  • Jack Howard Band, circa 1942
  • Band Shell Art
  • Old Rugged Cross Historical Marker
  • Miss Phipps
  • The Old Rugged Cross was written in Albion
  • Albion City Band
  • Russian Church Choir 1938
  • 1896 View of Washington Gardner School West Wing
  • The Old Rugged House

    Neighborhoods and Landmarks

  • North Eaton Street
  • Bird's Eye View showing Mechanic's Street
  • George Hannahs
  • Looking North Along Austin Avenue
  • Quakertown Plaque
  • S Eaton Street and Arthur Street signs
  • Gold Star Park
  • 1911 Postcard showing West Porter Street
  • The Mallory St. sign
  • Gale St. extension
  • The Old-Sidewalk Corner by Peabody Place
  • Austin Avenue on April 30, 1916
  • Pearl Street sign
  • Company Housing
  • Civil War Cannon
  • Crandall St.
  • South Eaton Street Market
  • Concrete Sidewalk Street Names
  • Abstract of Title on Mechanic St.
  • Albion Street Numbering System
  • Eaton Street sign
  • Fairview Park Advertisements
  • Broadwell Avenue sign
  • Welcome to Albion sign
  • North Eaton Street, August 8, 1956
  • Erie Street around 1910
  • Sarah Huxford Murdock

    Newspapers

  • Gale News, Feb. 1948
  • Paperboys of the Albion Evening Recorder
  • The November, 1955 issue of The Gaffer
  • April 1955 edition of the Brooks Foundry News
  • Union Steel Messenger, Aug. 1946
  • Albion Recorder Paperboy Trip in 1966
  • Advertising department of the Albion Evening Recorder
  • 1940s Newspaper Agency
  • Cover of Albion in Review
  • Advertisement for Albion Bottling Works
  • The Recorder Press Company
  • Helen Sharp, Journal of Albion 1965
  • Breeze newspaper, October 20, 1942
  • Morning Star cover July 3, 1941
  • August 1956 Morning Star workers
  • Albion News Agency
  • Verner Jerome Tefft
  • Albion Union-Herald Newspaper
  • Albion Evening Recorder Paperboys 1961 Trip
  • The Albion Leader
  • The Morning Star, early history
  • The Recorder, a short history
  • Rae S. Corliss (1900-1990)
  • Circle-A-Tor, August 1954.
  • The Albion Mirror
  • 1857 Lithograph of Jesse Crowell s Office
  • Dypukas (a DP) Kempten
  • Albion Recorder Advertisement
  • Superior Street in the 1870s

    Panoramic Photographs

  • Albion College WWI Soldiers
  • Albion Garage Sales Agency building
  • August 1, 1927 Emancipation Day in Albion
  • Hayes Wheel Company 2
  • Albion WWI Veterans in 1919
  • Emancipation Day

    Parks

  • G.A.R. Cannon
  • The G.A.R. Rock
  • The Pagoda Restaurant on Michigan Avenue
  • 1907 Fish Ladder at the Dam
  • Proposed Victory Park Swimming Pool, 1937
  • Rieger Park skating shelter
  • DAR Territorial Road Rock and Plaque
  • Skating Pond
  • Albion Band Shell in Victory Park, August 1955
  • Band Shell in Victory Park
  • The New Victory Park Play Equipment
  • The Spring in Victory Park, May 23, 1961
  • Territorial road plaque dedication ceremony parking
  • Albion Civil War Cannon
  • Victory Park Spring
  • Old Rugged Cross Historical Marker
  • Crowell Park
  • Victory Park Waterfall History, Part 1
  • Victory Park Waterfall History, Part 2
  • Victory Park Waterfall History, Part 3
  • Victory Park Waterfall History, Part 4
  • Barnes Park
  • Victory Park Swimming Pool
  • Victory Park Spring
  • G.A.R. Cannon
  • Albion Orphan Train Youth Statue
  • Victory Park Spring keeps on flowing
  • Beverly Cunningham by the 1839 foundation stones
  • The Territorial Road Monument
  • Victory Park Office Building
  • Victory Park in 1939
  • Warren S. Kessler (1845-1933)

    People in and of and around and behind Albion

    Politics

  • Republican Party Ticket
  • 1912 Suffrage Banners in Albion
  • Ebenezer Oliver Grosvenor Sr.
  • The Republican Elephants, sometime in the 1900's
  • Republican Senators Conference 1938 Comemorative ashtray
  • Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy
  • Albion native Rosetta Mary (Berry) Robison (1843-1918)
  • Tombstone of Mary Russell Warner
  • Albion "Copperhead" William V. Morrison
  • Republican Club souvenir pin button
  • James Field, 1896
  • Theodore Roosevelt Visited Albion in 1907
  • Republican Medal
  • Senator Warren G. Hooper
  • Campaign Poster Used for 1944 Election

    Police

  • The Albion Police Department in 1964
  • 1956 Albion Auxiliary Police force
  • Albion Police Department, circa 1926
  • Marcus H. Crane (1819-1905)
  • March, 1968
  • Trooper Gary T. Rampy (1944-1971)
  • Police Department building circa 1910
  • The Silent Police

    Post Offices

  • Rice Creek Post Office
  • U.S. Post Office in 1900
  • Eckford Village Post Office, 1900
  • The historical Angevine House South Albion Post Office
  • Albion postal clerk Grover Cleveland, in January, 1956
  • U.S. commemorative postage stamps
  • Albion Post Office Cornerstone, July 1, 1967
  • Lynn Bogue Hunt Duck Stamp
  • Christmas Seals
  • Postal Savings Stamps in Albion
  • Albion Post Office
  • Reuben Abbott, Kalamazoo/Waterburg Postmaster

    Postcards

  • Star Lite Motel Postcards
  • Albion Landing, Duck Lake, Springport, Michigan
  • 1910 Not Really Albion postcards
  • J.W. Brant Co. Workers, circa 1915
  • 1911 West Porter Street
  • 1910 LS & MSRR trestle
  • Albion Market Place, circa 1907
  • 1911 Historic Downtown
  • Malleable Tornado of 1913
  • 1939 postcard of Washington Gardner High School
  • Joseph Baldwin
  • Digging out - Downtown Albion
  • Postcard cancellation stamp 1993
  • Old Downtown Postcard
  • Centennial Farms
  • 1926 Postcard of Parker Inn Hotel
  • The Electrocution Postcard
  • Census Postcard 1965 Philadelphia Hall

    Religion see also Churches

  • Goodwill Singers
  • Little Red Schoolhouse
  • Rev. Peter A. Baart
  • Old Rugged Cross marker in Pokagon
  • The Mother of Albion Methodism
  • The funeral party of Alex Dmitruk on October 5, 1923
  • Rev. Andrew J. Leggett
  • June 1952 promotion of tent crusade featuring Evangelist Rev. O. R. Tessaro
  • Early 20th century Religious Card
  • Panoramic photograph of the Russian Orthodox Church ground breaking April 30, 1916
  • Carmi C. Olds
  • A Sunday School Picnic
  • The Old Rugged Cross was written in Albion
  • Rev. George Bennard
  • Henry Slade
  • Slade Monument
  • Sara & Samuel Tuttle
  • Map of Albion in 1918
  • Henry Slade
  • Gathering at the home of John and Mary Harry sometime in the 1920s
  • Walter and Hazel Craighead, 1925
  • New Hope's Prayer Forest Park
  • Captain Henry Jordan
  • Rev. William Farley, his wife Sally, and son Nelson Farley
  • Rev. George Bennard

    Restaurants and Treats

  • The American Way
  • Satellite Drive-Inn
  • Root Beer Stand, 1939
  • The Tik Tok Drive-In, circa 1950s
  • The Bar-B-Q-House, in the early 1960s
  • Frosty Freeze ice cream store
  • 1925 Poll Parrot Shop at 801 E. Cass St.
  • Burger Chef Construction on March 25, 1967
  • Sullivan's Rainbow Dairy Bar in May, 1956
  • Burger Chef being constructed in March, 1967
  • George Juckett, Soda Pop Maker
  • Speros Andritsakes
  • The Star Bakery
  • The Pagoda
  • Root Beer Stand
  • Pizza Pete's Storefront
  • Paul Koroluk at his soda fountain
  • Mother's Cupboard Advertisement
  • Vafiadis and Mitchell's Confectionary Shop

    Roads, Bricks, and Sidewalks

  • I-94 Exits
  • Riverside Drive, now known as S. Superior Street
  • The first 1940 bricks being removed
  • The Trines at a bricklaying job circa 1910
  • 1967 Urban Renewal sign and crane
  • Cass-Superior St. intersection
  • May 15, 1993. Albion Stamp Show Sta.
  • 1993 brick removal in front of Fedco
  • 1940 Paving Superior St by Cascarellis
  • Superior St bricks circa 1905 workers
  • 1940 Grooved Brick
  • Frank Passic, on June 18, 1993 laying the first brick
  • Brick Street Bricks
  • Superior Street Brick Dedication October 17, 1940
  • Crandall St.
  • Newburg Rd.
  • Concrete Sidewalk Street Names
  • Abstract of Title on Mechanic St.
  • Albion Street Numbering System
  • An L. W. Edison Crane
  • Demolition of house for Urban Renewal
  • Lohrke Brothers 1912 Cement Stamp
  • Floyd Parks and Hiram McCullough
  • G. E. DEAN 1901 Sidewalk Stamp
  • 1940 Superior Street Rebricking Project

    Schools

  • The First Class
  • 1939 Trip to Greenfield Village
  • Dalyrmple School
  • Mrs. Mildred Duckworth
  • Billinghurst Students of 1927
  • Pledge of Allegiance
  • March 16, 1993 photograph of Howell School
  • The Snyder School as it appeared in the 1920s
  • Llewellyn Beaghler
  • Teacher Iva Fleming s Social Studies Class of October, 1935
  • Miss Grace Spear s 1935-36 English class
  • In the 4th grade class at West Ward School
  • The Dalrymple School children with the aid boxes
  • Safety Patrol
  • 1955 Class A-B State Champion Debate Team
  • The Sleeping Beauty, Act I
  • West Ward School in 1919
  • This cornerstone marker was the gift of the Class of 1922
  • Central School
  • Artists rendition of the new 1922 high school addition
  • 1941 production of The Imaginary Invalid
  • 1939 postcard of Washington Gardner High School
  • Washington Gardner High School, circa 1955
  • James Curtis (Class of 1940) and Ulysses Curtis (Class of 1944)
  • 2011 view of Austin School
  • 2011 "backside" view of Austin School
  • Boyer's School of Dance
  • 6th Grade Girls at Austin School
  • Albion High School around 1900
  • Tuesday July 21, 1964, Groundbreaking ceremony
  • Albion High School's first football team, fall of 1891
  • Floyd Starr (1883-1980) and boys
  • Austin Elementary School on November, 15, 1920
  • Ceremonial groundbreaking on October 19, 1956
  • Albion School Closing Cemetery Tour Cartoon
  • Circa 1915 Austin Elementary School
  • The 1952 Dalrymple School addition
  • The faculty of Austin School, 1957-58 school year
  • 1939 Albion City Dump where Harrington School now sits.
  • Washington Gardner High School
  • Washington Gardner High School 1934
  • Origins of Albion Schools
  • The cover of the 1941 Albion High School yearbook.
  • Lynn Bogue Hunt Class of 1897
  • Country School boundaries
  • School Refunding Bond, 1934
  • Crowell School 6th Grade Class, 1965
  • Dalrymple School, February 21, 2016
  • Dalrymple School Annexation Sign, April 5,2016
  • Harrington School ground breaking on October 1956
  • Albion Public School Board on June 21, 2016
  • The happy winners of the 1964 7th grade spelling bee contest.
  • Wright School Picnic 1912
  • Central School building
  • Dr. Charles E. Slocus
  • Washington Gardner High School, Part 1
  • Washington Gardner High School, Part 2
  • Washington Gardner High School, Part 3
  • Washington Gardner High School, Part 4
  • Washington Gardner High School, Part 5
  • Washington Gardner High School, Part 6
  • The Orange Eagle
  • The 1962 Back to School Ball Drop
  • Harrington School 6th Grade 1964-65
  • Albion High School Cornerstone
  • Spring Arbor University Pictorial Published
  • The Hon. Washington Gardner
  • Anthony School
  • West Ward School
  • Printing Class
  • Cooking Class
  • Auto Repair Class
  • Albion School Bell
  • Drawing of Albion High School Addition
  • 1922 Class Gift
  • 1926 School Construction
  • Drawing of Washington Gardner High School
  • Riceville Highschool Reunion
  • Putnam School, circa 1899
  • Dress-Up Day 1926
  • Austin Elementary School
  • Class Memorials

    School Graduating Classes by Year

  • Albion High Class of 1893
  • Albion High Class of 1894
  • Albion High Class of 1895
  • Albion High Class of 1896
  • Albion High Class of 1897
  • Albion High Class of 1898
  • Albion High Class of 1900
  • Albion High Class of 1901
  • Albion High Class of 1902
  • Albion High Class of 1903
  • Albion High Class of 1904
  • Albion High Class of 1905
  • Albion High Class of 1906
  • Albion High Class of 1908
  • Albion High Class of 1909
  • Albion High Class of 1910
  • Albion High Class of 1911
  • Albion High Class of 1912
  • Albion High Class of 1913
  • Albion High Class of 1914
  • Albion High Class of 1915
  • Albion High Class of 1916
  • Albion High Class of 1917
  • Albion High Class of 1918
  • Albion High Class of 1919
  • Albion High Class of 1920
  • Albion High Class of 1921
  • Albion High Class of 1922
  • Albion High Class of 1923
  • Albion High Class of 1924
  • Albion High Class of 1971
  • Albion High Class of 1973
  • Albion High Class of 1974

    Sports

  • Lynn Bogue Hunt
  • Deacon Jim McGuire
  • Family Hunting Photograph, circa 1930
  • Coach Sacharski and Craig LeClair in 1958
  • 1947 Albion Recreation Department A team
  • McGuire Baseball Card, 1887
  • Albion Malleable Iron Company baseball team, circa 1910
  • The Recreation Department Midget Team Finalist Boys, 1955
  • Deer Hunters, circa 1927
  • The 1954-55 Corning Glass Softball Team
  • Ralph Locke (1916-2004)
  • 1958, Jerry Sacharski instructing 5-year-old Craig LeClair at bat
  • Local tennis players at Victory Park, circa 1957
  • Gus Ganakas interviews 5-year-old Melvin Mills, while Jerry Sacharski looks on.
  • Joseph Romanchuk
  • Pickens Bowling Team late 1940s
  • The 1939 Varsity and Junior Varsity Teams
  • 1939 Basketball Championship Team 40th Anniversary Reunion
  • Albion High School Football Team 1944
  • The Union Steel Products Fast-Pitch Softball “B” Team
  • The Gale Manufacturing Company Fast Pitch Softball Team
  • 1939-1940 Albion High School basketball team
  • The Albion Junior Red Wings verses the Old Timers on February 28, 1966
  • The 1949 Malleable Giants
  • Nikodemas Kulikauskas
  • 1943 Albion High School football team
  • Aerial View of the Location of the Trampoline Court
  • Union Steel Products city championship softball team 1940
  • Corning Glass Works 1954 basketball team
  • 1955 prize winning perch
  • 1913 Albion High School football team
  • 1940 "Wingard s Alley"
  • The east end by Clark St.
  • The cover of a scorecard from the Willow Ridge Golf Course, courtesy of Dave Eddy.
  • The German Soccer Club in 1925
  • Knights of Columbus softball team in Albion, circa 1960.
  • Baseball champions 1937
  • Trampoline Court
  • T-Ball Originated in Albion
  • The Hunting Companions
  • Charles Hatch Billinghurst, Albion s Greatest Hunter
  • 1944 Albion Merchant Girls Softball Team
  • Charles Bolden and Football Team
  • Nikodimas Kulikauskas (Mike)
  • Field & Stream, October 1931
  • 1939 Class B State Champions
  • 1949 Malleable Giants Softball Team
  • George Luedtke racing cars
  • Wolverines vs. Britons ticket

    The Theatres of Albion

  • Albion Theater
  • Censor Theatre, 1916
  • Hadley H. Sheldon on the Opera House stage
  • Save the Bohm Theatre
  • 1916 Bohm s Theatre at 108 W. Porter St.
  • The Albion Theatre in December of 1954
  • Actor and comedian Fred L. Godding
  • Bohm Theatre, circa 1940s
  • The Irate Investors meeting of December 4, 1912
  • Remodeling the interior of the Bohm Theatre, 2013
  • One Bohm Theatre ticket
  • The Censor Theatre, circa 1916
  • 1857 lithograph of the Howard Block building
  • The Bohm Theatre Grand Opening advertisement
  • Temple Theatre
  • Albion Opera House in 1976
  • Lithograph of The Howard Hall
  • 1929 Bohn Theatre
  • Opera House, 1920
  • Albion Theater 1960

    Transportation

  • The Morgan Air Field office on Finley Road
  • The Interurban
  • 1907 Interurban Passenger Station
  • Interurban tracks
  • Interurban office in 2003
  • 1928 photograph of Car No. 26
  • 1921 Interurban ticket
  • An Electric Interurban Car
  • Derailed Interurban Car
  • Interurban trestle looking southwest, circa 1910
  • The Interurban repair barns
  • Air Line Railroad
  • When the train tracks used to cross I-94
  • The Depot of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad
  • 1910 postcard photograph of the LS & MSRR trestle
  • An artists depiction of the Albion Train Depot in the 1866-67
  • Steam Engine Stopped at our Local Depot
  • Robin's nest on Railroad Crossing
  • Albion Railroad Depot in 1993
  • 1959 picture of I-94 rail road crossing
  • Railroad water tower, August 30, 1956
  • 1908 Market Place railroad map
  • August, 1956 photograph of the railroad water tank
  • 1836 Albion Village Plat Map
  • North Eaton St., Albion Depot, looking northeast
  • G. Mindeman Token, Reverse side
  • Grover Station freight building
  • $1,000 Gold Bond
  • Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Depot
  • Lake Shore Depot in 1894
  • Lily Pons at the Railroad Depot on June 5, 1939
  • Condit Railroad Station
  • Railroad Arrival 180 Years Ago
  • Interurban Tracks
  • New Years Day Tragedy at Railroad Crossing
  • Midway Airport
  • Railroad Freight Depot
  • Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Ran Through Albion
  • Michigan Central Freight House Burned
  • Railroad Service Maps
  • Clough View Interurban Station
  • Elms Buggy Company

    Trivia, Fun facts, and unexpected Oddities

  • Old Albion Laws
  • Albion Station Bottle Shop
  • Albion Detroit sign
  • George Mindeman Aluminum Token
  • Gale Cabbage Head Card - 1887
  • Welcome to Albion!
  • Weather regional radar screen
  • Albion Chamber of Commerce
  • Postcard from Albion
  • Death Valley Days
  • 1956 Booklet
  • Give a thought to Albion
  • Why Don t You Go Home?
  • Albion History Quiz
  • Wise Owl Quizzette Napkin
  • John Quigg radio repair ink blotter
  • A can of Burma Shave brushless shaving cream

    Villages Nearby and Elsewhere

  • Duck Lake Store
  • Springport
  • Marengo Mills
  • Marengo Post Office and General Store
  • Eckford Post Office
  • Devereaux, circa 1920
  • Devereaux Businessmen
  • Devereaux on Fire
  • Springport State Savings Bank
  • Mr. Erie Lake of Marengo
  • Albion Landing, Duck Lake
  • Eckford
  • Boat Office Token, circa 1905
  • Crittenden Store in Devereaux
  • The Condit Station
  • Memorial Rock at Rice Creek
  • A Flag Stop Called Devereaux
  • Condit Railroad Station
  • The Flood of 1914 at Bath Mills
  • Spring Arbor University Pictorial Published
  • Duck Lake Boathouse Tokens
  • 1858 Map of Calhoun County showing Rice Creek
  • Riceville School
  • Dedicated Clarence Township Book Committee Members
  • The Monument in Angola's Public Square
  • Tokio (Michigan)
  • La Foon, in Faulk County, South Dakota
  • Albion across the USA
  • 1907 Montcalm Lake Resort Merry-go-round
  • Duck Lake Boat Office
  • The tree in Duck Lake Road

    WALM

  • Dave Eddy at the controls
  • Albion Radio Station WALM on Austin Avenue in 1956
  • Albion businessmen being interviewed at WALM
  • Tuning in to WALM Radio, the Early Years

    Water related, see also Kalamazoo River and Bridges

  • N. Albion St. Water Works
  • Albion Water Works
  • The Albion Elevator
  • Albion Water Works and reservoir
  • Frank visiting a shipwreck near Bonaire
  • The 1868 Bird s Eye View of Albion showing the Stream
  • 1910 postcard of the Water Tower Park
  • The Albion Water Warriors, January 14, 1962, Rieger Park
  • Albion Water Warriors posing at Gangs Lake
  • Underwater photograph of a "Mountain of Marl"
  • Chunk of coal from the bottom of Lime Lake
  • Victory Park Spring
  • Victory Park Waterfall History, Part 1
  • Victory Park Waterfall History, Part 2
  • Victory Park Waterfall History, Part 3
  • Victory Park Waterfall History, Part 4
  • Community Drinking Cup
  • Darrow Boats
  • Victory Park Spring
  • Water Works Building
  • The Forks in 1832
  • Victory Park Spring Keeps on Flowing
  • Frank and Dorothy Dudek
  • Sub-Aquatic Wednesday Night dive club
  • Divers suiting up
  • Superior-Clinton Street
  • Filling in the Millpond

    Wedding anniversaries

  • Mr. and Mrs. William & Savira (Elliott) Davis
  • John Klimkiewicz and Miss Ludwika Romanowski
  • Clement and Susan (Wood) Scribner
  • Floyd W. and Ethel (Murray) Dean
  • Amelia (Stark) and William H. Moss
  • Bernhard and Bertha S. Kabel
  • Ernest and Luella (Clawson) Deyoe
  • Charles and Nettie Brownell
  • Charles and Bessie Taylor

    Wartime and Veterans

  • Albion's first "Honor Roll"
  • Captain George N. Davis
  • Charles Cadwell Aiken
  • Thomas E. Coffin, Civil War Veteran and Survivor
  • Ismon Civil War token
  • The Civil War token
  • Druggist George P. Glazier
  • G.A.R. Cannon a Landmark For Many Years
  • Civil War Veteran Hurley S. Austin
  • Albion's Civil War Cannon
  • Civil War Experiences of a German Emigrant
  • Thomas Edward Coffin, Civil War Veteran
  • Albion Rifle Rangers
  • Major Harrison Soule
  • Joseph Ruff
  • Frank Saxton Ludlow (1842-1918)
  • GAR Memorial Book
  • Bradley Waterman, 2nd Mich Infantry
  • Solomon Porter Brockway
  • Benjamin Barnes Ford
  • Panoramic Photograph of Albion WWI Veterans in 1919
  • Albion s black World War I veterans, 1
  • Albion College WWI Soldiers
  • Government Form 164-C
  • The False Armistice Day Parade of November 9, 1918
  • Albion Recorder Nov 7, 1918 Headline
  • William Curtis and his wife
  • The Cascarelli front window during World War II
  • Albion World War II Military Men Meet Up During the War
  • Ground Observer Corps
  • Air Watch
  • Thomas Morris as a Delta B-777 Captain
  • Tuskegee Airman memorial bricks
  • The Albion Victory Ship
  • The Recaptured Albion Victory being towed
  • Col. Duckworth
  • General Marshall s Victory Report
  • National Geographic, October, 1942
  • A Displaced Person camp publication
  • Union Steel Messenger
  • Russell Elushik
  • Defense Post in 1956
  • David Arnold Bernheisel (1949-1968)

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