Digital Archive of the Howell Carnegie Library Archives

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  • HCDL-ngp-P008-01-0042_u.jpg

    Richard "Dick" Chrysler - 1983
    Born April 29, 1942
    Graduate of Brighton High School
    Founder and President of Cars and Concepts, Brighton, Michigan
    U. S. Congressman Michigan 8th District, 1995-1997
  • HCDL-ngp-T003-01-0004_u.jpg

    This is a photograph taken in Brighton, Michigan, on West Main Street.  It depicts an unknown parade, and in the background is the  Former Opera House, the Rialto Theatre.

    The Rialto Theatre, 307 West Main Steeet, Brighton, Michigan, was originally built in 1918 to show silent movies.  Silent movies were often accompanied by piano music provided by a local artist.   

    The Rialto Theatre was a multi-use theater between 1918 and 1937 hosting movies, meetings, music, commencements, lectures and conventions.  In 1937, there was extensive remodeling of the Rialto converting it into a bowling alley.  After World War II, the Bowling Alley was demolished to make way for a parking lot.

    Participants in Parade: unknown.
  • HCDL-ngp-T003-01-0003_u.jpg

    This is a photograph taken in Brighton, Michigan, on West Main Street.  It depicts an unknown parade, and in the background is the  Former Opera House, the Rialto Theatre.

    The Rialto Theatre, 307 West Main Steeet, Brighton, Michigan, was originally built in 1918 to show silent movies.  Silent movies were often accompanied by piano music provided by a local artist.   

    The Rialto Theatre was a multi-use theater between 1918 and 1937 hosting movies, meetings, music, commencements, lectures and conventions.  In 1937, there was extensive remodeling of the Rialto converting it into a bowling alley.  After World War II, the Bowling Alley was demolished to make way for a parking lot.

    Parade participants: unknown.
  • HCDL-ngp-C003-01-0022_u.jpg

    This is a portrait, from a print, of Reverend Merle R. Meeden, First Baptist Church, 210 Church Street, Howell, Michigan, dated 1979.
  • HCDL-ngp-C003-03-0045_u.jpg

    This is a portrait of Reverend Ernest Crocker, Minister at Wesleyan Methodist Church, Brighton, Michigan.  It was taken by Nelson, 1945
  • HCDL-ngp-C003-03-0027_u.jpg

    This is a portrait of Reverend Carlos L. Adams, pastor at the Walnut Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Howell Michigan.   Rev. C. L.  Adams was born in Vermont in 1856, and died in 1941.
  • HCDL-ngp-C003-03-0028_u.jpg

    This is a portrait of the wife of Reverend Carlos L. Adams, pastor at the Walnut Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Howell Michigan.   Emma Louise Cooper Adams was born in Vermont.
  • HCDL-ngp-C003-03-0037_u.jpg

    This group of photographs were taken at the Open House for retiring minister Rev. Ira Cargo and his wife, at the Fowlerville Methodist Church, Fowlerville, Michigan, June 4,  1954. 

    The names of the persons in the pictures are unknown.

    The Lansing State Journal/image/206928602/?terms=%22Fowlerville%20Methodist%22&match=1
  • HCDL-ngp-C003-05-002_u.jpg

    This is a picture of The Rev. Ray Newman Raycroft who was the pastor of the church from 1963-1969
  • HCDL-L002-0018_u.jpg

    Restored Statue for Fountain at Howell Carnegie District Library, Howell, Michigan October 28, 1970

    The statue and fountain was given by the Women's Club about 1906 to the library. Vandals broke the fountain and the fountain and statue laid in the basement of library for years until Sheriff Charles Hards, Mike Hagman and Undersheriff Russell McCarthy hauled them out and repaired them.

    From Left to Right: Sheriff Charles Hards, Mike Hagman and Undersheriff Russell McCarthy looking the results of their labors.
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