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Purple Gang from Detroit, 1928
A prohibition gang that hung out in Livingston County. This photo was taken at the time they were arrested.
From left to right: Sam Drapkin, Joe Bomerito, Jimmy Licavoli, Nick Desmond, George Rose, Abe Axler -
Purchase Article for Chemung Hills Country Club, Howell, Michigan, February 1923
Purchase Article for Chemung Hills Country Club, Howell, Michigan, February 1923
Purchased from George W. Earl Farm of 120 acres in Oceola township, Livingston County, Michigan. Farm has frontage on what is known as Brayton's Lake. -
Public Drinking Fountain, Howell, Michigan 1912
1912
Public fountain in front of the Rexall Drug Store located in front of the Greenaway Building at 102 E. Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan, the north east corner of Grand River Avenue and Michigan Avenue, known locally as the Main Four.
The fountain had four attached cups and was located next to a hitching post.
Photo is facing south west, and shows buildings on the south side of Grand River Avenue. Pedestrians and vehicles are pictured.
Text from 'Images of America Howell' by David D. Finney, Jr. and Judith L. McIntosh, page 22:
This summer image, taken around 1912 by Roy Newcomb, provides a view of John Hamilton with a ladle in his hand as he dips for a refreshing cup of water from the public fountain.
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Prohibition, Detroit, Michigan
This series of photographs including a picture of the headline from the Detroit News December 1933, when Prohibition ended, and labeled photographs of "Rum Runners".
The views include Riopelle Street, Police Boats, the Detroit River looking from Windsor towards Detroit, and a woman with whiskey under a dress.
The exact locations, dates of photographs and names of persons in the photographs are unknown. -
Prohibition Raid, Undersheriff Loren Bassett & William Cansfield, Editor, 1932, Livingston County, Michigan
This is a photgraph taken during a Prohibition Raid, showing a large vat of whiskey mash on a farm in Livingston County, Michigan. The writing on the back of the photograph says, "second raid on still". In the picture are, left, Undersheriff Loren Bassett and to the right, William Cansfield, Editor, of the Livingston County Press. The photograph is labeled 1932, and while the location is in Livingston County, Michigan, the exact location is unknown. -
Professor Thomas Crawford Garner, Superintendent, Howell High School, Howell, Michigan
This is a portrait of Professor Thomas Crawford Garner. He was Principal and Superintendent of Howell Public Schools, in the 1870 - 1873.
Thomas C. Garner was born in Bath, Steuben, New York in 1831, and died in Fenton, Genesee, Michigan in 1882.
The date of this portrait is unknown.
View Livingston Republican May 4, 1855 Article. (In Library Use Only)
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