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Digital Archive of the Howell Carnegie Library Archives

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  • Knagg's Bridge, spanning the Shiawassee River on Cole Road in Shiawassee County
  • Michigan Bell Telephone Building, 1963, Howell, Michigan

    This is a photograph of a sketch of the proposed new Michigan Bell Telephone Company building, April, 1963.  The building was later built and is located on the southwest corner of East Grand River Avenue, and Fowler Street, Howell, Michigan.
  • Telephone Pay Phone Booth, Brighton, Michigan

    This is a photograph of a notification of an outdoor telephone booth in one mile,  East of Brighton on Grand River, 09-01-1955.

    The exact location is East Grand River Avenue, Brighton, Michigan just east of Old U.S. 23.
  • Telephone Pay Phone Booth, Brighton, Michigan

    This is a photograph of an outdoor telephone booth East of Brighton on Grand River, 09-01-1955.

    The exact location is East Grand River Avenue, Brighton, Michigan just east of Old U.S. 23.  In the background, one can see the intersection and the Michigan State Police Post on the northwest section of the intersection.
  • Telephone Pay Phone, Brighton, Michigan

    This is a photograph of an outdoor phone booth East of Brighton on Grand River, 09-01-1955.

    The exact location is East Grand River Avenue, Brighton, Michigan just east of Old U.S. 23.  In the background, one can see the intersection and the Michigan State Police Post on the northwest section of the intersection.
  • Michigan Bell, Construction, Howell, Michigan

    This photograph was labeled, "Michigan Bell, Line workers" and was grouped with a series of Michigan Bell Telephone pictures in Howell.  The photograph was taken with two large homes in the background and shows men working in trenches with cement blocks. the photo appears to showcase construction of the buried line infrastructure that relieved the city of much of the tangled lines present in photos from the earlier parts of the 20th century. This work, as evidenced by photographs, was likely to have been mostly completed by the mid-1960s.
  • Michigan Bell Telephone Company, Pay Phone, Howell, Michigan

    Photographs of a telephone booth outside the old Michigan Bell Telephone office, 310 E. Grand River, 1/2 block from Court House, Howell, Michigan, 1953.

    The names of the persons in the pictures are unknown.
  • Michigan Bell Telephone and Detroit Edison Buildings, Howell, Michigan

    This photograph was attributed to Ed Beach with photo copyright Bentley Historical Library, 1932, and it shows the Michigan Bell Building, 310 East Grand River Avenue, and the Detroit Edison Building at 316 East Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan.   To the far left is a portion of the Citizens' Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, 304 East Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan.
  • Winter Scene, Utility Work, Howell, Michigan

    This is a photograph of a horse and sleigh traveling along the street with a load of wood.  In the foreground, men are working on the electrical lines/poles.  The exact location and date of this photograph are unknown, but possibly in the city of Howell, Michigan.

    The persons in the photograph are unknown.
  • McPherson Oil Company, Mobilgas, Brighton, Michigan, 1954

    This is one of McPherson Oil Company gasoline stations, located in Brighton, at U.S. 23 and U.S. 16, February 1954. 

    McPherson Oil Company, 224 West Sibley Street, Howell, Michigan was a wholesale distributor of gasoline and oil.
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