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Digital Archive of the Howell Carnegie Library Archives

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  • Meyer's Shell Service Station, Howell, Michigan, 1969

    Photographs of  Dick Meyer's new service station, Meyer's Shell Service, 422 West Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan, 1969.    The business was affiliated with Shell Oil Company.

    The person in the photographs is unknown.
  • Michigan Avenue Bridge, Howell, Michigan, 1980

    This is a photograph of the rebuilding of the  Michigan Avenue Bridge, Howell, Michigan, 1980.
  • Michigan Avenue Middle School Band, Howell, Michigan - 1976

    A yearbook photo of the Michigan Avenue Middle School Band during the 1976 to 1977 school year. 
  • Michigan Avenue Middle School Yearbook Cover, Howell, Michigan - 1967

    This photo was used for the cover of the Michigan Avenue Middle School yearbook during the 1976-1977 school year. The photo shows a crowd of students who were attending the middle school at the time.
  • Michigan Avenue Middle School, Howell, Michigan - 1967

    A photo taken at Michigan Avenue Middle School during the 1976-1977 school year. The person standing in the photograph could potentially be Roy Griffitts, a teacher at the middle school.
  • Michigan Avenue, Howell, Michigan - 1984

    This photograph is of the R/UDAT Walking Tour, Howell, Michigan, and was taken as part of documentation for the R/UDAT Study, 1984.  In view is the North Michigan Avenue Bridge.  The names of the persons in the photograph are unknown.

    In 1983, the Howell Area Chamber of Commerce applied for a R/UDAT (Regional/Urban Design Assistance Team) study, an American Institute of Architects program that brought a team of professionals to the city for a four-day period to study Howell's downtown, its ability to compete for regional shopping, and to make recommendations for improvements to re-vitalize the city.  The team, in 1984, during the study took photographs, interviewed people, held forums, and in the end provided an outline of strategies.

    American Institute of Architects Regional/Urban Design Assistance Team
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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, 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.
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