Glimpse history through old photos and vintage films of Lansing in Michigan, USA. In the winter of 1847, Lansing in Michigan was just a hamlet of 20 settlers, surrounded by dense forest. Today it’s Michigan’s fifth largest city, with a resident population of over 117,000 people and more than half a million in the wider metropolitan area. It’s an area which has seen great change over time, even in the last twenty or thirty years. Old Photos of Lansing MI Old stereograph images of the State Capitol building in Lansing , Michigan, in 1885. Image: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. Old postcard of Lansing . Michigan, circa 1903. Image: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. Old postcard of the Post Office in Lansing , Michigan, circa 1903. Image: The Mir...