1-2. Interior. Contact print & copy print.
Scope and Contents
This series contains photographs organized by subject, in alphabetical order. It includes depictions of events, buildings, places, objects, and groups associated with a particular organization. Terms used as subjects are not authority controlled.
Dates
- circa 1837-2011
Extent
From the Collection: 32 Linear Feet (Approximately 60 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
General
Image shows four men standing on either side of a center aisle, some leaning on the glass front counter-high cases. Shows the stock in the cases and on the walls behind. A display in the center of the aisle has a sign “25 & 40 Watt lamps. . . C.H. Kutsche, Jr., of the local Kutsche family, has identified the following (5/12/2009):
View: Taken from mezzanine office toward the street (Monroe Ave.)
Date: 1918
In the mid-1920's cabinets were moved to center of store, wall shelves carried down stairs.
Man standing at right, in shirt sleeves, leaning on the counter is Jack Pelon(?), a very long-time clerk, then just out of the U.S. Army (W.W.I).
Men in background with caps CHK thinks are customers.
Men in front left CHK cannot identify. He is not Herm Bates, another long-term clerk.
Repository Details
Part of the Grand Rapids History Center Repository
Grand Rapids Public Library
111 Library Street NE
Grand Rapids Michigan 49503 USA
616-988-5497
localhis@grpl.org