Grand Rapids Centennial Furniture Festival Souvenir Program. Cover art by Sidney J. Bartnick. 00.[1277].1

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This collection was created in 1999 to house the fragments and small accessions within the archives that relate to the furniture industry in Grand Rapids. Information on non-Grand Rapids furniture companies is not actively collected, though some national material can be found in Collection #335, Furniture Design Archival Collection, National Literature. The other complimentary collection with a national focus is the Furniture Design Book Collection, which is housed in its own room within the Grand Rapids History & Special Collections department.

Dates

no date

Extent

From the Collection: 68.5 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

General

Cover has: Mammoth spectacle “Romance of Furniture”, Houseman Field, July 9-10, 1936.

Includes: The First One Hundred Years … 1836-1936 : being a short review of the beginning of the furniture industry in Grand Rapids, its growth and development. Has numerous ads, including: Despres Dowel Mfg. Co. / Grand Rapids Dowel Works / Furniture City Dowel Company / Laban Sample Furniture Company / Leitelt Lumber Lifts / Chicky Candy Bars / Grand Rapids School of Designing … Arther Kirkpatrick [sic Arthur Kirkpatrick}, Instructor and Designer / Matt Heyns Serve Self Food Markets / Grand Rapids Fancy Furniture Co., 1898-1936.