1920-1930

File — Box: 3

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

This series includes the text for the exhibit's panels. For the originals and their locations, see Boxes 3-5.

Dates

1900-2000

Extent

From the Collection: 6.6 Linear Feet (Seven boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Exhibit Captions

The Stout Air Service brought regularly scheduled passenger service to Grand Rapids in 1926. Two years later they proudly boasted of making the first furniture shipment by air. [Morris Photo Col.#31. 43-1-1]
Beginning in 1924, radio brought news and entertainment programs into Grand Rapids homes. [Pictorial History of Grand Rapids Collection 138-3-1]
Introduced to the city in 1877, telephone service was coordinated by “operators” at the busy central Bell Telephone building on Fountain Street when this photograph was taken in 1922. [Michigan Bell Telephone. GRPL Photo Collection 54-19-21]
Built in 1925, the Fine Arts Building, now part of the Amway Grand Hotel was designed to be a showplace for furniture made in Grand Rapids. [Fine Arts Building Construction, ca. 1925. Morris Photo Col. #80. 43-1-2]
By the 1920s, Butterworth Hospital, founded in 1877, was an important Grand Rapids landmark. [GRPL Photo Collection 54-5-30. Camera Shop photo]
Concerned about the city’s high rate of infant mortality in the early years of the century, socially conscious women formed seven infant clinics, such as this one at 112 Louis NW, to instruct new mothers in the care of their babies. [Clinic for Infant Feeding. Grand Rapids Historical Society Records. 141-10-17.]
Although ultimately unsuccessful, Prohibition rallied social reformers across the nation and closed local bars and saloons for nearly 15 years. [Dorothy Keister Collection. 101-1-17]
“Open Air” classrooms were introduced in the public schools in the 1920s to prevent the spread of tuberculosis. [Open Air Classroom, West Leonard, 1923. Acc. 86.150. Tuberculosis Soc. Of Michigan. Anti-TB scrapbooks. Camera Shop]