1930-1940

File — Box: 4

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

Christmas Seals were a 1930s effort to raise money for the battle to fight tuberculosis. [Acc. 86.150. Tuberculosis Soc. Of Michigan. Anti-TB scrapbooks. Robinson Studio Photo. ]
Although the company lasted only three years, excited residents desperately hoped the first DeVaux-Hall automobile would bring success and jobs when it rolled off the assembly line in 1933. [Robinson Studio Collection Photo. 125-934-2.]
Built in 1936, the 82-year-old Grand Rapids Public Museum used a combination of local funds and Federal New Deal money to provide a new home for the one of the Midwest’s oldest museums. [GRPL Photo Collection 54-11-8]
Kent County Airport officials produced this scale model in 1938 to help skeptics better visualize their expansion plans. [Thomas E. Walsh Papers. 75-31-Scrapbook 4]
During the Great Depression, Grand Rapids Fire Stations were used as milk distribution points to children from needy families. [Grand Rapids City Welfare Department. Scrip Labor Collection. 67-1-3]
With people out of work and in need of food, Grand Rapids city government hired women to can fruit and vegetables for consumption by needy families. [Grand Rapids City Welfare Department. Scrip Labor Collection. 67-1-2b]
IK’s Little White-Front Barbecue on west Bridge Street was one local family’s response to the hard times of the 1930s. [Morris Photo Col. #111. 43-1-3]
George Welsh, Grand Rapids best known politician, served as Grand Rapids City Manager from 1929 to 1932, and then as Mayor from 1938 to 1950. [GRPL Photo Collection 54-37-22]
Built in 1932, construction of Grand Rapids’ Civic Auditorium created publicly funded jobs during the early years of the Great Depression, before New Deal programs were created. [Grand Rapids City Welfare Department. Scrip Labor Collection. 67-2-13]
[Interior of the Regent Theatre. Pictorial History of Grand Rapids Collection. 138-5-19]
[Exterior of the Regent Theatre. GRPL Photo Collection 54-12-19]
In an effort to provide income for unemployed men, roadwork such as this Eastern Avenue grading project, was done with hand labor rather than heavy equipment. [Eastern Ave. at Maybelle St. , Nov. 21, 1931. Grand Rapids City Welfare Department. Scrip Labor Collection. 67-2-9]