Included here are early mostly single sheet advertisements, on small to oversized paper. Most are for Grand Rapids area firms and wares, but a select number of historical items representing the types of national wares that may have been advertised, sold and used in Grand Rapids area also included.

Some of these have pencil annotations which indicate that they came from Henry McConnell. See Coll. 117, for the separate collection of broadsides given by McConnell.