Box 1
Container
Contains 24 Results:
Nov. 30, 1972. Copy of Clipping. Lowell Ledger & Suburban life. v. 79, no. 34. "Natives Restless Due to Lake of Action!" included are the wording on the boulder, a copy of a Smith letter and an image of Robinson & Sippi Quary from a glass plate negative owned then by Dick DeVries. Benjamin Smith Papers. 1986.298B
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1890-1980, no date
Dec. 4, 1972. Grand Rapids Press. "Amway Asks Better Site for Robinson Market" / Floyd Allbaugh. Includes image of the brass plaque.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1890-1980, no date
Dec. 7, 1972. Lowell Ledger-Suburban Life. Editor's Mail Box. Signed "Concerned Citizen."
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1890-1980, no date
Copy of graphic (photo) of Rix Robinson seated holding a cane, next to his wife, Sippi Quay. Source unknown.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1890-1980, no date
Amway Lawsuit. And Here's for You, Mr. Robinson / Paul Chaffee. Possibly GR Press, ca. 1972 See also 295-2 Dec. 17, 1972 biographical clipping.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1890-1980, no date
Legends and Tales of Rix Robinson : early Michigan Fur Trapper, State Senator, lawyer, Banker, Draft Dodger and Friend to the Indians / compiled & edited [citations] by Mark von Destinon, Aug. 1997. 1999.082.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1895-1972
Obit. Jan. 13, 1895. GR Eagle.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1895-1972
Clipping with two images: Rix Robinson left, second wife, right.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1895-1972
Typed transcription of a letter, Aug. 24, 1921, from artist Frederick Stuart Church to Rebecca Richmond, RE Rix Robinson, plus a photocopy of same. See Coll. 094 (C6:A1.66) for the original, which was legal sized, but is now in two pieces in letter-sized sleeve.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1895-1972
First in County, in a dense forest ... Rix Robinson was Kent's earliest White man. Grand Rapids Press. Nov. 22, 1909. Clipping attached to white paper, plus photocopy of same.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This devised collection has been created from unprocessed materials associated with Rix Robinson to document this Greater Grand Rapids area and Michigan pioneer, and to document his home and trading post in Ada, Michigan. The Rix Robinson site dig research was left abandoned in a house and brought to the library by a later tenant. The actual collector of this historical research is unknown, but may have been one of the student researchers depicted in some photographs included...
Dates:
1895-1972