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Box 1

 Container

Contains 24 Results:

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