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Box 2

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Contains 106 Results:

Salvage operations #5. Salvaging old pipe taken from buildings raised on new auditorium site. 7-20-31. [108-200 Market S.W.] Two African American men lifting a pipe from the pile. Men watching in the background. A Federal Motor Trucks building and other buildings in the background.

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains approximately 500 photos of various projects undertaken by the program, such as parks improvements, road construction, sewer and water main projects, food preservation and distribution and two drives to raise food at Thanksgiving ("Fill the Barrel") and Toys at Christmas ("For an Empty Stocking"). The photos present a vivid depiction of local municipal welfare activities during the Great Depression, prior to any such federal action.Most of these photo...
Dates: 1930-1932

Salvage operations #6. Loading salvaged lumber at auditorium site. 7-18-31. [Men standing on back of 2 short flatbed trucks, loading lumber. Two men on top of lumber pile. Part of a large building with smoke stacks at right.

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains approximately 500 photos of various projects undertaken by the program, such as parks improvements, road construction, sewer and water main projects, food preservation and distribution and two drives to raise food at Thanksgiving ("Fill the Barrel") and Toys at Christmas ("For an Empty Stocking"). The photos present a vivid depiction of local municipal welfare activities during the Great Depression, prior to any such federal action.Most of these photo...
Dates: 1930-1932

G.R.Herald, June 5, 1931. [[Brick salvaging at the auditorium site(?), a group of men at a roof line, with a view to Bissell's, and the Bissell tower in the background. Note on back gives time as 7 am.

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains approximately 500 photos of various projects undertaken by the program, such as parks improvements, road construction, sewer and water main projects, food preservation and distribution and two drives to raise food at Thanksgiving ("Fill the Barrel") and Toys at Christmas ("For an Empty Stocking"). The photos present a vivid depiction of local municipal welfare activities during the Great Depression, prior to any such federal action.Most of these photo...
Dates: 1930-1932

G.R. Hearld [sic Herald], June 5, 1931. Men with axes and foreman at left, looking at a piece of machinery on a roof line. A smokestack is at the left. The river is visible in the background right, as well as the buildings on the other side of the river. Note on back gives time as 7 am.

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains approximately 500 photos of various projects undertaken by the program, such as parks improvements, road construction, sewer and water main projects, food preservation and distribution and two drives to raise food at Thanksgiving ("Fill the Barrel") and Toys at Christmas ("For an Empty Stocking"). The photos present a vivid depiction of local municipal welfare activities during the Great Depression, prior to any such federal action.Most of these photo...
Dates: 1930-1932

June 18, 1931. [Men in a row between the trucks on the street at left, and the shack center right, as the construction site for the Civic Auditorium building. A building in demolition is behind them, with the stack still standing at the left. The stack in the background is Bissell. Owen Ames Kimball construction sign on the pole in front. [2 copies]

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains approximately 500 photos of various projects undertaken by the program, such as parks improvements, road construction, sewer and water main projects, food preservation and distribution and two drives to raise food at Thanksgiving ("Fill the Barrel") and Toys at Christmas ("For an Empty Stocking"). The photos present a vivid depiction of local municipal welfare activities during the Great Depression, prior to any such federal action.Most of these photo...
Dates: 1930-1932

June 19, 1931. Script workers on auditorium site. [Men seated and standing along the side of what is probably a theater building or hotel with a marquee.

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains approximately 500 photos of various projects undertaken by the program, such as parks improvements, road construction, sewer and water main projects, food preservation and distribution and two drives to raise food at Thanksgiving ("Fill the Barrel") and Toys at Christmas ("For an Empty Stocking"). The photos present a vivid depiction of local municipal welfare activities during the Great Depression, prior to any such federal action.Most of these photo...
Dates: 1930-1932

6-20-31.[or 32] [Demolition of buildings on the site for the new Civic Auditorium. Building in foreground is demolished to the basement level, with piles of salvage around the sides. The smokestack still standing. Bridge with railroad tracks in center, with tracks ended at the remnants of a building with “Station” on the side. Bissell factory in the background, with the river and west side visible at the left.

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains approximately 500 photos of various projects undertaken by the program, such as parks improvements, road construction, sewer and water main projects, food preservation and distribution and two drives to raise food at Thanksgiving ("Fill the Barrel") and Toys at Christmas ("For an Empty Stocking"). The photos present a vivid depiction of local municipal welfare activities during the Great Depression, prior to any such federal action.Most of these photo...
Dates: 1930-1932

7-21-32. [View of Civic Auditorium in construction from across the Grand Rapids (from a bridge?) Stone on facade in river side. Girders outlining roof. Bissell at left, unidentified [Pantlind?] building at the right. Signs for constructors along the river side of the building site include: Hall Electric Co., Phoenix Sprinkler and Heating Co., Jergens & Mieras Decorators

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains approximately 500 photos of various projects undertaken by the program, such as parks improvements, road construction, sewer and water main projects, food preservation and distribution and two drives to raise food at Thanksgiving ("Fill the Barrel") and Toys at Christmas ("For an Empty Stocking"). The photos present a vivid depiction of local municipal welfare activities during the Great Depression, prior to any such federal action.Most of these photo...
Dates: 1930-1932

7-22-32. [Civic Auditorium in construction. Facade is readable, the roof is outlined in girders, and there is scaffolding around the building. Pieces of stone are scene on the ground in front.

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains approximately 500 photos of various projects undertaken by the program, such as parks improvements, road construction, sewer and water main projects, food preservation and distribution and two drives to raise food at Thanksgiving ("Fill the Barrel") and Toys at Christmas ("For an Empty Stocking"). The photos present a vivid depiction of local municipal welfare activities during the Great Depression, prior to any such federal action.Most of these photo...
Dates: 1930-1932

Streets, grading and widening #14. Grading of Denherder Ave. 7-23-31. [Men at the top of a graded rise across the center of the image (angled). Houses in the background. Rough ground at lower right.

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains approximately 500 photos of various projects undertaken by the program, such as parks improvements, road construction, sewer and water main projects, food preservation and distribution and two drives to raise food at Thanksgiving ("Fill the Barrel") and Toys at Christmas ("For an Empty Stocking"). The photos present a vivid depiction of local municipal welfare activities during the Great Depression, prior to any such federal action.Most of these photo...
Dates: 1930-1932