Scope and Contents From the Series:

Most of the business sources located in this collection are listed alphabetically by the name of the firm. If the firm name includes a personal name, it may be filed alphabetically for the first name or initial in the name, or by the last name of the person, if this is believed to be the more common usage. Some other types of business related items may be filed within other series. For example, a calendar from a business, may be in the Calendar series instead.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The calendars most desired for addition to this collection are those which have unique images associated with the Greater Grand Rapids area, or some other type of unique information. Almanacs are more rare, and may be used for a firm as an advertising gift.

Timetables may be most associated with the railways or ferry lines, and may also be found in archival collections associated with those firms or with Michigan travel.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The calendars most desired for addition to this collection are those which have unique images associated with the Greater Grand Rapids area, or some other type of unique information. Almanacs are more rare, and may be used for a firm as an advertising gift.

Timetables may be most associated with the railways or ferry lines, and may also be found in archival collections associated with those firms or with Michigan travel.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The calendars most desired for addition to this collection are those which have unique images associated with the Greater Grand Rapids area, or some other type of unique information. Almanacs are more rare, and may be used for a firm as an advertising gift.

Timetables may be most associated with the railways or ferry lines, and may also be found in archival collections associated with those firms or with Michigan travel.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Includes primarily programs or announcements associated with events of local, state or national conferences held in Grand Rapids.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The GRPL Ephemera collection was first given life in 1998, during the process of organizing the collections for the moves to the temporary and new buildings, during the library renovation period. A large cache of unprocessed miscellaneous items formed the core and other like items were shifted to the collection from the materials found during the move clean up or from the small unprocessed accessions in the processing backlog. A liberal definition of ephemera is used in...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The GRPL Ephemera collection was first given life in 1998, during the process of organizing the collections for the moves to the temporary and new buildings, during the library renovation period. A large cache of unprocessed miscellaneous items formed the core and other like items were shifted to the collection from the materials found during the move clean up or from the small unprocessed accessions in the processing backlog. A liberal definition of ephemera is used in...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The GRPL Ephemera collection was first given life in 1998, during the process of organizing the collections for the moves to the temporary and new buildings, during the library renovation period. A large cache of unprocessed miscellaneous items formed the core and other like items were shifted to the collection from the materials found during the move clean up or from the small unprocessed accessions in the processing backlog. A liberal definition of ephemera is used in...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The GRPL Ephemera collection was first given life in 1998, during the process of organizing the collections for the moves to the temporary and new buildings, during the library renovation period. A large cache of unprocessed miscellaneous items formed the core and other like items were shifted to the collection from the materials found during the move clean up or from the small unprocessed accessions in the processing backlog. A liberal definition of ephemera is used in...

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included here primarily are theater programs, but also in some cases a history or other documents, such as newsletters, or other items such as historical theater playbills. Posters about theater features may be found in Collection 224 the Art and Graphics Collection.