Box 5

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:

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.

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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.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

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Included here are general school catalogs, school certificates, and miscellaneous ephemeral type publications, such as coloring books. Annual reports may be found in the Annual Report Collection, other formal reports or meatier publications may be found in the generic small manuscript collection.

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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 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...