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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.

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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City guides from various sources, arranged chronologically. A wide variety of types of publications and publishers are included here. Many of the earlier guides were pictorials including select images. Some of these corresponded to postcards of the same image issued around the same time period. Others may be unique to an organization or event, such as the various pictorial guides to the 1904 Flood.

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...

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

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Usually only ephemera associated with clubs of the Greater Grand Rapids area are included in this series. This means that if other types of materials from an organization are held, they may be located in other collections by material type.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Usually only ephemera associated with clubs of the Greater Grand Rapids area are included in this series. This means that if other types of materials from an organization are held, they may be located in other collections by material type.

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...