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.

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.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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.