Box 3
Contains 73 Results:
Baseball team. Grand Rapids Colored Athletics of 1917, Champions of Michigan
The collection contains documentation of a joint project by Alpha Kappa Alpha, the Grand Rapids Study Club, the Suburban Club, the Grand Rapids Public Library, the Grand Rapids Public Schools and the Grand Rapids Public Museum to detail the history of the Black community in Grand Rapids. Documentation, including photographs, was collected and reproduced. The material documents the people and their occupations during the first 150 years of Grand Rapids' history.
Clean-up Week, 1949. Cleaning up neighborhoods. 5 people, Lydia Brown center. Young man at right with paint can. Young woman at right with broom. Older man & woman at left.
The collection contains documentation of a joint project by Alpha Kappa Alpha, the Grand Rapids Study Club, the Suburban Club, the Grand Rapids Public Library, the Grand Rapids Public Schools and the Grand Rapids Public Museum to detail the history of the Black community in Grand Rapids. Documentation, including photographs, was collected and reproduced. The material documents the people and their occupations during the first 150 years of Grand Rapids' history.
Comstock's Row, ca. 1880. Comstock Row, Housing for employees in Charles Comstock’s pail factory.
The collection contains documentation of a joint project by Alpha Kappa Alpha, the Grand Rapids Study Club, the Suburban Club, the Grand Rapids Public Library, the Grand Rapids Public Schools and the Grand Rapids Public Museum to detail the history of the Black community in Grand Rapids. Documentation, including photographs, was collected and reproduced. The material documents the people and their occupations during the first 150 years of Grand Rapids' history.
Contact sheets, 1984
The collection contains documentation of a joint project by Alpha Kappa Alpha, the Grand Rapids Study Club, the Suburban Club, the Grand Rapids Public Library, the Grand Rapids Public Schools and the Grand Rapids Public Museum to detail the history of the Black community in Grand Rapids. Documentation, including photographs, was collected and reproduced. The material documents the people and their occupations during the first 150 years of Grand Rapids' history.
Cosmopolitan Restaurant & Bakery, just north of Sweet’s Hotel, where the entrance to the Pantlind now is. Staff or others standing in front of store. ca.1870.
The collection contains documentation of a joint project by Alpha Kappa Alpha, the Grand Rapids Study Club, the Suburban Club, the Grand Rapids Public Library, the Grand Rapids Public Schools and the Grand Rapids Public Museum to detail the history of the Black community in Grand Rapids. Documentation, including photographs, was collected and reproduced. The material documents the people and their occupations during the first 150 years of Grand Rapids' history.
Bands. ca. 1920. A large group of people, with some in uniform, standing in front of a large building (Old City Hall). Bands, two with marked drums: (1) [Elks Club] Wolverine Lodge, (2) Grand Rapids Melody Band. See the Grand Rapids Herald, June 12, 1927 page 12 column 1: “Negro Elks Open State Convention This Afternoon”
The collection contains documentation of a joint project by Alpha Kappa Alpha, the Grand Rapids Study Club, the Suburban Club, the Grand Rapids Public Library, the Grand Rapids Public Schools and the Grand Rapids Public Museum to detail the history of the Black community in Grand Rapids. Documentation, including photographs, was collected and reproduced. The material documents the people and their occupations during the first 150 years of Grand Rapids' history.
First Community Church, n.d.
The collection contains documentation of a joint project by Alpha Kappa Alpha, the Grand Rapids Study Club, the Suburban Club, the Grand Rapids Public Library, the Grand Rapids Public Schools and the Grand Rapids Public Museum to detail the history of the Black community in Grand Rapids. Documentation, including photographs, was collected and reproduced. The material documents the people and their occupations during the first 150 years of Grand Rapids' history.
Grand Rapids Heavy Moving Co. Advertisement, from GR City Directory, ca 1900. Grand Rapids Heavy Moving Co., 50 & 52 N. Division St., John J. Johnson, manager
The collection contains documentation of a joint project by Alpha Kappa Alpha, the Grand Rapids Study Club, the Suburban Club, the Grand Rapids Public Library, the Grand Rapids Public Schools and the Grand Rapids Public Museum to detail the history of the Black community in Grand Rapids. Documentation, including photographs, was collected and reproduced. The material documents the people and their occupations during the first 150 years of Grand Rapids' history.
Paul Richens House/Grand Rapids Study Club Clubhouse, added to the Michigan State Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The collection contains documentation of a joint project by Alpha Kappa Alpha, the Grand Rapids Study Club, the Suburban Club, the Grand Rapids Public Library, the Grand Rapids Public Schools and the Grand Rapids Public Museum to detail the history of the Black community in Grand Rapids. Documentation, including photographs, was collected and reproduced. The material documents the people and their occupations during the first 150 years of Grand Rapids' history.
Close up view of “Grand Rapids Study Club” sign
The collection contains documentation of a joint project by Alpha Kappa Alpha, the Grand Rapids Study Club, the Suburban Club, the Grand Rapids Public Library, the Grand Rapids Public Schools and the Grand Rapids Public Museum to detail the history of the Black community in Grand Rapids. Documentation, including photographs, was collected and reproduced. The material documents the people and their occupations during the first 150 years of Grand Rapids' history.