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Box 1

 Container

Contains 78 Results:

“#9” View up hill with cars and houses left.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The photographs in this collection were generated by two departments in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, providing a unique record of various streetscapes in the city. The Public Service Department photos document efforts by the city smoke inspector to record air pollution as well as several public works projects in the city, such as the widening of Division Avenue in the 1920s. The Traffic Engineer's Department photos document bridges, grade separations and...
Dates: 1948-1971

Auto parts left. Alloys Corp. on building at right.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The photographs in this collection were generated by two departments in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, providing a unique record of various streetscapes in the city. The Public Service Department photos document efforts by the city smoke inspector to record air pollution as well as several public works projects in the city, such as the widening of Division Avenue in the 1920s. The Traffic Engineer's Department photos document bridges, grade separations and...
Dates: 1948-1971

Opposite direction view with Al’s Trailer Mart at left, auto parts across street from Al’s.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The photographs in this collection were generated by two departments in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, providing a unique record of various streetscapes in the city. The Public Service Department photos document efforts by the city smoke inspector to record air pollution as well as several public works projects in the city, such as the widening of Division Avenue in the 1920s. The Traffic Engineer's Department photos document bridges, grade separations and...
Dates: 1948-1971

View down road to bridge. Dividing line down road.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The photographs in this collection were generated by two departments in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, providing a unique record of various streetscapes in the city. The Public Service Department photos document efforts by the city smoke inspector to record air pollution as well as several public works projects in the city, such as the widening of Division Avenue in the 1920s. The Traffic Engineer's Department photos document bridges, grade separations and...
Dates: 1948-1971

Detail from under bridge.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The photographs in this collection were generated by two departments in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, providing a unique record of various streetscapes in the city. The Public Service Department photos document efforts by the city smoke inspector to record air pollution as well as several public works projects in the city, such as the widening of Division Avenue in the 1920s. The Traffic Engineer's Department photos document bridges, grade separations and...
Dates: 1948-1971

View with sign “Pedestrians Keep Off”

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The photographs in this collection were generated by two departments in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, providing a unique record of various streetscapes in the city. The Public Service Department photos document efforts by the city smoke inspector to record air pollution as well as several public works projects in the city, such as the widening of Division Avenue in the 1920s. The Traffic Engineer's Department photos document bridges, grade separations and...
Dates: 1948-1971

Nov. 6, 1959. Image printed on diagonal. Shows 3 men, one climbing a ladder to the bad of a smoke stack, with building at right, watertower on top.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The photographs in this collection were generated by two departments in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, providing a unique record of various streetscapes in the city. The Public Service Department photos document efforts by the city smoke inspector to record air pollution as well as several public works projects in the city, such as the widening of Division Avenue in the 1920s. The Traffic Engineer's Department photos document bridges, grade separations and...
Dates: 1948-1971

Bissell cleanup. Trucks and bull dozer in building demolition zone.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The photographs in this collection were generated by two departments in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, providing a unique record of various streetscapes in the city. The Public Service Department photos document efforts by the city smoke inspector to record air pollution as well as several public works projects in the city, such as the widening of Division Avenue in the 1920s. The Traffic Engineer's Department photos document bridges, grade separations and...
Dates: 1948-1971

“Blain” sic, Blaine Avenue, Dec. 1959 (1) Residential street view.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The photographs in this collection were generated by two departments in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, providing a unique record of various streetscapes in the city. The Public Service Department photos document efforts by the city smoke inspector to record air pollution as well as several public works projects in the city, such as the widening of Division Avenue in the 1920s. The Traffic Engineer's Department photos document bridges, grade separations and...
Dates: 1948-1971

Man hanging “Hill” street sign with light, while standing on a ladder extended from a truck.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The photographs in this collection were generated by two departments in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, providing a unique record of various streetscapes in the city. The Public Service Department photos document efforts by the city smoke inspector to record air pollution as well as several public works projects in the city, such as the widening of Division Avenue in the 1920s. The Traffic Engineer's Department photos document bridges, grade separations and...
Dates: 1948-1971