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Grand Rapids Authors' Night collection

 Collection
Identifier: Collection 086
Abstract

The Grand Rapids Authors’ Night collection consists of biographic, bibliographic and photographic data on living (in 1934-1935) authors whose works were in the Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Criteria for inclusion was that the author had to have resided in Grand Rapids or the work had to take place in or be about Grand Rapids. The source of the materials included is this collection is unknown, and documents only a small segment of Grand Rapids authors.

Dates: 1934-1935

Grand Rapids baseball research collection

 Collection
Identifier: Collection 271
Abstract

The Grand Rapids Baseball Collection is a small devised collection created to bring together by topic various accessions of primarily research materials related to men’s baseball in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Many items are copies, while other items are original ephemera related to the sport in Grand Rapids and Kent County, Michigan.

Dates: 1906-

Grand Rapids Board of Ed. Census 1910

 Collection
Identifier: Collection 409
Abstract

This is an incomplete census of school children in Grand Rapids conducted by enumerators from the Grand Rapids Board of Education. The information was collected systematically, going street by street through the different school districts and city wards. Each record contains the home address, the name of the parent or legal guardian, the child's name, gender, age, the school they attend, and supplementary remarks.

Dates: July 1910

Grand Rapids buildings collection

 Collection
Identifier: Collection 254
Abstract This devised collection attempts to bring together and coordinate materials about Grand Rapids physical structures and the planned and unplanned areas which those structures currently or previously occupied. Data on buildings by name and location are incorporated, including information on the site, builders and architects, as the information is available. Included are city planning documents with related site planning, layout, urban design and physical infrastructure data. Included is...
Dates: 1830s-2000s

Grand Rapids Camera Club collection

 Collection
Identifier: Collection 139
Abstract The Camera Club was organized in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1898. This collection includes 251 glass plate negatives, circa 1898-1910. Many of the images depict Grand Rapids area views, while others detail various turn-of-the-century (19th) Michigan towns, including Ada, Bay City, Delton, Holland, Middleville, and Spring Lake. The Grand Rapids views include buildings, street scenes and transportation, waterways, landscapes, events and many scenes including groups of people. Of note are the...
Dates: 1899-1931

Grand Rapids Casualties in WWII Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Collection 493
Abstract This collection is comprised of lists of soldiers in various military branches from the Grand Rapids, Michigan area thought to be missing or confirmed deceased between December 7 of 1941 and December 7 of 1945 while fighting in World War II. These lists represent the efforts of a small group of women (namely, Anna S. Sutton (1894-1987)) to accurately represent local casualties in order to add them to a new war memorial in Grand Rapids. This collection could be used to investigate the names...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1941 - 1945

Grand Rapids Century Exhibit collection

 Collection
Identifier: Collection 268
Abstract

This collection inludes the photocopies of images and displays used in the wall exhibit “A Grand Rapids Century : 100 Years of Photographs from 20th Century Grand Rapids.” The exhibit consisted of images selected by Grand Rapids Public Library local history department staff to represent the various decades of the last century, as Grand Rapids moved into the 21st Century. The photographic images capture the events, buildings and people of Grand Rapids and Kent County, Michigan.

Dates: 1900-2000

Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce records

 Collection
Identifier: Collection 046
Abstract The Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1887 as the Grand Rapids Board of Trade. The name was changed to Grand Rapids Association of Commerce in 1911, and to Chamber of Commerce in 1943. The Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce Records include the minutes, financial and other records, scrapbooks, photographs and publications of the organization, 1888-1991. The papers detail activities of the Chamber as it tried to improve the business environment in Grand Rapids, to...
Dates: 1881-1996

Grand Rapids Chicks

 Collection
Identifier: collection 058
Abstract

The Grand Rapids Chicks were a part of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) from 1945 to 1954. This is a devised collection containing photographs and official programs of the original team. It also contains later AAGPBL reunion programs and photographs, baseball cards, ephemera, articles and an oral history regarding the Grand Rapids Chicks.

Dates: 1948-1986; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1954

Grand Rapids Citizens League papers

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Identifier: Collection 051
Abstract The Grand Rapids Citizens League was a citizens group in Grand Rapids and Kent County, Michigan, active from 1916 through 1926. With the goal of better government, the League led the drive for the city commission / manager form of government. After this governmental form was adopted the League turned its attention to preserving it against attack, and to supporting prohibition and other moral issues. The League was dissolved in 1926, having lost most of its membership. Included are minutes,...
Dates: 1916-1926

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Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- History 397
photographs 57
Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- History -- Photographs 51
personal papers 45
records (documents) 40
business records 25
Women -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- History 23
Kent County (Mich.) -- History 22
Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- History -- 20th Century 18
family papers 18
Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- Church history 17
Business Enterprises -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids Region 16
Furniture industry and trade -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 16
Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- History -- 19th Century 16
African Americans -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 15
Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- Genealogy 15
oral histories 15
scrapbooks 15
Buildings -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- Photographs 14
Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- Politics and government 14
Immigrants -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- History 14
Artists -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 13
World War, 1939-1945 13
Women -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- Societies and clubs 12
letters (correspondence) 12
Charities -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 11
Publications -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 11
Railroads -- Michigan 11
Arts -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 10
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 10
Urban renewal -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 10
Business records -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 9
government records 9
City planning -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 8
Education -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- History 8
High schools -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 8
Polish Americans -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- History 8
World War, 1914-1918 8
diaries 8
Express highways -- Michigan -- History -- 20th century 7
Furniture design -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 7
Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- Biography 7
Kent County (Mich.) -- Genealogy 7
Music -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 7
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 7
Architecture -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 6
Church records and registers -- Michigan 6
East Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- History 6
Grande Vitesse -- Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 6
Neighborhoods -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- History 6
Politicians -- Michigan -- Biography 6
Printing industry -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 6
office files 6
Aeronautics -- Michigan -- Kent County -- History 5
African Americans -- Civil Rights -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- History 5
Art -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 5
Clubs -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 5
Indians of North America -- Michigan 5
Labor unions -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- History 5
Musicians -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 5
Portrait photography -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 5
Postcards -- Michigan 5
Street-railroads -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 5
Theater -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- History 5
West Side (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 5
postcards 5
Authors, American -- Michigan 4
Baseball -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- History 4
Baseball for women -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 4
Depressions -- 1929 -- Grand Rapids 4
Exhibitions -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 4
Frontier and pioneer life -- Michigan -- Kent County 4
Grand River (Mich.) 4
Highway planning -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 4
Industries -- Michigan -- Kent County 4
Library employees -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- Biography 4
Logging -- Michigan 4
Manufacturing industries -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 4
Michigan -- Genealogy 4
Michigan -- Politics and government 4
Performing arts -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 4
Poetry -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- History 4
Public libraries -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 4
Publishers and publishing -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 4
Ramona Park (East Grand Rapids, Mich.) 4
Tourism -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 4
Tourism -- Michigan -- History 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 4
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 4
church records 4
newspapers 4
Authors, American -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 3
Catholic Church -- Michigan -- Grand River Valley 3
Community life -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 3
Dutch Americans -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 3
Dwellings -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 3
Employees' magazines, newsletters, etc. -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 3
Furniture industry and trade -- Michigan 3
Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- Newspapers. 3
Historic preservation -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids 3
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Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 8
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League 4
Fountain Street Church (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 4
Grand Rapids Chicks 4
Grand Rapids Public Museum 4
Arts Council of Greater Grand Rapids 3
Butterworth Hospital (Grand Rapids, Mich.). School of Nursing 3
Church, Frederick S. (Frederick Stuart) 3
City of Grand Rapids 3
Eduard Adam Skendzel 3
Elliott, Gerald (1907-1994) 3
Garfield, Charles William 3
Grand Rapids Area Council for the Humanities 3
Grand Rapids Railway Co 3
Olson, Gordon L 3
Anderson, Godfrey J. 2
Baxter Laundries Company 2
Baxter, Howard F 2
Baxter, Robert T 2
Bennett, William L 2
Butterworth Hospital (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 2
Calder, Alexander 2
Campau (Grand Rapids (Mich.)) 2
East Hills Council of Neighbors 2
Festival of the Arts (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 2
Fitch, Cadette Everett 2
Ford, Betty 2
Ford, Gerald R 2
Grand Rapids (Mich.). Fire Department 2
Grand Rapids City Hall (Mich.) 2
Grand Rapids Metropolitan Area Study (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 2
Grand Rapids Press 2
Grand Rapids Public Library Foundation 2
Grand Rapids Public Schools (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 2
Grand Rapids Symphony 2
Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council 2
Immen, Loraine Pratt 2
Keeler, Mary Ann 2
Kent County Airport 2
Kent District Library (Kent County, Mich.) 2
Metropolitan Grand Rapids Planning Association 2
Michigan State Grange. 2
Park Congregational Church (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 2
Polar Bear Expedition (1918-1919) 2
Richmond (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 2
Rooks, Marius 2
Santa Claus Girls (Kent County, Mich.) 2
Schouten, John H 2
St. Cecilia Music Center 2
Welsh, George W 2
339th Ambulance Company Reunion Organization 1
Adrion, Halden 1
Albert Builders, Inc 1
Aldrich 1
Allen, Ralph C 1
American Red Cross. Kent County Chapter 1
Antrim Iron Company 1
Arnold, Marty (Martha) 1
Austin Automobile Co. 1
Austin, James E. 1
Austin, Walter S. 1
Badgley Implement Co 1
Badgley, Ray Lewis 1
Bailey, Sluman S 1
Baker Furniture Company 1
Baker, Hattie Carlyle 1
Baldwin 1
Baldwin, Ralph Belknap 1
Ball, John 1
Bards of Grand Rapids, Michigan 1
Barnhart, Willard 1
Bartholomew, Harland 1
Baum, Benjamin 1
Baxter Neighborhood Association 1
Beineman, Barbara 1
Belknap 1
Belknap, Charles Eugene 1
Bellclaire, Maurice 1
Bender 1
Bender, Charles H 1
Bender, Josephene 1
Bill 1
Birdsall Funeral Home 1
Birdseye Veneer Company (Escanaba (Mich.)) 1
Black Hills Citizens for a Better Community 1
Blodgett Memorial Medical Center (Grand Rapids, Mich.). School of Nursing 1
Blumenshine, Delbert W 1
Bos, Sidney J 1
Bradford 1
Bratt, Hero D 1
Brecken, Clarence E. 1
Brecken, Jennie 1
Brewer, Joseph Hillyer 1
Bricklayers' Union No 1 (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1
Bridge Street House (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1
Broadway Grand Rapids 1
Broadway Theatre Guild 1
Brown and Sehler Co. 1
Browning, Eugene S 1
Bulman, Orville 1