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Grand Rapids Study Club records
Collection
Identifier: Collection 082
Abstract
The Grand Rapids Study Club records document the activities and membership of this Grand Rapids, Michigan African American womens’ organization. Included are minutes, correspondence, membership lists, yearbooks, historical notes and clippings. Holdings provide information on the Club from its creation in 1904 until 1987, with the bulk of the contents from the 1930s to the early 1970s. Yearbooks from the junior club, called the Pierian Club, are also included with the collection. Historical...
Dates:
1904-1987
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center
Grand Rapids Township death records
Collection
Identifier: Collection 131
Abstract
The Grand Rapids Township death records includes photocopies of death certificates for those listed as residents of Grand Rapids Township, Michigan at the time of death. It is believed that the original books from which the copies were made are located at the State Archives. The copies list deaths from 1906-1910 and from 1914-1952. The records provide information such as name, age, sex, and birth date, along with date of death and cause. Additional information is included in later...
Dates:
1906-1910, 1914-1952
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center
Grand Rapids Typographical Union No. 39 records
Collection
Identifier: Collection 029
Abstract
This collection includes the records of the Grand Rapids local union (No. 39) of the International Typographical Union, as well as general documents from the printing industry. The papers and records portray the history, financial background, activities and operations of the Union, including strikes. Strike rolls contain the names of members that went on strike during 1905-1906, 1921-1922, and 1958-1959. The collection also contains material that pertains to the Union's...
Dates:
1876-1964
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center
Grand Rapids Woman's Club Records
Collection
Identifier: Collection 103
Abstract
The Grand Rapids Woman's Club was a club in Grand Rapids, Michigan dedicated to social, literary and philanthropic efforts. This collection includes documents of the club, including under its earlier names Our Society and South End Ladies Literary Club or South Side Ladies Literary Club. In addition to the usual minutes, constitution and by-laws, member lists, and accounts, is a scrapbook, and information on philanthropies. Also, a major group within the Club was The Players, which produced...
Dates:
1890-1960, n.d.
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center
Grandville-Jenison Congregational Church records
Collection
Identifier: Collection 504
Abstract
The Grandville-Jenison Congregational Church began as an Indian Mission School, along the banks of the Grand River. In 1889 the church became The First Congregational Church of Grandville and Articles of Incorporation and Association were adopted.
Around 1903 the Congregational Church of Jenison was organized and a frame building erected in 1905. In 1935 the First Congregational Church of Grandville and the Jenison Congregational Church formally merged to become the...
Dates:
1838 - 2019
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center
Grandville Star Photographs
Collection
Identifier: Collection 416
Abstract
This collection contains photographs used for the Grandville Star Newspaper from the mid-1960s to 1970. The photographs are predominantly identified, individual portrait-style images that range from local members of the community and store owners to local politicians and celebrities.
Dates:
1965 - 1971
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center
Grattan Township records
Collection
Identifier: Collection 126
Abstract
This is a small collection of records for Grattan Township, Kent County, Michigan. The records were photocopied from those at the township and provided to the Grand Rapids Public Library by the Western Michigan Genealogical Society for wider accessibility. Of note are registers of death, 1900-1951 and burial permits, 1926-1969; as well as some cemetery inscription information. Some of this information was kept at both the township and county level. In addition to genealogical data, the...
Dates:
1851-1963
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center
Greater Grand Rapids Convention and Visitors Center collection
Collection
Identifier: Collection 288
Abstract
This collection contains material from the Grand Rapids, Michigan convention and visitor's bureau. The organization has been known as the Grand Rapids Convention Bureau, the Greater Grand Rapids Convention and Vistors Center, the Kent County Convention and Visitors Bureau and Experience Grand Rapids. Included are photographs and slides showing Grand Rapids views, primarily the downtown area. These images were used for publications and presentations and given to the archives when...
Dates:
circa 1930-2004
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center
Greater Grand Rapids publishers, printers and publishing collection
Collection
Identifier: Collection 289
Abstract
This is a devised collection containing various small accessions of material on the publishers and the publishing industry of the greater Grand Rapids, Michigan community. Included are materials related to specific publishers, such as Arthur S. White and specific newspaper publishers such as the Grand Rapids Herald. Also included are items relating to publishing houses and printers, such as the James Bayne Co., Dean Hick, the White Companies, or Central Trade plant.
Dates:
no date
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center
Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: Collection 167
Abstract
The Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council was formed in 1988 by both local historians and business persons, for the purpose of preserving the historical contributions that women and women's organizations have made to the Grand Rapids, Michigan area. The GGRWHC Oral History Collection is one of the organization's projects in fulfillment of their mission. Included here are interviews conducted by the organization's members, which preserve a spoken record of their personal histories,...
Dates:
1988-present
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center