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New Hope Baptist Church records

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Identifier: Collection 458
Abstract

The New Hope Baptist Church was founded in Grand Rapids, Mich. in 1934 and today is a large and popular church with over 800 members. The Church leadership and congregation is primarily African American. The New Hope Baptist Church is very involved in the Grand Rapids, Mich. community and offer a wide range of community outreach services. The pastor of the Church as of this writing is Rev. Howard Earle Jr.

Dates: 1950-2004
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

New River Free Press

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Identifier: Collection 500
Abstract The New River Free Press was a community newspaper published in Grand Rapids, Michigan, from November 1973 through May 1977. New River Free Press covered a wide range of topics, including housing, health, labor, education, and social justice. The paper included articles, book reviews, recipes, artwork, short stories, and poetry. Other topics that were covered included feminism, tenant rights, urban homesteading, sexual assault, ecology and the environment, local politics, nutrition,...
Dates: 1974 - 1977
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

News photographs collection

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Identifier: Collection 133
Abstract The News Photographs collection contains negatives that document newsworthy people and events primarily in Grand Rapids, Michigan, but also in other Michigan communities from 1953 to 1969, with the bulk of the images dated from 1956 to 1962. A large number of portrait negatives depict such notables as Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev. Scenes include various Grand Rapids buildings, or events such as tornado damage from the late 1950s, or Mackinac Bridge press coverage. The source and...
Dates: 1953-1969
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

Norma L. Gillette collection

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Identifier: Collection 182
Abstract

The Norma L. Gillette collection contains newspaper clippings and photographs, circa 1946-1949, of the Grand Rapids Chicks, a team in the All American Girl Professional Baseball League. Included are details of games, particularly those during which extraordinary skill or performance were demonstrated. Also included are photographs of individual Chicks in formal posed shots and snap shots on South Field in Grand Rapids.

Dates: circa 1945-1949
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

North Park Annexation Papers

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Identifier: Collection 411
Abstract The North Park School District was established in 1860 and would last until it was annexed to the city of Grand Rapids in 1960. Grand Rapids attempted to annex North Park two different times in 1956 and 1958, both times the residents of North Park voted against annexation. Then in February, 1960 North Park voted to consolidate with the North View School District. Another election was held on August 2nd, 1960, and North Park officially left the North View School District and joined the city...
Dates: 1960
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

Old Residents Association of the Grand River Valley records

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Identifier: Collection 083
Abstract The Old Residents' Association of the Grand River Valley existed to gather facts about the early history of Kent County and Michigan and to form a social feeling among those who ranked as pioneers. The group was formerly known as the Old Settlers' Society of Kent County. The collection contains materials from its original formation to 1966. Included are family records of members, meeting minutes and scrapbooks of news clippings and obituaries. Also included is a set of lantern slides,...
Dates: 1858-1955, n.d.
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

Old Third Michigan Association collection

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Identifier: Collection 201
Abstract

The Old Third Michigan Association was a veteran's reunion group for the Third Michigan Infantry, which served in the Civil War. This collection contains original documents relating to the association and their annual reunions, including minutes, constitutions, a treasurer's book and correspondence. Also included in the collection are a regimental roster, a few photographs of men who served and reference materials compiled for the study of the Old Third Michigan Association.

Dates: 1862-1996, n.d.
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

On the Town photographs

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Identifier: Collection 520
Abstract

On the Town is a free publication highlighting arts and entertainment in the Greater Grand Rapids area. It began in 1982 as Downtown magazine, changed its name in 1984 to On the Town, and is now part of the MLive Media Group. Donated by Joanne N. Bailey, former editor of On the Town magazine, this collection of negatives and contact sheets were produced in the 1980s for On the Town.

Dates: 1982 - 1999
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

Opera Grand Rapids Promotional Art

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Identifier: collection 457
Abstract Grand Rapids, Mich. artist Richard Stien has created unique and original art as a thank you for the Friends of the Opera Grand Rapids opera company for over two decades. This collection consists of water color, ink, and color pencil illustrations as well as reproductions of finalized materials related to perfomances and events. Some of the art pieces show the process through which the artist progressed, from early sketches through to the finished printed and designed advertisment. Also...
Dates: 1991 - 2013
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

Orville Bulman art references collection

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Identifier: Collection 357
Abstract Orville Bulman (1904-1978) was an artist and businessman from Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was active in the family business, the E.O. Bulman Manufacturing Co., for much of his adult life but had desired to be an artist from his youth. Largely self-taught, he began focusing more on his art work in the late 1930s and was noticed nationally in the 1950s. He did much of his artwork from his second home in Palm Beach, Florida and tropical settings with vibrant colors are often themes of his...
Dates: 1924, circa 1952-2006
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

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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

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