Showing Collections: 421 - 430 of 533
Quimby Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: Collection 445
Abstract
This collection contains material related to the Quimby, Lowe, and Butterworth families of Grand Rapids, Michigan. There are two scrapbooks, one of newspaper articles mostly from London papers in the mid 1800s. A second one was kept, beginning in 1906, by George Irving Quimby recording his involvement in the theater, beginning at Central High School, and his professional work in New York City and on tour with a traveling troupe through the south, including playbills, photographs of himself...
Dates:
1842 - 1987
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center
Ralph B. Baldwin Papers
Collection
Identifier: Collection 176
Abstract
Ralph Belknap Baldwin (1912-2010) was a planetary scientist and Grand Rapids industrialist. He is known for his work on lunar craters and also helped developed the radio proximity fuze during World War II. The collection includes photographs, newspaper clippings and papers pertaining to his life, career and family. It includes a reflective and factual autobiography and is particularly rich in its data on Baldwin's work in astrophysics. Also included is information on the genealogy of the...
Dates:
circa 1850-1993
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center
Ralph H. Childs/Grand Rapids Anti-tuberculosis Society records
Collection
Identifier: Collection 386
Abstract
The Grand Rapids Anti-tuberculosis Society existed in Grand Rapids, Michigan from 1905 to 1986. The organization became the Kent County Tuberculosis Society in 1947 and the Tuberculosis, Health and Emphysema Society of Kent County in 1968. Ralph Childs was the executive director of the society from 1958 until the time of his death in 1986. This collection contains organizational records including legal and financial documents, meeting minutes and annual reports, among others. There is also a...
Dates:
1905-1986
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center
Ralph W. Demmon art and architecture collection
Collection
Identifier: Collection 365
Abstract
Ralph W. Demmon (1894-1978) was a Grand Rapids, Michigan designer and architect. Demmon is perhaps best known today as the designer of the war memorial pillars in Veteran's Memorial Park in Grand Rapids. He also did furniture design and had an architectural practice. This collection includes papers, scrapbooks, ephemera, photographs and drawings detailing Demmon's World War I service, his education at the University of Michigan and his architectural career. Also included are an oral history...
Dates:
1910-2001
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center
Ray Lewis Badgley papers
Collection
Identifier: Collection 080
Abstract
Ray Lewis Badgley (1878-1958) worked in his father's agricultural implements store in Lake Odessa, Michigan and then as a sales agent and District Manager for International Harvester Company, based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His papers document a twenty year segment (1889-1919) of his career. They contain personal and business correspondence, financial records of the Badgley Implement Co. (circa 1894-1909), order books, sales agreements, time payment schedules, catalogs and sales information...
Dates:
1889-1919, n.d.
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center
Raymond K. Sobota furniture design collection
Collection
Identifier: Collection 225
Abstract
Raymond Karl Sobota (1914-2010) was a Grand Rapids, Michigan furniture designer. Mr. Sobota graduated from the Kendall School of Art & Design in 1946. He primarily designed for Century Furniture but also did work for the Grand Rapids Bookcase and Chair Co., the Mt. Airy Furniture Co. and Hekman Furniture. The trade literature in this collection documents Sobota's reference library as well as his own furniture design. Also included are photographs and biographical news clippings.
Dates:
n.d.
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center
R.C. Allen Corporation records
Collection
Identifier: Collection 095
Abstract
The firm of R.C. Allen was begun by Ralph C. Allen (1884-1967) in 1932 in Grand Rapids, Michigan to produce low cost adding machines. During World War II, the firm learned about integrating electronics into their systems. At the time of Allen’s retirement in 1963 the company enjoyed international sales and had some 500 employees.
During the 1980s the firm was sold to out-of-state interests and eventually production was moved to California. Including documents from 1948 to 1962,...
Dates:
1948-1962
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center
Record of Kent County soldiers and sailors in service in the Great War (World War I)
Collection
Identifier: Collection 320
Abstract
The Record of Kent County Soldiers and Sailors in Service in the Great War is a collection made up of a single set of original records from World War I. It contains typed forms, compiled in buckram ledger-type books alphabetically, by the name of the Kent County, Michigan soldiers serving. Three columns of information are captured: 1) Personal Record 2) War Record 3) Family Record. A microfilm copy is also now available. Also called the Census of World War I Veterans, there is a searchable...
Dates:
1917-1919
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center
Republican Party Home Front papers
Collection
Identifier: Collection 210
Abstract
The Home Front was a political reform movement in the Republican Party of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Local politicians prominent in the movement included Ekdal J. Buys, Paul G. Goebel, Stanton W. Todd, Willard B. Vermeulen Fred C. Wetmore and others. Active from 1942 to 1948, the group worked against the McKay Republican machine in Kent County. This collection includes papers, maps and ephemera relating to the movement.
Dates:
1942-1948
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center
Reubey S.T. Ferris recollections of William Haldane
Collection
Identifier: Collection 012
Abstract
This collection primarily contains the 1937 reminiscences of the donor, Reubey S. Tomlinson Ferris of Baldwinsville, New York. Reubey was said to be the adopted daughter of William Haldane (1807-1898), a Grand Rapids, Michigan pioneer. In actuality she was Haldane’s niece by marriage. Deacon William Haldane is known as the father of the Grand Rapids furniture industry. In her remembrance, Mrs. Ferris describes living conditions in the Village and then Town of Grand Rapids circa...
Dates:
1837-1898
Found in:
Grand Rapids History Center