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Burgess Beverly family scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Collection 513
Abstract The Burgess Beverly Family Scrapbook documents two African American families who lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The best-known member of this family was Hattie Beverly, the first woman of color to teach for the Grand Rapids Public Schools. Additionally, the scrapbook documents Bishop John Burgess who was the first African American to head an Episcopal diocese. The scrapbook mostly contains photographs as well as newspaper clippings...
Dates: 1852-1997
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

Burlingame United Church of Christ records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Collection 505
Abstract The Burlingame Congregational Church began in Wyoming, Michigan in 1924 and grew steadily up until the Depression when it experienced financial difficulties and membership loss. The pastorate of Rev. Edwin Richard Evans helped revive the church and it prospered through the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, during Evan's tenure and beyond. Membership grew and a new building was built in 1958. The church joined the newly formed United Church of Christ in the early 1960s, becoming the Burlingame...
Dates: 1924 - 2007
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

Butterworth Landfill records

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Identifier: Collection 432
Abstract Located in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, the Butterworth #2 Landfill Site was owned operated by the city of Grand Rapids as an open dump from 1950-1967. The area that it encompasses is approximately 180 acres and borders the Grand River on it's south side. Before the landfill itself was operational the land it would eventually cover, as well as the surrounding areas, had been used for industrial purpose for at least one hundred years. This caused the land to be polluted with heavy...
Dates: 1976 - August 1999; Majority of material found within 1988 - 1993
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

Cadette Everett Fitch collection

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Identifier: Collection 040
Abstract

Cadette Everett Fitch (1840-1927) was a teacher, artist and community leader. The collection contains sketches by Fitch, illustrating nature and a seven-day boat trip down the Grand River. The drawings detail natural features of the landscape and structures along the river. The journal's written descriptions of the flora and fauna, as well as human activity on the Grand River and in the Grand River Valley, give insight into the area just before the turn of the century.

Dates: 1875-1889
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

Calvin College Great Migration oral histories

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Identifier: Collection 415
Abstract This collection includes oral histories of Black men and women from Grand Rapids, Michigan who were part of the Great Migration. The interviews were conducted as part of an interim course at Calvin College in January 2002, taught by Dr. Randal Jelks. Students interviewed 15 individuals and wrote papers summarizing the interviews and reflecting on their experience. The interviews focus on childhood memories, family, education, work, faith, differences between the north and south and...
Dates: 2002
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

Camera Shop photo album

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Identifier: Collection 073
Abstract The Camera Shop was formed in 1908 by Walter K. Schmidt (1865-1938) in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to provide photo supplies to the community. Schmidt, a pharmacist by training, used his knowledge of chemicals to run the Camera shop along side his drugstore until 1936. The photographs in this collection visually detail the commercial and industrial sector of the Grand Rapids economy in 1915. In addition, images of several substance abuse hospitals, business schools, colleges, public buildings...
Dates: 1915
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

Camp Lee guard reports

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Identifier: Collection 106
Abstract

Camp Lee was a Civil War era encampment in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This collection contains one volume of original guard reports from 1863-1864. The records were kept by Captain Sheldon, who was stationed at the camp at that time. The reports show a day-to-day record of guards on duty and recruits under arrest and the reason(s) for their arrests.

Dates: 1863-1864
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

Campau Centennial Celebration

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Identifier: Collection 434
Abstract

The Campau Centennial Celebration took place September 23-26, 1926 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the first permanent white settlement in Grand Rapids by Louis Campau. Festivities took place throughout the weekend and included pageants, exhibits and a parade. The celebration was meant to celebrate the history of the city of Grand Rapids, as well as high hopes for the city's future.

Dates: February 1926 - October 1926; Majority of material found in 1926 - 1926
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

Campau family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Collection 214
Abstract Louis Campau (1791-1871) was a fur trader and is credited as the founder of Grand Rapids, Michigan. This collection contains documents by and about Louis and several other members of the Campau family. Included are documents associated with Louis; his wife Sophie; his three brothers, Antione, George and Touissant and his newphew Antoine. There is also some correspondence between Caroline (Mrs. James) Campbell and Adolphe Campau. The collection contains original, typescript and facsimile...
Dates: 1830-1922
Found in: Grand Rapids History Center

Cannon Township death records

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Identifier: Collection 137
Abstract

The Cannon Township death records consists of the unofficial death records for the residents of that township from 1911-1952. The records provide the name, age, sex and birth date, along with the date and cause of death. The occupation, marriage status, birth place and date, undertaker, and some family history area also included in all of the records.

Dates: 1911-1952
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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