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Public welfare -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Thomas J. Majchrzak collection

 Collection
Identifier: Collection 203
Abstract Thomas J. Majchrzak (1889-1981) ran the Grand Rapids Social Center from 1930 to 1933. The center was a city department that provided shelter and food to unemployed, single men during the onset of the Great Depression. The collection includes correspondence, photographs and issues of Our Gang, a newspaper published by and for people receiving various forms of welfare during the Depression. The manuscript material includes information on Majchrzak’s injury received while working and on his...
Dates: 1929-1940