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Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 388 Collections and/or Records:

Grand Rapids Area Humanities Council/Grand Rapids Area Council for the Humanities records

 Collection
Identifier: Collection 156
Abstract The Grand Rapids Humanities Council was organized in 1976 to celebrate the nation's Bicentennial. The Council is affiliated with the Michigan Humanities Council and is involved in helping organize and fund programs for the arts, as well as other historical and cultural endeavors. This collection includes memos, committee meeting records, correspondence, donation records, brochures and records of programs. Many of the programs were connected with the Michigan sesquicentennial celebration in...
Dates: 1984-1989, 1999

Grand Rapids Area Transit Authority (GRATA) board files

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Identifier: Collection 380
Abstract

This collection contains records collected by Rev. Dennis Morrow while he was on the board of the Grand Rapids Area Transit Authority (GRATA). GRATA was formerly known as the Grand Rapids Transit Authority (GRTA) and subsequently as the Interurban Transit Partnership (ITP) and The Rapid. The organization is the authority providing public transportation for the Grand Rapids, Michigan metro area.

Dates: 1985-1993

Grand Rapids Authors' Night collection

 Collection
Identifier: Collection 086
Abstract

The Grand Rapids Authors’ Night collection consists of biographic, bibliographic and photographic data on living (in 1934-1935) authors whose works were in the Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Criteria for inclusion was that the author had to have resided in Grand Rapids or the work had to take place in or be about Grand Rapids. The source of the materials included is this collection is unknown, and documents only a small segment of Grand Rapids authors.

Dates: 1934-1935

Grand Rapids baseball research collection

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Identifier: Collection 271
Abstract

The Grand Rapids Baseball Collection is a small devised collection created to bring together by topic various accessions of primarily research materials related to men’s baseball in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Many items are copies, while other items are original ephemera related to the sport in Grand Rapids and Kent County, Michigan.

Dates: 1906-

Grand Rapids Board of Ed. Census 1910

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Identifier: Collection 409
Abstract

This is an incomplete census of school children in Grand Rapids conducted by enumerators from the Grand Rapids Board of Education. The information was collected systematically, going street by street through the different school districts and city wards. Each record contains the home address, the name of the parent or legal guardian, the child's name, gender, age, the school they attend, and supplementary remarks.

Dates: July 1910

Grand Rapids buildings collection

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Identifier: Collection 254
Abstract This devised collection attempts to bring together and coordinate materials about Grand Rapids physical structures and the planned and unplanned areas which those structures currently or previously occupied. Data on buildings by name and location are incorporated, including information on the site, builders and architects, as the information is available. Included are city planning documents with related site planning, layout, urban design and physical infrastructure data. Included is...
Dates: 1830s-2000s

Grand Rapids Casualties in WWII Collection

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Identifier: Collection 493
Abstract This collection is comprised of lists of soldiers in various military branches from the Grand Rapids, Michigan area thought to be missing or confirmed deceased between December 7 of 1941 and December 7 of 1945 while fighting in World War II. These lists represent the efforts of a small group of women (namely, Anna S. Sutton (1894-1987)) to accurately represent local casualties in order to add them to a new war memorial in Grand Rapids. This collection could be used to investigate the names...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1941 - 1945

Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce records

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Identifier: Collection 046
Abstract The Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1887 as the Grand Rapids Board of Trade. The name was changed to Grand Rapids Association of Commerce in 1911, and to Chamber of Commerce in 1943. The Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce Records include the minutes, financial and other records, scrapbooks, photographs and publications of the organization, 1888-1991. The papers detail activities of the Chamber as it tried to improve the business environment in Grand Rapids, to...
Dates: 1881-1996

Grand Rapids Chicks

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Identifier: Collection 058
Abstract

The Grand Rapids Chicks were a part of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) from 1945 to 1954. This is a devised collection containing photographs and official programs of the original team. It also contains later AAGPBL reunion programs and photographs, baseball cards, ephemera, articles and an oral history regarding the Grand Rapids Chicks.

Dates: 1948-1986; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1954

Grand Rapids Citizens League papers

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Identifier: Collection 051
Abstract The Grand Rapids Citizens League was a citizens group in Grand Rapids and Kent County, Michigan, active from 1916 through 1926. With the goal of better government, the League led the drive for the city commission / manager form of government. After this governmental form was adopted the League turned its attention to preserving it against attack, and to supporting prohibition and other moral issues. The League was dissolved in 1926, having lost most of its membership. Included are minutes,...
Dates: 1916-1926