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Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 388 Collections and/or Records:

Hattem family records

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Identifier: Collection 340
Abstract The Hattem family owned and operated Hattem's Cafe in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Moses Hattem was the proprietor and Maxine, his wife, played the organ at the restaurant. The property, at the corner of Division Street and Wealthy, was originally acquired by Moses' father, Deeb Hattem, who came to the United States from Lebanon. This collection includes advertising material, ephemera, photographs and documents relating to Hattem's Cafe, as well as a few family papers and items relating to the...
Dates: 1882-1998

Heart and Soul: Grand Rapids neighborhoods

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Identifier: Collection 343
Abstract

The book, "Heart & Soul: the story of Grand Rapid's Neighborhoods", was a project led by the Grand Rapids Area Council for the Humanities. This collection primarily houses materials collected during the project. The book was published in 2003 by Wm. B. Eerdmans of Grand Rapids. Many of the images in the publication came from the archival collections at the Grand Rapids Public Library. Other original materials were provided by individuals donors from the community.

Dates: 1830s-2000s

Helen Earlene "Beans" Risinger Grand Rapids Chicks collection

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Identifier: Collection 160
Abstract

Helen Earlene "Beans" Risinger (1927-2008) was a pitcher for the Grand Rapids Chicks (Grand Rapids, Mich) baseball team, pat of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). This collection contains baseball cards, programs, magazine and newspaper articles, scrapbooks and photographs of the Chicks. The material focuses on Risinger's years on the team, 1949-1954.

Dates: 1943-2009

Helen Jackson Claytor civil rights collection

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Identifier: Collection 308
Abstract Helen Jackson Claytor (1907-2005) was the first African-American president of the national YWCA. She lived much of her life in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Claytor sought to bring equal rights to women, children, widowed persons and orphans, and advocated for rights to justice, housing, education, health and death with dignity, as well as freedom from racial and other prejudices. Locally, Claytor was the first African-American president of the Grand Rapids YWCA and, among other...
Dates: 1940s-1980s

Helen Meade scrapbook

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Identifier: Collection 158
Abstract

Helen Meade was a secretary to five mayors and 13 city managers of Grand Rapids, Mich. This collection contains a scrapbook kept by Meade, including correspondence, photographs, cards and newspaper articles collected during her 26 years as secretary. Included are documents of Mayor George Welsh's last days in office, and resignation.

Dates: 1945-1980

Hellenic Horizons, the Greek American history of Grand Rapids, Michigan collection

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Identifier: Collection 277
Abstract Hellenic Horizons was incorporated in 1979 to celebrate Greek heritage in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The group produced an exhibit at the Grand Rapids Public Museum, "Greek-American Family: Continuity through Change", and a booklet, "Grand Rapids Greek Heritage." This collection includes historical images gathered for the projects, as well as project files, oral histories and ephemera. Some material also represents the larger Michigan Greek community. Records from Hellenic Horizons date from...
Dates: no date

Henrie M. Sleeper Collection

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Identifier: Collection 451

Henrietta DeLoof collection

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Identifier: collection 330
Abstract Henrietta DeLoof was the editor of the Rapid Wheeler, published by the Rapids-Standard Company in Grand Rapids, Michigan (later known as Rapistan, then Dematic). This collection includes issues from 1943 to 1954. The early issues include information on employees who served in World War II. The publication also provides information on the recreation and families of the employees. Also included are Grand Rapids School of Furniture Designing lessons from the early 1900s and a few other items of...
Dates: 1900s-1983

Henry H. Masten papers

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Identifier: Collection 010
Abstract Henry H. Masten (1882-1977) was a former manager of both the Furniture Exhibition Building and the Waters Building Corp. The Grandville, Michigan native was active in the local furniture wholesale market. This collection includes correspondence, news clippings, notes and photographs detailing the history of the Grand Rapids Furniture Market Association. Included is biographical data on Philip J. Klingman, one of the foremost wholesale furniture dealers in the city. The papers provide an...
Dates: 1913-1964

Higgins family papers

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Identifier: Collection 502
Abstract This collection of family papers was donated by Susan Higgins, the granddaughter of Ira and Ethel Higgins and the daughter of Robert and Barbara Higgins. Ira Owen Higgins was born in 1897 in Henderson County, Kentucky and came to Grand Rapids, Michigan in his 20s. In 1925 he married Ethel TenBrink (1902-1989) and together they had two sons, Robert and Edgar. Ira died in December of 1965 and Ethel died in 1989. Robert H. Higgins was born in 1926, in Grand Rapids, Michigan and graduated from...
Dates: 1924 - 1994