Abstract This collection contains records from the Dyer-Ives Foundation in Grand Rapids, Michigan (1961-2016), which was a private foundation founded by John Hunting in 1961 for the purposes supporting grassroots organizations working to address social issues in Grand Rapids . The Foundation funded many endeavors in Grand Rapids, pursuant to its mission to improve the city through projects and other grant-based activities. Examples of some of the Dyer-Ives Foundation projects include: the Kentfields...

Abstract Francis (Frank) Kinne Glew was born in Muskegon, Michigan in 1895. He relocated to Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1920 where he opened his own advertising firm a few years later. In his lifetime, Glew wrote thousands of essays and poems. Many of them were published in West Michigan newspapers. He died in Grand Rapids in 1966. This collection consists of publications in which Glew contributed poems and other writings, and advertisements he created. It may be of interest to the researcher who is...

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The Franklin Everett Collection contains four hand-written volumes, two of which are English tutorials which he used in “teaching Orthography and the Meaning of Words by Association” dated 1866. The other two volumes contain his original poetry, mostly undated except for one, “Father Abraham,” dated February 17, 1877. These volumes were donated by George C. Fitch, Everett's son-in-law, married to Franklina and Thirza's daughter, Cadette Everett.

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The Grand Rapids Public Library Poets and Poetry Collection is a devised collection which brings together various accessions of poetry or the works of individual poets and poetry organizations in the Grand Rapids, Michigan (Kent County) area. A large portion of the material relates to the Bards of Grand Rapids, Michigan, a poetry group active from the 1920s through the 1990s. Papers and publications of poet Francis O. Raniville are also included.