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This collection contains six scrapbooks by Bertha Buchanan (later Bertha Fulbright) pertaining to the Powers Opera House and theatre in the early 20th century.

Abstract Gary L. Hill managed Stage Door, the store of the Broadway Theatre Guild in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The store, operated from circa 1988 to 2001, sold promotional material and was the main site for ticket sales. This collection includes documents, images and memorabilia representing the Broadway Theatre Guild and Stage Door. The materials primarily consist of promotional items for national theatre productions which were brought to Grand Rapids, although some information on the Broadway...

Abstract The Grand Rapids Woman's Club was a club in Grand Rapids, Michigan dedicated to social, literary and philanthropic efforts. This collection includes documents of the club, including under its earlier names Our Society and South End Ladies Literary Club or South Side Ladies Literary Club. In addition to the usual minutes, constitution and by-laws, member lists, and accounts, is a scrapbook, and information on philanthropies. Also, a major group within the Club was The Players, which produced...

Abstract This collection contains material related to the Quimby, Lowe, and Butterworth families of Grand Rapids, Michigan. There are two scrapbooks, one of newspaper articles mostly from London papers in the mid 1800s. A second one was kept, beginning in 1906, by George Irving Quimby recording his involvement in the theater, beginning at Central High School, and his professional work in New York City and on tour with a traveling troupe through the south, including playbills, photographs of himself...