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- Notes:
- A float title "Progress" and sponsored by the Passenger Car Dealers Association depicts a horse and carriage and an automobile.
- Date Created:
- 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- "America, love it or leave it" float
- Date Created:
- 1948-08-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Marching band marching
- Date Created:
- 1941-08-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Girl wearing a costume with a boy seated on a log at the Red Flannel Day parade.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Santa Claus Parade on lower Monroe Avenue, downtown Grand Rapids, showing a parade float of "Noah's Ark". This annual Christmas parade was sponsored by Wurzburg's Department Store.
- Date Created:
- 1950-11-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Ionia street parade during Gov. Green’s first campaign for governor. The float represents a large 4-story white commercial building, and bears the banner “Saranac Reed Boosters.”
- Date Created:
- 1926-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- The Lion’s Club float in the G.A.R. convention. White plaster of paris lion atop a large pedestal. Playbills for the Michigan State Fair and for Powers Theatre are partially visible in the background.
- Date Created:
- 1925-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Gov. Green’s first campaign for governor included a parade down Ionia Street. The float is labeled “Employees Ypsilanti Reed Furn. Co." The float is decorated with wicker furniture motifs, with a large wicker armchair atop the structure.
- Date Created:
- 1926-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- The Bike Safety Parade ran from Monroe Ave. to John Ball Park, where bike races took place. Mayor George Welsh and other prominent citizens participated in the parade.
- Date Created:
- 1939-09-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Two men setting off cannons and others watching
- Date Created:
- 1939-11-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Men on military truck pulling large gun; Buildings in background include the Watson Building, Metz Building
- Date Created:
- 1941-11-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Marching flagbearers
- Date Created:
- 1941-11-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Rear end of train on Monroe, Voiture 102
- Date Created:
- 1941-08-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- When Fred Green ran for governor the second time in 1939. The float is a platform truck, compliments of Grand Rapids Varnish Corp. The bed of the truck has been made to look like a garden, with white picket fence and greenery. Several young women in white are riding on the float. The banner below says “Keep Michigan Green."
- Date Created:
- 1939-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Man in white coverall and young boy standing beside a truck made to look like a locomotive with a sign tied on, "The Iron Horse."
- Date Created:
- 1935-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Float from the Grand Rapids Furniture Centennial Parade, July 7, 1936. The Centennial commemorated the first commercial furniture made in Grand Rapids in 1836 in Deacon Haldane's workshop. “Hostess” float shows four women.
- Date Created:
- 1936-07-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Two horses pulling an old street car, number 11.
- Date Created:
- 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Parade moving south along Monroe in front of 101 Monroe. Three men carrying a banner that reads, "Mae [West] says 'Hello Grand Rapids.' You can't miss that old goin' to town spirit. Come up and see me. 'Goin to town' a the Regent theatre." Old double l
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of a row of policemen in uniform standing on the side of a road with two mounted officers on horses. Note on back reads: "William Lennon, badge #23, is in photo but not identified."
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- The float in the parade on Monroe Avenue has a birthday cake in the center and the words "Centennial of Grand Rapids, 1836-1936" on the side. Seated are four girls.
- Date Created:
- 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)