Grand Rapids Public Library
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- Notes:
- The building is located "on Market St., the second church built in Grand Rapids. Williams St. S.W.” (On back of photograph in pencil). Large but simple two-story wooden building with attic and two chimneys. Appears to be used as an apartment building, with fourteen visible standard sash windows, and four separate entrance doors, one of which bears the address 239. At the door farthest away two African American women are standing, with one holding a large washtub. A large white cloth is hanging from an upstairs window. Utility pole with wires and an old gas (?) streetlight is in the foreground.
- Date Created:
- 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- Group of men with crane at an excavation site near College Avenue and Cherry Street.
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- Band of children and young people and two directors, with a variety of band instruments, plus ten accordions and three stringed instruments, posed in an auditorium.
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- Woman modeling in a room with 1930s furnishings, displaying a piano, chair, table, lamp and drapes.
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- Two-year-old toddler sitting in a highchair with a birthday cake topped with animal crackers on the tray.
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- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- Electric appliance retail store, interior, at 70 North Division Avenue.
- Date Created:
- 1939-05-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- A series of images show wrecked cars (two vehicles) and the scene of a fatal accident on River Road on September 6, 1937. The images were charged to the Michigan State Police for the Rockford Post, Rockford Michigan, Trooper Dean. This image shows a road in the daytime, with officers standing on either side of a driveway.
- Date Created:
- 1937-09-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- The new, multi-windowed factory building for the Tunis Johnson Cigar Co, located at 427 Ottawa N.W., is shown in this photograph. The neighboring building to the south is the Henry Moser Garage at 423 Ottawa N.W. The street is brick pavement, and there are several cars parked on both sides of the street. A street lamp is in front of the garage.
- Date Created:
- 1937-12-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View from Eastern Avenue at the RR crossing looking east. In the background, the top of Oakdale Public School on Evergreen St. and a house and out building on Cottage Grove.
- Date Created:
- 1937-09-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of exhibit booths, including those for the Grand Rapids Public Library (with Alberta Massingill seated at booth) and the Grand Rapids Public Museum, at the City of Grand Rapids Open House.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)