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- Large group of men seated what appears ot be a hotel ballroom, with Atlas Tire signs and displays
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Three Leonard Refrigerator Co. men in business suits present something to a fourth man in a light suit, a member of the jazz ensemble pictured in 125.R36564.
- Date Created:
- 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- William J. Sproat was a newspaperman and the founder of the Morning Press, which later became the Evening Press and later the Grand Rapids Press. Prior to founding the Morning Press in 1890, he was the city editor for the Telegram, and earlier had worked for the Democrat.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Interior office scene of the Carpenter Paper Company, with five men and two women all seated at desks. Bouquets of fresh flowers are on the file cabinets and desks. Typewriters, a water cooler, two telephones are part of the view of this street front office. On the window is the claim, "The True Paper Source of Grand Rapids." On the street are cars of the era and a cigar shop advertising Van Dam cigars.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- A group of ten men and one woman standing in an office. They appear to be welcoming the man in the center, shaking his hand.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Head and shoulders shot of Herman Nyhuis, owner of a beauty salon and a distributor of beauty products
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Portrait of Robert W. Irwin (1889-1953), prominent businessman in the Grand Rapids furniture industry. Irwin began his career in 1889 at the Grand Rapids School Furniture Company where he quickly rose to superintendent of the plant. In 1900 he left to purchase the Royal Furniture Company, along with A. W. Hompe and Ralph Tietsort. By 1911 he, along with several others, purchased and reorganized the Phoenix Furniture Company. He later acquired full control of Phoenix Furniture and consolidated it with Royal Furniture and formed the Robert W. Irwin Company in 1919, where he served as President until his retirement in 1951.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Ralph P. Tietsort was an executive in the furniture industry. Tietsort, Robert W. Irwin, and A. W. Hompe purchased the Royal Furniture Company in 1900. And in 1911, Tietsort, Irwin, and several others purchased the Phoenix Furniture Company.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Portrait of Richard DeVos and Jay Van Andel, co-founders of Amway, now Alticor, Inc.
- Date Created:
- 1950-11-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Photo of six men in suits, one of whom is receiving a medal, taken in the Michigan Bell conference room at 7 Fountain Street NE
- Date Created:
- 1937-07-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)