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- Notes:
- Man and woman with stamps
- Date Created:
- 1938-12-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- People gathered around a table of goods, including clothing, toys, and jewelry, which are for sale.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- The WKAR-TV studio during a public broadcasting fundraiser, likely the first "23 Great TV Auction" held in April of 1978 which featured a televised live auction. Several celebrity auctioneers volunteered as hosts, and promotions from many area businesses were auctioned to raise funds.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- The local Lions Club's bottle for collecting pennies to donate to help the blind. The sign reads, “Your penny will help keep a blind family from want. Thanks!”
- Date Created:
- 1938-03-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- Judge Wade H. McCree speaks at a fundraising banquet at Cobo Hall for Jerome P. Cavanagh, who is running for his second term as mayor of Detroit. Cavanagh's wife Mary Ellen sits beside the podium and other banquet goers are at right and left in the picture.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1965-02-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Notes:
- Party attendees dancing. Signs describing gambling games appear along the walls, "Over and Under, try and beat this one," and "Roulette, watch the little ball spin."
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- People crowded around tables of gambling games. One sign on the wall reads, "Chuck O Luck, Here's where you win the money, No limit."
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Photo shows three men and Santa Claus collecting money for the Exchange Clug of Grand Rapids annual Mile-O-Dimes. The club raised funds for shoes for needy children and solicited coins from downtown shoppers on Monroe Avenue. Photo was taken on December 16, 1941.
- Date Created:
- 1941-12-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Photograph of Mayor Karel buying first poppy from Miss Stewart, daughter of the late General Stewart, taken on City Hall steps. Head to knees shot of a girl in a warm belted coat and a close-fitted hat placing a poppy in the buttonhole of a hatless man in 3-piece suit and tie. The pretty, dark-haired girl is wearing a poppy on her coat lapel, and a large button on her coat pocket that says “American Legion Auxiliary Poppy”. Behind the two subjects to the right of the image is an ivy covered wall, and to the left are some steps.
- Date Created:
- 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Billboard encouraging people to give to fund drive. The billboard shows Grand Daddy Rapids and says "Sure we'll help the girls!" The bottom right corner says "76% self supporting; $29,884 needed."
- Date Created:
- 1939-01-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
