The Furniture Manufacturers Association collection includes photographs of several Grand Rapids furniture factories. Included are many interior views showing men and women working. Some of the factories include Grand Rapids Chair Company, Berkey & Gay, Widdicomb, Sligh, Stickley, and Robert W. Irwin Company. In addition, there are …
The Ladies Literary Club (1873-2005) was a prominent educational and social organization which provided a forum for national and local speakers, reading clubs, and other activities promoting literacy, culture, and art. The collection includes photos of the club presidents, photos of the landmark building, yearbooks, minutes, and other …
The Morris Photo Collection is said to have been compiled by Murch S. Morris, a photographer for the "Grand Rapids Herald." The images here date primarily from the period 1924-1931 and concentrate particularly on churches, streetcars, veterans, Veterans Park, the 1928 state gubernatorial campaign, the Grand Rapids Centennial celebration, …
The Photographs Collection is a catch-all collection that is made up of various small accessions of photographs, having no other collection home or which are duplicates of images in other collections. It contains a wide variety of images, the bulk of which focus on Grand Rapids history, as well as lumbering, social activities and …
The Robinson Studio Collection is the largest archival collection held by the Grand Rapids History & Special Collections Department Archives. It contains more than 950,000 black & white negatives, with some accompanying photographic prints, containing Grand Rapids views, news, businesses & peoples from the 1930's to the …
These photographs from the Robinson Studio Collection are those that have been damaged by what is called vinegar syndrome. These images have been both preserved and restored, and are now available online thanks to the Grand Rapids Public Library Foundation and the generous support of Barbara W. Amberg, Robert Goodrich, Richard McGrath, …
All of the images on this site, as well as any image in our Archives and Photos collections, can be ordered through Grand Rapids History and Special Collections of the Grand Rapids Public Library.
Images are available as electronic image files (TIFF or JPEG on CDROM), scanned Photo-quality prints, or as traditional photographs from negatives.
Please vist the online order form to see prices and order your image.
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