by Colleen Alles | May 4, 2018 | Local History, Research
If you own a home in the Grand Rapids area, there’s a good chance the library’s History & Special Collections department has the resource for you! The Betty Gibout Real Estate Listing Cards Collection provides information about homes that sold (in...
by Colleen Alles | Mar 29, 2018 | Local History, Research, What's New
The Grand Rapids Public Library completed digitization of its “Woman” Magazine collection, thanks in large part to the efforts of one of our History & Special Collections department volunteers. “Woman” was a local weekly magazine founded in 1908 by a group of...
by admin | Oct 20, 2017 | Local History
As part of our Día de los Muertos Family Day, we invite families to bring in their photographs, letters, journals and other pieces of family history to the library. Library staff share ways to preserve your family history, including scanning items to make a digital...
by jandrew | Jul 21, 2017 | Local History, Uncategorized, What's New
The Grand Rapids History and Special Collections Department has recently been the recipient of a fascinating piece of early Grand Rapids history. John Loren Page (1926-1987) possessed a journal kept by his great-grandfather, Loren Marsh Page, one of Grand Rapids...
by Will Miner | May 10, 2017 | Local History, Research
During the American Civil War the city of Grand Rapids and the surrounding areas made a considerable contribution to the war effort in the form several regiments of volunteer infantry and cavalry as well as smaller units of artillery and engineers. A less know...
by Julie | May 10, 2017 | Local History, Research
Guest blog from intern Brian Hall For the past three months, I’ve been working on a project with the Local History department here at the library. I learned last summer that our library has a large archive of photographs. Lots and lots of photographs. Just in...
