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- "Smoke Hawk" Towner Story
Photo essay: Air Pollution in Grand Rapids 100 Years Ago
- A Better Lighting System in 1912
Photo essay: Lighting City Streets, 1850s to 1950s
- A Few Facts About Grand Rapids Streetcars
Photo essay; Grand Rapids Streetcars
- A Jesiek Mystery
Photo essay; Jesiek Brothers, Boat Builders on the Grand River
- A Rescue from the 1838 Flood
Photo essay: The Grand River: Friend and Foe
- Activist, Wong Chin Foo
Photo essay: The Earliest Chinese in Grand Rapids
- Additional images and full text of the essay by Professor Davis
Photo essay: A History of Opera in Grand Rapids
- Albert Stickley of Grand Rapids
Photo essay: James Seino, Art Director at Stickley Brothers
- Architectural Highlights
Photo essay: Historic Restoration of D.A. Blodgett Home for Children
- Baxter and Belknap
Photo essay: Surveying the Land
- Biography of Helen Schiebout, 1900-1999
Photo essay; Helen Castenholz, Friend of American Art
- Birth of the Streetcar in Grand Rapids
Photo essay; Grand Rapids Streetcars
- Building a Jesiek Co. Boat
Photo essay; Jesiek Brothers, Boat Builders on the Grand River
- Census Records and Citizenship Declarations of Some Early Chinese in Grand Rapids
Photo essay: The Earliest Chinese in Grand Rapids
- Changes in the Grand Rapids Furniture Market
Photo essay: Furniture Exhibition Buildings in Grand Rapids
- Charles W. Garfield's Concern for Others
Photo essay: Historic Walking Tour of the Garfield Park Area
- Chinese Cooks a Feature at the Pantlind
Photo essay: The Earliest Chinese in Grand Rapids
- Coming to America
Photo essay: Roots in Europe
- Company D, First Regiment Engineers and Mechanics
Photo essay: Roots in Europe
- Constance Mayfield Rourke
Photo essay; Helen Castenholz, Friend of American Art
- Creating Women's Residence Halls
Photo essay: Mary Hefferan of Grand Rapids and Eastmanville
- Daguerreians of Grand Rapids
Photo essay: Our First Photographers
- Daily Eagle Interviews Wong Chin Foo, 1880
Photo essay: The Earliest Chinese in Grand Rapids
- Daniel Coit's Apprenticeship
Photo essay; Daniel W. Coit, Adventurer and Artist
- Death Comes to Charles W. Garfield
Photo essay: Historic Walking Tour of the Garfield Park Area
- Death of G. A. Hendricks
Photo essay; Furniture Exhibition Building in Grand Rapids
- Death of the Streetcar in Grand Rapids
Photo essay; Grand Rapids Streetcars
- Doomed Police Building Houses a Colorful Past
Photo essay; Booked and Fingerprinted at the Grand Rapids Jail
- Early Grand Rapids Opera Halls and Theaters
Photo essay: A History of Opera in Grand Rapids
- Early Life of Charles William Garfield
Photo essay: Historic Walking Tour of the Garfield Park Area
- Fairmount Square Historic District
Photo essay: Historic Restoration of D.A. Blodgett Home for Children
- Fashion for Children
Photo essay; Little Girls' Clothing
- Fighting to Give Service
Photo essay; Grand Rapids Streetcars
- Furniture Exhibit at the Grand Rapids Public Library
Photo essay; Furniture Exhibition Buildings in Grand Rapids
- Genealogy of Widdicomb Furniture Companies
Photo essay: Anthony Margelis, Inventor of the Dowel Press
- Going to Market
Photo essay; Furniture Exhibition Buildings in Grand Rapids
- Grand Rapids Men in the American Furniture Hall of Fame
Photo essay: Furniture Exhibition Buildings in Grand Rapids
- Grand Rapids Railroad Bridges Spanning the Grand River
Photo essay: The Grand River: Friend and Foe
- Grand Rapids Smoke Abatement Ordinance, 1898
Photo essay: Air Pollution in Grand Rapids 100 Year Ago
- Grand Rapids Smoke Abatement Ordinance, Amendment 1905
Photo essay: Air Pollution in Grand Rapids 100 Years Ago
- Grand Rapids Smoke Inspector Ordinance, 1907
Photo essay: Air Pollution in Grand Rapids 100 Years Ago
- Grand Rapids Unions Boycott Chinamen
Photo essay: The Earliest Chinese in Grand Rapids
- Gustav Stickley
Photo essay; James Seino, Art Director at Stickley Brothers
- Have You Ridden the GR Railway Co. Launches?
Photo essay; Grand Rapids Streetcars
- How the Raniville Power Building Became the Fine Arts Building
Photo essay; Furniture Exhibition Buildings in Grand Rapids
- Installing Motors
Photo essay; Jesiek Brothers, Boat Builders on the Grand River
- Interview with Judith Schiebout
Photo essay; Helen Castenholz, Friend of American Art
- John Blodgett Visits Blodgett Hall at Vassar College
Photo essay: The Blodgetts and Brookby
- Joshua Coit's Account of His Brother
Photo essay; Daniel W. Coit, Adventurer and Artist
- Key to Reading the WWI Registration Cards
Photo essay: The Woman's Committee of World War I
- Klingman & Limbert Chair Company
Photo essay; Furniture Exhibition Buildings in Grand Rapids
- Leopold Stickley & John G. Stickley
Photo essay; James Seino, Art Director at Stickley Brothers
- Louis Campau and Other Early Land Patentees
Photo essay: Surveying the Land
- More About John Blodgett Sr.
Photo essay: The Blodgetts and Brookby
- Newspaper Sources, 1883 Log jam
Photo essay: The Grand River: Friend and Foe
- Noble Gift, The Delos A. Blodgett Home for Children
Photo essay; Historic Restoration of D.A. Blodgett Home for Children
- Oral History from Mary Hefferan's Family
Photo essay: Mary Hefferan of Grand Rapids and Eastmanville
- Paper Cuttings by Helen Castenholz
Photo essay; Helen Castenholz, Friend of American Art
- Plainfield-Sheridan Indian Trail, Stage and Mail Route
Photo essay: Surveying the Land
- Population Pushes School Construction
Photo essay: Building Hall School
- Population Pushes School Construction Again
Photo essay: Building Hall School
- Public Land Survey System
Photo essay: Surveying the Land
- Romance of the War
Photo essay: Roots in Europe
- Sources for additional research
Photo essay: A Pool for the People
- Tending the Wealthy St. Bridge
Photo essay; Jesiek Brothers, Boat Builders on the Grand River
- The Bertillon System in Grand Rapids
Photo essay; Booked and Fingerprinted at the Grand Rapids Jail
- The Big Splash! by George W. Welsh, Former Mayor and City Manager
Photo essay: A Pool for the People: Building Richmond Park Pool and Bath House
- The Early Days of Widdicomb Furniture
Photo essay: Anthony Margelis, Inventor of the Dowel Press
- The Great Log Jam of 1883
Photo essay: The Grand River: Friend and Foe
- The Great Migration to Grand Rapids
Photo essay; Thelma Estelle Garnett: Memphis to Chicago to Grand Rapids
- The Hooks Brothers, African American Photographers of Memphis
Photo essay; Thelma Estelle Garentt: Memphis to Chicago to Grand Rapids
- The Influence of Garfield's Father
Photo essay: Historic Walking Tour of the Garfield Park Area
- The Pantlind Exhibition, Fine Arts, and Furniture Capitol Buildings
Photo essay: Furniture Exhibition Buildings in Grand Rapids
- The Woman Behind the "Spirit of Woman Power" Poster
Photo essay: The Woman's Committee of World War I
- Tiger Baseball During WWII
Photo essay: Roots in New England and New York
- Travels of Daniel Wadsworth Coit
Photo essay; Daniel W. Coit, Adventurer and Artist
- Unsuitable for Romping Girls
Photo essay; Little Girls Clothing
- Views of Street Lighting at Monroe and Division
Photo essay: Lighting City Streets, 1850s to 1950s
- What Happened to all those WWI Registration Cards?
Photo essay: The Woman's Committee of World War I
- What Happened to the International Association for the Prevention of Smoke?
Photo essay: Air Pollution in Grand Rapids, 100 Years Ago
- What is LEED?
Photo essay: Historic Restoration of D.A. Blodgett Home for Children
- Which Colleges Awarded Advanced Degrees to Women before 1900?
Photo essay: Mary Hefferan of Grand Rapids and Eastmanville
- Who Was Delos A. Blodgett?
Photo essay: The Blodgetts and Brookby
- Why Men Came to Michigan
Photo essay: Roots in New England and New York
- Woman of the Week, Helen Castenholz
Photo essay; Helen Castenholz, Friend of American Art
