History of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan ...
Author : Albert Baxter
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Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Grand Rapids (Mich.)
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Author : Albert Baxter
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Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Grand Rapids (Mich.)
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Allegan County (Mich.)
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Grand Rapids (Mich.)
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Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Grand Rapids (Mich.)
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Page : 340 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Kent County (Mich.)
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Page : 588 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Grand Rapids (Mich.)
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Author : Norma Lewis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738552002
William Haldane opened a cabinet shop in 1836, 14 years before Grand Rapids incorporated. Other furniture companies followed: Berkey and Gay, Widdicomb, Sligh, Hekman, and Phoenix were among those taking advantage of the Grand River for transportation and power, the area's abundant hardwood supply, and a growing immigrant labor pool. The furniture soon attracted national attention. In 1876, the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition proved conclusively that a river town in Michigan had indeed earned the title "Furniture City." Presidents Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower all worked at Grand Rapids-made desks. Fifteen manufacturers joined forces to build 1,000 Handley Page bombers during World War I. The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on September 2, 1945, at a table made in Grand Rapids. Despite fires, floods, strikes, depressions, and wars, Grand Rapids led the industry until the 1950s and 1960s, when the factories began moving to North Carolina. Today the area, along with nearby Holland and Zeeland, dominates the office furniture industry.
Author : Todd E Robinson
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1439909237
A City within a City examines the civil rights movement in the North by concentrating on the struggles for equality in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Historian Todd Robinson studies the issues surrounding school integration and bureaucratic reforms as well as the role of black youth activism to detail the diversity of black resistance. He focuses on respectability within the African American community as a way of understanding how the movement was formed and held together. And he elucidates the oppositional role of northern conservatives regarding racial progress. A City within a City cogently argues that the post-war political reform championed by local Republicans transformed the city's racial geography, creating a racialized "city within a city," featuring a system of "managerial racism" designed to keep blacks in declining inner-city areas. As Robinson indicates, this bold, provocative framework for understanding race relations in Grand Rapids has broader implications for illuminating the twentieth-century African American urban experience in secondary cities.
Author : Walter Romig
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Gazetteers
ISBN : 9780814318386
From Aabec in Antrim County to Zutphen in Ottawa County, from Hell to Hooker, Michigan Place Names is a compendium of information on the origins of the state's geographical names. With alphabetically arranged thumb-nail sketches, Walter Romig introduces readers to a host of colorful personalities and episodes which have achieved notoriety, though sometimes shortlived, by devising or lending their names to the state's settlements. Romig spent more than ten years researching and documenting the entries to which he added an extensive bibliography of sources and an index of the personal names used in the text. For the curious, the librarian, the genealogist, or the historian, his book is an indispensable resource. Michigan Place Names is another "Michigan classic" reissued as a Great Lakes Book.
Author : International Code Council
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture and energy conservation
ISBN : 9781609830564
"A member of the International Code Family."