TitleUsing locker box to preserve food Date1945-01-03 SubjectFood containers DescriptionAdvertising. Demonstration of Sutherland Paper Company paperware for frozen foods features model ins... View Details
TitleWindow display for war years Date1943-05-19 SubjectPaper containers DescriptionAdvertising. ""Sutherland Products Serve on All Fronts"" display at First National Bank, 108 E. Mich... View Details
TitleDisplay booth at fair Date1944-10-02 SubjectBusiness enterprises -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionAdvertising. Adams Insulation Company display at Kalamazoo County Fair promoting blown in Celotex Ro... View Details
TitleHands holding dried eggs package Date1942-05-06 SubjectEggs and egg products DescriptionAdvertising. Advertisement includes package of ""Pure Dried Whole Eggs U.S.A."" and a dozen eggs in... View Details
TitleStop Water Pollution billboard Date1969-02 SubjectAdvertising -- Outdoor DescriptionAdvertising. Billboard by Mulholland Sign Company, ""Trout and People Need Clean Water, Stop Water P... View Details
TitleDelivery van with driver Date1957-12 SubjectKalamazoo (Mich.) -- Business DescriptionAdvertising. Business Scenes. Otto Kihm wholesale van parked in lot at 414 N. Rose Street, Kalamazoo... View Details
TitleKing Edward Cigars display window Date1940-02-24 SubjectBusiness enterprises -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionAdvertising. Business Scenes. Window display of King Edward cigars at John C. Klosterman Wholesale C... View Details
TitleMeat display in store Date1940-06-25 SubjectDisplays of merchandise DescriptionAdvertising. Commercial refrigerator in store featuring Valley Frankfurters, Fort Pitt Sliced Bacon,... View Details
TitleGrand Haven Public Library Datec. 1965 SubjectGrand Haven Public Library DescriptionBlack and white photograph of the front of the original Carnegie library, built in 1913, located on ... View Details
TitleLoutit Library Date1967 SubjectLoutit Library DescriptionBlack and white photograph of the southwest corner of Loutit Library, built in 1966, located on the ... View Details
TitleLoutit Library Children's Department Date1967 SubjectLoutit Library DescriptionBlack and white photograph of the Children's Department in the new Loutit Library, built in 1966, lo... View Details
TitleHighland Park Drive Date1913 SubjectHighland Park Association (Grand Haven, Mich.) DescriptionBlack and white photograph of two women and a child on the walk at the intersection of Lake Ave. and... View Details
TitleMichigan Brass Company Date1969 SubjectMichigan Brass Company DescriptionBlack and white panoramic photograph of the Michigan Brass Company, located on Harbor Dr., Grand Ha... View Details
TitleBall & Co. Dry Goods & Grocery Store Datec. 1900 SubjectBall and Co. Dry Goods and Grocery Store DescriptionBlack and white photograph four women and three men standing outside of Ball & Co. Dry Goods & Groce... View Details
TitleWoman trimming pie Date1941-06-03 SubjectBaking DescriptionAdvertising. Elderly woman in kitchen wearing glasses and housedress trimming pie crust. Paper milk ... View Details
TitleStore displays of fishing rods Date1949-03-01 SubjectFishing -- Equipment and supplies -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionAdvertising. Display of ""Shakespeare Fine Fishing Tackle"" includes product displays of Glass Fiber... View Details
TitleStore lingerie display Date1939-10-05 SubjectStores, Retail -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionAdvertising. Display of women's ""Miss Thrifty Lingerie, Made of Pepperell Fabrics"" in Power's Depa... View Details
TitleGrand Haven Pier and Coast Guard Cutters Datec. 1930 SubjectUnited States. Coast Guard DescriptionBlack and white photo of two tugboats and two US Coast Guard cutters in ice near the end of the Sout... View Details
TitleWar waste paper display Date1944-07-29 SubjectWorld War, 1939-1945 DescriptionAdvertising. Display boards ""Your Waste Paper Goes to War"" ""Ration K"" and ""Shell Cases"" featur... View Details
TitleChallenge Corn Planter Works, View to North Date1894 SubjectChallenge Corn Planter Works DescriptionBlack and white photo of Challenge Corn Planter Works, located between Seventh and Monroe Streets on... View Details
TitleChallenge Corn Planter Works, View to South Date1894 SubjectChallenge Corn Planter Works DescriptionBlack and white photo of Challenge Corn Planter Works, located between Seventh and Monroe Streets on... View Details
TitleInterurban Spring Lake Date1907 SubjectStreet-railroads -- Michigan -- Spring Lake DescriptionBlack and white photograph of the Interurban that became Savidge Street in Spring Lake, MI. View Details
TitleInterurban, Dummy Line Date1910 SubjectStreet-railroads -- Michigan -- Grand Haven DescriptionBlack and white photograph of the Grand Haven street-railway known as the View Details
TitleInterurban, Grand Haven Date1920 SubjectStreet-railroads -- Michigan -- Grand Haven DescriptionBlack and white photograph of the Interurban Car #4808, shown with crew, on tracks near Grand Haven. View Details
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