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Michico Grapes

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Fruit Label

Petition to move the market from Campau Park

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This is a petition by thirty neighbors to move the South Market from Campau Park to the Truant School Ground

Letter from Grand Rapids Federation of Women's Clubs asking for South Market.

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This letter was written with the support of "six thousand women" for a market in the southern part of the city.

We Wish to be Civilized: Ottawa-American Political Contests on the Michigan Frontier

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This ethnohistorical work examines the process of Ottawa adaptation
from a world system perspective. Following the lead of Richard White,
Carol Smith, James Scott, and Sherry Ortner it analyzes the Ottawa mode
of production as a key mechanism by…

“Better Flowers and Better Vegetables Easily Leads to the Subject of Better People”: Back Down the Garden Paths of Progressive Era Reform in Grand Rapids, Michigan

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The historiography of school gardening in the United States has few contributions. The works that exist draw heavily from official documents and other primary sources which tell the story from an institutional point of view and are mainly outside the…

An improved edition of a map of the surveyed parts of the Territory of Michigan

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Covers southern Michigan.
Insets: Map of the Straits of Michillimackinac. -- Map of Pte. Ste. Ignace. -- Map of the most important parts of the lead mine district near the Mississippi River. -- Map of the private claims at Green Bay -- Map of…