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Both the Honor and the Profit: Anishinaabe Warriors, Soldiers, and Veterans from Pontiac’s War through the Civil War.

mckrysia_1.pdf

Otto 2017 Cities of Farmers

Otto 2017 Cities of Farmers.pdf

BROADENING THE CONCEPT OF CIVIC AGRICULTURE: THE HISTORY OF CIVIC FOOD SYSTEMS IN
PROGRESSIVE ERA GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

gr markets and gardens otto 2012 2019.pdf

Campau Park Post Card

campau park 1911.jpg
This is a postcard from around 1910 of Campau Park. This park was given to the City of the Grand Rapids by the family of Louis Campau, one of the first Europeans to lie on the Rapids. For the first few years of the South Market, farmers set up on one…

Letter written by Emily Chamberlin for the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense asking for South Market

19180408_CHamberlin_WCCND_south_market.pdf
This is a letter written by Emily Chamberlin on behalf of the WCCND arguing that markets will help with the war effort.

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

19180408_Russell_CHamberlin_GRFWC_south_market.pdf
This letter was written with the support of "six thousand women" for a market in the southern part of the city.

Petition to move the market from Campau Park

CC 10085.pdf
This is a petition by thirty neighbors to move the South Market from Campau Park to the Truant School Ground

Mrs WJ Russell

petitioner wanting market moved to truant school

JF Brown

petitioner wanting market moved to truant school

Louise M. Malloch

petitioner wanting market moved to truant school