Author: Grand Rapids School Furniture Company
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Pages : 8
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Grand Rapids School Furniture Company, Sole Manufacturers of the Improved "perfect Automatic." Not a Luxury for the Rich, But a Preventive from Painful Diseases that Follow the Use of the Old Style Turn-up Seat
Author: Grand Rapids School Furniture Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Pages : 8
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Grand Rapids School Furniture Company
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Category : Church furniture
Languages : en
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Category : Church furniture
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Grand Rapids
Author: Norma Lewis
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738552002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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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.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738552002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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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.
Grand Rapids Trust Co. v. Haney School Furniture Co., 221 MICH 487 (1922)
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Pages : 6
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171
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Pages : 6
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The Grand Rapids Furniture Record
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Category : Furniture industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Category : Furniture industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Union School Furniture Co. School Furniture and Supplies
Author: Union School Furniture Co
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Category : Furniture industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Category : Furniture industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Grand Rapids Furniture
Author: Christian G. Carron
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Furniture Manufacturer and Artisan
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Category : Furniture industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Category : Furniture industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Seeger and Guernsey's Cyclopædia of the Manufactures and Products of the United States
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Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
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Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
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Grand Rapids Made
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Category : Furniture industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Category : Furniture industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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