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Finding Aid for the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce Records Collection 046 Finding aid for the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce records Collection 046 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit May 11, 2015 Describing Archives: A Content Standard Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids History and Special Collections Department June 1987 111 Library Street NE Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49503 616-988-5400 [email protected] Finding aid for the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce records Colle Table of Contents Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 3 Biographical/Historical note.......................................................................................................................... 4 Scope and Contents note............................................................................................................................... 4 Administrative Information .........................................................................................................................4 Related Materials ........................................................................................................................................ 5 Controlled Access Headings..........................................................................................................................5 Collection Inventory...................................................................................................................................... 6 Series I. General and Historical.............................................................................................................. 6 Series II. Minutes.....................................................................................................................................6 Series III. ANNUAL REPORT.............................................................................................................13 Series IV. SPECIAL REPORTS........................................................................................................... 14 Series V. GOLD BOOK, etc.................................................................................................................14 Series VI. ACTIVITIES, PROGRAMS................................................................................................ 15 Series VII. SCRAPBOOKS...................................................................................................................16 Series VIII. SUBJECT FILES...............................................................................................................17 Series IX. ALL-AMERICA CITY COMMITTEE............................................................................... 20 Series X. ANNEXATION FILES......................................................................................................... 22 Series XI. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PUBLICATIONS.............................................................. 23 Series XII. Other Miscellaneous Publications.......................................................................................32 Series XIII. PHOTOGRAPHS.............................................................................................................. 34 Series XIV. New Quarters Task Force............................................................................................... 169 Unprocessed......................................................................................................................................... 170 - Page 2 - Finding aid for the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce records Colle Summary Information Repository Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids History and Special Collections Department Title Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce records Date [inclusive] 1881-1996 Extent 47.5 Linear feet Over 70 boxes Language English Abstract The Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1887 as the Grand Rapids Board of Trade. The name was changed to Grand Rapids Association of Commerce in 1911, and to Chamber of Commerce in 1943. The Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce Records include the minutes, financial and other records, scrapbooks, photographs and publications of the organization, 1888-1991. The papers detail activities of the Chamber as it tried to improve the business environment in Grand Rapids, to enhance the city's image, to offer assistance to businesses and to help plan city economic and physical growth. The minutes and records also depict the Chamber's internal operations, especially in generating policies and establishing community-wide goals. - Page 3 - Finding aid for the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce records Colle Biographical/Historical note The Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1887 as the Grand Rapids Board of Trade. The name was changed to Grand Rapids Association of Commerce in 1911, and to Chamber of Commerce in 1943. The Chamber is composed of local businessmen from throughout the community and its funding base is local. The Chamber is loosely affiliated with the national and state organizations. Since its founding, the organization has attempted both to improve Grand Rapids and to promote the advantages of the city to non-residents. Though the Chamber's primary interest has been improving business conditions, the Chamber has taken a very broad view about what makes a community desirable to business. Thus the records, photographs and publications show the Chamber involved in a whole series of activities, including education, public health, governmental organization and efficiency, transportation, housing, public welfare - literally everything from railroad freight rates to the statues placed in parks. The Chamber has included the most able of the community's business leaders from its inception, and has been a major force in the city's economic and social fabric. The Chamber continues in the tradition established by its early leaders. Scope and Contents note The collection documents through the Chamber's minutes, activities programs, scrapbooks, records, publications and photographs, the impact of the organization in and on the community, and reflects especially the economic development of Grand Rapids from 1888. The bulk of the collection dates from 1888 to 1946, the exception being the photograph series which encompasses primarily the 1950 to 1980 period. The collection consists of the following series: Minutes of the Directors' Meetings, Miscellaneous Committee Minutes, Wholesale Department Committee Minutes, Annual Reports, Special Reports, "Gold Book" Directories, Activities Programs, Scrapbooks, Subject files, All-America City Commission 1980-81, Annexation, Chamber of Commerce Publications, Photographs and Miscellaneous Publications. Administrative Information Publication Information Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids History and Special Collections Department June 1987 - Page 4 - Finding aid for the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce records Colle Immediate Source of Acquisition note Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce, 1986; accession numbers 1986.013, 1986.162 Related Materials Related Archival Materials note Coll. 185. See 185-2-80 for an image identified as being a Chamber of Commerce meeting 1960, containing Ed Frey, Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California and Marvin Blackport. Coll. 303 National Safety Council, GR Division, Assoc. of Commerce. Coll. 263 GRPL Small Manuscript Collection, including histories and other documents related to types of business in general or specific businesses. Coll. 289 Hub O’ Trade hand book of information on GR business. Powers-Tyson Printing Co. Controlled Access Headings Corporate Name(s) • Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce. Geographic Name(s) • Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- History Subject(s) • Boards of Trade -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids - Page 5 - Finding aid for the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce records Colle Series I. General and Historical Collection Inventory Series I. General and Historical Scope and Contents note This is a new series created to hold general information about the Chamber itself. It is mostly a place holder box for materials found and added by staff. Box Folder 0.5 1 Grand Rapids : a City Renewed / Gordon L. Olson. Grand Rapids : Greater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation ; Grand Rapids Historical Commission, 1996. [Book] 0.5 1 “Mirror of the community : City Historian Releases New Book Documenting Grand Rapids' Phenomenal Economic Renaissance” / Pat Shellenbarger. Nov. 10, 1996. Grand Rapids Press. Proquest print. [Grand Rapids, a City Renewed] 0.5 2 Newspaper clippings. Series II. Minutes Scope and Contents note Subseries A. MINUTES OF DIRECTORS' MEETINGS: Consists of the minutes of the Board of Directors, 1895 to 1946. Vol. B, p. 251 also includes Miscellaneous Committee Minutes 1898-1903. The 30 volumes in the series document both the internal workings of the organization and its responses to outside conditions. Arranged chronologically. - Page 6 - Finding aid for the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce records Colle Subseries A. MINUTES OF THE DIRECTORS' MEETINGS Suberies B. MISCELLANEOUS COMMITTEE MINUTES: Consists of the minutes of miscellaneous committees, 1903-1946. For Minutes 1898-1903, see Vol. B, p. 251. The manner in which the committee minutes were bound for 1909 to 1929 is extremely disorganized. After 1929 the committee minutes were bound chronologically. The arrangement in the series echoes the haphazard binding scheme. The minutes reflect the responses of the Chamber to particular
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