Grand Rapids Public Services Department

This photograph shows staff and garbage trucks in front of the old City Lighting Plant, which later became the Refuse Collection Division building. In the background the bleachers for the island baseball field can be seen.

A Public Services Department snow removal crew in downtown Grand Rapids on Pearl Street. They Ladyard building at 120 Ottawa Ave NW and the Michigan Trust Building at 40 Pearl St NW can be seen in the background.

This photograph shows the Superintendent of the Garbage Collection Division, Martin Bakker, in front of a horse drawn cart. Two workers sit on the cart. They are standing in front of the Garbage Collection building, which was formerly the City…

This photograph is of Martin Bakker. Bakker was the superintendent of the Garbage Collection division of Public Services. He is standing with an unidentified woman in front of the Garbage Collection building, formerly the City Lighting Plant.

This photograph is of the City Lighting Plant building in 1927, which at that time had been reconfigured for the Refuse Collection Division of the Public Services Department.