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The proceedings of the Board of Trustees for the Village of Grand Rapids. The bound volume includes the legislative act to incorporate the Village of Grand Rapids, and the first by-laws of the Board of Trustees.

This photograph is of the old parks department offices in the old City Hall that housed the landscape architects. A few landscape architects are shown working. The architect to the left is Vic Palm. In the background architect Clifford Rowe is…

This photograph is of the recently remodeled old City Hall City Commission chambers.

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.

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.

An interior view of the City Clerks office in the old City Hall building. City Clerk, Jacob Van Wingen, can be seen standing to the far right of the front counter.