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This photograph shows the west bank of the Grand River at the old Interurban bridge. The West Side canal can be seen just past the bridge and the bank. This area would eventually become the grounds of Ah-Nab-Awen Park and the Gerald R. Ford Museum.

This is an image of an unidentified woman in a boat during the 1883 flood in Grand Rapids.

This is a view of the Grand River looking north towards the Sixth Street Bridge. A low-head dam is visible.

A view of the Sixth Street Bridge and the Grand River.

This is an image of scrip labor workings shoring up the bank of the Grand River using stones from the riverbed. The workers are preparing for the construction of the Civic Auditorium. They are working near the Interurban Bridge (Gillett Bridge) and…

This is a photograph of the rip rap edge of the Grand River north of the Bell Telephone building and the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Bridge. The old city jail building can be seen on the left side of the image.

This is an image looking north from the Fulton Street Bridge of a WPA project along the Grand River. This wall along the river has been referred to as 'rip rap'. The West Side Iron Works and the Voigt Mill are visible in this image.

This photograph shows the old Pearl Street bridge, part of which was built in the 1880s by the Massillon Bridge Company. The Voigt Milling Co. can be seen vaguely, on the other side of the river.

This photograph shows the old Fulton Street bridge, built in 1885 by the Massillon Bridge Company. Ice can be see in the river below.

An image facing NW from the East side of the Grand River towards the site of the Gerald R. Ford Museum, what was then a German Schoolhouse.