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This is a photograph of the memorial in Garfield Park that commemorates Charles and Jessie Garfield who, along with Julia L. Fletcher, donated the land for Garfield Park. The marker also denotes the graves of Charles and Jessie Garfield
which lay…

This is a photograph of the Garfield Park lodge being renovated. The two men working are unidentified.

This is a photograph of the playground in Garfield Park located in the south central portion of the park.

This photograph shows the wading pool in the south end of Garfield Park. The pool was built in 1910.

This aerial view of Garfield Park shows the three pools, lodge/community house, baseball diamond, and tennis courts.

This is an aerial of southern portion of Riverside Park from circa 1950s. Monroe Street can be seen to the right of the park.

This photograph shows the civil war monument in Monument Park looking toward the State College of Beauty, currently the Grand Rapids Children's Museum.

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…

Dickinson Buffer Park looking northeast toward factories and basketball court

The Dickinson Park playground looking west from Linden Ave SE.