Resources available at the Grand Rapids Public Library

• The City of Grand Rapids: Sketches of the Principal Industries and Business Houses. B. F. Conrad & Co., 1889.
• Baxter, Albert. History of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan (With an appendix--History of Lowell, Michigan). New York, Grand Rapids: Munsell & company, 1891.
• Belknap, Charles E. The Yesterdays of Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids: The Dean Hicks Co., 1922.
• Carron, Christian G. Grand Rapids Furniture: The Story of America’s Furniture City. Grand Rapids, MI: Public Museum of Grand Rapids, 1998.
• Chrysler, Don. The Story of Grand River. 1975.
• Everett, Franklin. Memorials of the Grand River Valley. Chicago: Chicago Legal News Co., 1878. Grand Rapids Historical Society, 1984.
• Fisher, Ernest B. Grand Rapids and Kent County, Michigan: Historical Account of Their Progress from First Settlement to the Present Time. Chicago: Robert O. Law Company, 1918.
• Goss, Dwight. History of Grand Rapids and Its Industries. Chicago: C. F. Cooper, 1906.
• Jelks, Randal Maurice. African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
• Lydens, Z. Z. The Story of Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1966.
• Ransom, Frank Edward. The City Built on Wood: A History of the Furniture Industry in Grand Rapids, Michigan 1850-1950. Ann Arbor, Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1955.
• Tuttle, Charles Richard. History of Grand Rapids: With Biographical Sketches. Grand Rapids: Black Letter Press, 1974, c1874
• Grand Rapids Public Library, Furniture Design
• Baxter's History of the City of Grand Rapids online
• Dwight Goss' History of Grand Rapids and Its Industries online
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