Builders of Greater Grand Rapids in Biographical Caricature (1914) by Cartoonists of Grand Rapids

From the Foreword:

Over thirty years ago this city achieved leadership in the furniture industry of the world and still mentions this position. Through that attainment there was established a Greater Grand Rapids. But its progress did not cease since the city became the most famous furniture center in the world there has been a growth in outer lines of activity that have been equally marvelous. ...

Effort is made on the following pages to depict the lives and characteristics of men who have taken an active part in this work of making a Greater Grand Rapids. ...

The Men presented are not pictured from their own perspective nor yet from that of an intimate too close for proper proportion. Rather are they shown as they appear to commentators on public things and public men- "devils of the ink pots"- the newspaper cartoonists of Grand Rapids. ...

The Art Work in this book has been executed under the supervision of Grand Rapids' own Cartoonist, Lew W. Tower.