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- Description:
- Letter dated January 18, 1892, from D. W. Loomis of the Detroit Steel & Spring Company to Rienle Brothers Testing Machine Company of Philadelphia. The letter is typewritten on slightly yellowed paper and shows the letterhead of the Detroit Steel & Spring Company.
- Date Issued:
- 1892-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Detroit Car Company stock certificate number 279 for sixteen shares issued to Mrs. Isabelle Hosie on July 24, 1873. The certificate was printed by the Calvert Lithographing Company and features an illustration of a steam engine pulling a box car and several passenger cars with a boat in the background. The certificate is singed by the Detroit Car Company's president C.S. Cram, and its secretary James A. Armstrong. Four payments are noted on the verso between October 19, 1899, and April 1901.
- Date Issued:
- 1873-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Pocket-sized notebook bound in a pink cover advertising Clayton's, a men's clothing store located Michigan Avenue and Shelby Street. The front cover is printed with the slogans, "The Store That Satisfied," and "The Home of Good Clothes for Man and Boy," as well as the store's address and phone numbers. A passage on the back cover promotes the store's second floor Young Men's and Boy's College Section. Within the booklet contains several pages of lined paper along with further advertisements for Clayton's, math formulae, and calendars for 1909 and 1910.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Bill of sale, dated March 26th, 1891, from the Michigan Stove Company, documenting the sale of an Garland stove accessories to O.M. Scott & Bro. of Marysville, Ohio. At the top of the bill are images depicting the Michigan Stove Company's stove works in Detroit, Garland Block in Chicago, Buffalo House, and Garland Stoves and Ranges logo.
- Date Issued:
- 1891-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- D.M. Ferry and Company trade card advertising phlox drummondii A color illustration of the flowers, from the Calvert Lithograph Company, "painted from actual specimens," according to the caption, as well as the copyright date, 1889, are on the recto. The verso contains a description of the plant, and a price list for its different varieties.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- B. Siegel Company invoice, dated January 9, 1919, recording the purchase of a $7.50 petticoat to Mrs. S. Shamie of Trumbull Avenue. A handwritten note records that she used a $39.17 credit balance to pay for the petticoat. The form's letterhead includes a logo consisting of the initials B.S. Co., and provides the business's location as the corner of Woodward Avenue and State Street.
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "Coral" model stoves. On the recto is an illustration, credited to A. Picard of Troy, New York, of a Pearl stove and text advertising its possession of a "horizontal moving and dumping grate" and that it was "patented 1869."
- Date Issued:
- 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Page from a ledger, numbered 692, containing a table tallying expenses for advertising in Detroit newspapers, dated February 8, 1902. The page is in brown and red ink on lightweight partially translucent paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "North Star" model wood burning cooking stove. On the recto is an illustration of the "North Star" stove and text advertising it as a "first rate, low-priced cooking stove, for wood, with SQUARE heavy top."
- Date Issued:
- 1867-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Magazine entitled, "Our Social Magnet," v. 1, no. 8, August, 1918, published by American Car & Foundry Company; softcover, 30 pages. Cover page has black text on slightly yellowed paper with a black and white picture of American naval ships. Inside pages have articles printed in black and red text along with black and white pictures. The general theme of this issue is the continuing war with Germany (World War I) and the American spirit of patriotism.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
