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- Description:
- Four-pane folding promotional 1895 calendar from the Michigan Stove Company, advertising Garland Stoves and Ranges. A scene of children talking amongst themselves against a background of a landscape with a windmill is spread across all four panes on the recto, with a calendar running along the bottom and the year "1895" printed in the center. A large advertisement for Garland Stoves and Ranges is spread across all four panes on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1895-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Mabley and Company catalog containing prices and illustration's for the store's offering of men's, women's, and children's clothing, hats, shoes, and crockery for the fall and winter seasons spanning 1886 to 1887. The catalog is bound in a paper cover with a color lithograph of a two vignettes--a woman peering out a window into a snowstorm, and a fox hunter on horseback--serving as the cover. The image is credited to Sackett, Wilhelms and Betzig of New York. Images of the company's eastside and westside locations framed by birds and a sunburst are on the back cover. The catalog includes a mail order form.
- Date Issued:
- 1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company confirmation receipt; header including engravings of D.M. Ferry and Company Seed Warehouses A and B, as well as a list of company executives; addressed to M.J. Day and Company of Ripton, Vermont on June 24, 1899, "Dear Sir: We acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 23rd inst with enclosure $3.45 which we credit to you on account with our best thanks under the following conditions: All checks on Interior Banks, and all other checks and drafts not endorsed by the sender, are taken for collection only, and we will not be held responsible for any loss that may be incurred in collecting such checks or drafts;" signed below with the initials J.A.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Receipt for $81.50 pay by John B. Wilson to M.S. Smith's Jewelry Store, dated July 13, 1869. The receipt features an engraving of M.S. Smith and Company credited to Henry Soibert and Brothers of New York. The receipt lists the business' addresses as 51 Woodward Avenue and 169 Jefferson Avenue. A canceled two cent U.S. Internal Revenue Stamp is affixed near the bottom center of the invoice.
- Date Issued:
- 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Receipt from C. B. Dole & Son for steam and gas fittings and installation labor purchased by William R. Sutar (Soutar) on April 26, 1889, in the amount of $8.90. The receipt is printed in black text on slightly yellowed paper and shows the letterhead of C. B. Dole & Son of Port Huron across the top. Engraved drawings of two furnaces are printed in dull red ink as part of the letterhead. The purchased items and costs are listed in handwritten text.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- 1890 D. M. Ferry and Company catalog printed by O.S. Gulley, Bornman and Company, with illustrations by the Calvert Lithograph Company; front cover has a picture of small pink and white flowers on a black background in upper left corner, red wavy lines along the bottom, a white background and a tan background with "1890 Seed Annual" in the middle; "D. M. Ferry & Co." appears in a black circle near bottom left corner with "Detroit, Mich." to the right of it; back cover has a picture titled "New Sweet Pea" and "Miss Blanche Ferry" with and pink flowers, with prices to the left of the flowers and "Introduced in 1889 by D. M. Ferry & Co." to the right; D. M. Ferry & Co. Seed Merchants. Detroit, Mich. along bottom; inside list seeds and prices with black and white pictures; one color picture in beginning; order form attached with envelope inside
- Date Issued:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Invoice for $90.88 of goods bought from T.F. Abbot, "Importer and Dealer in Carpets, Oil Cloths, Mattings, Paper Hangings, Curtain Materials, Furnishing and Upholstery Goods" by John B. Wilson, dated November 17, 1866. Abbot's location is listed as "Carpet Hall, 142 Jefferson Avenue, Conant Block." A hand-canceled two cent U.S. Internal Revenue Stamp is affixed near the lower left corner of the invoice.
- Date Issued:
- 1866-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Softcover advertising booklet for "The Rising Sun Stove Polish" made by Morse Bros. of Canton, Massachusetts. The front cover features a decorative picture of a rising sun and is printed in black, red, yellow, blue, and orange ink. The 8 interior pages are printed with black text on white paper and show colorized engravings of women along with short lines of poetry that advertise Rising Sun Stove Polish.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One promissory note, dated February 14, 1914, that was made by the Gregory, Mayer & Thom Company of Detroit to the Peoples State Bank of Detroit. It was typewritten in black text on white paper. The note terms indicated that $100,000 was being borrowed from the bank at a 6% interest rate and was to be repaid in semi-annual payments over a 5-year term. The note was signed by officers of the Gregory, Mayer & Thom Company and was embossed with the company seal. Repayments were recorded in handwritten text on two sheets that are attached with brass rivet-type fasteners.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One copyright registration, "No. 126 I," dated January 3, 1878, issued by the "Library of Congress, Copyright Office, Washington." The registration form is printed in black text on white paper and includes blank lines that have been completed in handwritten black ink text. It indicates that a copyright was issued to the Richmond & Backus Company of Detroit for a "Book or Form" which is described in more specific detail in handwritten text. The registration form was signed in the lower right corner by "A. R. [Ainsworth Rand] Spofford, Librarian of Congress." An oval-shaped embossed seal of the Copyright Office is located in the upper left corner of the form.
- Date Issued:
- 1878-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
