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- Description:
- Promotional pocket book from the Detroit Stove Works bound in a black leather cover. The front cover has "Compliments of Detroit Stove Works, Manufacturers of Jewel Stoves and Furnaces; Detroit; Chicago" written in gold on it. The back cover has the Jewel Stoves and Ranges logo in gold. Contained within it are calendars for 1920 and 1921, appointment slots for all the days in 1920, maps of all continents except Antarctica, and pages with lists of the following purposes and facts: identification, accident and injury care, interest calculations, weather flag signals, United States population, foreign coin values, time tables for mailing to foreign locations, domestic and foreign postage rates, distances between U.S. cities, largest city populations by U.S. state, memoranda recording, telephone number recording, insurance expiration calculation, accounting, average male heights and weights, presidents of the United States, anniversaries, weights and measures, metric equivalents, time zones, and phases of the moon for 1920.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Half-folded menu and program from an Easter dinner served at the Hotel Metropole on Sunday, March 31, 1907. The cover is printed with the hotel's crest and the text," Easter Greeting," printed in gold on cream colored cardstock. The menu unfolds from left to right. A list of the available dishes, as well as a list of musical selections to be performed are contained within.
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Menu for a Fourth of July dinner. The cover is made of white cardstock with an image of a perched eagle, and a bow of red, white, and blue cord threaded through the center holding a small silk American flag on a small wooden pole. A half-tone photo of Russell A. Alger, and the exterior of a long five story building with a central tower, and a large porch, are printed within, along with a list of the meal options, many with names referencing the Spanish-American War.
- Date Issued:
- 1898-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Hudson and Symington invoice for a $112.78 purchase of carpets, border, lining, and matting, by the Reves Brothers grocers of Cadillac Square, dated May 31, 1893. The invoice is stamped "paid."
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "Home Jewel" model wood burning stoves. On the recto is an illustration of two different Home Jewel stoves, one with a square top and the other with an extra reservoir. On the verso is text highlighting the "Special Features" of Home Jewel model stoves.
- Date Issued:
- 1867-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Typewritten letter dated February 18, 1897 from Fred E. Farnsworth, Secretary of The Michigan Club, to Captain. Henry A. Haigh, concerning a banquet the organization is planning. The letter is on Michigan Club letterhead, printed by the Calvert Lithographing Company, which includes an image of the Chamber of Commerce Building on the northeast corner of Griswold Street, and State Street.
- Date Issued:
- 1897-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "Raven" model wood burning stoves. On the recto is an illustration of a Raven stove and text advertising that it has a "close or swing front; [is] Mounted with Fire Door below or in Sheet Iron Upper Section; Ornamental Swing Cover; two holes with Movable Center in top."
- Date Issued:
- 1872-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Receipt, printed by the Calvert Lithographing Company, from the City Treasurer's Office to H. Hunt for $7.15 for property taxes on land on Gratiot Avenue, stamped May 28, 1903.
- Date Issued:
- 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Half-folded luncheon menu from the Hotel Pontchartrain, dated Saturday, October 20, 1917. A disclaimer on the cover cautions that the management declines responsibility to damage to clothing caused by accidents in the dining room. A note about the departure times for the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company's passenger steamers from the Third Avenue Dock to Cleveland and Buffalo is included within.
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- J.T. Wing and Company invoice for $28.38 for pulleys, leather belts, and snap lever sight feed oilers sold to the E.J. Dossin Company on June 29, 1922. The invoice features a letterhead touting J.T. Wing's compliance with the Child Labor Act, and promoting their "High Speed Graphite Babbitt," and "Detroit star Grinding Wheels."
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
