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- Description:
- Newspaper page entitled "Official Report of the Detroit Board of Trade" dated Saturday, December 29, 1900. The page is printed in black text on slightly yellowed thin newspaper. The report includes grain market prices, articles about recent trading activity, and stock market prices.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Newspaper clipping entitled "Government Crop Report" dated December 27, 1900. The article is printed in black text on yellowed newspaper and gives overall crop harvest statistics for the year for the nation and for various regions.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- A small piece of wood from Lewis Cass' home, inscribed with writing that details the history of the house, mounted on a newspaper clipping, entitled "The Oldest Building in Detroit About to Disappear: The Breaking Up of the Old Cass Homestead on Larned Street," dated August 30, 1882.
- Date Issued:
- 1884-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One sheet, containing pages 363 and 364, from the July 27, 1878 supplement to Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Page 363 contains two etchings representing "Michigan.-The City of the Straits-A Ramble Among the Public and Business Establishments of Detroit. From sketches by Walter Yeager and H. Ogden." The captions for the two etchings are as follows: Upper: View of the Campus Martius, Showing the City Hall. Lower: Custom-House Officials at Windsor, Canada, Opposite Detroit, Inspecting the Baggage of Tourists. Page 364 contains the continuation of an article from page 362, "The City of the Straits: Rambles About A Thrifty Western Metropolis." Page 364 contains a section about "Wayne County Savings Bank and Safe Deposit Building," in addition to five etchings with the same theme, "A Ramble Among the Public and Business Establishments of Detroit," as those on page 363. The captions for the etchings on page 364 are as follows: Upper-middle: A Harvesting Scene on D.M. Ferry & Co.' Farm, Grand River Avenue. Left-center: W.B. Wesson, President of the Wayne County Savings Bank and Deposit Company. Mid-center: The Wayne County Savings Bank and Safe Deposit Building. Upper right-center: The People's Savings Bank. Lower right-center: Russell House. Lower-middle: Varnishing Works of Berry Brothers, Corner of Wight and Lieb Streets.
- Date Issued:
- 1878-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Issue of "The Cass Technician", published by Cass Technical High School.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Article cut from a page of the Detroit News Tribune dated Sunday, December 30, 1900. It is printed in black text on yellowed paper. The author's initials, "J. E. S.," (James E. Scripps) appear at the end of the article. James E. Scripps was the President of the Evening News Association which published the Detroit News Tribune.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Front page of the Saturday, April 15, 1865 evening edition of the Detroit Tribune mounted to a linen backing. The page is dominated by the news of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of Secretary of State William H. Seward, the latter of which it initially falsely reports as succeeding. The paper also includes a message from Detroit mayor Kirkland C. Barker, who requested that businesses be closed, all bells in the city be tolled for the hour between noon and one o'clock, and that the citizens gather for a meeting at City Hall at three o'clock.
- Date Issued:
- 1865-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One sheet, mounted on linen, containing page 3 the Sunday, December 1, 1907 edition of the Detroit Free Press. The article featured on this print is "Then and Now in Detroit," focusing on the history of the Majestic Corner, at the corner of Woodward and Michigan Avenues. The sheet features halftone views of the Majestic Corner in 1862, 1875, and 1907. The text of the accompanying article is as follows: "It is not a long hark back to the time when the corner now occupied by the Majestic building, the first of Detroit's skyscrapers to go above twelve stories, was covered with modest, even humble structure. The old frame building that stood at the corner of Woodward and Michigan avenues for many years is still well remembered by many of the present generation, likewise the stores on either side that were torn down to make way for the majestic. Comparatively few, however, recall the appearance of the corner during the stirring days of the Civil war, when public meetings were held on the Campus Martius, and when the whole city was aflame with patriotism. At that time electric lights were unknown, trolley cars had not been dreamed of, and a five or six-story building had no difficulty in qualifying as a skyscraper. The present city hall had not even been considered, and where are now populous residence districts was then farm land, far less accessible than are towns within a radius of twenty-five miles of Detroit today. Time works great changes, as is evidenced by the accompanying pictures, showing the Majestic corner at three different periods during Detroit's history. And it is more than possible that fifty years hence the advancement will be sufficient to make the present corner look as antiquated to Detroiters of that day as does the picture taken during the early 60's to the present generation."
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Page from the November 4, 1916 issue of the Detroit Saturday Night. One side of the page includes headline reading "Detroit Saloons are Loyal to Marx" and fifteen photographs of business with signs and advertisements supporting Oscar Bruno Marx for mayor of the City of Detroit. The opposite side of the page includes headline reading "The Thrilling Michigan-Syracuse Football Battle" and six photographs of a football game between the University of Michigan and Syracuse University on October 28, 1916.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One sheet, containing pages 659-662 of the August 17, 1889 supplement to Harper's Weekly. Pages 660-661 contain a composite print of eight illustrations of Detroit, titled "The City of Detroit and Its surroundings," drawn by Charles Graham. The captions for the eight drawings are as follows: 1. The Market, from City Hall. 2. The Grand Circus. 3. The Bagley Fountain. 4. The River with Revenue-Cutter at Anchor. 5. Old Block-House on Grosse Isle. 6. Grosse Isle. 7. Lumber Tow. 8. Excursion to Belle Isle. The opposite side of the sheet, containing pages 659 and 662, contains a portion of a story, "A Hazard of New Fortunes," by William Dean Howells, a poem, "The Enchanted Wood," by Flavel Scott Mines," a map of Alaska, and an article, "The Behring Sea Dispute."
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
