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- Description:
- Small card-sized handbill advertising Skiff and Gaylord's Minstrels. The recto is printed in green and bears an illustration of five people in blackface, each surrounded by an overlapping oval-shaped frame. "Skiff & Gaylords Minstrels are Coming," is printed above and below. The verso is printed in red, and depicts the shield and eagle from the Great Seal of the United States, surrounded by a ribbon-shaped motif which reads, "The best singers, the best dances, musicals, violinists, operatic, choruses, and the best brass band in the world."
- Date Issued:
- 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Four page newspaper-format handbill advertising Father John's Medicine. The first three pages contain a story about the history of the company, complete with illustrations and photographs. Brief passages about the company in French, Italian, and Polish are printed on the third page as well. An alleged "Certificate of Analysis" from Seil, Putt, and Rusby, Incorporated, "Analytical, Consulting, and Research Chemists, Microscopists" is printed on the back page, providing flattering quotes about the quality of Father John's products.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Double-sided handbill printed on green cardstock advertising the arrival of Dr. Arthur Elmer, "a modern day seer... magnetic healer and clairvoyant physician," to Coldwater, Michigan on October 15, 1894. The card mentions that Elmer will use his powers to heal the sick, locate lost, stolen or buried property, and provide business or career advice through "psychometry or soul reading."
- Date Issued:
- 1894-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Half-folded handbill advertising the "Caledonian Games" that were held at the "Fair Grounds, Sarnia, [Ontario]" on September 15, 1886. The folded handbill is printed in black text on slightly yellowed paper. A "Grand Scottish Concert," featuring Robert Ireland at the Sarnia Town Hall on September 15, 1886 is advertised within.
- Date Issued:
- 1886-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Political handbill denouncing Edsel Ford's deferment in WWI the year Henry Ford ran for the Senate, and urging readers to vote for his Republican rival Truman Handy Newberry. "Henry Ford has nothing like this in his window" is printed above an image of a service flag on the recto. Verso reads: "His Country Needs Edsel Ford Where Is He? Fathers, you owe it to your fighting sons; young men, you owe it to your fighting pals- to sent the fighting father of fighting sons, one of whom is on the flying field in France and the other on a battleship at the European base, to represent a fighting State in the United States Senate. On your ballot November 5, make a Cross under the picture of Abraham Lincoln. Nothing further need be done.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Program booklet for a production of "The Return of Peter Grimm," at the Detroit Opera House, beginning May 1, 1911. A color illustration of a minstrel seated playing a lute against a pastoral backdrop with heads of a man and woman and the outline of a castle above, and an advertisement for the Hotel Pontchartrain below is on the cover. Information about the production, brief articles of theatre news, and numerous advertisements--including those for the Brush Motor Car Company, the B. Siegel Company, the Chalmers Motor Company, Henry the Hatter, Absopure, Heyn's Bazaar, the King Wah Lo Chinese-American restaurant, Sanders', the Cunningham Auto Company, Stroh's, the J.H. Brady Auto Company, Hupp-Yeats electric cars, and the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company--are contained within.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Handbill containing the Democratic Republican ticket for the 1856 election listing candidates for the seventh ward, including Oliver M. Hyde for mayor, and Cleophas Moross for Collector.
- Date Issued:
- 1856-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Handbill advertising a production of "C. H. Smith's Double Mammoth Uncle Tom's Cabin" at Whitney's Grand Opera House, beginning April 24; front features a lithograph of Eliza and Harry's escape across the ice; information about the production is printed on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1876-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Handbill for advertising a series of performances by Leon and Cushman's Minstrel Comedy Company at Whitney's Opera House. "James Sherlock" is handwritten in pencil twice on the recto. A puzzle is printed on the verso, as part of a promotion promising free tickets to the first person to solve it. The puzzle has been attempted in pencil. The card is printed in black on tan cardstock.
- Date Issued:
- 1884-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Mounted handbill printed with a message from Governor Hazen S. Pingree, dated July 13, 1899, regarding the benefits, and necessity of the straight 3¢ fare on all Detroit streetcar lines, and the illegitimacy of opposition to the idea. The handbill is mounted on linen.
- Date Issued:
- 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
