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- Description:
- Black and white photographic postcard depicting the Lake in Palmer Park with the Lighthouse in the background. Printed on recto: Our Mr. Geo. Huntington will call upon you about 11/15. Your Orders will receive our prompt attention. Yours Truly, Murphy Chair Co., Detroit, Mich. Postmarked Nov, 1906.
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Half-folded handwritten letter from Sarah A. Sibley to her brother Alexander Hamilton Sibley in California, dated July 8, 1850, thanking him for gifts, including two shawls (1949.272.015 and 1949.272.016), and relating news about friends and family in Detroit. The letter reads: July 8th, 1850 My Dear Alexander, I intended to have written to you by the last steamer but the time for me to write passed by without my knowing it so I was obliged to defer my letter for a couple of weeks. I can hardly express to you our delight at the beautiful presents you sent us by the Brady. They arrived quite safely and the taste you have shows in selecting the shawls for us all is quite wonderful. I had no idea that you knew so well what color to select as appropriate. Miss Trowbridge has carried her shawl from one end of the avenue to the other to exhibit it as she said it was so warm that she could no wear it at present, and she could not wait she was so anxious to show it, so every friend & acquaintance she has, has had a peep at it. She is as tickled as a child with a new plaything. The color of mine is exquisite, and so is the embroidery and the crimson ones you sent the children are perfectly gorgeous. I never saw anything more beautiful. They are enchanted with them. The nice paintings are very beautiful also. You was not wrong in supposing that I would appreciate them, for they have been quite a study for me ever since I received them. All of us unite in thanking you most sincerely. I think Mama likes the Daguerreotype as well as anything you sent, it is so excellent. I do not think you look any older, for we heard that the war and tear of California life has made you prematurely gray. Still my dear Alexander, we are dreadfully disappointed in hearing from you, that you would certainly stay a year longer in California. Mr. Beady has tried to persuade us it is all for the best, but it is a very, very long time to look forward to. Mama gets very impatient and lonesome sometimes, in thinking of the long distance that intervenes between her and her absent sons. She misses poor Fred sadly. She had a long letter from him yesterday. He finds it very lonesome there, and Henry and his wife have not yet returned. He likes the country very much, but the state I think if he could either take the quarry or enter into any good business here, he would be quite willing to return. Devereux Williams has gone to add to the list of Detroiters in California. He came to see if we had any letters or any package to send, but we could not think of any thing we could send, which you had not already in California, and you have so often told us not to write by private hand that we never think of doing so. I suppose you have heard of the marriage of your friend Mary Steward. She was married in May in Washington. She had a grand wedding according to Mrs. Steward's notions, and she and William Gray are now in Ireland. They took out letters of introduction to a great many grant people in England and France, and expect to enjoy their trip much. They will return in September. Mr. Gray has engaged a house opposite to Mr. Trowbridge's so Kate will enjoy herself much when they return. Mr. Macomb and Nannie are settled down quietly at housekeeping in her[?] M's house on Congress Street, next to Dr. Pitcher's. I think Nannie will make a very nice housekeeper. What is William Rodgers doing now? Is he in San Francisco? If you see or hear of him let us know occasionally, for Nannie always asks us when we receive a letter from you. Detroit has been unusually gay this summer. There have been a number of strangers here already, and many more are expected. Mrs. Elbert's mother and their sisters are here spending the summer. I do note think Emily is as pretty as she was, her sister Mary looks exceedingly well, not a day older than when she was here last. Not one of them is so pretty as Mrs. Coxe[?]. I suppose you have heard of John Stuart's marriage top a niece of Mr. Jo. Clarke, who spent the winter with them. She is not all pretty, but is quite intelligent and agreeable. The worst of it is that John was ordered off to the West Indies only a month after his marriage. Of Course she feels dolefully enough. Mr. Tillman is married again to a Miss Conant of Monroe. Henry Rucker has been married these two months to Miss Curtis, Col. Whistler's niece. Miss Louise Whistler flourished about here as usual. She is not much admired or respected however. No other marriages have taken place that I can remember. Simon Mandelbaum is here now, he arrived yesterday and will return immediately to Lake Superior. I have not seen him. I suppose you will receive letters from him by this steamer. Miss. Benson has been here for a month or six weeks. Report says that she and Alpheus Williams will make a match, but I do not know. He must hurry if he wants her, for she intends returning to New York in a week or so. Mary sends her love to you, and says she will not write to thank you for her shawl by this steamer as some letters should be reserved for the next as you will probably receive several at the same time with this, I know you hate crossed letters so it does[?] not go on, or I could write for some time yet. I have told you all the news however so you will not miss much. I hope you will continue as good a correspondent as you have been herefore. We look forward very anxiously to the arrival of each steamer. You must make haste and get rich, so as to be able to come home and get married. You are getting quite old enough, and we do not want you to marry in California as there can't be much choice. All the family are well and send their love. Mama cont[...] about as well as usual. Your affectionate Sister Sarah A. Sibley.
- Date Issued:
- 1850-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting fountains in Owen Park, with a pedestrian and building in the far background. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked May 21, 1909.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Program for Detroit Opera House performance of "Mr. Henry Miller" beginning October 31, 1898; listings for performances of "The Master," and "Heartsease" are also included; Front cover features a color illustration of Detroit Opera House facade; illustration housed in a decorative gold setting of acanthus leaves sitting in front of a Corinthian column; "Detroit Opera House" in green, black, and gold lettering; C.J. Whitney, proprietor"
- Date Issued:
- 1898-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One postcard with a black and white head and shoulders photographic image of a young man in a World War I Army uniform. Handwritten black ink text on the verso shows "1st Lieut. R. L. Williams, Officers' Relief Corps, Fort Hancock, New Jersey." The accompanying envelope is addressed in handwritten black ink text that shows "Miss Margaret C. Maybury, Tampa, Florida, % Tampa Electric Co." The postmark is dated "Jan. 25, 1914."
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One pencil drawing (Sheet 7 of 20) showing a cutaway rear end view of the driver's seat area and an exterior rear end view of the "Biautogo" motorcycle. The drawing shows design notes and component labels. It is signed "Rome, 3/27/12, JSB [James Scripps Booth]" near the center left edge.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photograph, mounted on board, of the Parke Davis and Company Laboratory and an overpass at the intersection of Guoin and Joseph Campau. Detroit Manufacturers Railroad tracks are visible in the foreground of the image, with a boxcar in the background. Printed on the recto, "June 6th, 1901." Written in script on the verso, "June 6th 1901, Joseph D. Cutchers, Guion St East of Jos. Campau."
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sheet music for the song "Moonlight Bay", words by Edward Madden, music by Percy Wenrich, published by Jerome H. Remick & Co. Cover illustration by Starmer.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Handwritten Letter to John J. Bagley from Thomas Nast, dated June 1st, 1885, regarding a portrait Nast did of Bagley: Morristown, N.J. June 1st, 1885 Mr. John H. Bagley Dear Sir, I sent with the etchings for you, a duplicate set for your mother. At least, I meant to, or have I made a mistake? Your letter which I have just received after an absence of two weeks, has reminded me, that I have not heard from hers, and so I write to ask. Yours very truly Th: Nast."
- Date Issued:
- 1885-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Political handbill, printed on cardstock, promoting the election of Tom Evoy, a labor candidate on the Republican ticket for alderman of the 16th Ward. The recto is printed with a photo of Evoy, as well as a passage about his background as President of local union No. 24. The verso is printed with dates for registration, the caucuses, and the election, as well as a map of the new voting districts of the 16th Ward, extending from the city limits to the Detroit River between Livernois Avenue and Artillery Avenue on the west and McKinstry Avenue and 29th Street on the east.
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
