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- Description:
- Color postcard depicting a black and white image of the Skating Pavilion on Belle Isle, with Lake Takoma in the foreground. The image is surrounded by a border simulating a wood frame. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Mar 9, 1909.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting a view of Monroe Street, facing north from Campus Martius. In view are the Temple Theatre, Elks Temple, and signs reading "Wonderland, Vaudeville" and "P&B". Printed on verso: Monroe Avenue is one of the many busy thoroughfares starting from the Campus Martius, the business center of the city. This view shows the Temple Theatre in the foreground and the Elks' Temple to the right. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Nov 15, 1911.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Postcard. Color postcard showing view of the Ford Building from the corner of Griswold and W Congress Streets, with pedestrians and streetcars. Printed on verso: THE FORD BUILDING, Griswold and Congress streets, is the largest office building in Michigan. It is 19 stories in height, towers 275 feet above the street level, contains 559 offices and cost Edward Ford of Toledo, its owner, $1,500,000. Its entire front is enamel terra cotta and it is considered a model of beautiful architecture. Handwritten message on verso. Postmarked July 18, 1910.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white postcard depicting an elevated view of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Wyandotte. Handwritten message on recto, postmarked Sep 11, 1907.
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting a crowd gathered for a concert at the Band Stand on a bridge over a canal on Belle Isle. People are seated along the shore and many canoes fill the canal. Printed on verso: Canal Scene, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich. Canoeing is the leading sport at Belle Isle. Its 702 acres are covered by many miles of Canals and Lakes. When Free Band Concerts are in progress during the summer months, hundreds of canoes dot the different canals and make a pretty sight. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Apr 11, 1923.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white postcard depicting Edgar's Sugar House from the corner of W Lafayette Boulevard and 12th Street. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Oct 4, 1908.
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Detroit Opera House at Campus Martius, with the Merrill Fountain and bust of John J. Bagley in the foreground. Signs read "Michigan Central Lake Shore Ticket Office", "Union Ticket Office", and "Wright, Kay & Co." Postmarked Jul 25, 1909.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting a man holding a cage near a group of alligators in an enclosure on Belle Isle. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Aug 14, 1908.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One postcard with a sepia-toned photographic image of the Grand Circus Park area of downtown Detroit. The postcard shows an elevated view of Grand Circus Park as seen from the Y.M.C.A. Building. Prominent buildings are visible in the background and are identified in small white printed text along the bottom of the postcard. These include the Whitney Building, Hotel Statler, Hotel Tuller, and the Kresge Building. Additional small white printed text in the lower right corner of the card reads "© '14 by C. R. Messinger." A black ink stamp on the verso shows a postmark of "Sep. 3, 1914."
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Y.M.C.A. Building on the corner of Washington Boulevard and Clifford Street.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
