Housewives League of Detroit
125 items
- Description:
- View of a name tag with ribbon for the Housewives League Institute. Typed on front: "Housewives' League Institute, Jan. 18-19, 1949. Name. Unit."
- Date Issued:
- 1949-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- View of a flyer for Parker House Sausage Week. Printed on front: "Parker House Sausage Week, celebrating our 30th anniversary. February 27th - March 6th, 1949. Special sale prices on all Parker House products. Available at neighborhood stores, super markets, chain stores. Ask for it by name. Parker House, 4801 W. Warren, TY. 8-3848."
- Date Issued:
- 1949-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Housewives League bulletin / Housewives League of Detroit.
v. 1, no. 8, May-June, 1948
- Date Issued:
- 1948-05-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Housewives League bulletin / Housewives League of Detroit.
v. 1, no. 2, March-April, 1947
- Date Issued:
- 1947-03-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- View of the exterior of Lester's Market. The building has an awning imprinted with "Lester's Shopping Center." There are fruits displayed in the window, and fruits and vegetables outside the entrance to the store. A young boy is standing in the entrance to the store. A young girl and man are walking down the street in opposite directions. A woman is walking up the intersected street, and is partly obscured by the young girl's figure. Cars are parked along the curb of the tree-lined street to the right of the image.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Pledge card from the Housewives League of Detroit. Printed on front: "My pledge. I will join the Housewives League Concentrated Spending Group during the trade campaign. I will support business and professional people listed on the Annual Trade Campaign literature. Name [blank], address [blank], telephone [blank], occupation [blank]." Printed on back: "Compliments of Malloy's Shoe Service. Temple 1-4421, 3409 Hastings and Brinkley's Printing Company, Townsend 6-6383."
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Trade week guide / Housewives League of Detroit.
Special edition no. 3, November 9-18, 1942
- Date Issued:
- 1942-11-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Souvenir program : eighth annual trade exhibit : June 6 to 12, 1938, Forest Club, Hastings and Forest : business and professional directory / sponsored by Booker T. Washington Trade Association.
Title from cover.
Includes history of the Association and Housewives League of Detroit, advertisements and business directory arranged by type of business.
- Date Issued:
- 1938-06-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Housewives League bulletin / Housewives League of Detroit.
v. 1, August-September, 1949
- Date Issued:
- 1949-08-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- View of Mammoth Show of Negro Business Exhibits flyer presented by the Housewives League of Detroit. Printed on front: "Come to the show! See Negro business in action on the screen. It's new!! It's different!! The Housewives League of Detroit is presenting a Mammoth Show of Negro Business Exhibits, Feb. 9th, 1954, at 275 E. Ferry (formerly Craftsmen Hall). Prizes! Prizes! Prizes! Prizes! See these beautiful prizes on display at Gordy's Printing Shop, 5135 St. Antoine; Avenue Flower Shop, 4215 Hastings; Malloy Shoe Shop Service, 3409 Hastings; Guarantee Electric Co., 5531 W. Warren; Morrison Drug Store, 5559 Beaubien Street. Pick up tickets at these places, which entitle you to these beautiful door prizes to be given away at the show. Come! Bring the whole family. Refreshments! See preview of youth on parade." Includes list of sponsors.
- Date Issued:
- 1954-02-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Program for the 30th anniversary of the Housewives League of Detroit. Printed on front: "1930, 1960. 30th anniversary of Housewives League of Detroit. Celebration, Sunday, June 12, 1960. Northern Recreation Center, Woodward and Holbrook. Success, build, boost, buy. Housewives League of Detroit." Includes list of past presidents, declaration of principles, rally song, advertisements and portraits of founders and chairpersons.
- Date Issued:
- 1960-06-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Group portrait of members of National Housewives League posing in front of Lucy Thurman YWCA building during emergency convention in Detroit, Michigan. Label on back: "These delegates and friends were among the many who attended the emergency convention of the National Housewives League in Detroit on July 24 an 25 at Lucy Thurman YWCA. In the picture, left to right, front row, standing, are: Master Smith, Mrs. Mary Turner, of Boston; Mrs. Gertrude Tolbert, Detroit; Mrs. Lucy Winslett, Oklahaoma City, Okla.; Mrs. Sallie Anderson, Birmingham, Ala.; Mrs. Estelle Crosby, Boston, Mass.; Mrs. J.D. Jackson, Durham, N.C.; Mrs. Kitty Hall, St. Louis, Mo.; Roscoe Dungee, president National Negro Business league, Oklahoma City; Mrs. Christine Fuqua, national president; Carlton W. Gaines, Detroit; Mrs. L. Buckner, Baltimore; extreme end: John Smith, his daughter and grandson. In second row, standing in center, L.C. Blount, president of Booker T. Washington Trade association, Detroit. In the background are shown other officers and delegates of the league. The meeting was acclaimed a success."
- Date Issued:
- 1945-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Souvenir program for the 1948 Business Exhibit sponsored by the Booker T. Washington Trade Association. Printed on front: "Business Exhibit. 9 great days, September 11-19, 1948. Sponsored by Booker T. Washington Trade Association, Convention Hall, Detroit 1, Michigan." Includes statement of purpose, portraits, advertisements and greetings from the mayor, Detroit Common Council and Progressive Civic League of Detroit.
- Date Issued:
- 1948-09-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Trade week guide / Housewives League of Detroit.
April, 1947
- Date Issued:
- 1947-04-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Program for the First Educational Banquet of the Northwest Branch of the Booker T. Washington Trade Association. Printed on front: "First Educational Banquet. Thursday, June 12, 1941, 8:00 p.m. Sponsored by Northwest Branch, Booker T. Washington Trade Association." Includes advertisements.
- Date Issued:
- 1941-06-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Membership card for the Housewives League of Detroit. Printed on front: "Detroit Housewives League. Auxiliary of the Booker T. Washington Trade Association. Membership in [blank] branch. The League is an organization of Negro women formed fo the purpose of increasing trade with Negro business and professional men and women of Detroit. To better inform ourselves on prices of merchandise, family budget, etc. There is no financial obligation, no dues, no assessments. A belief in the future of Negro business and a desire to assist in every way by patronizing and encouraging the same is all tha tis necessary to become a member. Name [blank], address [blank], phone [blank]. Fannie B. Peck, Pres., Eva R. Jackson, Chr. Membership."
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- View of a declaration for National Fannie B. Peck Day on May 18, 1948, signed by the president of the National Housewives League of America, Christina M. Fuqua. Includes inset portrait of Fannie B. Peck.
- Date Issued:
- 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Group portrait of seventeen members of the Housewives League of Detroit; Nannie Black (seated fourth from left); Fannie Peck (seated fifth from left) served as presidents of the Housewives League of Detroit. The women are wearing dresses and suits. Printed on front: "Theus Photo Service, 4680 Hastings, Detroit."
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- Article regarding the history and purpose of the Housewives League of Detroit by Fannie B. Peck.
- Date Issued:
- 1934-05-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Description:
- View of members of the Housewives League of Detroit. Each woman is wearing a decorative hat; several have corsages. Banner in foreground reads: "Housewives League, Detroit, Mich." Embossed in the lower right corner: "Modernistic Studio, 3134 Hastings, Detroit." Handwritten on back: "1. Helen Malloy, 2. [blank]; 4. Rosa Gragg, 5. Fannie B. Peck, Violet Lewis, Christine Fuqua."
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Public Library
- Collection:
- Burton Historical Collection