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- Description:
- Envelope, pre-printed with the return address of Herbert L. Baker's Law Office, at 70 Griswold Street, addressed to James E. Scripps, Esquire, of 598 Trumbull Avenue. The envelope is canceled July, 23, 1886, and bears a brown George Washington 2¢ stamp. The envelope has been torn on three sides, and the inside has been used to record handwritten notes about the founding of the Dominican monks.
- Date Issued:
- 1886-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Framed invitation from the Detroit Light Guard to a Governor's Levee and Military Soirée, held February 12, 1885 at the Princess Rink in honor of Governor Russell A. Alger. It features a lithograph of a uniformed soldier standing beside the text, printed as though on a large seal, and an image of soldiers drilling at camp above. The invitation is framed in white matte board.
- Date Issued:
- 1885-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Half-folded handwritten letter and envelope sent by Hazel Hope Pingree on behalf of her mother Frances Pingree to Mrs. Emma Stark Hampton of 970 Woodward Avenue thanking her for the roses she sent in condolence for Hazen S. Pingree, postmarked July 30, 1901. Both the letter and the envelope are on black-bordered paper indicating mourning. The note reads: My dear Mrs. Hampton, Mother wishes me to write and express to you our grateful appreciation of the beautiful roses which you so thoughtfully sent her, during the sad days of waiting. Yours most sincerely, Hazel Hope Pingree.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Receipt for taxes paid by Antoine Morass in the amount of eleven shillings and zero pence, signed by the collector of the taxes, Thomas Crosswell, and dated 1843.
- Date Issued:
- 1843-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Proclamation, printed on paper and mounted on linen, appointing Russell A. Alger to the position of Lieutenant Colonel in the sixth regiment of the Michigan Cavalry Volunteers in 1862, signed by Michigan Governor Austin Blair, Deputy Secretary of State George H. Honse, and Adjutant General John Robertson. The text of the document is as follows: "To all who shall see these Presents, Greeting: Know Ye, That, reposing special trust and confidence in the Patriotism, Valor, Ability and Fidelity of Russell A. Alger in the name and by the authority of the People of the State of Michigan, I do hereby appoint him Lieutenant Colonel in the Sixth Regiment, Michigan Cavalry Volunteers, to rank as such from the sixteenth day of October 1862. He is therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duties of such office by doing and performing all things thereunto belonging. And I do strictly charge and Require all Officers and Soldiers under his command to be obedient to his orders. And he is to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as he shall receive from the President of the United States of America, from the Governor of the State of Michigan, or the General or other Superior Officers set over him, according to the rules and discipline of War. This commission to continue in force during the pleasure of the Governor of the State of Michigan, for the time being. In Testimony Whereof, I have caused these Letters to be made patent, and the Great Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand, at Lansing, this Sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty two and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty seventh. By the Governor: Austin Blair George H. Honse Dep Secretary of State. Jno. Robertson Adjutant General."
- Date Issued:
- 1862-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Handwritten note from Percy Ives to Mrs. Emil Solomon Heineman (Fanny Butzel), dated February 1896, regarding the date of a portrait he painted of Emil Solomon Heineman in 1877. The note reads: Dear Madam At the reception of Mrs. McGraw you asked me the date of the portrait of Mr. Heineman. I find that the portrait was commissioned on Oct. 21 1877 and that it was finished in Dec. of the same year. Yours very sincerely, Percy Ives
- Date Issued:
- 1896-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Clack bound funeral book for Ellen Hull Leland (1846-1914). The book has a purple velvet pastedown. The book contains an introductory note by John Brittain Clark, D.D., followed by selections of Scripture as a tribute to Leland.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Soft cover booklet containing a transcript of eulogies for the late Zachariah Chandler, delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday, January 28, 1880.
- Date Issued:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Left half of a stereoscopic card bearing a single sepia-toned photo of the corner of the home of Edward C. Walker, as viewed through a row of bushes. Part of a label identifying the card as part of Jex Bardwell's series of "Photographic Sketches in and about the City of Detroit" is adhered to the verso. "Donaldson," and Walker's House." are handwritten on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1870-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Autographed sepia toned seated portrait photograph of Hazen S. Pingree. He is in a wooden chair beside a small table, wearing a dark suit and holding pince nez glasses in right hand, his left hand sitting on the chair's arm rest. Pingree has a mustache and goatee but is almost bald. He is looking to the right of the camera. His signature is in the bottom right corner.
- Date Issued:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
