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- One bill of sale from Tuttle & Clark in the amount of $17.45 for harness and riding goods sold to Matthew Calvin of Hollidaysburgh, Pennsylvania, dated July 13, 1900. The bill is printed in blue and red text on yellowed paper and shows a picture of the store front as part of the letterhead. Purchased items are handwritten in black ink.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Menu with envelope from the opening dinner of the Hotel Pontchartrain held on Tuesday, October 29, 1907. The menu is bound with whit ribbon in a heavy white paper cover printed with an embossed image of the hotel's crest on the front. Both the dinner's courses, as well as a reproduction of a menu for a dinner given by Madame la Chancelière for King Louis XIII at the château de Pontchartrain are printed within. The envelope is pale blue with an image of the hotel's crest at the upper left.
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One tax statement entitled "City Taxes 1871 - Richmond & Backus." The report is handwritten in black ink on a sheet of white linen ledger paper that has light red lines and columns. It lists property addresses, wards, and lot numbers along with the amounts of city, school, road, sewer, and police taxes that were due for each property. A receipt statement is located near the middle of the page that states: "Receivers Office, Detroit, July 29, 1871. Received of Richmond & Backus, Thirteen Hundred Seventy Six and 05/100 Dollars amount of general city taxes for the year 1871 on the above described property as returned to this office. $1376.05, Wm. Y. Rumney, Rec. Taxes."
- Date Issued:
- 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Program entitled, "Program of Exercises, Held in Connection With the Third Annual Distribution of Prizes Awarded to the Employees of the Farrand Organ Company." Consists of three heavy paper pages placed between onionskin papers and all bound at the top with a small red ribbon. The cover page shows the event announcement along with a black and white picture of the Farrand Organ Company factory. The second page is a program, and the third page is a blank dance card.
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "New World" model cooking stoves. On the recto is an illustration, credited to William E. Earl of Detroit, of a New World stove and text advertising that it is "Square" with an "Extension Top, and Galvanized Cast Iron Reservoir" and is "the same as our North American, with swing hearth and bailed ash pan."
- Date Issued:
- 1872-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- J.L. Hudson trade card advertising the company's move from the Detroit Opera House building, to their new location at 141, 143, and 145 Woodward Avenue. The recto is printed with a caricature of a man with an over-sized head in Elizabethan dress. He has a goatee and moustache, and wears a ruff, tunic, cape, and tights. He holds a small cap with a feather. "J.L. Hudson, Clothier, Detroit Opera House Building," is printed along the bottom. The verso is printed with the text, "On or about April 1st we will remove to our new stores, 141, 143 &145 Woodward Ave. where we shall be pleased to receive our Friends and Customers. J.L. Hudson." "Selma Beer," is handwritten on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Typewritten letter from James Smith of the Cadillac Paper Company's Wiping Rags Department, on company stationery addressed to the Chippewa Hardware Store in Sault Ste. Marie dated September 14, 1916. Smith offers Chippewa three bales of wiping clothes that are being held by the Michigan Central Railroad Company. The letterhead includes an engraving of the Cadillac Paper Company plant on the corner of East Grand Boulevard and Hastings Street.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Trade card for J. Henry Ling, a salesman for Boardman and Grey Pianos, at 67 Monroe Avenue. A color lithograph of a girl holding an armful of flowers, over which a monarch butterfly hovers, is on the recto. An advertisement for the Boardman and Gray Pianos factory and warehouse in Albany, New York, is on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company color trade card advertising Morning Glories; front has a color picture from Calvert Lithograph Company, Detroit, Mich. of red, white, blue, and pink flowers on a light orange background; states "painted from actual specimens grown on D. M. Ferry & Co. trial grounds;" back has brief information about the Morning Glory, along with varieties of the flower available; copyrighted 1889.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One copyright registration, "No. 95 I," dated January 3, 1878, issued by the "Library of Congress, Copyright Office, Washington." The registration form is printed in black text on white paper and includes blank lines that have been completed in handwritten black ink text. It indicates that a copyright was issued to the Richmond & Backus Company of Detroit for a "Book or Form" which is described in more specific detail in handwritten text. The registration form was signed in the lower right corner by "A. R. [Ainsworth Rand] Spofford, Librarian of Congress." An oval-shaped embossed seal of the Copyright Office is located in the upper left corner of the form.
- Date Issued:
- 1878-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
