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- Description:
- Color booklet from The Evening News, The Detroit Tribune, and The Sunday News Tribune, containing a poem, "A Happy New Year," written by Thad. Stevens Barnum. The front cover features a color illustration depicting the start of the new year, with an angelic figure and a background of an evening sky featuring a moon and two owls on the left, and Father Time and a background featuring the sun on the right. Text on the bottom left of the front cover reads "The Calvert Lith. Co. Detroit." The back cover features a color illustration of two boys selling copies of The Evening News with the title "INTRUSION." underneath the illustration in the center. The inside of the booklet contains the seven stanza poem written across four pages. Each page has a background depicting various scenes, including a newspaper salesman, a family sitting in front of a fire, a ballroom dance, and a horse drawn sleigh. The drawings are signed "Jos. Kraemer" on the bottom left.
- Date Issued:
- 1897-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One business card. The card is printed in black ink on heavy white paper with decorative script text that shows "Mabley the Clothier, 126 Woodward Ave., Detroit." A monogram with the initials, "MRC," is shown in the upper left corner of the card. The name of the store salesman, "H. Kleinhans," is shown in the lower left corner. This card was contained in the lead box time capsule that was removed from the Old City Hall on May 25, 1961.
- Date Issued:
- 1874-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "Globe Heater" model heating stoves. On the recto is an illustration, credited to A. Picard of Troy, New York, of a Globe Heater stove and text advertising that it is "For any kind of Coal, with Horizontal Moving and Dumping Grate" and that it is "Patented 1869."
- Date Issued:
- 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Trade card from the Michigan Stove Company advertising Garland Stoves and Ranges. A lithograph on the recto, credited to Chas. Shields' Sons, 22 & 22 Gold St., N.Y, depicts two dogs with their paws on a bassinet containing a baby. An early Michigan Stove Company logo, with the tagline "Superior to All Others," is on the verso.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- People's State Bank savings deposit book #262783. The cover is tan and is made of cloth-covered cardboard. The cover also has text that is printed in black ink along with an engraved drawing of the bank building. Interior pages are printed in black text on white paper. Lines and columns are printed in light blue and red ink. Deposit entries are handwritten on two pages from February,1913, until the account was closed in September, 1927. The initials, "J.F.," are handwritten in the upper left corner of the first account entry page, but the full name of the account holder is not shown. Bank regulations are printed in the back in German fraktur text (presumably for the benefit of the German-speaking bank customers).
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One receipt, dated June 2, 1869, issued by the "United States Internal Revenue, Collector's Office." It was printed in black text on white paper and indicated that Richmond & Backus Company paid $9.77 for excise tax on "Wholesale dea[ler] sales" for the month of April, 1869. The receipt, No. 195, was signed by "W. W. Brewster, Dept. Collector."
- Date Issued:
- 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Letter from P. W. Norris of the Norris, Perkins & Co. Real Estate Office to James B. Jermain of Albany, New York, dated December 4, 1871. The company letterhead is printed in black ink on white paper. The message is handwritten in dark brown ink.
- Date Issued:
- 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Handwritten letter dated May 13, 1874, from Peninsular Iron Co. of Detroit, Michigan, to T. H. Eaton & Son concerning a stock dividend payment. The paper is printed with light blue lines and the company letterhead.
- Date Issued:
- 1874-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Uncashed payroll check #11448 (payable at the People's State Bank) from the Grand Laundry to Albert H. Moone for $15.00, dated February 26, 1916, and signed by A. J. Crawford, President. The check shows an engraved image of the Grand Laundry building in the upper left corner.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Bill (carbon copy) from O'Brien & Company for items sold to C. L. Brumme in the amount of $3.00, dated July 17, 1916. The form is printed in red text on slightly yellowed paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
