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- Description:
- Invoice from R. W. King & Co. to Mrs. Trowbridge, for $7.00, dated December 13, 1856. The invoice is printed in black text with red lines and columns on white paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1856-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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, attributed to "Chas. Shields Sons 20 & 22 Gold St N.Y," depicts a trio of yelling young boys on a sled as they are about to collide with a scowling man holding a basket on top of his head with his right arm and another basket, full of eggs, on his left arm. The phrase "Buy Garland Stoves and Ranges" is printed on the top left of the recto. On the verso is an early Garland Stoves and Ranges logo with a stamp below it that reads "Sold by Toepel Bros, 180 Gratiot Ave".
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Ferry-Morse Seed Company pamphlet titled "Make the MOST of your Vegetable Garden", printed by Evans-Winter-Hebb Incorporated, Detroit; picture of a women in a pink blouse with a straw hat holding corn on front, with other plants around; folds out, with instructions for "How to Thin the Garden Row", "How to Take Care or Your Garden" and "How to Transplant Seedlings; accompanied by black and white photographs, with green highlighted plants; when completely unfolded "Ferry's Home Garden "How-and-When" Chart" is shown, listing different vegetables with instructions for planting and care; copyrighted 1943
- Date Issued:
- 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Dinner menu from the Russell House consisting of a page of beige paper glued within a half-folded green cover, dated Monday October 12, 1903. A blue half-tone photograph of a young girl posed doing laundry in a small basin, beside a baby carriage, is on the cover, above the caption, "Seven Days in the Life of a Very Busy Little Girl, Monday." Within one page serves as a program for the night's performance by the Russell House Orchestra under the direction of H. Jacobson. The other page lists meal options, as well as a list suggesting "Amusements Tonight." Mary Mannering is listed as performing at the Detroit Opera House. Miss Eugene Blair is at the Lyceum Theatre. "High Class Vaudeville" is available at both the Temple Theatre and the Avenue Theatre.
- Date Issued:
- 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Receipt, printed by the Calvert Lithographing Company, from the City Treasurer's Office to H. Hunt for $7.75 for property taxes on land on Gratiot Avenue, stamped May 31, 1904.
- Date Issued:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One advertisement post for the Detroit Post and Tribune newspaper. The poster is printed in red, black, and blue text on a white background and advertises various subscription rates for the newspaper. A map of Michigan is also shown along with population statistics for 1840-1880. Text along the bottom of the poster advertises "A $14 Plow Given Away" in exchange for new subscriptions.
- Date Issued:
- 1882-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One advertisement poster for D.M. Ferry & Company. The poster has a color drawing of a heart and wooden seed box that is surrounded by flowers. Blue printed text shows the slogan, "Nothing Is Perfect, But Our Seeds are Within an Ace of It." Small printed text in the lower right corner shows "Copyrighted 1900 by D.M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich." The poster was printed by J. Ottmann Lithograph Company of New York.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "Rambler" model stoves. On the recto is an illustration, credited to the Detroit Engraving Company, of a Rambler stove and text advertising that it is "For Any Type of Coal or Wood" and has a "very handsome design, with shaking and dumping grate, swing hearth and front feed, and [is] intended to meet the want for a lower priced coal and wood stove."
- Date Issued:
- 1872-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog; front cover has an illustration of a brazier in the middle; "1918 Seeds in Bulk Wholesale Trade List for Merchants Only" at top, with "Offered By D. M. Ferry & Co. Seedsmen Detroit - Michigan" at bottom; back cover has an illustration of celery, with "Wholesale Price List of Seeds in Bulk 1918" above the picture and "Celery Golden Yellow Self Blanching, Our stock of this variety has been very carefully grown and selected. It is the very best obtainable. D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich." under picture; inside are descriptions of various plants and flowers along with prices; black and white photos
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Typewritten letter from P.A. Hinds, Secretary and Treasurer of the Peninsular Electric Light Company to Mrs. A.W. Comstock, dated December 13, 1893, concerning a partially paid bill. The letter is on Peninsular Electric Light Company letterhead, printed by the Calvert Lithographing Company.
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
