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- Description:
- Trade card from the Detroit Stove Works advertising Jewel Stoves and Ranges. A lithograph, credited to H&B, on the recto depicts two rats, one holding reins while carrying a whip and the other holding a parasol, riding a snail. In the upper left corner of the recto are the words "Jewel Stoves and Ranges; Detroit Stove Works; Detroit, Chicago," and on the bottom of the recto is the card's title: "A slow Coach."
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One copyright registration, "No. 1652 H," dated February 10, 1877, 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:
- 1877-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Universal Steamship Company consignee memo for an order from Valentin Blatz Brewing Company (2014.119.009) shipped from Milwaukee to the E.J. Dossin Company in Detroit, dated July 3, 1923.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Front cover, back cover, and interior color illustration from 1883 D. M. Ferry and Company catalog, printed by the Gulley Printing House, Detroit; front cover shows a circle with a woman in a red and white dress watering flowers outside a window, and flowers surround the circle; "Seed Annual 1883" above the circle with D.M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich. below the circle; back cover shows a circle with a young boy sitting on a watermelon and eating a piece of watermelon with a young girl in a red and white dress standing next to him watching; various vegetables run around the circle; D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich. is just above the circle; both cover images from Calvert Lithograph Company, Detroit; third page is a color picture of various flowers from Cosack & CC Buffalo & Chicago
- Date Issued:
- 1883-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One tax receipt, dated November, 1870, issued by the Wayne County Treasurer's Office in Detroit. It was printed in black text on white paper and indicated that Richmond & Backus Company paid $95.69 for state and county taxes on the "E [east] 26 ft., Lot 3, Sec. 1." The receipt was signed by "James Collins, D. [Deputy] County Treasurer."
- Date Issued:
- 1870-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Tri-fold B. Siegel Company pamphlet advertising stockings as a Christmas present. The cover panel is printed with a green half-tone photo of angel figurines with musical instruments posed atop the sheet music for "Silent Night." Inside, the pamphlet contains prices, brief descriptions, and color options of stockings from Artcraft, Sandra, and Archer. The pamphlet also includes a mail order form.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Announcement from 1880 sent out to retailers by the Michigan Stove Company detailing its reasons for withdrawing its 1879 price list and replacing it with a new one. The recto is printed with two engraved images from J.A. Lowell & Company of Boston of an owl on a post in front of three rocks backed by a doorway leading out into a night sky, and of a peacock atop a stone table in a forest scene. The interior contains text explaining that the 1879 price list was withdrawal due primarily to the "unsettled condition of the market" and increased material costs. An image of the company's trade mark is also contained within. The announcement was printed by the Gulley Printing House of Detroit.
- Date Issued:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One catalog entitled "Edition A [People's Outfitting Co.], 1915." The catalog has a flexible simulated black leather cover with the title embossed in gold-colored lettering. It contains 346 pages of printed text and drawings of various home furnishings that were available for sale by mail. Typical listings included chairs, tables, beds, dressers, rugs, pianos, and stoves. Prices, an example order form, and ordering directions are also shown. An index page is shown near the center of the catalog. Carpet and rug patterns are shown in color.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One tax receipt, dated December, 14, 1871, issued by the Wayne County Treasurer's Office in Detroit. It was printed in black text on white paper and indicated that F. Backus paid $15.19 for state and county taxes on property located at "Mullett Farm, Lot 30" and for "Personal Property." The receipt was signed by "James Collins, Dty. [Deputy] County Treasurer."
- Date Issued:
- 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One receipt dated March 4, 1889, in the amount of $2.00 from Charles W. Cross on the account of T. B. Rayl & Company and collected by the Union Credit Company. The receipt is printed in black ink on stained white paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
