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- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "Alaska Cottage Improved" model stoves. On the recto is an illustration, credited to A. Picard of Troy, New York, of an Alaska Cottage Improved stove and text advertising that it has a "Pipe Top, With Pan and Swing Top Cover" among other improvements over the original Alaska Cottage model.
- Date Issued:
- 1870-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- J.L. Hudson Company invoice for a $12.00 purchase of six shirts, by Theodore H. Eaton, dated December 1, 1883. The invoice is stamped "paid."
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Bill of sale, dated April 25th, 1904, from the Detroit Vapor Stove Company, documenting the sale of a stove to Ashland Hardware & Furniture of Ashland, Illinois. At the top of the bill is a diagram of the vapor burner and valve of a Detroit Vapor Stove Company stove.
- Date Issued:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Letter on D. M. Ferry and Company letter head, no image, with company executives listed; to the Exchange Bank, Bloomfield, IA.; reads: "Gentlemen:- If our sight draft #4549 on Eberline Kneedler, of Belknap, IA, for $8.52 sent you Oct. 11th has not been paid by the time this letter reaches you kindly return it to us at once, and oblige Yours truly, D. M. Ferry and Co.; handwritten not to call Eberline; follow-up handwritten not dated 12/14/12 stating Eberline was called; Dated Dec. 12th, 1912
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Pocket-sized notebook containing a fourteen page catalog of dry goods sold by Edson, Moore and Company, located at 188, 190, and 192 Jefferson Avenue. Handwritten notes have been made beside several of the items listed in the catalog. The booklet also includes a calendar for 1880, a fold-out map of Detroit, with Edson, Moore and Company's location marked, and a page of postage information. The portion of the booklet containing lined pages for notes has been left blank. The booklet is bound in a brown cover printed in gold with an advertisement for Edson, Moore and Company on the front cover, featuring a figure in Japanese-inspired garb holding a parasol and fan at the foot of a flight of stairs.
- Date Issued:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One booklet entitled, "Round the World with the Sun," which was an advertisement for watches and clocks made by the Waterbury Clock Company. The cover is printed in gold and dark green on a light green background. The 8 interior pages have short stories printed in black text on white paper along with color drawings. A black ink stamp on the verso shows the name of the local dealer, "H. J. Zimmerman, Jeweler, Furniture & Undertaking; Milan, Mich."
- Date Issued:
- 1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- J.M. Smucker Company invoice for $94.79 for Smucker's apple butter sold to the E.J. Dossin Company on April 30, 1923, and shipped from Milwaukee to Detroit via the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company. Several deductions have been made in pen from the initial total.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Half-folded luncheon menu from the Hotel Pontchartrain, dated Saturday, October 20, 1917. A disclaimer on the cover cautions that the management declines responsibility to damage to clothing caused by accidents in the dining room. A note about the departure times for the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company's passenger steamers from the Third Avenue Dock to Cleveland and Buffalo is included within.
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One letter, dated October 3, 1868, from John Hutchins, ---- clerk, to the Richmond & Backus Company of Detroit. It was handwritten in black ink on white paper with light blue horizontal lines and red column lines. The letter summarized four accounts which indicated that $143.05 was due to Richmond & Backus.
- Date Issued:
- 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Handwritten letter from the Dexter Woolen Mills of Dexter, Michigan, to T. H. Eaton & Son, dated May 11, 1874. The paper is printed with the Dexter Woolen Mills letterhead and is slightly yellowed with faint blue lines.
- Date Issued:
- 1874-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
