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- D. M. Ferry and Company order acknowledgment postcard mailed to F. R. Jennings, Tidioute, Pennsylvania for order number order number 03357, a bulk order of seeds made on August 4, 1913; card states order will shipped "in due season"; front of card has postmark "Detroit, Mich., Aug 19, 3:30 PM, 1913" along with one cent McKinley postage card stamp
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- 1897 D.M. Ferry and Company catalog, printed by John Bornman with illustrations by the Calvert Lithograph Company, containing images and descriptions of both plants available as seeds through the company as well as farming tools. A colorful bouquet of flowers against a white background is on the front cover. The back bares an image of the D.M. Ferry Seed Warehouses and Box Factory facing each other across Brush Street.
- Date Issued:
- 1897-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One legal judgment, dated August 14, 1919, "No. 69668, Decree Quieting Title," issued by the Circuit Court for the County of Wayne in Chancery. The document consists of three pages of black typewritten text on white paper. The Circuit Judge, Arthur Webster, ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and stated that the sale of land by the plaintiffs to the Woodhouse Land Company was legal and that the defendants had no right, title, or interest in the property. The three pages were bound together in a legal-style, light blue paper binder which has two brass grommet at the top edge. Typewritten text on the outside of the binder reads "Decree Quieting Title" and printed text that shows "Wurzer & Wurzer, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Majestic Building, Detroit, Michigan" handled the case for the plaintiffs. A blue ink stamp indicated that the judgment had been recorded in Liber 1366, Page 78 at the Register of Deeds Office, Wayne County.
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "Morning and Evening Star " model cooking stoves. On the recto is an illustration of a Morning and Evening Star stove, credited to A. Picard of Troy, New York, and text advertising that it has a "shaking and dump grate" and "burns hard coal, coke or wood perfectly."
- Date Issued:
- 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Advertisement for cigars offered by M. Walsh & Company. The advertisement is printed in the style of a $50 bill which states, "Deliver to the People of the United States - Or To Their Order - One Mille Cigars for One Hundred Dollars," #98763, dated October 15, 1865. Text and designs are printed in black, red, and green ink on slightly yellowed paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1865-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Catalog from the Detroit Stove Works bound in a dark blue cover. Faded text on the cover reads "Catalogue of Stoves; Hollow Ware, &c; Manufactured by the Detroit Stove Works, Detroit, Mich.; ----- ----- -----; 15 and 17 Woodbridge St., West; Corner of Griswold; Foundry Mt. Elliott Avenue, Hamtramck, near U.S. Marine Hospital." Printing of the catalog is attributed to the Tribune Book and Job Printing Company. Contained within it are prices, images, measurements and advertising information for Detroit Stove Works stoves and ranges, as well as accessories for them, from 1868.
- Date Issued:
- 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company account statement for Smith Bd[?] of Sedgwick, Maine, dated June 1, 1904. In the ledger section $2.93 is listed next to January 12. A "paid" stamp dated June 8, 1904 and signed C.H.R. has been applied.
- Date Issued:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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 dog swinging a basket, containing a baby, that is suspended from a tree. An early Garland Stoves and Ranges logo is printed on the verso.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Bill of sale, dated October 28th, 1904, from the Peninsular Stove Company, documenting the sale of coal to Mr. L.J. Rahler of Walnut Creek, Ohio. At the top of the bill is an image of the Peninsular Stove Company's logo and a stylized depiction of the company's name.
- Date Issued:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Jewett and Sherman Company bill of lading for eighty barrels of mustard, one-hundred four boxes of honey, and two casks of olives shipped to the E.J. Dossin Company on July 13, 1923 via the Universal Steamship Company. The document is stamped as received by Universal on July 13, 1923. Contract terms are printed on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
