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- Description:
- Booklet containing the Ninth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Parks and Boulevards to the Common Council of the City of Detroit from July 1, 1897 to June 30, 1898. The report contains information concerning the physical and financial states of various Detroit parks, including Belle Isle, Clark Park, Palmer Park, and Grand Circus Park, in addition to photographs and illustrations of scenes from various parks. This particular copy contains an insert affixed to the title page reading "To David Parsons: Compliments of... Edw. C. Van Lewyen. Commissioner."
- Date Issued:
- 1898-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services
- Description:
- Ledger. A ledger book, presumably maintained by the Public Lighting Commission which recorded issues reported with streetlights, maintained from November 1, 1913 to December 14, 1913. The columns appear to record the date, the location of the light, who made the report, a pair of unclear abbreviations, a pair of times, the issue with the light, a name (generally Saunders, occasionally Jones), and when and how they were fixed. The reoccurring entries for the source of the report are "patrol," "police," "citizen," and "lady."
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services
- Description:
- One booklet entitled "Annual Report of the Controller of the City Detroit for the Fiscal Year Ending January 31, 1873." The report is bound in black leather and has the title stamped in gold-colored lettering on the front cover. It is printed in black text on white paper and contains 155 pages that list the various accounts, account balances, and expenditures of the city for the previous year. An index is included in the front of the report along with a list of council member, city officers, commissioners, and inspectors. The inside front page has an embossed stamp that shows "Richmond & Backus, Stationers, Detroit, Mich."
- Date Issued:
- 1873-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services
- Description:
- Booklet (2 copies). The Fourth Annual Report of the Public Lighting Commission of the City of Detroit, Michigan, a 70 page booklet. Within are charts, and graphs detailing the operations of the Public Lighting Commission for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899. Also included are photographic plates depicting a the exterior of the office and station buildings, generator room, a boiler room, details of streetlight fixtures, a moonlight tower, a crane light, a center suspension light, a post light, and plans of the public lighting station.
- Date Issued:
- 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services
- Description:
- One map entitled "Public Lighting Commission, Locations of Street Lights." The map is printed in black ink on thin vellum paper and shows the locations of single pole lights and tower lights throughout the city. Streets, street names, railroad lines, and ward boundary lines are also shown. The map was "Lithographed & Published by the Calvert Lith. & Eng. Co., Detroit" and is dated 1897.
- Date Issued:
- 1897-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services
- Description:
- Booklet entitled, "The Detroit Edison Synchroscope," vol. 8, no. 1, March, 1921; 28 pages, softcover (employee newsletter of the Detroit Edison Company). Outside cover is pale yellow with black text. Inside pages are printed in black text with black and white photos.
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services
- Description:
- Booklet. The Fourteenth Annual Report of the Public Lighting Commission of the City of Detroit, Michigan, an 86 page booklet. Within are charts, and graphs detailing the operations of the Public Lighting Commission for the fiscal year spanning from July 1, 1908 to June 30, 1909. Also included are a fold-out plan of proposed improvements to the Public Lighting Plant on Atwater Street, pictures and floor plans of substations, and the Belle Isle and Palmer Park transformer houses.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services
- Description:
- Booklet. The Twentieth Annual Report of the Public Lighting Commission of the City of Detroit, Michigan, an 82 page booklet. Within are charts, and graphs detailing the operations of the Public Lighting Commission for the fiscal year spanning from July 1, 1914 to June 30, 1915. Also included are a fold-out plan of the Public Lighting Plant on Atwater Street, which omits the proposed storefront space, a picture of McGraw Avenue east of Grand River well lit at midnight, and a fold-out chart of expenses from 1901 to 1915.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services
- Description:
- Booklet (2 copies). The Eleventh Annual Report of the Public Lighting Commission of the City of Detroit, Michigan, an 86 page booklet. Within are charts, and graphs detailing the operations of the Public Lighting Commission for the fiscal year spanning from July 1, 1905 to June 30, 1906. Also included are photographic plates depicting the Public Lighting Commissioners, streetlights, tunnels, and facilities of the Public Lighting Commission.
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services
- Description:
- One City of Detroit tax bill issued to A. Tyrkus [Tyrkos] and I. Tyrkus [Tyrkos] of Gallagher Street (Lot 336). The bill was printed in black text on white paper and has a decorative engraved letterhead design at the top. Handwritten black ink text shows the name of the property owner, address, property identification numbers, and tax amount of $11.70. Several blue and black ink stamps are shown in the lower portion of the bill.
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services