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- Catalog booklet for C.R. Mabley's Mammoth Establishment, at 122-134 Woodward Avenue. The booklet bound in a purple paper cover with a lithograph of the exterior of the store on the front. Both C.R. Mabley and J.L. Hudson are listed as the proprietors on the cover. The cover also describes the store as, "The Largest Clothing, Boot and Shoe, Hat and Cap, Gents' Furnishing Goods and Custom Tailoring House in America." The company's Cincinnati location is pictured on the back cover. A history of the store, a directory, profiles of the 1880 Democratic Presidential and Vice Presidential nominees Winfield S. Hancock and William H. English, price lists and illustrations of men's and boys' clothing, and help taking your own measurements are contained within.
- Date Issued:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- 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
- Description:
- L.B. King and Company catalog containing illustrated listings for a white variety of decorative and dinnerware china, as well as candle holders, snuff boxes, pin trays, and art supplies. The catalog is bound in a green paper cover with a linen pattern, and a white and brown illustration of a vase and flowers. L.B. King and Company's address is provided as 103 Woodward Avenue.
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Fall and Winter,1888 and 1889 clothing catalog from Mabley and Company of Detroit, Michigan. The paper cover features illustration of a man wearing a suit and jacket and a woman wearing a dress and jacket against a faded green, blue, and tan background. Men, women, and children wearing suits, dresses, and casual outfits are pictured within. Also depicted are trinkets and accessories such as hats, shoes, collars, and sleds. Prices are included within the fifty pages.
- Date Issued:
- 1888-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Mabley and Company catalog containing prices and illustration's for the store's offering of men's, women's, and children's clothing, hats, shoes, and crockery for the fall and winter seasons spanning 1886 to 1887. The catalog is bound in a paper cover with a color lithograph of a two vignettes--a woman peering out a window into a snowstorm, and a fox hunter on horseback--serving as the cover. The image is credited to Sackett, Wilhelms and Betzig of New York. Images of the company's eastside and westside locations framed by birds and a sunburst are on the back cover. The catalog includes a mail order form.
- Date Issued:
- 1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Mabley and Company catalog containing prices and illustrations for the store's offering of men's, women's, and children's clothing, hats, and shoes, as well as descriptions of the store's other departments. The catalog also discusses the company's expanded location beside its Woodward Avenue Shoe House called The Bazaar. A mail order form is included on the last page. The catalog is bound in a paper cover featuring a color lithograph of a family of deer on a hill side on the front. The image is credited to Sackett, Wilhelms, and Betzig of new York. An illustration on the back cover shows the company's facing locations on both the east and west sides of Woodward Avenue near Congress Street.
- Date Issued:
- 1885-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Moran, Fitzsimons and Company catalog, dated June 4, 1887, and numbered one. The catalog lists wholesale groceries sold by the company, accompanied by advertisements highlighting particular goods. The catalog is bound in a green paper cover with a message to buyers, an index of wares, and an index of advertisers printed on the front. The front cover also provides the company's address as 45, 47, and 49 Woodward Avenue, and 40 and 42 Griswold Street.
- Date Issued:
- 1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Catalog containing illustrations of styles of women's wear offered through Elite Custom Ladies Tailors, located at 40 Broadway Street, for the fall and winter of 1907 and 1908. Nine illustrations of women in outfits, and two of just skirts are contained within. The catalog is staple-bound in a tan paper cover.
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Traver-Bird Company spring and summer 1909 catalog of men's clothing containing illustrations of men wearing the store's clothes, as well as care directions. The cover is grey with an illustration of a laurel wreath on the front.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- R.H. Fyfe and Company price booklet containing illustrations and prices for shoes and boots sold through their downtown store at 101 Woodward Avenue, and their uptown store at 183 and 185 Woodward Avenue. The booklet is bound in a grey cover featuring an illustration on the front credited to the Calvert Lithographing Company of a woman's boot wrapped in a ribbon and containing flowers. Lithographs of both storefronts are printed on the back cover. The first two pages of the booklet have been used as scrapbook pages for newspaper clippings about knitting and sewing.
- Date Issued:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
