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- Color postcard depicting a lumber shed at the Murphy Chair Company, with a water tower in the background and train tracks in the foreground. Printed on verso: Another Yard View. This view shows a portion of one of the sheds used for the storage of dimension stock. There are four of these sheds, with a combined capacity of 4,484,260 feet of lumber. This ample storage insures proper seasoning before material is worked. Our next card will take you inside the factory. Murphy Chair Company, Detroit. Postmarked Mar 12, 1912.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Ford plant in Highland Park and thousands of employees standing in front. A water tower and "Ford Motor Company" sign are visible. Handwritten message on verso reads, postmarked Jan 17, 1916.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Chalmers Motor Company, with a large lawn in the foreground. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Aug 26, 1912.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- One postcard entitled "Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich." The postcard shows a color photographic image of the front of the 4-story factory building with many workers walking on the street in the foreground. A park area with trees is visible in the right foreground area. The number, "1322," is printed in the lower left corner. The verso has a handwritten note in blue ink and a black ink postmark that shows "Hamtramck, Mich."
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting an elevated view of the Columbia Mills. Trains, with a locomotive, pedestrians and horse-drawn wagons in front. Signs read "Arrow Department", "Warehouse", "Window Shade Factories", "Window Shades", and "Star & Arrow Department". Printed on verso: Our salesman will call in a few days with a complete line of Columbia Window Shades and Columbia Lace Curtains. Yours truly, Columbia Shade Cloth Co. Keep this card - it is one of several showing the magnitude of our mills. Postmarked Jun 7, 1911.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting a ground-level view of Chalmers Motor Company buildings. Printed on verso: Chalmers Motor Co The illustration on the reverse side shows a bird's-eye view of one of the largest Automobile Factories in the world, and is one of the industries that has made Detroit famous. [Note this is not an accurate description of the image on reverse] Publisher: United News Co., Detroit Mich.
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Postcard featuring an illustration of the Peninsular Stove Company factory in Detroit on the recto. The card is addressed to "Mrs. Rosamund Kecuau" of Fairgrove, Michigan, and includes a handwritten recipe for a pineapple Jello dish on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting offices of the Michigan Alkali Company on Biddle Avenue in Wyandotte, with two people standing on the front steps. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul 2, 1913.
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting offices of the Michigan Alkali Company on Biddle Avenue in Wyandotte. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul 10, 1913.
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the large Garland Stove with the Michigan Stove Co. in the background. The stove reads "Garland Stoves and Ranges, The World's Best". Printed on verso: The Largest Stove in the World, Michigan Stove Co., Detroit, Mich. This Garland Stove is the largest in the world and is located on the grounds of the Michigan Stove Company. Directly underneath this for years stood the stump of a tree that marked the place where Chief Pontiac met his death in one of the bloodiest battles ever fought in this section of the country. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Aug 9, 1917. [This was the location of "Pontiac's Tree," for years a Detroit landmark - in reality, Pontiac was killed in what is now Illinois. JLS]
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
