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- Booklet entitled "Communication of Hon. Wm. C. Maybury on Controller F. A. Blades' Plan for Making Permanent Improvements in the City of Detroit by the Issue of Thirty Year Four Per Cent Bonds, As Submitted to the Common Council, November 29, 1898." The 7-page booklet is printed in black text on slightly yellowed paper. (Page 2 is blank.)
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One booklet with a black leather cover that is stamped in gold-colored text which shows "Manual of the Board of Education and Directory of the Detroit Public Schools, 1900." The name of the owner, "W. C. Martindale," is stamped in the lower right corner of the cover. The booklet is 121 pages in length and is printed in black text on faintly yellowed paper. It includes the names of the officers of the Detroit Board of Education, office hours, committee names and members, financial information, school dimensions and names, names of principals and teachers, rules and regulations, and a school calendar. There is also a separate alphabetical listing of teachers' names as well as an index.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One booklet with a maroon leather cover that is stamped in gold-colored text which shows "Appropriations, City of Detroit. Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1901." The booklet is 71 pages in length and is printed in black text on faintly yellowed paper. It was prepared by the Office of the Controller and includes the names of the various city departments and funds as well as their corresponding budgets. Millage tax rates are shown for each ward. There is an index on page 3.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One booklet with a black leather cover that is stamped in gold-colored text which shows "Municipal Manual of the City of Detroit, 1900-1901." The booklet is 112 pages in length and is printed in black text on faintly yellowed paper. It includes general facts about the city, names of city officials, names of various committees and commissions and their members, annual salaries, terms of office, rules of order for the Common Council, ward boundary descriptions, street railway routes, values of city real estate, and a summary of assessed valuations for city taxes. There is also a table of contents in the back of the manual as well as a fold-out street map of the city. On a blank page at the back of the manual, a handwritten note shows " Clarence Arthur Cotton, Secretary to Mayor, Detroit, Mich., December 31, 1900. Compliments to Mayor's Secretary of 2001."
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- The booklet has a decorative cover design that shows a woman who is wearing a flowing gown and is holding a torch. Two black and white pictures of a park scene and a boulevard scene are shown on each side of her. The booklet is unbound and consists of about 50 un-numbered pages of black and white pictures that feature views of Belle Isle as well as various city parks and boulevards. One of the pictures is a fold-out panoramic view of Central Avenue on Belle Isle. A list of commissioners' names is shown at the front of the booklet.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- This booklet has a pale gray/green heavy paper cover that is printed in black text. It has a stapled binding and includes 45 interior pages that are printed in black text on slightly yellowed paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One booklet entitled, "State Savings Bank, Detroit, Mich." and "Statements of Detroit Banks, December 13th, 1900." Handwritten text shows "State Savings Bank Building, Erected 1900." This booklet has a white paper cover that shows an engraved drawing of the State Savings Bank in Detroit. The 32 interior pages are printed in black text on slightly yellowed paper and list the names of various Detroit banks along with brief statements of their assets and liabilities as of December 13, 1900. Several loose slips of paper have been inserted in the booklet which give the names of the officers and directors for some of the banks. These loose slips have been cut from another publication.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- These pages (numbered 6-16) have been cut from a booklet or brochure that advertises the real estate services of Edwin A Abbott. The pages are printed in black text on white paper and include a black and white picture of Edwin A. Abbott and his son that is dated "Jan. 12, 1900" as well as a drawing of the "Whitewood Island Stock Farm" that was owned by Edwin A. Abbott. The booklet text gives some biographical information about Edwin W. Abbott, real estate forecasts for the area, general information about the purchase and sale of property, and real estate services offered by him. A small brass clip (not shown in the images) was used on the upper right corner of the booklet to hold the pages together.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
