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- Description:
- Souvenir booklet distributed by Mabley and Company containing a fold-out description of the city of Detroit, a small image of City Hall, and a page about Mabley and Company's shop, The Bazaar. The booklet is bound in a red cover with gold text and scrollwork. "Souvenir" is printed on the front cover, and "Compliments of Mabley & Company, Detroit, Mich." is on the back cover.
- Date Issued:
- 1885-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Staple-bound booklet published by Lewis E. Myers and Company of Valparaiso, Indiana advertising the Roller Racer, a "new sport model wagon." The booklet is in the format of a story about a group of children who enthusiastically playing with the toy while praising its construction, features, compact design, and safety. "For Sale by The J.L. Hudson Company, Ninth Floor, Farmer Street Bldg., Detroit, Michigan," is printed across the center of the cover, over an image of a boy racing the wagon downhill, as other children watch.
- Date Issued:
- 1925-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Detroit Base Ball Club stockholder ticket book issued to E.T. Barnum for the 1883 League Series played at Recreation Park in Detroit, signed by club president W. G. Thompson Contains intact checks for games 51 and 52, the rest have been torn out. Brown leather cover with gold print.
- Date Issued:
- 1883-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet commemorating the cornerstone laying at the First Presbyterian Church on October 7, 1889. Includes engravings, and the speeches, remarks and addresses of Hon. D. Bethune Duffield, Rev. Howard Duffield, Rev. R. H. Leonard, Hon. Alanson Sheley, Rev. Wallace Radcliffe, and Rev. Marcus A. Brownson. Printed by O. S. Gulley, Bornman & Co.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- 116 page Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company promotional booklet; describes: fleet--GREATER DETROIT, CITY OF DETROIT III, CITY OF CLEVELAND, CITY OF DETROIT II, WESTERN STATES, EASTERN STATES, CITY OF ST. IGNACE, and GREATER BUFFALO--routes, fares, points of interest, photographs
- Date Issued:
- 1924-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Almanac published by L.R. Herrick, M.D. for Dr. Herrick and Brother, Practical Chemists, of Albany, New York. In addition to information concerning holidays, weather, and astrology, the almanac contains advertisements for Dr. Herrick and Brother products including a testimonial from a slave owner who claims the company's Sugar Coated Pills cured one of his slaves of a three-year long aliment which doctors were unable to treat.
- Date Issued:
- 1863-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- 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
- Description:
- One booklet entitled "Old Fashioned Home Songs - School Edition," published in 1898 by the Ling Piano House located at 78 Library Ave. in the King Building, Detroit, Michigan. The softcover booklet is printed in black text on moderately yellowed paper and is 36 pages long.
- Date Issued:
- 1898-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- Booklet describing a proposed "Monument to Be Erected by the People to Commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the Founding of Detroit," copyright Henry Russel 1900. The monument was to be a Doric column twenty-four feet in diameter and two hundred twenty feet high, and was to stand "upon a site reclaimed from the river at the lower end of Belle Isle Park." The booklet features a several page description of the monument and the reasons why it was being proposed, and also solicits funds for the construction of the project, which was estimated to cost one million dollars. A color illustration of the proposed monument can be found on the verso of the first page. Also located in the booklet is a list of the members of the Detroit Bicentennial Memorial committee. The last sheet is a perforated sheet containing instructions for subscribing and sending funds to the committee.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
