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- 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 entitled, "Twenty Years, 1903-1923, The Detroit Edison Company." This softcover booklet is 45 pages long and provides an illustrated history of the company as well as information about company power plants, service territory, and earnings. The outside cover is light brown with the title shown in gold text in a decorative dark green rectangle. The inside pages are printed in black text with black and white photos. A fold-out color map of the company service territory is attached to the inside back cover.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One hardcover membership and account booklet for the "Marine Firemen, Oilers, Watertenders and Coalpassers' Union of the Great Lakes." The pocket-size booklet has a green cloth cover and contains 40 pages of printed text. Page 2 is entitled "Certificate of Membership No. 417" and indicates that "A. [Arthur] Page" was a member of the union. Page 3 gives a brief personal description of the member and is dated May, 1920. Pages 4 through 8 show blank lines for a "Statement of Account" and contain ink stamps for each month to indicate that the $1.25 monthly dues had been paid. The remaining pages 9 through 40 list the union articles and rules.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Staple-bound storybook, written by J. Henry Smythe, for the J.L. Hudson Company. The story concerns a young boy and girl who visit the toy department of the J.L. Hudson Company Department Store, and become inspired by Santa Claus' example to deliver gifts to their neighbors. The children and Prince are pictured on the cover, with their arms, and a sled filled with parcels. An advertisement for Hudson's Toyland section is printed on the back cover.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One booklet entitled, "32 Years Ago," which was published by the Union Trust Company to commemorate their 32nd year of business. The company was founded in 1891 and the booklet was published in 1923. The booklet consists of a single panoramic strip of halftone photographic images that show downtown Detroit storefronts along the east side of Woodward Avenue as of 1891. The entire view extends from Grand Circus Park to the Detroit River and sections are identified by as follows: Grand Circus Park Witherell Street to John R Street John R Street to Grand River Avenue Grand River Avenue to Gratiot Avenue Gratiot Avenue to Campus Martius Campus Martius Campus Martius to Congress Street Congress Street to Larned Street Larned Street to Jefferson Avenue Woodward Avenue and Jefferson Avenue Jefferson Avenue to Woodbridge Street Woodbridge Street to Atwater Street Atwater Street to Detroit River.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet written for the September 19, 1919 centennial celebration of the Treaty of Saginaw, by Fred Dustin, chairman of the Committee on History and Records.
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Green booklet with white border, with black text and an image of a white lit cigarette. Front cover reads "The Case Against the Little White Slaver Volumes 1 and 2 Compliments of Henry Ford Detroit-Mich". The back also has an image of a white cigarette. It contains letter from Thomas Edison about the dangers posed to young boys of smoking cigarettes, as well as defenses of smoking from tobacco companies, and refutations of those defenses. It warns readers of the medical and psychological consequences of smoking including unemployment and criminal behavior.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color booklet from The Evening News, The Detroit Tribune, and The Sunday News Tribune, containing a poem, "A Happy New Year," written by Thad. Stevens Barnum. The front cover features a color illustration depicting the start of the new year, with an angelic figure and a background of an evening sky featuring a moon and two owls on the left, and Father Time and a background featuring the sun on the right. Text on the bottom left of the front cover reads "The Calvert Lith. Co. Detroit." The back cover features a color illustration of two boys selling copies of The Evening News with the title "INTRUSION." underneath the illustration in the center. The inside of the booklet contains the seven stanza poem written across four pages. Each page has a background depicting various scenes, including a newspaper salesman, a family sitting in front of a fire, a ballroom dance, and a horse drawn sleigh. The drawings are signed "Jos. Kraemer" on the bottom left.
- Date Issued:
- 1897-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Cadillaqua pamphlet. A staple-bound pamphlet concerning Cadillaqua, the celebration of Detroit's 211th birthday in 1912. The cover reads "A National Glad Time! Cadillaqua, the Greatest Fete and Carnival in History, Detroit, July 22-27, 1912, four days and five nights every year." The pamphlet is printed in red and black ink on beige paper. The cover depicts a woman in a clown suit riding atop a sea serpent as well as Cadillac's coat of arms. The interior describes the plans for the celebration as well as provides a brief history of the city with small illustrations in the corners of the pages.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Memorial Address Commemorative of the Honorable Zachariah Chandler. U.S. Senator delivered in the Fort Street Presbyterian Church, Detroit, Thursday morning. By Authur T. Pierson, Pastor. November 27, 1879
- Date Issued:
- 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
