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- Description:
- Trade card from the Detroit Stove Works advertising Jewel Stoves and Ranges. A lithograph on the recto depicts a child in a bonnet standing on top of their bed while using a spoon to eat out of a bowl. Written in French at the bottom of the card is "Oh! Le Bon Lolo!," which translates to "Oh! Good Milk!" in English.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Catalog from the Detroit Stove works with a dark blue stiff cloth cover with the company name marked in gold upon it. The inside cover has "W. T. Barbour" signed in pencil on it. Printing of the catalog is attributed to Matthews, Northrup and Company, Art Printing Works, of Buffalo, New York. Contained within it are prices, images, measurements and advertising information for Jewel Stoves and Ranges, as well as accessories for them, from 1890.
- Date Issued:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "New World" model cooking stoves. On the recto is an illustration, credited to William E. Earl of Detroit, of a New World stove and text advertising that it is "Square" with an "Extension Top, and Galvanized Cast Iron Reservoir" and is "the same as our North American, with swing hearth and bailed ash pan."
- Date Issued:
- 1872-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "Norway" and "Cultivator" model wood burning stoves. On the recto is an illustration of a Norway stove, credited to A. Picard of Troy, New York, and text advertising that the Norway model is the "new elevated oven cook stove for 1869" while the Cultivator model is the "same stove as the Norway, with Pipe Back."
- Date Issued:
- 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "Home Jewel" model wood burning stoves. On the recto is an illustration of two different Home Jewel stoves, one with a square top and the other with an extra reservoir. On the verso is text highlighting the "Special Features" of Home Jewel model stoves.
- Date Issued:
- 1867-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- A letter from Ralph Emery, a clerk working for the Detroit Stove Works, to his father, Robert T. Emery, in Belfast, Maine, dated November 13, 1886. The letter is written on Detroit Stove Works letterhead, which features a lithograph, credited to the Calvert Lithograph Company, depicting the Detroit Stove Works offices in Detroit and Chicago as well as the company's foundry in Hamtramck, Michigan. The letter reads: My dear Father, Was glad to receive your last letter - I should have answered it before but for the past week have not been well, took cold + generally feel unwell but am now somewhat better + hope to be all right again in a few days. We are having some truly cold weather + have had two or three snow squalls, but none as yet to amount to anything. Business is very good but not what it should be at this time of the year. How is the newspaper succeeding, how large a subscription list have you. I like it very much + hope it will be a great success. What is there going on this winter for excitement in Belfast. Will the XII Club have a Ball - How is Ed Frost doing. Is Charlie Burgess able to be out. Write whenever you get time, will do the same. Hoping this will find you all well + with kindest regards to all. Remain your affec. Son, Ralph Emery Over Have just had a letter from Cullen Libley, who expects to be in Detroit over Sunday on his way to Chicago - he will probably arrive sometime tonight, shall be glad to see him.
- Date Issued:
- 1886-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "Rose" model coal burning stoves. On the recto is an illustration, credited to William E. Earl of Detroit, of a Rose stove and text advertising that it is "a new direct draft Coal Stove, of handsome design and appearance, and well fitted. It is designed to meet the wants of those who wish a stove economical in the use of fuel and low in price. It has one of the best shaking and dumping grates in the market, and is a powerful radiator of heat. The Mica sections reach nearly around the stove, and give it a cheerful appearance. It is provided with a Magazine, is thus a self-feeder, and will keep fire all night.
- Date Issued:
- 1872-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "Warrior" model heating stoves. On the recto is an illustration, credited to George Wightman of Buffalo, New York, of a Warrior stove and text advertising that it is for "Wood or Coal" and that it is "made of Cast and Heavy Wrought Iron, possesses Great Durability, and is a Powerful Radiator of Heat. The fuel is burned on a dumping grate, thus securing its complete combustion. The Double Door admits the Largest Chunks of Wood, and is fastened by a turn-buckle, affording absolute security against fire. The ash pit is large and deep. The draft is regulated by a damper below the grate and a register in the pipe-collar. By a simple device the stove may be adapted to the use of soft coal. In beauty of design and finish it is without rival."
- Date Issued:
- 1872-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "New Self-Feed, Or Base Burner" concept for heating stoves. On the recto is an illustration, credited to A. Picard of Troy, New York, of one of the stoves that employs this concept and advertising text that says "This Stove can be fitted with or without the Self-Feed, and can be made in several different ways, as will be seen in other cuts, and I believe it more cheaply manufactured, and in greater variety than any other of the kind in the market."
- Date Issued:
- 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Bill of sale, dated June 15th, 1912, from the Detroit Stove Works, documenting the sale of stove parts to H. Kalbitzer & Son of Wheeling, West Virginia. At the top of the bill is an image of the Jewel Stoves and Ranges logo.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
