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- Description:
- Catalog booklet for C.R. Mabley's Mammoth Establishment, at 122-134 Woodward Avenue. The booklet bound in a purple paper cover with a lithograph of the exterior of the store on the front. Both C.R. Mabley and J.L. Hudson are listed as the proprietors on the cover. The cover also describes the store as, "The Largest Clothing, Boot and Shoe, Hat and Cap, Gents' Furnishing Goods and Custom Tailoring House in America." The company's Cincinnati location is pictured on the back cover. A history of the store, a directory, profiles of the 1880 Democratic Presidential and Vice Presidential nominees Winfield S. Hancock and William H. English, price lists and illustrations of men's and boys' clothing, and help taking your own measurements are contained within.
- Date Issued:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Mabley and Company catalog containing prices and illustrations for the store's offering of men's, women's, and children's clothing, hats, and shoes, as well as descriptions of the store's other departments. The catalog also discusses the company's expanded location beside its Woodward Avenue Shoe House called The Bazaar. A mail order form is included on the last page. The catalog is bound in a paper cover featuring a color lithograph of a family of deer on a hill side on the front. The image is credited to Sackett, Wilhelms, and Betzig of new York. An illustration on the back cover shows the company's facing locations on both the east and west sides of Woodward Avenue near Congress Street.
- Date Issued:
- 1885-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Eighteen panel pamphlet advertising Mabley and Company's men's fashions for the fall and winter seasons of 1889 and 1890. The cover panel is printed with a color lithograph of a man reclining in a rocking chair with a bear-skin rug at his feet, and a fireplace behind him. Within, the pamphlet includes illustrations of men's and boys' clothing, information about the company's stores, and information about their mail order business. When folded the back panel shows a color lithograph showing two of the company's locations, including the Woodward Avenue one at the bottom.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Mabley and Company catalog containing prices and illustration's for the store's offering of men's, women's, and children's clothing, hats, shoes, and crockery for the fall and winter seasons spanning 1886 to 1887. The catalog is bound in a paper cover with a color lithograph of a two vignettes--a woman peering out a window into a snowstorm, and a fox hunter on horseback--serving as the cover. The image is credited to Sackett, Wilhelms and Betzig of New York. Images of the company's eastside and westside locations framed by birds and a sunburst are on the back cover. The catalog includes a mail order form.
- Date Issued:
- 1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- 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
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
