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- Description:
- Trial gardens of the Ferry Seed Farm.
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Gladys Collins, Clarence Kremer's wife, neighbor Will Fox, and Eliza Jane Kremer, wife of Frank Kremer, "play horse" outside of the Kremer's carriage shop. The occasion is a Ladies' Aide meeting at the Kremer's home. Frank was a buggy, wagon, and carriage maker. He made the underpart of the buggies downstairs and Eliza Jane upholstered the tops upstairs, then they were lowered down and assembled. Frank had also been a carriage maker in Rochester on "East Alley." (P-185) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Butchering time at Anna Schoof's farm on Rochester Road
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Sheep shearing with three men and three sheep.
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Four barns on the Braid farm. Large structure in the middle of the image is the horse barn and building on the right is the sheep barn. Individuals in horse-drawn buggy (right) and surrey (left) are probably Earl and Alva Braid. (P-58) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- The John Tienken Farm on Tienken Road looking west from west of Livernois.
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- A wooded scene at the Detroit Silver Fox Farm, located at the northeast corner of Walton Boulevard and Adams Road. The company also used the name Pontiac Strain Furs. It ran operations at this location in Avon Township from 1923-1927. (P-342) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- The D.M. Ferry Company, later known as the Ferry-Morse Seed Company, expanded operations from Detroit to Avon Township in 1902. Oakview Farm comprised the area between South Rochester Road, East Hamlin Road, John R Road, and East Auburn Road. In 1912, the company increased the size of the farm northward, so that it reached to East Avon Road. Oakview was the site of the company’s trial grounds and stock seed breeding operations until 1944. (P-13) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- A farmhouse, barn, and outbuildings covered in snow behind a fence on a snow-covered dirt road. The farm of John Tienken (1864-1944), on the south side of Tienken Road. (P-357) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog, printed by John Bornman and Son with illustrations by Calvert Lithograph Company; the front and back covers are identical with an illustration of a head of lettuce, an eggplant, and a bucket on the floor in the corner of a room beneath a window; "Ferry's Seed Annual 1925" and "D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich." are printed on both covers; inside are lists of seeds and prices with black and white illustrations and photographs, as well as two full page color illustrations near the front; order form is still attached
- Date Issued:
- 1925-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
