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- Description:
- Half-length sepia-toned portrait of the firefighter, Charles Robert Kline, wearing the dress uniform of the Detroit Fire Department taken around 1896. Bottom of backing card embossed with a series of seals for the Photographers Association of America, 1896, and the logo and address of the McMichael Photography Studio. Autograph on verso reads, "Charles Robert Kline."
- Date Issued:
- 1896-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Print. Small black and white photographic print which depicts a portrait of a man in profile wearing a vest, suit coat, and spectacles. His left arm rests on his knee and his right arm is on portion of a table with an ornate carved edge.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo of 4 firemen who are standing in front of the open doors of a fire station. Handwriting on the verso notes, "Chemical #1" and "Left to Right: M. Donahue, Steavens, Charles Knoblesdorf, T. Schielt."
- Date Issued:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo of three employees of the Merchants Credit Bureau--Estelle Koehler, Judie Strandburg, and Marion Maus, as indicated by a handwritten notes on both the recto and verso--kneeling in winter coats of the roof of the Merchants Building, on the east corner of Grand River Avenue and Broadway Avenue. Snow has accumulated on the roof's surfaces. The caption, "Coldest in Six Years," has been handwritten at the bottom of the recto. "1923," is handwritten on the verso. The remnants of stripes used to affix the photo in an album are on the corners.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Mounted sepia-toned group portrait photograph of seven uniformed firefighters. The original accession record identified two of the men standing in the top row--although it is unclear as two which exactly--as James Shea, and Timothy Callahan, and listed Richard Filbin and John O'Neil as being among the three men seated in the front. The man at the top right wears a helmet and belt identifying him as a member of Continental Company No. 8. He rests his hand on the shoulder of the men seated in front of him who wears a kepi hat and a belt also with the number "8." The two men standing in the center wear matching uniforms including firefighter belts identifying them as belong to one of the rescue companies. The both rest their hands on the shoulder of the man seated below them in the center, who wears a kepi hat, and a firefighter belt, the writing on which, "Stee[...]," is rendered partially illegible by glare. The man on the top right wears a helmet and firefighter belt which identifies him as a member of Neptune Company No. 2. A man with a kepi hat, and a rescue company belt sits in the lower right. Two helmets from Ladder Company No. 1 are positioned on the ground between the seated subjects. The photo is mounted on beige cardstock.
- Date Issued:
- 1875-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Cabinet card bearing a sepia-toned head-and-shoulders portrait photograph of Detroit Fire Commissioner Lucretius H. Cobb. Handwriting on the verso notes "ex-comm., Lucretius H. Cobb." This photograph is one of a series of eight photos of former Detroit Fire Department Commissioners. The decorative engraved logo of the photographer's studio (Randall) has been torn off of the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1867-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned, head and shoulders cabinet card portrait of a fireman. Badge on cap reads "207." Hand written note on verso identifies him as Thomas Drury. The bottom of the photo is damaged obscuring the photographer's name and address, but likely read "F. Friend, 244 & 246 Woodward Ave., Detroit," matching others in this collection.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Mounted, oval-shaped sepia-toned head-and-shoulders portrait photograph of a man with a beard, wearing a suit. Areas of his beard, eyes, and the shadow on his face have been retouched in ink. A handwritten note on the verso suggests that the subject is Detroit Fire Department chief James Battle, however he does not resemble Battle in portraits taken later in his life. A Grelling and Company stamp is impressed near the bottom of the image.
- Date Issued:
- 1865-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photograph of head and shoulders view of a Detroit fireman. The cap badge reads, "DFD 204," and the badge on his lapel reads, "Detroit 204." Noted at the base of the image is the photographer, "Friend & Smith, 244 & 246 Woodward Ave., Detroit." Written on verso, "Dick Brownell." Brownell was a ladderman with the Detroit Fire Department.
- Date Issued:
- 1885-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned panoramic group portrait composed of two photos pasted together of a gathering of members of the Detroit Goodfellows posed outside of the American Printing Company. The groups is composed of men clad in coats, hats, aprons printed with "For Base Ball Results, The News," and newspaper carrier bags. Snow covers the ground. Signs, one on a post in the foreground and the other on a windowsill in the back, read, "Detroit Christmas Fund. Old News Boys. 'No Kiddie Without a Christmas.'" The foreground sign has been retouched to darken the text. A circled "1" has been drawn beside one of the kneeling men at the lower left. Along with the stamp, "Dec. 20 1922," a list of names has been handwritten on the verso: 1. William A. Guthard 2. John L. Dexter 3. James J. Brady 4. Harry Robinson 5. Nathan Samuels 6. Ralph Doherty 7. Fred Baier
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Mounted sepia-toned group portrait photograph of nine uniformed firefighters posed on the lawn outside of a brick building. The five men in the front are seated in wooden chairs, and the other four men stand behind them. The man seated in the center has a pair of bugles and the number 120 on the badge on his hat. The man seated to the left of him as a single bugle and the number 181 on his. The photo is mounted on beige cardstock.
- Date Issued:
- 1895-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Cabinet card bearing a sepia-toned head-and-shoulders portrait photograph of Detroit Fire Commissioner Jerome Croul. This photograph is one of a series of eight photos of former Detroit Fire Department Commissioners. The decorative engraved logo of the photographer (Randall) has been torn off of the verso of the cabinet card photo. The proof bears the name of "Geo. Francis Train" at the bottom, and a stamp for Randall, 220 & 222 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich." is shown on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1872-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia toned photograph of Hazen S. Pingree with a straight beard seated in a baluster-backed chair with right arm resting on a table, holding a pince-nez in his right hand. The photo is signed by the photographer C.M. Hayes, and "C.M. Hayes & Co. Detroit, Mich.," is embossed in the lower left corner.
- Date Issued:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Cabinet card bearing a sepia-toned head-and-shoulders portrait photograph of Detroit Fire Commissioner William Duncan. Handwriting on the verso notes "ex-commissioner, William Duncan." This photograph is one of a series of eight photos of former Detroit Fire Department Commissioners. A decorative engraved logo on the verso shows "Randall, Photographer, 220 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich."
- Date Issued:
- 1867-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white photographic postcard depicting four men posing behind a mockup of an automobile with "Seeing Detroit" on its side.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned head-and-shoulders portrait photograph of a Detroit fireman. The badge on the cap reads, "DFD 203" and the badge on the jacket reads, "Detroit 203." The bottom of the image notes the photography studio of, "Friend & Smith, 244 - 246 Woodward Ave, Detroit." Noted on verso, "Wm. Sullivan," this is possibly an image of William Sullivan. Sullivan was a Lieutenant for Hook and Ladder Co. No. 2.
- Date Issued:
- 1885-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned portrait photo of Jacob Guthard of Company H of the 9th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War, housed inside a beige cardstock folder. Guthard is pictured in an oval-shaped head and shoulders portrait wearing a jacket, tie, and kepi hat with an "H" insignia pin. The folder's cover bears an embossed image of a coat of arms, and the handwritten note, "Company H 9th Michigan; Volunteer Infantry; July 1862; Jacob Guthard." "Picture of Jacob Guthard of the age of seventeen as a bugler of his company. Property of Mrs. W. J. Strudley 3019 McClellan Ave; Detroit Michigan" is handwritten on the back cover.
- Date Issued:
- 1862-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Postcard bearing a sepia-toned group portrait of six women, two girls, and an elderly man posed on and in front of a bench near the shore of Belle Isle. A handwritten note beside the image on the recto reads, "A family picnic at Belle Isle Aug. 1907." The verso is divided and has not been filled out.
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Oval-shaped sepia-toned head-and-shoulder portrait photograph of Mary Catherine Navarre (wife of Henry Bregaw Brevoort), "Randall,, Fisher Block, Detroit, Mich." and "Randall's Circassian Cream Wash for removing freckles, moth, pimples, salt rheum, and all diseases of the skin. For sale by druggists generally," are printed on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1855-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white print of an 1829 painting of four children of Charles and Sylvia Larned by Vermont artist Abraham Tuthill. Julia Colt Larned is depicted in a light-colored dress sitting on a chair in the back. Jane Hereford Larned kneels in front of Julia, wearing a darker colored dress, with a bonnet hung on her back. Sylvester Larned and Catherine Jones Larned are seated on the floor in the foreground playing chess.
- Date Issued:
- 1829-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society