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- Description:
- Black and white panoramic group portrait of members of the Detroit Curling Club posed on the ice along the shore of Lake St. Clair in Grosse Pointe, taken during a curling event held by Horace Elgin Dodge on January 15, 1916. Forty men stand in the foreground, most holding curling brooms. Several curling stones are scattered among their feet. Many of the men wear Scottish tams. Horace Dodge's yacht, the NOKOMIS, is visible in the background on the right, beneath a cover for the winter. "Detroit Curling Club Guests of H.E. Dodge - Grosse Pt. Jan. 15th 1916," is printed along the bottom of the image. "Photo by Hal Wilson, 650 Mt. Elliott, Detroit," is printed in the lower right corner. The photo was previously framed with each subject numbered from 1 to 40 on the glass, going from the left to the right, however no key was included.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Sports
- Description:
- Cabinet card bearing a sepia-toned head-and-shoulder portrait photo of Major Cornelius Byington wearing formal attire. Signed in ink under the photo is "C. Byington Maj 2nd Mich Inf Vols." On the verso is the photographers stamp "R. W. Addis Photographer 308 Penna Avenue Washington D.C." and written in pencil is "Major Cornelius Byington 2nd Mich. Bier - Dec 1863."
- Date Issued:
- 1863-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
- Description:
- Cabinet card bearing a sepia-toned bust portrait photograph of Jacob Merritt Howard. Howard is wearing a waistcoat, vest, and high-collared shirt. HIs hair is short and slightly ruffled. He is looking straight at the camera with his eyes half closed. The signature of the photographer C.M. Hayes is handwritten near the lower right corner.
- Date Issued:
- 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Sepia-toned group portrait photograph taken of Helen Hall Newberry Joy and a group of women in gowns who attened her 30th wedding anniversary dinner for her marriage to Henry Bourne Joy. The women pose in a semi-circle within a parlor furnished with paintings, sculpture, and vases. The photo is signed by photographer C.M. Hayes. The women are identified on the verso: Guests right to left - front row Mrs. Edwin Scott Barbour (Edith Henry) Mrs. Henry Dusenbury Shelden (Caroline Annette Alger) Mrs Emory Clark Mrs. John Nichols Mrs. Henry B. Lewis (Marjie Croal) Mrs. Cameron Currie (Hattie Lewis) Mrs. Richard Pickering Joy (Mary Moore) Mrs. Harry Jewett (Mary Wendell) Mrs. James Shaw (Vinable) Mrs. H. Sales (Jessie Carter) Mrs. Harry Bourne Joy (Helen Newberry) Mrs. H. Muir (Marion Lewis) Mrs. B. Wanes (Romaine Latter) Mrs. William Pegram Hamilton (Mary Farrand) Mrs. Frederick Moulton Alger (Mary Eldridge Swift) Mrs. WIlliam H. Burtenshaw (Nan Knous) Myrs. John Stoughton Newberry (Edith Stanton) Mrs. John Dyar (Anne) Mrs. Sidney Trowbidge Milles (Lucy Miller) Back row left to right: (Janice Spalding) Mrs. M. Math (Madelaine King) Mrs. Lee (Helen Joy)
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Print. Sepia-toned photographic print depicting police officer John Staples posing in uniform. A brick house with an awning is visible in the background. Photo is a grey card with a textured border. Verso is addressed, "Happy New Year, To Pearl, from your old friend John. 1912." "Staples" has been appended in pencil after "John."
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Police Department
- Description:
- Cabinet card bearing a sepia-toned head-and-shoulders portrait photograph of Detroit Fire Commissioner Benjamin Vernor. Handwriting on the verso indicates "ex-commissioner, Benjamin Vernor." 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.
- Date Issued:
- 1870-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Sepia-toned composite group portrait of the members of the Detroit Fire Department in 1890, composed of 207 separate head-and-shoulder portraits of unidentified firefighters arranged in rows on the right, and, on the left, portraits of Chief James Battle, Assistant Chiefs James R. Elliott and Mark H. Gascoigne, First Battalion Chief John Kendall, Second Battalion Chief James C. Broderick, Third Battalion Chief William J. Gowan, Superintendent of Horses Allan. Armstrong, and Master Mechanic Francis Beaufait, as well as a photo of Detroit Fire Department Headquarters on the northeast corner of Wayne Street and Larned Street. Images of several pieces of firefighting equipment for a design surrounding the portrait of Battle, and the left edge of the image. A.G. McMichael, Artist & Photo, 210 & 212 Woodward Ave. Copyright 1891 by A.G. McMichael" is printed in the lower left corner.
- Date Issued:
- 1891-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Mounted sepia-toned group portrait photograph of the firefighters of Hose Company No. 1 posed with their horse-drawn hose apparatus, in front of the entrance of the Detroit Fire Department Headquarters. Each man in identified through a handwritten caption beneath them. W. Heck sits on the driver's bench of the apparatus, holding the reigns of the two-horse team. F. Arnold, T. Drury, C. Walsh, and G.S. Goldwater stand lined up beside the apparatus. A relief over the door of the headquarters reads, "Fire Department Headquarters, 1882." Two large bay entrances to the building are also in the background. The bay doors for the one behind the Hose Company No. 1's apparatus are open. "Hose Co. No. One, Taken August 15th 1903." is handwritten in ink at the bottom center of the photo. The photo is mounted on grey mat board.
- Date Issued:
- 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Sepia-toned panoramic group portrait photo of the Detroit Police Department's Training School Class of January 1921. Seventy-six men pose in two rows, the front group on their knees, before the side of a large stone police station. Most men wear jackets and ties, aside from the uniformed police officer, presumably an instructor, in the back center. An inserted portrait of another uniformed officer is above the center of the image. Two addition men pose in the window of the building behind them. The caption below reads, "Detroit Police Department's Training School Class of Jan. 1921, Inspt. Fred Raymond in charge. Lt. Frost and Stg. Snowdon Instructors."
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Police Department
- Description:
- Cabinet card. Sepia-toned cabinet card bearing a portrait of Charles Ernst. He is pictured with his hands clasped behind back, his hair parted in the middle, and wearing a mustache. He is dressed in a dark-colored suit jacket with tails and pants with a light-colored dress shirt and bow tie. "McMichael, 212 Woodward Ave, Detroit," is printed on the lower right corner of the card. "Brother Charlie Feb 14, 1902," is handwritten on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
