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- Color postcard depicting a street view of the Ford plant in Highland Park. A water tower and a few pedestrians are visible. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul, 1912. Printed on verso: Published by Souvenir Post Card Company Printed in New York.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
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- Postcard
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- Color postcard Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit Mich. This vertical image shows an aerial view of the Packard factory. Verso: "Packard Motor Car Company Detroit, Mich, The Packard Motor Car Company is located on the East Grand Boulevard and the Belt Line Railway. The factory occupies forty acres of floor space including thirty separate buildings, and employs over 7,000 people. Daily output is ten complete pleasure cars and five two, three or five-ton commercial trucks. The power house is equipped to supply 8500 horse power, including two 3000 horse power Cooper engines." Publisher: C.T Photochrom Postmarked 1915.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Monochromatic postcard showing an illustration of the Yale Woolen Mill, located in St. Clair County. Handwritten message on recto, postmarked 1915.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting an aerial view of the Dodge factory in Hamtramck. Printed on verso: Dodge Bros. One of Detroit's Largest Automobile Plants. Located on Jos. Campau Ave. Publisher: United News Co., Detroit Mich. Postmarked 1919.
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Hudson Motor Co. with a "Hudson" flag flying atop it. Printed on verso: Hudson Motor Co., Detroit, Mich. Hudson Motor Co., one of the largest Automobile factories in the world. Postmarked 1914.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
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- Color postcard showing two aerial views of the Cadillac Motor Car Company Plant. Postmarked 1916.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting an aerial view of Parke Davis & Co., with the Detroit River in the foreground. Visible are ships, automobiles, and pedestrians. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Sep 20, 1912.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Fluid Extract Department at the Ray Chemical Co., with several vats, bottles, jugs, mortars and pestles. Printed on verso is a purchase order receipt. Postmarked May 13, 1911.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting pedestrians along a two story brick building. Publisher: United News Co., Detroit, Mich.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the lumber yard at the Murphy Chair Company, with a shed, barrel, and tracks visible. Printed on verso: Yard View. This card gives you a view of one of our lumber tracks, and is presented to show you the manner in which we store out boards to insure perfect seasoning. The shed shown extended to the right at the upper end and to the left at the office end, in shape like [zigzag line] and is 1946 ft. long with a storage capacity for 3,330,900 feet of lumber. The frame building is the yard Master's office. We shall take you through our entire plant with a series of these cards and trust they may be of interest to you. Murphy Chair Company, Detroit. Postmarked Jul 22, 1911.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard with a small depiction of the Nelson, Baker & Co. facility, inset over a laurel wreath and fasces. Printed on the recto is a message about salesman visitation. Postmarked Nov 7, 1904.
- Date Issued:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicts an elevated view of the Chalmers Motor Company plant.
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Detroit Stove Works, with a horse-drawn wagon in front. A sign on the building reads "Established 1864, Jewel Stoves and Ranges." Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul 26, 1910.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Black and white photographic postcard depicting the Chalmers Motor Company with an automobile in front. Printed on recto: Pesha Photo Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Apr 4, 1913.
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting an aerial view of Hudson Motor Car Co., with a streetcar and automobiles in front. An inset image depicts the Main Office. Printed on verso: Hudson Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich. The Hudson is one fo the most modern auto plants in America and can be reached by taking the Jefferson Cars going East. Detroits Factories are all light and airy, employ 50,000 men who produce $1,000,000 daily in the auto industry. The capital invested in over $50,000,000. Postmarked Sep 7, 191[?].
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Black and white postcard depicting an elevated view of Buhl Sons Co., with several vehicles in front. Printed on recto is a salesman visitation notice, and "A Quality Rule: Buy Goods Branded Buhl. On verso is a red logo reading "Buhl Sons Co., Trade Mark". Postmarked Aug, 1918.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Black and white postcard depicting an assembly line in the Ford River Rouge factory. Printed on verso: AN ASSEMBLY LINE OF THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY. The assembly line is always a point of interest to visitors of the Rouge Plant. Here, on a moving conveyor, Ford cars are completely assembled, from chassis to finished car, and driven off the line under their own power. In addition to the Rouge Plant, there are 31 assembly lines in company branches throughout the United States. Printed by The Garraway Company, Rutherford, New Jersey.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Spietz & Worch Co. factory from E Forest Avenue, near Flower Court, with a streetcar, automobile and pedestrians in front. An inset image depicts a can of cigars. Printed on recto: The Home of Best & Russell's Co's. Handmade 5 Cent Cigars. Each Can a Humidor. Printed on verso: The Home of Best & Russell's Co's Handmade 5 Cent Cigar. Spietz & Worch Co's Cigar Factory located at 722-732 Forest Ave. E., Detroit Mich. Is America's largest building devoted exclusively to the manufacture of cigars, it accommodates 2,000 employees, and in it are manufactured 2,000,000 cigars per week. A cordial invitation is extended to all to inspect this plant. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Oct 5, 1912.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting a lumber shed at the Murphy Chair Company, with a water tower in the background and train tracks in the foreground. Printed on verso: Another Yard View. This view shows a portion of one of the sheds used for the storage of dimension stock. There are four of these sheds, with a combined capacity of 4,484,260 feet of lumber. This ample storage insures proper seasoning before material is worked. Our next card will take you inside the factory. Murphy Chair Company, Detroit. Postmarked Mar 12, 1912.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Ford plant in Highland Park and thousands of employees standing in front. A water tower and "Ford Motor Company" sign are visible. Handwritten message on verso reads, postmarked Jan 17, 1916.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Chalmers Motor Company, with a large lawn in the foreground. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Aug 26, 1912.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- One postcard entitled "Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich." The postcard shows a color photographic image of the front of the 4-story factory building with many workers walking on the street in the foreground. A park area with trees is visible in the right foreground area. The number, "1322," is printed in the lower left corner. The verso has a handwritten note in blue ink and a black ink postmark that shows "Hamtramck, Mich."
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting an elevated view of the Columbia Mills. Trains, with a locomotive, pedestrians and horse-drawn wagons in front. Signs read "Arrow Department", "Warehouse", "Window Shade Factories", "Window Shades", and "Star & Arrow Department". Printed on verso: Our salesman will call in a few days with a complete line of Columbia Window Shades and Columbia Lace Curtains. Yours truly, Columbia Shade Cloth Co. Keep this card - it is one of several showing the magnitude of our mills. Postmarked Jun 7, 1911.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting a ground-level view of Chalmers Motor Company buildings. Printed on verso: Chalmers Motor Co The illustration on the reverse side shows a bird's-eye view of one of the largest Automobile Factories in the world, and is one of the industries that has made Detroit famous. [Note this is not an accurate description of the image on reverse] Publisher: United News Co., Detroit Mich.
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Postcard featuring an illustration of the Peninsular Stove Company factory in Detroit on the recto. The card is addressed to "Mrs. Rosamund Kecuau" of Fairgrove, Michigan, and includes a handwritten recipe for a pineapple Jello dish on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting offices of the Michigan Alkali Company on Biddle Avenue in Wyandotte, with two people standing on the front steps. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul 2, 1913.
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting offices of the Michigan Alkali Company on Biddle Avenue in Wyandotte. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul 10, 1913.
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the large Garland Stove with the Michigan Stove Co. in the background. The stove reads "Garland Stoves and Ranges, The World's Best". Printed on verso: The Largest Stove in the World, Michigan Stove Co., Detroit, Mich. This Garland Stove is the largest in the world and is located on the grounds of the Michigan Stove Company. Directly underneath this for years stood the stump of a tree that marked the place where Chief Pontiac met his death in one of the bloodiest battles ever fought in this section of the country. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Aug 9, 1917. [This was the location of "Pontiac's Tree," for years a Detroit landmark - in reality, Pontiac was killed in what is now Illinois. JLS]
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the ray Chemical Co., with trees in the foreground and a water tower in the background. Printed on verso: Capsicum Jelly, Counter-irritant. A fine pharmaceutical product, active, reliable, and safe to dispense or prescribe. Being composed of standard rubefacients, carefully and uniformly combined, and exhibited in a special base, it can be recommended as greatly superior to the crude, uncertain, and often severe irritants so much used as household remedies. Supplied in tubes or in bulk. Have you kept our catalog? We manufacture a complete line of standard pharmaceuticals and original preparation. Try us on a mail order. The Ray Chemical Co., Pharmaceutical Chemists, Detroit, Mich.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Black and white photographic postcard showing aerial view of the Ford Rouge complex. Printed on verso: THE ROUGE PLANT is one of the largest industrial centers in the world. It has an area of 1,906 acres, 14 miles of roadways, 92 miles of railway track and 1 1/3 miles of docks. It includes blast furnaces, open hearth and steel mill, glass plant, foundry, paper mill, cement plant, body plant, coke ovens, power plant and motor assembly plant where new Model A engines are built. Printed by The Garraway Company, Rutherford, New Jersey.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting an elevated view of the Chalmers Motor Company plant. Publisher: United News Co., Detroit, Mich.
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting an aerial view of Hudson Motor Car Co., with a few cars and pedestrians on the surrounding streets. Printed on verso: Hudson Motor Car Co., Detroit, Mich. Detroit leads the World in the manufacture of Automobiles. It employs 80,000 people in 35 different factories of which the Hudson is one of its most modern plants. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Oct 18, 1920.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Ford plant in Highland Park with hundreds of chassis visible in front. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul 18, 1916.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Monochromatic postcard showing an illustration of the Brush Runabout Company buildings along Oakland Avenue in Highland Park. Handwritten message on recto, postmarked 1910.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting a crowd of employees in front of the Cadillac factory. Handwritten message on verso reads, "Mother dear will you scallop some potatoes for me Fri afternoon. Have 3 qts after they are finished. The banquet is at 7:00 so have them just done then. Mother, Much obliged". Postmarked 1915.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Black and white photographic postcard depicting buildings of the Michigan Alkali Company in Wyandotte. Printed on recto: Pesha Photo Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Apr 11, 1916.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Puritan Machine Company from Lafayette Boulevard near 10th Street, with two automobiles parked alongside. Sign on the building reads "All Parts for All Cars." Printed on recto is an order receipt. Postmarked Sep 21, 1915.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting an aerial view of the Dodge factory in Hamtramck. Publisher: C.T. American Art Postmarked 1922.
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Black and white photographic postcard depicting a ground level view of the Chalmers Motor Company. Printed on recto: Pesha Photo Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Nov 1, 1911.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Black and white photographic postcard depicting the Beals & Selkirk Trunk Company building in Wyandotte, with railroad tracks in the foreground. Printed on recto: Pesha Photo Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Aug 8, 1910.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting a street view of the Continental Motors Company, flying three American flags. Printed on verso: Continental Motor Mfg. Co., Detroit, The Continental Motor Mfg. Co., is located at Jefferson avenue East and Berzner avenue and can be reached by Jefferson cars marked Grosse Pointe, going East. The Continental is one of the largest of the accessory plants connected with the automobile industry. More than fifty of these plants are located in the vicinity of Detroit, near at hand to the greatest market for their products. This is one of the many reasons why Detroit is called the Auto City. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Sep 4, 1914.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting ground-level view of Chalmers Motor Company buildings. Printed on verso: Chalmers Motor Co The illustration on the reverse side shows a bird's-eye view of one of the largest Automobile Factories in the world, and is one of the industries that has made Detroit famous. [Note this is not an accurate description of the image on reverse] Publisher: Superior Quality Postmarked 1913.
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Black and white photographic postcard depicting buildings of the Michigan Alkali Company in Wyandotte. Printed on recto: Pesha Photo Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Mar 28, 1911.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard showing a street view of the Cadillac Motor Car factory. Handwritten message on verso reads, "Dear Teacher:- I miss the class very much and I hope you are well. I was not in Sunday School because I have a sore foot. And cannot go much around. My Mother does all she can and it is not much better." Postmarked 1914.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting a street view of the Ford plant in Highland Park. A water tower, and six American flags are visible. Handwritten message on verso reads "It is the only car on the streets.", postmarked Sep 18, 1913. Printed on verso: Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Mich. The Ford Motor Company is located at Highland Park and can be reached by taking Woodward Avenue Cars marked Log Cabin. There are more Fords made than any other car in the World, and much credit is given Henry Ford for his earnest efforts to make Detroit the Automobile City.
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Black and white photographic postcard depicting an aerial view of the Rouge Plant Docks at the Ford Motor Company. Printed on verso: DOCKS AT THE ROUGE PLANT are 1-1/3 miles long and are on the Rouge River. Here Ford ships and other Great Lakes Freighters bring in great cargoes of iron ore, coal, limestone and lumber used in the manufacture of Ford cars and trucks. The storage bins have a capacity of 2,000,000 tons. Printed by The Garraway Company, Rutherford, New Jersey.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard