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- Description:
- One blank sheet of company letterhead for Jeremiah Dwyer, President of the Michigan Stove Company. The paper is printed in black text on a light gray bond paper and has the red emblem of "Garland Stoves and Ranges" in the upper right corner. This sheet of letterhead was intended for the correspondence of the company president and it has a different design as compared to the standard company letterhead.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One postcard entitled "Polar Bears, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich." The postcard shows a black and white photographic image of two polar bears in a caged exhibit at the zoo on Belle Isle. The exhibit shows a small pool in the foreground with a fountain and heavy stone wall in the background. A tall iron fence can be seen in the left background.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Print. Sepia-toned photographic print, taken from an elevated vantage point, looking toward the east side of northbound Woodward Avenue. A series of automobiles are parked on Woodward, adjacent to the new construction of, "Another 10 Story Building For The J.L. Hudson Co.," between Himelhoch's and the Newcomb-Endicott building. Hudson's is visible behind the on-going construction.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting City Hall between the Hammond Building and Majestic Building, with a moonlight tower in front. Streetcars, horses, and pedestrians populate the street. Published by S.H.K. & Co., Detroit, Mich.. Made in Germany Handwritten message recto, postmarked 1907.
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photograph workers on scaffolding finishing riveting the top row of plates on Eagle Boat No. 2, as viewed from off its port quarter, within the Ford River Rouge Factory Complex. Lower right hand corner of photo has number and date of photo: 22714-7-19-18 with a (2) above the date. Photo mounted on a linen backing.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sheet music for the song "Yankee Doodle's in the Fight to Stay", words by Corp. W. H. Goodfellow Jr., music by Harry P. Guy, published by the Universal Music Co.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet. Seven pages plus back cover of partial booklet, presumably entitled "Souvenir of Detroit & Exposition." Detroit's history, from its founding through the late 1800s is detailed within. "Copyrighted, 1887, by Ward Bros., Dealers in View Albums, Advertising Novelties, &e., Columbus, Ohio." printed on first present page. Back cover is black with a gold scrollwork motif
- Date Issued:
- 1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- One set of architectural "Specifications for Mr. S. J. Hardenbergh for a Repair Job to Be Done on the West Side of Avery Avenue Between Lysander and Forest Avenues, Detroit, Michigan." The specifications (Job 260, Set No. 1) are bound in a booklet that has two brass fasteners at the top. The cover is made of heavy tan paper and includes typewritten text for the title. Printed text beneath the title shows the name, "J. Lawson Miller, Architect." The cover interior and outside back cover have printed advertisements for many contractors, tradesmen, and building materials suppliers. The booklet contains 63 pages of typewritten text that give brief descriptions of all of the materials and construction requirements for the project. An index is shown on the first page.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Photograph. A mounted sepia-toned gelatin silver print of a float that was part of the Floral Parade celebrating Detroit's bicentennial, held July 26, 1901. The float is mounted on a streetcar truck and decorated to depict a scene from Detroit's history. An illuminated sign on the float's front notes "Wayne's Army in Possession." Five men in colonial-era army costumes, bearing muskets, a bugle, and a drum, stand before a small mock-up of a battlement bearing a cannon and a flag pole. The British Union flag is draped on the tower, while an American flag is raised. Foliage both painted and real, composes the front of the float. A man in a police helmet is in the foreground at the lower left. The Detroit fire float is visible to the far left and the tree from the back of the Bloody Run float is on the right edge. The parade is moving along a residential street with houses and trees in the background, but the street name is unknown.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
