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- Description:
- Trade card from the Michigan Stove Company advertising Garland Stoves and Ranges. The lithograph on the recto, copyrighted in 1882 by M.B. Mills and attributed to Calvert Lithograph Company, depicts a brown-haired woman in a pink dress walking a dog while holding a large dandelion over her head like an umbrella. An advertising poem that reads "In Garland Stoves you are sure to find; The good and beautiful combined; Aesthetic in design and kind; To please the most fastidious mind" is at the bottom of the recto. On the verso is an early Garland Stoves and Ranges logo.
- Date Issued:
- 1882-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- J.L. Hudson trade card advertising the company's move from the Detroit Opera House building, to their new location at 141, 143, and 145 Woodward Avenue. The recto is printed with a caricature of a man with an over-sized head in Elizabethan dress. He has a goatee and moustache, and wears a ruff, tunic, cape, and tights. He holds a small cap with a feather. "J.L. Hudson, Clothier, Detroit Opera House Building," is printed along the bottom. The verso is printed with the text, "On or about April 1st we will remove to our new stores, 141, 143 &145 Woodward Ave. where we shall be pleased to receive our Friends and Customers. J.L. Hudson." "Selma Beer," is handwritten on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Trade card advertising the "Improved Family Singer Sewing Machine." An illustration of the sewing machine beneath the text, "Latest and Best," is show on the recto surrounded by a color patchwork pattern. A block of text about the machine, concluding with the address for the Singer Manufacturing Company at 191 Woodward Avenue, is on the verso surrounded by a stitch guide showing "100 Crazy Patchwork Stiches." The card is patented July 1, 1884.
- Date Issued:
- 1884-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company color trade card advertising Nasturtium; front has a color picture from Calvert Lithograph Company, Detroit, Mich of orange and yellow flowers on a purple background; states "painted from actual specimens grown on D. M. Ferry & Co. trial grounds"; back has brief information about Nasturtium, along with varieties of the flower available; copyrighted 1889
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Trade card from the Detroit Stove Works advertising Jewel Stoves and Ranges. A lithograph on the recto depicts a child in a bonnet standing on top of their bed while using a spoon to eat out of a bowl. Written in French at the bottom of the card is "Oh! Le Bon Lolo!," which translates to "Oh! Good Milk!" in English.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Trade card from the Michigan Stove Company advertising Garland Stoves and Ranges. A lithograph on the recto, credited to Chas. Shields' Sons, 22 & 22 Gold St., N.Y, depicts two dogs with their paws on a bassinet containing a baby. An early Michigan Stove Company logo, with the tagline "Superior to All Others," is on the verso.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- J.M. Seely trade card, printed by the Calvert Lithographing Company and Badger and Godfrey, advertising Seely's Flower Oil with a color image of a bouquet of flower on the recto, and a short passage promoting the store's "1875 Holiday Goods," on the verso. The passage reads: The Neatest and Largest Assortment ever seen in Detroit now in store. Fancy Articles for Old and Young, Rich or Poor, from 1 Penny to $50 each. Presents suitable for any occasion. J.M. Seely, 195 Woodward Avenue.
- Date Issued:
- 1875-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Part of a series of anti-Prohibition trade cards which bear comical color lithographic prints and rhymes in support of alcohol, provided "compliments of George H. Gies, 16 Monroe Avenue, Detroit, Mich.," a wine and liquor vendor, and printed by the Compton Lithograph Company of St. Louis. This card depicts a boy wearing a suit and bowler hat, seated at a table with an issue of Scientific American and glass of beer. "Against Prohibition No. 4. The youth from school and study free, / Enjoys his Lager temperately," is printed below.
- Date Issued:
- 1883-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Trade card from the Michigan Stove Company advertising Garland Stoves and Ranges. A lithograph on the recto depicts a vase of flowers, containing one pink flower and one white flower, sitting upon a surface with a red rose lying horizontally behind it. "Garland Stoves and Ranges" is printed across the bottom of the recto.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Trade card from the Michigan Stove Company advertising Garland Stoves and Ranges. A lithograph on the recto depicts an elderly woman in a bonnet running a comb through the hair of a red-haired girl that is sitting on her lap. The card's title, "Patience and Impatience," is printed across the bottom of the recto. The Garland Stoves and Ranges logo is featured in the upper left corner of the recto. An advertisement for Garland Stoves and Ranges, stressing the importance of buying genuine Garland products, is on the verso. Stamped at the bottom of the verso is text reading "Sold By Geo. J. Schaefer & Bro., Dundee, Mich."
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
