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- Description:
- Postcard bearing a colorized half-tone photograph of the Belle Isle Casino, as taken from the lawn to the north, published by the United News Company. People and early automobiles are on the road in front of the building, and more figures stand along its promenade. An informational paragraph is printed on the verso: Casino, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich. Casino, Belle Isle, is in the Detroit River between Detroit and Windsor, Canada. The island contains 702 acres and is entirely covered with one of the most beautiful pars in the United States having some 21 miles of macadam roads; a magnificent Casino, Pavilions, Boat Houses, Aquarium, Horticultural Hall, and Zoological Gardens. The island was purchased by Detroit in 1879 and has since then expended $1,600,000 in beautifying it. The postcard has been addressed to Mr. Wright Collier of Camp Davis, Topinabee, Michigan, and postmarked July 4, 1919 from Detroit, with the message: Dear Wright Happy 4th. Will write soon. Mother
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photographic print of the eastern face of the Belle Isle Casino. Chairs are set up on the plaza around its base, and a small shack stands in the foreground.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- One folio series entitled, "Detroit Illustrated," that was published in 14 parts by H. R. Page & Company of Chicago. This folio, Part Five, has a gray/green paper cover that is printed in brown text. There are six interior pages which include sepia-toned photographic images that are entitled as follows: Scripps Mausoleum Scene in Elmwood Cemetery Gentle's Flats Fountain in Grand Circus Park Detroit Athletic Club Residence of C. J. Whitney Clark's Ship Yard and Dry Dock Casino at Belle Isle Park.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Hand-tinted sepia-toned photographic print of the eastern face of the Belle Isle Casino. Chairs are set up on the plaza around its base, and a small shack stands in the foreground. The building's roof, as well as that of the small shack, have been colored reddish brown. Purple highlights have also been added to the flowers of plants outside of the building.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Mounted sepia-toned photographic print of the construction site for the Belle Isle Casino, as taken from the northwest. Much of the building's ground floor is in place. Workers use wooden scaffolding equipped with a pulley system to work on the building's second floor. Two small steam engines are visible among the construction debris near the east side of the building. The verso is stamped with "Received Aug 30 1906, Answered."
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Informational sign about clockmaker Louis Meier, printed in black on cardstock. In several columns of text, the sign details Meier's in the tower of the Scheiwe Warehouse at East Grand Boulevard and Beaubien, the clock in the window of his store at Gratiot Avenue and East Grand Boulevard, his 1907 Master Clock (1982.020.001 ) which was displayed at the Michigan State Fair, his clocks for the Cathedral of St. Anthony and St. Albertus Catholic Church, the Belle Isle Clock in the Casino, his Universal Time Clock at a train station in Los Angeles, a clock built for a Capuchin Monastery, and Meier's personal watch. Halftone images of some of the clocks and buildings described, as well as portraits of Louis Meier, and his songs, Frank Meier, and Louis Meier, Jr. accompany the text.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Postcard bearing a colorized half-tone photograph of the Belle Isle Casino, as taken from the lawn to the north, published by the United News Company. People and early automobiles are on the road in front of the building, and more figures stand along its promenade. An informational paragraph is printed on the verso: Casino, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich. Casino, Belle Isle, is in the Detroit River between Detroit and Windsor, Canada. The island contains 702 acres and is entirely covered with one of the most beautiful pars in the United States having some 21 miles of macadam roads; a magnificent Casino, Pavilions, Boat Houses, Aquarium, Horticultural Hall, and Zoological Gardens. The island was purchased by Detroit in 1879 and has since then expended $1,600,000 in beautifying it. The postcard has been addressed to Mr. Wright Collier of Camp Davis, Topinabee, Michigan, and postmarked July 4, 1919 from Detroit, with the message: Dear Wright Happy 4th. Will write soon. Mother
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Informational sign about clockmaker Louis Meier, printed in black on cardstock. In several columns of text, the sign details Meier's in the tower of the Scheiwe Warehouse at East Grand Boulevard and Beaubien, the clock in the window of his store at Gratiot Avenue and East Grand Boulevard, his 1907 Master Clock (1982.020.001 ) which was displayed at the Michigan State Fair, his clocks for the Cathedral of St. Anthony and St. Albertus Catholic Church, the Belle Isle Clock in the Casino, his Universal Time Clock at a train station in Los Angeles, a clock built for a Capuchin Monastery, and Meier's personal watch. Halftone images of some of the clocks and buildings described, as well as portraits of Louis Meier, and his songs, Frank Meier, and Louis Meier, Jr. accompany the text.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One folio series entitled, "Detroit Illustrated," that was published in 14 parts by H. R. Page & Company of Chicago. This folio, Part Five, has a gray/green paper cover that is printed in brown text. There are six interior pages which include sepia-toned photographic images that are entitled as follows: Scripps Mausoleum Scene in Elmwood Cemetery Gentle's Flats Fountain in Grand Circus Park Detroit Athletic Club Residence of C. J. Whitney Clark's Ship Yard and Dry Dock Casino at Belle Isle Park.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photographic print of the eastern face of the Belle Isle Casino. Chairs are set up on the plaza around its base, and a small shack stands in the foreground.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
