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- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company invoice for the McCammon Investment Company of McCammon, Idaho, recording a balance due of $32.08, for the 1909 season, dated November 29, 1909. The "Pd," has been added in pencil in the ledger field. The invoice is printed on company letterhead, and is signed "D.M. Ferry & Co." at the bottom.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- D.M. Ferry and Company receipt from a box of seeds, plus packages of late cabbage, kale, and kohlrabi seeds, totaling $43.20, sold to Mr. C. Schaaf of Augusta, Missouri on December 16, 1876. "On sale," is noted in a field marked "terms," and "Less comm[ission]," has been noted beneath the list of goods. The receipt is printed with a company header that includes an engraving of a woman in Native American costume standing with her hand on her chest above a woman who is kneeling while gathering grains with a sickle.
- Date Issued:
- 1876-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- 1901 D. M. Ferry and Company catalog; front cover has "1901 Universal Almanac and Catalogue of Seeds, D. M. Ferry & Co. Seed Merchants Detroit, Mich."; back cover has pictures of D. M. Ferry & Co. warehouses in bottom half, with "Seed Warehouses of D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich." under the picture; hole near top corner with a string run through it for hanging; inside are descriptions of various plants with prices; black and white illustrations and photographs
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Front cover, back cover, and interior color illustration from 1883 D. M. Ferry and Company catalog, printed by the Gulley Printing House, Detroit; front cover shows a circle with a woman in a red and white dress watering flowers outside a window, and flowers surround the circle; "Seed Annual 1883" above the circle with D.M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich. below the circle; back cover shows a circle with a young boy sitting on a watermelon and eating a piece of watermelon with a young girl in a red and white dress standing next to him watching; various vegetables run around the circle; D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich. is just above the circle; both cover images from Calvert Lithograph Company, Detroit; third page is a color picture of various flowers from Cosack & CC Buffalo & Chicago
- Date Issued:
- 1883-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog; cover only, pages are missing; front and back cover has a picture of four flowers, a yellow one "Mrs. Moon", a dark pink "Psyche", a light pink "Fairy Queen" and a purple "Philippe de Commines", with "Bulbs & Seeds Autumn 1917" at top, and "D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich." at bottom
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company Memorandum of Shipment, dated December 5, 1910, for one box of Standard Garden Seeds sent to Suttle and Jones Company of Felix, Alabama shipped care of "So Rr," presumably the Southern Railroad, Birmingham to Selma. The form states that freight charges are prepaid for the Detroit to Birmingham leg of the trip. "The best is always the cheapest,--plant Ferry's," is printed at the bottom.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- 1893 D. M. Ferry and Company catalog printed by John Bornman and Sons, with illustrations from the Calvert Lithograph Company; front cover has a picture of small pink flowers along left and top side from a vase at the bottom left, with a second smaller, round vase next to it; background is blue at the tope and bottom, with tan bordered by yellow in the middle; "Seed Annual 1893" in middle, with D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich. along bottom; back cover has same background, with green lima beans hanging from vines and the caption "Horticulutral Lima Bean, Actual Size"; D. M. Ferry & Co. Seed Merchants, Detroit, Mich. at bottom; descriptions and prices of seeds and farming tools inside with black and white pictures and drawings throughout and two color pages near beginning; order form attached with envelope
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Typewritten letter from Dexter M. Ferry to the Detroit Safe Company thanking them for the durability of four large fire-proof safes which protected their contents from a fire, lasting five or six days, which claimed the D.M. Ferry and Company seed warehouse. The letter is dated January 8, 1886, and is printed on D.M. Ferry and Company letterhead, listing company executives, and printed by the Calvert Lithograph Company.
- Date Issued:
- 1886-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- D.M. Ferry and Company shipping confirmation form sent to P.J. Winn and Company of Fort Union, Virginia on January 16, 1894 stating that a box of garden seeds has been sent care of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to Lynchburg via Bremo Bluff, Virginia. The form states that freight has been paid for the Detroit to Lynchburg leg, but local railroad charges will be the responsibility of the buyer.
- Date Issued:
- 1894-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- D.M. Ferry and Company receipt for $3.77 received of P.J. Winn and Company on August 7, 1894. An illegible signature is printed at the lower right.
- Date Issued:
- 1894-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
