Detroit Historical Society
12642 items
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting Detroit United Railway streetcar trailer #5104. Image from page 57 of D.U.R. Photographs to Accompany Report of C.H. Fessenden, Sept. 3, 1921.
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Trade card for J. Henry Ling, a salesman for Boardman and Grey Pianos, at 67 Monroe Avenue. A color lithograph of a girl holding an armful of flowers, over which a monarch butterfly hovers, is on the recto. An advertisement for the Boardman and Gray Pianos factory and warehouse in Albany, New York, is on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company order acknowledgment postcard mailed to F. R. Jennings, Tidioute, Pennsylvania for order number order number 03357, a bulk order of seeds made on August 4, 1913; card states order will shipped "in due season"; front of card has postmark "Detroit, Mich., Aug 19, 3:30 PM, 1913" along with one cent McKinley postage card stamp
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo taken of the Michigan Central Railroad Depot as viewed from the north side of West Jefferson Avenue, to the east of Third Avenue. Horse-drawn carriages are stopped along Jefferson Avenue. Posters are posted on a utility pole on the right edge of frame.
- Date Issued:
- 1885-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Main Entrance to Fort Wayne from W Jefferson Avenue, with several people standing by. On top of the stone walls are two cannons. Buildings can be seen in the background, and streetcar tracks in the foreground. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Sep 1912.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white photographic postcard depicting the Detroit Yacht Club, with the Detroit River in the foreground. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jun 17, 1909.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the old Post Office from the corner of W Fort and Shelby Streets. Printed on verso: The Detroit Post Office occupies the site from which in 1796 frowned the bastions of old Fort Shelby. The present great stone building was first occupied in 1897. The United States paid $401,258.38 for the site, $1,078,741.62 for the building and $33,000 for the furnishings. The United States court room on one of the upper floors is one of the finest halls of justice in the United States. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul 18, 1910.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Document appointing Ira Mayhew to a two year term as Michigan Superintendent of Public Instruction. Dated February 27, 1847. Signed by Governor Alpheus Felch and Secretary of State G. O. Whittemore.
- Date Issued:
- 1847-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Certificate, mounted on linen, conferring upon Russell A. Alger the rank of Major General "for gallant and meritorious service during the war." Dated March, 1865. A blue seal is affixed at top left. Printed signatures from President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton are at bottom.
- Date Issued:
- 1865-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Mounted sepia toned group portrait photograph taken of Mayor Hazen S. Pingree, the Aldermen of the Detroit Common Council, and newspaper men posed standing in roughly three rows, behind Mount Vernon, on October 22, 1893. The 22 men wear coats and hold their hats at their sides. Photograph date October 22, 1893 "Luke C. Dillon, Photographer to Mount Vernon. Office at Pullman's Gallery. No. 935 Pennsylvania Ave. P.O. Box 655, Washington D.C.," is stamped on the verso, and "Oct. 22, 1893, Detroit Aldermen, Mayor Pingree, & newspaper men at Mount Vernon," is handwritten on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society