Detroit Historical Society
12642 items
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting many people on the beach at the Bath House on Belle Isle. In the background is the Detroit Yacht Club. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul 20, 1914.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting Dunn School in River Rouge. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Oct, 1908.
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Map, "City of Detroit 1853-1854," published by J.D. Johnston and printed by R. Burger & Co., Beaubien Street between Jefferson Avenue and Woodbridge Street, Detroit. The map is printed in black text on white paper. It is bounded to the west by the line of Woobridge Farm, to the south by the Detroit River, to the east by the line of Witherall Farm, and to the north by Sproat Street. A list of 63 references on the bottom corresponds to numbered locations on the map, and includes City Hall, courts, schools, engine houses, churches, and parks.
- Date Issued:
- 1854-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- One blueprint drawing entitled "Plan of Ceiling Under Smoking Room" and "Plan of Main Ceiling." The drawing shows proposed architectural details in two of the public rooms in the passenger steamship, SS City of Detroit III. The name of the designer, "Louis O. Keil," is shown in the lower right corner of the plan sheet along with the date, "Dec. 10, '06." Several years after the ship was scrapped in 1956, the salvaged men's smoking lounge (known as the Gothic Room) was acquired by the City of Detroit and was reassembled in the Dossin Great Lakes Museum.
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Maritime
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting windmills along the shore of Grosse Ile. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul 1, 1909.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Monochromatic postcard depicting the Temple Theatre and Wonderland from the corner of Monroe Street and Campus Martius. In the background is the Elks Temple. A sign reads "Continuous Vaudeville". Postmarked Mar 6, 1907.
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Detroit Fire Department leave of absence form made out by Lieutenant Guy Northrop of Engine Company No. 23 requesting 24 hours beginning October 28th, 1909 at 7 AM. The request was approved by Captain Adolph Hoeninghausen and Battalion Chief William H. Harris.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- A letter from Ralph Emery, a clerk working for the Detroit Stove Works, to his father, Robert T. Emery, in Belfast, Maine, dated October 14, 1886. The letter is written on Detroit Stove Works letterhead, which features a lithograph, credited to the Calvert Lithograph Company, depicting the Detroit Stove Works offices in Detroit and Chicago as well as the company's foundry in Hamtramck, Michigan. The letter reads: My dear Father, Was glad to receive yours of the 10th. There is very little going on now in Politics. election here first of next month + there will be a hot fight. We are having one of the worst storms there has ever been in Detroit, it began raining this morning + continued until noon, when the wind began to blow, + has been blowing a hurricane ever since, have never seen it blow so hard, the damage will be great, both on land + in the lakes, the ferry boats have been unable to run + the vessels along the docks have received considerable damage, hear one or two [steeples?] have blown over + a large number of trees - a part of the roof of one of our buildings at the works blew off this afternoon but nothing serious, one of the McMillian from Furnaces had the lot blown off this a.m. - the city tonight is almost in total darkness, as there is trouble with the wires running to the electric lights, it seems very strange not to see this city brightly lighted. The Hazeltines will probably arrive here this Saturday, shall be so glad to see them - Glad you enjoyed your trip to Boston + found all friends well, saw by the "City Press" Will [Quimby?] was married also had a letter from a friend in Boston, who wrote a friend that saw them at the Fremont House, said if he ever saw a foolish looking couple they were one - Please remember me to all friends + write whenever you can. Your affec. son, Ralph Emery
- Date Issued:
- 1886-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting City Hall and Hammond Building, with a moonlight tower, pedestrians, and an automobile in the foreground. Printed in Germany F von Bardeleben, New York & Germany Postmarked 1911.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Large half-folded newspaper-format program for performances of "Myles Aroon" at the Lyceum Theatre for the week of February 16, 1896. The program's masthead features an engraving of a woman playing a lute within a heart-shaped frame that is supported by cherubs, credited to J.H. McKendrick, as well as a masthead listing Charles Widrig as the publisher, E.D. Stair as the manager, and "Brady and Stair" as the directors. The program features numerous advertisements, and was printed by the McClure Press.
- Date Issued:
- 1896-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Theatre/Theater