Detroit Historical Society
12642 items
- Description:
- Sheet music for the song "Ain't You Coming Back to Dixieland", lyric by Raymond Egan, music by Richard A. Whiting, published by Jerome H. Remick & Co. Al Jolson is featured on the cover.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Music
- Description:
- Trade card from the Michigan Stove Company advertising Garland Stoves and Ranges. A lithograph on the recto depicts two young girls, one in a white and pink dress and the other in a blue and yellow dress, feeding ducks while sitting on a river bank. An advertisement for Garland Stoves and Ranges, stressing the importance of buying genuine Garland products, is on the verso.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One receipt from the James C. Watson Livery for Mr. George Dupre [Dupuis] indicating that his account was paid in full as of July 3, 1886. The receipt is printed in black ink on white paper which also has light red lines and columns. The company letterhead shows an engraved drawing of the front of the livery building.
- Date Issued:
- 1886-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Pocket-sized calendar entitled, "Colgate & Co. Calendar - 1905," softcover. The cover has a multi-color picture of a child beneath a garden arbor. Inside pages have months printed in black text on white paper and are surrounded by colorful flower garden scenes.
- Date Issued:
- 1905-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Document appointing Ira Mayhew to a two year term as Michigan Superintendent of Public Instruction. Dated April 17, 1845. Signed by Governor John S. Barry and Deputy Secretary of State Thomas R. Cummings.
- Date Issued:
- 1845-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Education
- Description:
- Booklet published by the Evening News, containing a New Years message for 1895, several images of the newspaper's presses, a list of City of Detroit officials, the sheet music for the Evening News March composed by William C.G. Wright, and calendars for the year. The cover features an illustration from the Calvert Lithographing Company of an ink pen, well, and scroll with the text, "60,000 Copies Daily."
- Date Issued:
- 1895-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One business card. The card is printed in black and red ink on heavy pale yellow paper that shows "Elliott & Brother, Elliotts' Cloth House, No. 128 Woodward Avenue, Detroit." The owners' names, "Richard R. Elliott" and "James R. Elliott," are shown in the lower left corner of the card. Printed text on the verso shows "Foreign Passage and Exchange Office of Richard R. Elliott, 128 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Mich." and "Established in Detroit, September, 1841." This card was contained in the lead box time capsule that was removed from the Old City Hall on May 25, 1961.
- Date Issued:
- 1874-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Four-pane folding promotional 1895 calendar from the Michigan Stove Company, advertising Garland Stoves and Ranges. A scene of children talking amongst themselves against a background of a landscape with a windmill is spread across all four panes on the recto, with a calendar running along the bottom and the year "1895" printed in the center. A large advertisement for Garland Stoves and Ranges is spread across all four panes on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1895-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- This cyan halftone picture was cut from a page and shows a head and shoulders picture of C. J. Whitney who was the owner of the new Detroit Opera House. Some of the architectural features of the new Opera House (built in 1898) are described in the text that is printed adjacent to the picture and on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Anniversaries
- Description:
- Mabley and Company catalog containing prices and illustration's for the store's offering of men's, women's, and children's clothing, hats, shoes, and crockery for the fall and winter seasons spanning 1886 to 1887. The catalog is bound in a paper cover with a color lithograph of a two vignettes--a woman peering out a window into a snowstorm, and a fox hunter on horseback--serving as the cover. The image is credited to Sackett, Wilhelms and Betzig of New York. Images of the company's eastside and westside locations framed by birds and a sunburst are on the back cover. The catalog includes a mail order form.
- Date Issued:
- 1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail