Detroit Historical Society
12642 items
- Description:
- Collection of sheet music titled "The Star Dance Folio No. 21, Containing the Season's Most Popular Songs, Especially Arranged as Fox Trots, One Steps, Waltzes and Marches", compiled and edited by J. Bodewalt Lampe, published by Jerome H. Remick & Co. Cover illustration by Starmer.
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Music
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Fireman's Monument in Elmwood Cemetery. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Aug 5, 1909.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- "Weekly Time Book" printed by Berry Brothers Varnishes, softcover, 1905. The outside cover is gray/tan in color with black text. The inside pages have pre-printed lines and columns to keep track of workmen's weekly wages. Names and wage data have been handwritten in black ink throughout the book for the year 1905. However, the name of the company is not indicated. The initials, "C.F., Sr." and "C.F., Jr." appear at the end of each weekly time/wage account. Possibly, they are the company owners.
- Date Issued:
- 1905-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One blueprint drawing entitled, "Stmr. [Steamer] No. 116, Lines." The drawing shows the hull lines for the passenger steamship, Ste. Claire. The title block in the lower right corner shows that the drawing was prepared by "The Toledo Shipbuilding Co.," at a scale of 1/4 inch = 1 foot and is dated November, 1909. The plan number is shown as "1-2." An ink stamp above the title block shows "New Drawing No.: Tol. 116-55-0-2, Tube No. 1."
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Maritime
- Description:
- Catalog from the Detroit Stove Works with a stiff gray, black and orange cardboard cover. The front cover reads "Detroit Stove Works Price List; Feb 1., 1994; Jewel Stoves; Offices and Salesrooms 32 and 34 Woodward Avenue; Foundry and Warehouse at Hamtramck." The catalog's printing is attributed to William Graham of Detroit, Michigan. Contained within it are prices, images, measurements and advertising information for Jewel Stoves and Ranges, as well as accessories for them, from 1884. On the back cover is an image of a "Brilliant Jewel Base Burner" model stove.
- Date Issued:
- 1884-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One plan sheet entitled, "Construction Draft of Strs. 59/60 for Ft.& P.M. [Flint & Pere Marquette] R.R. Co." The drawing consists of red, black, and blue ink on linen and shows a port side interior profile view of the proposed wooden-hulled, propeller-driven, passenger steamships. The plan was prepared at a scale of 1/4 inch = 1 foot by Frank E. Kirby for the Detroit Dry Dock Company and is dated March, 1882. (Steamer numbers 59 and 60 were the Detroit Dry Dock hull numbers for the passenger steamships that were known as F.&P.M. No. 1 and F.&P.M. No. 2, respectively.)
- Date Issued:
- 1882-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Maritime
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Log Cabin in Palmer Park, with a chair in front. Calling card information printed on verso for "The Chas. A. Berkey Co. Wholesale Jewelers, 110 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich." Postmarked Nov 9, 1908.
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting a people on the shore near a bridge on Belle Isle. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul 25, 1912.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Poster printed in brown, green, blue, and yellow on cardboard. Shows a drawing of a U.S. Treasury building in Washington, D.C. in the center near the top. Text underneath reads "Second Liberty Loan of 1917 Buy a Bond."
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
- Description:
- Blue monochromatic postcard depicting a group of people in a wooded area of Slocum's Island in Trenton. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul 17, 1909.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard