Detroit Historical Society
12642 items
- Description:
- This cyan halftone picture was cut from a page and shows a front corner view of the Trumbull Avenue Police Station building. A handwritten date at the bottom of the cutout shows "Jany. 1st 1901."
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Anniversaries
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting a girl looking at a pumpkin carriage being pulled by four rats and driven by another. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Oct 25, 1910. L. & E. Serie 2262
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Black and white postcard depicting Harper Hospital on John R Street with several trees in front.
- Date Issued:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Sheet music for the song "Detroit", words by William Edgar Springer, music by J. H. Hahn, published by W. E. Springer. Cover features a photo image of Campus Martius.
- Date Issued:
- 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Music
- Description:
- Single page from Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, later known as Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, dated March 4, 1854, pgs. 131-132. Page 132 features two etchings. The etching on the upper portion of the page depicts a room from the Egyptian Museum in Paris. The etching on the bottom portion of the page depicts the Michigan Great Central Railroad Depot, as viewed facing south along Third Street. The text around the etchings on page 132 is a continuation of a book chapter from the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1854-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- A letter from Ralph Emery, a clerk working for the Detroit Stove Works, to his father, Robert T. Emery, in Belfast, Maine, dated June 13, 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, It is fearfully warm Today. I have just come up to the works where I can get a good cool breeze [----] + get cooled off - as where the works are situated is one of the coolest places in the City. There is nothing new to write about, everything is going along well. Understand they are to have the Election in Ward Two over again, undoubtedly it will be very exciting. Received an invitation from Edith Crowninshield to her Class day exercises - wrote her a long note in reply - Suppose you are having delightfully cool weather in Belfast + enjoying Green Peas + Salmon. By the way what are Salmon worth + are they to be cheap this season - have you been out to the pond or to [Turtle?] Head this year. Sent you a paper a few days ago containing some interesting shipping charts of the Lake Fleet which I thought might interest you - you will see some of the vessels they have on the Lakes are very large. Hope you are well + that I shall hear from you soon, [-----]. Your affec. son, Ralph
- Date Issued:
- 1886-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One drawing entitled "Fort Wayne, Michigan, Outline Sketch to Accompany Report of Col. T. J. Cram, Corps of Engineers for Year Ending 30 June 1864." The drawing consists of black and red ink on linen and shows the configuration of the outer walls of the fort. Gun platform and casemate numbers are shown as well as wall heights. The drawing is shown at a scale of 1 inch = 50 feet. Handwritten text near the lower right corner of the fort shows "Note: The figures in red designate the number of each gun platform adopted in accordance with Dept. Circular of July 28, 1864. Those upon the outside of the scarp, at the flanks, are the numbers of the Casemate guns in front of which they are placed. The references (in black) on the scarp wall indicate the height to which it has been constructed, the level of the ditch being (9')."
- Date Issued:
- 1864-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fort Wayne
- Description:
- Blue monochromatic postcard depicting Central High School from the corner of W Hancock Street and Cass Avenue. Handwritten message on verso, dated Feb 10, 1908. A. C. Dietsche, Detroit, Mich. And Leipzig. Made in Germany
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- One navigational chart entitled, "Chart of Detroit River" that was compiled and published as part of the Survey of the Northern and Northwestern Lakes (War Department, Corps of Engineers). It was "Projected from a Trigonometrical Survey executed under the orders of Major C. B. Comstock, Corps of Engineers." The chart is drawn at a scale of 1:40,000 and shows the Detroit River from Wind Mill Point at the lower end of Lake St. Clair down to Pointe Mouillée at the lower end of the river. Land areas are shaded in pale yellow. River/lake areas are shown in white and pale green. Distances are given in statute miles. Soundings for lake depths are given in feet. Lines of latitude and longitude are shown in black. Lighthouses and buoys are also noted. An inset chart on the lower right side provides additional details of the ship channel in the vicinity of Amherstberg and the mouth of the Detroit River.
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Maritime
- Description:
- Square Black and white postcard depicting an elevated view along Woodward Avenue from Campus Martius, facing southeast. In view are commercial buildings, pedestrians, and a ship on the Detroit River. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Aug 20, 1905.
- Date Issued:
- 1905-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard