Detroit Historical Society
12642 items
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Detroit Boat Club, with the Detroit River in the foreground. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked May 7, 1908.
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Postcard. Illustrated color print depicting the Lafayette Boulevard Temple, a seven story brick building, located at Lafayette Boulevard and First Street, with a red and white tent from the entrance to the street.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Print. Small black and white halftone print of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Judge William F. Connolly (as indicated on verso) wearing a buttoned dress coat.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Police Department
- Description:
- Black and white photographic postcard depicting Country Club on Grosse Ile, with several men and women standing nearby. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul 22, 1913.
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting many people canoeing on a Belle Isle canal, with people sitting along the shore.
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Academy of the Sacred Heart. Printed on verso: Academy of the Sacred Heart. - 322 Jefferson Avenue. Founded in 1850. Handwritten message on verso, dated Nov 15, 1909.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- This slightly yellowed paper envelope contained a 3-page letter and other items that were prepared by Frederick F. Ingram, who was the President of the Public Lighting Commission. The upper left corner of the envelope shows the return address, "Executive Office, Detroit, Mich., William C. Maybury, Mayor." The left side of the envelope shows the handwritten title, "Lighting Past, Present & Future by Prest. F. F. Ingram, 1900." The envelope is addressed to "Prest. P. L. Commission, 2001."
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Anniversaries
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting a floral design in Grand Circus Park arranged to read "In Detroit Live is Worth Living", with trees and people seated on benches in the background. Printed on verso: In Detroit Life is Worth Living. This floral display is located in East Grand Circus Park, the oldest of Detroit's breathing grounds, is situated almost in the center of the city's retail district. Magnificent shade trees are everywhere, real monarchs of the forest that started to grow even before a white man set his foot on what is now the State of Michigan. The Park was set aside in 1854 under the general redistricting of the city. In the foreground Detroit's slogan is brought out very prominently in beautifully colored foliage. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Nov 20, 1911.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Handbill for a performance of "The Two Orphans" at Whitney's Grand Opera House on September 20; front features a lithograph of two young women in dresses holding one another; verso contains some information on the production as well as a cast list.
- Date Issued:
- 1886-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Theatre/Theater
- Description:
- Letterhead from the steamer May Flower of the Michigan Central Railroad Line with three handwritten notes dated Aug 1, 2, and 3, 1854. The first asks for introduction of Nelson Bowen to a Capt. Ledyard.
- Date Issued:
- 1854-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation