Detroit Historical Society
12642 items
- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "Meteor" model wood burning cooking stoves. On the recto is an illustration, credited to Pierson Engravers of N.Y., of a Meteor stove and text advertising that it is "For Any Type of Coal" and "has double sliding doors, one sliding over the other, and both passing into a pocket in the column on either side, Rolling and Dump Grate."
- Date Issued:
- 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Invoice from R. W. King & Co. to Mrs. Trowbridge, for $7.00, dated December 13, 1856. The invoice is printed in black text with red lines and columns on white paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1856-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the floral clock in Water Works Park. Printed on verso: Floral Clock at Gladwin Park, Detroit, Mich. This Floral Clock is located at Gladwin Park, which contains 75 acres. Here also is found the water pumping station where seventy three million gallons of water are pumped daily for Detroit's supply. The Clock is run by water power. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul 4, 1911.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Hotel Statler from the corner of Bagley Street and Park Avenue, with cars, pedestrians, and Grand Circus Park in front. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Sep 26, 1921.
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Trade card from the Michigan Stove Company advertising Garland Stoves and Ranges. A lithograph on the recto, attributed to "Chas. Shields Sons 20 & 22 Gold St N.Y," depicts a trio of yelling young boys on a sled as they are about to collide with a scowling man holding a basket on top of his head with his right arm and another basket, full of eggs, on his left arm. The phrase "Buy Garland Stoves and Ranges" is printed on the top left of the recto. On the verso is an early Garland Stoves and Ranges logo with a stamp below it that reads "Sold by Toepel Bros, 180 Gratiot Ave".
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Ferry-Morse Seed Company pamphlet titled "Make the MOST of your Vegetable Garden", printed by Evans-Winter-Hebb Incorporated, Detroit; picture of a women in a pink blouse with a straw hat holding corn on front, with other plants around; folds out, with instructions for "How to Thin the Garden Row", "How to Take Care or Your Garden" and "How to Transplant Seedlings; accompanied by black and white photographs, with green highlighted plants; when completely unfolded "Ferry's Home Garden "How-and-When" Chart" is shown, listing different vegetables with instructions for planting and care; copyrighted 1943
- Date Issued:
- 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Black and white postcard depicting the downtown skyline from across the Detroit River. In view are docked ships and the Wayne County Building. Handwritten message on recto, postmarked Jul 30, 1908.
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Manual of Therapeutics referring especially to the products of the pharmaceutical and biological laboratories of Parke, Davis & Co.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- Six panel parallel folded Detroit and Port Huron Electric Fast Line time table and map. The recto includes times for interurban streetcars between Detroit and Port Huron, effective July 18, 1905, as well as times for cars between Detroit and Mt. Clemens aboard the Shore Line Interurban. The verso is printed with a color map expanding across all six panels, credited to the Calvert Lithographing Company, showing the routes of both lines as well as highlighting cities, hotels, and landmarks along both sides of Lake St. Clair, and the St. Clair River. Streetcar number 102, the "Miantonoman" is pictured in an insert in the map.
- Date Issued:
- 1905-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Half-folded time table for the Detroit and Milwaukee Railway No. 22, to take effect on Monday, October 11, 1858. The cover and back page list rules and instructions for employees of the company. The two interior pages list times for trains eastward from Milwaukee to Detroit, and westward for Detroit to Milwaukee. Four times are listed for each route.
- Date Issued:
- 1858-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation