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- Description:
- One booklet entitled "1860-1910, The Woodward Ave. Baptist Church Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary." The softcover booklet has a light tan paper cover with embossed title text and an embossed image of the church exterior. It contains 36 pages of black printed text on white/tan paper and gives a detailed history of the church, its pastors, charitable works, and finances. Names of current staff members, deacons, trustees, and committee members are also shown. Many black and white photographic images are included with the text. The last six pages show the daily programs for the week-long Jubilee celebration that was held at the church from Monday, June 20, 1910, to Sunday, June 26, 1910. The pages and cover are held together at the left edge with a thin tan cord.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet published by Christ Church Detroit containing hymns and prayers. Dated Oct 6, 1918.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Softcover booklet entitled, "A Trip Through Our Plant," published by the Ockford Printing Company in 1912. At that time, the company had just moved into a new facility at 68-92 Howard St., Detroit, Michigan. The booklet cover is grayish tan with red and black text. Inside pages include black and red text on white paper with black and white photographs of the printing plant interior and exterior. A blank information request postcard is located on the inside back cover of the booklet.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One booklet entitled "Old Fashioned Home Songs - School Edition," published by the Ling Piano House located in the King Building at 78 Library Ave., Detroit, Michigan. The softcover booklet is printed in black text on moderately yellowed paper and is 32 pages in length.
- Date Issued:
- 1898-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Small almanac bound in a blue paper cover, published by the Piso Company of Warren, Pennsylvania, containing articles advertising Piso's medicinal products.
- Date Issued:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet commemorating the 100th anniversary of Central Methodist Church and Michigan Methodism. Contains black & white photos, history of the church and its pastors, church directory, and program for the 55th Annual Session of Detroit Conference.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One booklet entitled "Address to the Public. The Advisibility of Purchasing Belle Isle for a Park, Water Works and Basis for a Tunnel. A Review of a Pamphlet, by D. Farrand Henry, Esq., Entitled 'Reasons for desiring a Removal of the Water Works." A Defense Of the action of the Common Council, and a Review of the Arguments of the Chief Engineer of the Water Board in favor of the Hamtramck Scheme." Printed in Detroit by the Union Job Printing Company in 1874. The cover is printed on light blue paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1874-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet describing a proposed "Monument to Be Erected by the People to Commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the Founding of Detroit," copyright Henry Russel 1900. The monument was to be a Doric column twenty-four feet in diameter and two hundred twenty feet high, and was to stand "upon a site reclaimed from the river at the lower end of Belle Isle Park." The booklet features a several page description of the monument and the reasons why it was being proposed, and also solicits funds for the construction of the project, which was estimated to cost one million dollars. A color illustration of the proposed monument can be found on the verso of the first page. Also located in the booklet is a list of the members of the Detroit Bicentennial Memorial committee. The last sheet is a perforated sheet containing instructions for subscribing and sending funds to the committee.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Staple and ribbon bound booklet published by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows to campaign for Detroit to host the 1898 meeting of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The booklet contains photographs of Detroit buildings, streets, and sites, as well as articles on its suitableness for conventions, Belle Isle, the St. Clair Flats, Put-in-Bay, Palmer Park, Windsor, Mt. Clemens, Fort Wayne, Grosse Isle, and Oakland County. A section near the end provides background information on Michigan Lodge No. 1, Wayne Lodge No. 2, Oliver Branch Lodge No. 38, Washington Lodge No. 54, Detroit Lodge No. 128, Sides Lodge No. 155, Columbus Lodge No. 215, Riverside Lodge No. 303, Western Lodge No. 370, Eastern Lodge No. 387, Jonathon Lodge No. 394, River Rouge Lodge No. 410, American Eagle Lodge No. 441, Michigan Encampment No. 1, Enterprise Encampment No. 17, Ingersoll Encampment No. 29, Germania Encampment No. 45, and Canton Detroit No. 1 Patriarchs Militant. The booklet closes with messages from Governor Hazen S. Pingree and Mayor William C. Maybury to the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows urging them to select Detroit.
- Date Issued:
- 1897-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet about antitoxins and vaccines produced by Parke, Davis & Co., with a few words on organo-therapy. A presentation of salient points relating to biologic therapy, for the use of student and practitioner.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
