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- Booklet. The Tenth Annual Report of the Public Lighting Commission of the City of Detroit, Michigan, an 86 page booklet. Within are charts, and graphs detailing the operations of the Public Lighting Commission for the fiscal year spanning from July 1, 1904 to June 30, 1905. Also included are photographic plates depicting the Public Lighting Commissioners, streetlights, tunnels, and facilities of the Public Lighting Commission.
- Date Issued:
- 1905-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Staple-bound booklet published for the Annual Meeting of the Garden Club of America in Detroit in June 1925. The booklet is bound in a green paper cover with images of seals representing France, Great Britain, and the United States, along with a half-tone print of an illustration of early French settlers. The booklet contains the sections, "Old Gardens of Michigan," by Caroline Alger Shelden, "Grosse Point Gardens," by "E.S.P.," and the list "Some Modern Gardens of Michigan." Several illustrations and photographs are included within.
- Date Issued:
- 1925-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet containing the Evening News' carrier's address for New Year's, 1882. The front cover features the title of the publication and an introductory stanza for the address, surrounded by a decorative border. The introductory stanza reads as follows: "Your pardon we crave if presumptuous we seem: But our last year's long labors we hope you may deem Deserving a bonus ; no handsome annuity We ask at your hands: but a modest gratuity! -Your Newsboy.-" The booklet's first seven pages contains the full text of the address, with the eighth page featuring a calendar for the year 1882. The inside of the front cover has an advertisement for the Art Emporium and Artists' Supply Depot, while the back cover has an advertisement for the Mills & Barker furniture store. The booklet is bound by string.
- Date Issued:
- 1882-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- 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
- Description:
- Booklet entitled "Communication of Hon. Wm. C. Maybury on Controller F. A. Blades' Plan for Making Permanent Improvements in the City of Detroit by the Issue of Thirty Year Four Per Cent Bonds, As Submitted to the Common Council, November 29, 1898." The 7-page booklet is printed in black text on slightly yellowed paper. (Page 2 is blank.)
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet about antidiphtheric serum and antidiphtheric globulins produced by Parke, Davis & Co.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet entitled, "The Detroit Edison Synchroscope," vol. 8, no. 1, March, 1921; 28 pages, softcover (employee newsletter of the Detroit Edison Company). Outside cover is pale yellow with black text. Inside pages are printed in black text with black and white photos.
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Pocket-sized 1902 calendar published by the World's Dispensary Medical Association, filled with advertisements about the group's medicines. The cover bears a black and white illustration of a woman in a fancy dress sitting at a writing desk. The January/February page has been filled out with what appears to be an inventory of fabrics, patterns, and sewing notions. A newspaper clipping concerning a sidewalk paving ordinance, dated August 11, 1903, has been pinned to the March/April page.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet about Elmwood Cemetery. Includes black & white photos, a brief historical sketch, rules and regulation, an act of incorporation, and suggestions of F. L. Olmsted & Co. Detroit: John Bornman & Son, Printers.
- Date Issued:
- 1895-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Recipe booklet containing numerous advertisements from the Michigan Stove Company profiling their different models of stoves, as well as single advertisements from several other businesses. The cover is printed with an advertisement for Newcomb, Endicott, and Company, featuring a lithograph of their location credited to the Calvert Lithographing Company. C.R. Mabley and Company; the Russell House; the Banner Tobacco Company; the John H. Wendell and Company Grain Commission; M.S. Smith and Company, Jewelers and Silversmiths; and the Calvert Lithographing Company are featured in advertisements within. Two pages are also dedicated to a brief "Historical Sketch of Detroit,"
- Date Issued:
- 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
