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- Catalog booklet for C.R. Mabley's Mammoth Establishment, at 122-134 Woodward Avenue. The booklet bound in a purple paper cover with a lithograph of the exterior of the store on the front. Both C.R. Mabley and J.L. Hudson are listed as the proprietors on the cover. The cover also describes the store as, "The Largest Clothing, Boot and Shoe, Hat and Cap, Gents' Furnishing Goods and Custom Tailoring House in America." The company's Cincinnati location is pictured on the back cover. A history of the store, a directory, profiles of the 1880 Democratic Presidential and Vice Presidential nominees Winfield S. Hancock and William H. English, price lists and illustrations of men's and boys' clothing, and help taking your own measurements are contained within.
- Date Issued:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Page from a ledger, numbered 696, containing a table titled "We owe for New Goods," dated February 8, 1901. The table lists company names and dollar amounts. The page is in brown and red ink on lightweight partially translucent paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Page from a ledger, numbered 695, containing the two tables, "New Goods, Paid for and not taken up in stock" dated February 8, 1901, and "New Goods sold from New Goods recieved January 17th to February 8th, 1901." The first table lists company names, while the second lists types of clothing. The page is in brown and red ink on lightweight partially translucent paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Page from a ledger, numbered 693, containing the header, "Bought of F. Siegel and Bros." above a list months, February of 1900 through January 1901, and two columns of corresponding dollar amounts. The page is in brown and red ink on lightweight partially translucent paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Pocket-sized notebook bound in a pink cover advertising Clayton's, a men's clothing store located Michigan Avenue and Shelby Street. The front cover is printed with the slogans, "The Store That Satisfied," and "The Home of Good Clothes for Man and Boy," as well as the store's address and phone numbers. A passage on the back cover promotes the store's second floor Young Men's and Boy's College Section. Within the booklet contains several pages of lined paper along with further advertisements for Clayton's, math formulae, and calendars for 1909 and 1910.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- B. Siegel Company invoice, dated January 9, 1919, recording the purchase of a $7.50 petticoat to Mrs. S. Shamie of Trumbull Avenue. A handwritten note records that she used a $39.17 credit balance to pay for the petticoat. The form's letterhead includes a logo consisting of the initials B.S. Co., and provides the business's location as the corner of Woodward Avenue and State Street.
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Page from a ledger, numbered 692, containing a table tallying expenses for advertising in Detroit newspapers, dated February 8, 1902. The page is in brown and red ink on lightweight partially translucent paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Page from a ledger, numbered 694, containing a table titled "Winter Stock," listing articles of clothing with corresponding dollar amounts. "Our Year Feb. 8 1901 to Feb. 8, 1902," is written across the top of the page. The page is in brown and red ink on lightweight partially translucent paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Traver-Bird Company spring and summer 1909 catalog of men's clothing containing illustrations of men wearing the store's clothes, as well as care directions. The cover is grey with an illustration of a laurel wreath on the front.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Three pages from a ledger, numbered 690, 691, and 692, bound by a brass fastener. The first page is dated February 8, 1901, and is titled "Winter Stock." Below, the page lists articles of women's clothing beside dollar amounts. The page appears to have been repaired with backing cut from a letter from a Chicago-based company. The second page contains two tables, one of company names and dollar amounts, the other for advertising expenses in Detroit newspapers. The third page contains tables of monthly amounts in different categories from February 1900 through February 1901, as well as a "Summary" of different totals. The pages are in brown and red ink on lightweight partially translucent paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Page from a ledger, numbered 694, containing the header, "Benjamin Siegel" above a list months, February of 1900 through January 1901, bracketed beside the dollar amount $819.20. The page is in brown ink on lightweight partially translucent paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Page from a ledger, numbered 689, containing two tables, "Winter Stock," and "Summer Stock," listing articles of women's and children's clothing alongside dollar amounts. The page is dated February 8, 1903, and is in brown and red ink on lightweight partially translucent paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Page from a ledger, numbered 690, containing information about investments and stocks for the B. Siegel Company, and F. Siegel and Brothers, dated April 28, 1904. The statement is signed by the accountant. The page is in brown ink on lightweight partially translucent paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Page from a ledger, numbered 686, containing tables, dated February 10, 1903, of monthly amounts in different categories from February 1902 through February 1903, as well as a "Summary" of different totals. The page is in brown and red ink on lightweight partially translucent paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Mabley and Company catalog containing prices and illustrations for the store's offering of men's, women's, and children's clothing, hats, and shoes, as well as descriptions of the store's other departments. The catalog also discusses the company's expanded location beside its Woodward Avenue Shoe House called The Bazaar. A mail order form is included on the last page. The catalog is bound in a paper cover featuring a color lithograph of a family of deer on a hill side on the front. The image is credited to Sackett, Wilhelms, and Betzig of new York. An illustration on the back cover shows the company's facing locations on both the east and west sides of Woodward Avenue near Congress Street.
- Date Issued:
- 1885-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Eighteen panel pamphlet advertising Mabley and Company's men's fashions for the fall and winter seasons of 1889 and 1890. The cover panel is printed with a color lithograph of a man reclining in a rocking chair with a bear-skin rug at his feet, and a fireplace behind him. Within, the pamphlet includes illustrations of men's and boys' clothing, information about the company's stores, and information about their mail order business. When folded the back panel shows a color lithograph showing two of the company's locations, including the Woodward Avenue one at the bottom.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Mabley and Company catalog containing prices and illustration's for the store's offering of men's, women's, and children's clothing, hats, shoes, and crockery for the fall and winter seasons spanning 1886 to 1887. The catalog is bound in a paper cover with a color lithograph of a two vignettes--a woman peering out a window into a snowstorm, and a fox hunter on horseback--serving as the cover. The image is credited to Sackett, Wilhelms and Betzig of New York. Images of the company's eastside and westside locations framed by birds and a sunburst are on the back cover. The catalog includes a mail order form.
- Date Issued:
- 1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Page from a ledger, numbered 691, containing a table tallying dollar amounts beside articles of clothing, dated February 8, 1902. The page is in brown and red ink on lightweight partially translucent paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Booklet containing illustrations of two men's outfits offered by Gregory and Jordan for their spring and summer 1897 seasons. The booklet is bound with yellow cord in a tan cardstock cover printed with a red, green, and gold crest including scissors and an iron among its iconography.
- Date Issued:
- 1897-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Pocket-sized notebook bound in a red cover advertising tailor Charles E. Buysse located at 17 John R. Street. The cover is printed with an illustration of a well dressed man and woman standing in profile flanking a Detmer Woolen Company crest, and the phrase, "Fine Merchant Tailoring." Buysse's address is printed below. An advertisement for Detmer Woolen is printed on the back cover. Within the booklet contains several pages of lined paper along with further advertisements for Detmar Woolen, several pages of facts and figures, and calendars for 1913 and 1914.
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Page from a ledger, numbered 303, containing a table titled "Goods Paid for & not take up in stock," dated February 8, 1902 The table lists company names and dollar amounts. The page also contains two short notes about money owed on New York Gods, and about the dollar amount of goods ordered by not delivered. The page is in brown and red ink on lightweight partially translucent paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Souvenir booklet distributed by Mabley and Company containing a fold-out description of the city of Detroit, a small image of City Hall, and a page about Mabley and Company's shop, The Bazaar. The booklet is bound in a red cover with gold text and scrollwork. "Souvenir" is printed on the front cover, and "Compliments of Mabley & Company, Detroit, Mich." is on the back cover.
- Date Issued:
- 1885-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Tri-fold B. Siegel Company pamphlet advertising stockings as a Christmas present. The cover panel is printed with a green half-tone photo of angel figurines with musical instruments posed atop the sheet music for "Silent Night." Inside, the pamphlet contains prices, brief descriptions, and color options of stockings from Artcraft, Sandra, and Archer. The pamphlet also includes a mail order form.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Monthly statement from Madame Hude-Vier at 71 Washington Avenue, dated June 8, 1889. The statement's letterhead includes a lithograph of a young girl in a high chair wearing a long dress, and holding onto the loose end of a ball of yarn while a cat plays with the other end. The letterhead lists Madame Hude-Vier's specialties as "Infants' and Children's Wear, Bridal Outfits, Specialty of Imported White Goods, etc." The statement lists costs and payments for a dress and hat.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Monthly statement from Madame Hude-Vier at 71 Washington Avenue, dated June 1, 1889. The statement's letterhead includes a lithograph of a young girl in a high chair wearing a long dress, and holding onto the loose end of a ball of yarn while a cat plays with the other end. The letterhead lists Madame Hude-Vier's specialties as "Infants' and Children's Wear, Bridal Outfits, Specialty of Imported White Goods, etc." The statement lists costs and payments for gingham, hats, dresses, and a jacket.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Page from a ledger, numbered 693, containing tables, dated February 8, 1902, of monthly amounts in different categories from February 1901 through February 1902, as well as a "Summary" of different totals. The page is in brown and red ink on lightweight partially translucent paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail