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- Description:
- Letter, dated January 17th, 1913, from the Detroit Stove Works to the Soo Hardware Company in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The letter discusses an error in communication about replacement part numbers. At the top of the letter are images of the company's stove works on Jefferson Avenue in Detroit and their Western Offices on La Salle Street in Chicago.
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Handwritten note dated January 13, 1876, from Peninsular Iron Co. of Detroit, Michigan, to Theodore H. Eaton & Son concerning an order for castor oil. The linen paper is printed with light blue lines and the watermark, "Carew Co."
- Date Issued:
- 1876-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Barclay and Black Carpet Warehouse trade card. The recto names them as "successors to Bond, Black & Co.," and lists the proprietors as J.R. Black, and W.L. Barclay, with William Bond crossed out. The verso lists various goods that the firm imports and sells. This card was contained in the lead box time capsule that was removed from the Old City Hall on May 25, 1961.
- Date Issued:
- 1874-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company invoice for the McCammon Investment Company of McCammon, Idaho, recording a balance due of $32.08, for the 1909 season, dated November 29, 1909. The "Pd," has been added in pencil in the ledger field. The invoice is printed on company letterhead, and is signed "D.M. Ferry & Co." at the bottom.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Letter, dated February 10th, 1903, from the Peninsular Stove Company to L.J. Bahler of Walnutcreek, Ohio. The letter discusses a complaint by Bahler that the High Closet for his Emblem Range stove does not fit properly, with the Peninsular Stove Company writing that they are sending a new one to him and asking that he return the old at his earliest convenience. At the top of the letter is an image of the Peninsular Stove Company's logo and a stylized version of the company's name.
- Date Issued:
- 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Freund Brothers bill of sale for $3.07 paid in cash for kitchenware purchased on January 18, 1886. The letterhead lists the Freund Brothers as "proprietors of 'The Fair'" and provides their address as 44, 46, and 48 Michigan Avenue at Rowland Street. The letterhead also features an engraving of a baby carriage sold by The Fair.
- Date Issued:
- 1886-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One catalog entitled "People's Outfitting Co., Vol. 9, 1910." The catalog has a flexible black leather cover with the title embossed in gold-colored lettering. It contains 228 pages of printed text and drawings of various home furnishings that were available for sale by mail. Typical listings included chairs, tables, beds, dressers, rugs, pianos, and stoves. Prices, an example order form, and ordering directions are also shown. An index page is shown near the center of the catalog.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Letter dated August 22, 1887, from Sarah Midgley to Mrs. Harvey concerning the settlement of an account. The letterhead and lines are printed in blue ink on slightly yellowed paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Western Union telegram dated December 14, 1877, from J. W. Lord to Theodore H. Eaton, Jr., asking "Can Margaret join us in Chicago and go to Texas telegraph reply at once." (Note on telegraph form indicates that J. W. Lord was the brother-in-law of Theodore H. Eaton, Jr.)
- Date Issued:
- 1877-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Trade card from the Michigan Stove Company advertising Garland Stoves and Ranges. A lithograph on the recto depicts a vase of flowers, containing one pink flower and one white flower, sitting upon a surface with a red rose lying horizontally behind it. "Garland Stoves and Ranges" is printed across the bottom of the recto.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- D.M. Ferry and Company trade card advertising Nasturtium. A color illustration of the flowers, from the Calvert Lithograph Company, "painted from actual specimens," according to the caption, as well as the copyright date, 1889, are on the recto. The verso contains a description of the plant, and a price list for its different varieties.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Pocket map with cover entitled, "The Standard Life and Accident Insurance Company of Detroit, Michigan." The cover is printed in black text on heavy tan paper. The inside contains a folded map of the 1893 Columbian Exposition, Chicago, that is printed in black, red, and blue ink. A map of Chicago is printed on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- Trade card from the Michigan Stove Company advertising Garland Stoves and Ranges. A lithograph on the recto depicts two young girls, one in a white and pink dress carrying flowers and the other in a pink vest and green-brown skirt pulling a cart filled with flowers, walking alongside a sheep. An advertisement for Garland Stoves and Ranges, stressing the importance of buying genuine Garland products, is on the verso.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- D.M. Ferry and Company statement of account for Miss R. J. Winn and Company of Fort Union, Virginia on May 18, 1895. A handwritten note below the ledger reads, "These seeds were left over when our traveler called 7/8/94. Please remit at once."
- Date Issued:
- 1895-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog; front and back cover has a picture of a yellow flower attached to a green stem on a gray background, with "D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich. Bulbs and Seeds Autumn 1916" at bottom; inside are descriptions of various plants with prices; black and white pictures and photographs; Calvert Lithograph Company; John Borman and Son, Printers; order form included
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One receipt dated September 1, 1888, in the amount of $2.00 from Charles Cross on the account of T. B. Rayl & Company and collected by the Union Credit Company. The receipt is printed in black ink on stained white paper.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One accounting report for "Richmond & Backus - Insurance." The report is handwritten in black ink on a sheet of white linen ledger paper that has light blue lines and columns. It lists dates, item numbers, insurance company names, agent names, amounts, and totals.
- Date Issued:
- 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Promotional magazine from the Michigan Stove Company, advertising Garland Stoves and Ranges. On the book's front cover is an image of a woman's face in profile inside a circular decorative motif, as well as images of branches with flowers on them, a garland, and long-stemmed flowers. Written on the front cover is "The Garland Magazine; Circulation: One Million; Published By The Michigan Stove Company; Detroit.; Chicago.; Buffalo;." Stamped in blue below the title is "Zimmerman Bros. Agts, Marine City, Mich." Printing of the magazine is credited to the Hammond Press, W.B. Conkey Company, Chicago. On the back cover is text, written inside a backdrop of rectangules with fleurs-de-lis in them, advertising the fact that more Garland stoves are sold each year than any other stove. Contained within the magazine are anecdotes, jokes, poems and everday life tips amidst advertisements for Garland Stoves and Ranges.
- Date Issued:
- 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Invoice from the Detroit Lithographic Company for $12 of goods sold to T. H. Eaton and Sons, dated August 30, 1882. The invoice is printed with an ornate header containing the company's name.
- Date Issued:
- 1882-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "Alaska Cottage Improved" model stoves. On the recto is an illustration, credited to A. Picard of Troy, New York, of an Alaska Cottage Improved stove and text advertising that it has a "Pipe Top, With Pan and Swing Top Cover" among other improvements over the original Alaska Cottage model.
- Date Issued:
- 1870-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- J.L. Hudson Company invoice for a $12.00 purchase of six shirts, by Theodore H. Eaton, dated December 1, 1883. The invoice is stamped "paid."
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Bill of sale, dated April 25th, 1904, from the Detroit Vapor Stove Company, documenting the sale of a stove to Ashland Hardware & Furniture of Ashland, Illinois. At the top of the bill is a diagram of the vapor burner and valve of a Detroit Vapor Stove Company stove.
- Date Issued:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Letter on D. M. Ferry and Company letter head, no image, with company executives listed; to the Exchange Bank, Bloomfield, IA.; reads: "Gentlemen:- If our sight draft #4549 on Eberline Kneedler, of Belknap, IA, for $8.52 sent you Oct. 11th has not been paid by the time this letter reaches you kindly return it to us at once, and oblige Yours truly, D. M. Ferry and Co.; handwritten not to call Eberline; follow-up handwritten not dated 12/14/12 stating Eberline was called; Dated Dec. 12th, 1912
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Pocket-sized notebook containing a fourteen page catalog of dry goods sold by Edson, Moore and Company, located at 188, 190, and 192 Jefferson Avenue. Handwritten notes have been made beside several of the items listed in the catalog. The booklet also includes a calendar for 1880, a fold-out map of Detroit, with Edson, Moore and Company's location marked, and a page of postage information. The portion of the booklet containing lined pages for notes has been left blank. The booklet is bound in a brown cover printed in gold with an advertisement for Edson, Moore and Company on the front cover, featuring a figure in Japanese-inspired garb holding a parasol and fan at the foot of a flight of stairs.
- Date Issued:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One booklet entitled, "Round the World with the Sun," which was an advertisement for watches and clocks made by the Waterbury Clock Company. The cover is printed in gold and dark green on a light green background. The 8 interior pages have short stories printed in black text on white paper along with color drawings. A black ink stamp on the verso shows the name of the local dealer, "H. J. Zimmerman, Jeweler, Furniture & Undertaking; Milan, Mich."
- Date Issued:
- 1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- J.M. Smucker Company invoice for $94.79 for Smucker's apple butter sold to the E.J. Dossin Company on April 30, 1923, and shipped from Milwaukee to Detroit via the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company. Several deductions have been made in pen from the initial total.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Half-folded luncheon menu from the Hotel Pontchartrain, dated Saturday, October 20, 1917. A disclaimer on the cover cautions that the management declines responsibility to damage to clothing caused by accidents in the dining room. A note about the departure times for the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company's passenger steamers from the Third Avenue Dock to Cleveland and Buffalo is included within.
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One letter, dated October 3, 1868, from John Hutchins, ---- clerk, to the Richmond & Backus Company of Detroit. It was handwritten in black ink on white paper with light blue horizontal lines and red column lines. The letter summarized four accounts which indicated that $143.05 was due to Richmond & Backus.
- Date Issued:
- 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Handwritten letter from the Dexter Woolen Mills of Dexter, Michigan, to T. H. Eaton & Son, dated May 11, 1874. The paper is printed with the Dexter Woolen Mills letterhead and is slightly yellowed with faint blue lines.
- Date Issued:
- 1874-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Check from D. M. Ferry & Co. to McCammon Investment Company for $24.70; Signed by Kirby B. White, Secretary; Two stamps from McCammon State Bank and one stamp from The Corn Exchange National Bank of Chicago on Front; Two stamps on bank, one Pay to the Order of The Corn Exchange Nation Bank of Chicago, Ill., other Pay The Corn Exchange Natl. Bank from the First National Bank, Detroit, Mich.; Check No. 42/83; Dated Dec. 23, 1909
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Receipt from John S. Bagg, Postmaster, Detroit Post Office, for newspaper postage in the amount of 25 cents from January 1 to March 31, 1847, paid by Mr. D. J. Campeau. The receipt form is printed in black text on very yellowed paper which has a brown stain along the bottom edge.
- Date Issued:
- 1847-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "Globe Gas Burner" model gas burning stoves. On the recto is an illustration, credited to A. Picard of Troy, New York, of a Globe Gas Burner stove and text advertising that it is a "Illuminating Globe Stove" that "Has Gas Burning Attachment, with Horizontal Moving and Dumping Grate" and that it is "patented 1869."
- Date Issued:
- 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- 2 Internal Revenue tax receipts: No. 310, dated December 15, 1862, to William H. Teft [Tefft] & Co. for taxes paid in the amount of $22.87 on iron and tinware. No. 311, dated December 15, 1862, to William H. Teft [Tefft] & Co. for taxes paid in the amount of $29.73 on iron and tinware. The receipt forms are printed on the same page and have not been cut apart.
- Date Issued:
- 1862-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Jewett and Sherman Company invoice for $385.43 for Prime Queen Olives sold to the E.J. Dossin Company on June 22, 1923, and shipped from Milwaukee to Detroit via the Universal Steamship Company.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Softcover booklet entitled, "The Welcome Guest," published by Weil & Company in the Fall of 1911. The booklet contains 24 pages of short stories, poems, and recipes as well as advertisements for various household furnishings that are available for purchase at Weil & Company stores. The booklet cover is printed in black and red text on yellowed paper. Interior pages are printed in black text on white paper and include several black and white pictures.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- J.L. Hudson trade card advertising the company's move from the Detroit Opera House building, to their new location at 141, 143, and 145 Woodward Avenue. The recto is printed with an image of a stork walking with a bag in a bag hung from his bill, a bouquet of flowers on his back, and a white peaked hat on his head. "J.L. Hudson, Clothier, Detroit Opera House Building," is printed along the top. The verso is printed with the text, "On or about April 1st we will remove to our new stores, 141, 143 &145 Woodward Ave. where we shall be pleased to receive our Friends and Customers. J.L. Hudson." "Selma" and "Beer" are handwritten on the verso in pencil.
- Date Issued:
- 1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One lease agreement, dated 21 February 1868, made between Peter Desnoyers of Detroit, party of the first part and Arouet Richmond, Frederick H. A. Backus, and Benjamin B. Richmond of Detroit, parties of the second part. The agreement is printed in black text on both sides of a bi-fold sheet of white paper. Blank lines have been completed in handwritten black text. The text indicated that Peter Desnoyers was leasing rooms in a building located at 185 Jefferson Avenue, to the parties of the second part for five years for a total amount of $2800.00. All parties have signed their names at the end of the lease agreement in the presence of two witnesses, "Chas. N. Ayres" and "Chas. E. Safford." Four U.S. Internal Revenue stamps have been affixed to the front page of the agreement form along the left edge in the amounts of two dollars, one dollar, one dollar, and two dollars. The three upper stamps feature a red and white engraved design with a bust of George Washington at the center. The lower stamp has a green and white engraved design with a bust of George Washington at the center.
- Date Issued:
- 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Trade card from the Detroit Stove Works advertising Jewel Stoves and Ranges. A lithograph on the recto depicts a child in a bonnet standing on top of their bed while holding a pan-shaped bed warmer. Written in French at the bottom of the card is "Je Vais Me Bassiner Moi-Meme," which translates to "I Will Bathe Me Myself" in English.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Four panel brochure promoting the Detroit International Exposition and Fair held from September 17th to the 27th of 1889. The recto bears a color Calvert Lithograph Company illustration of Detroit, as viewed from the air above Delray, facing northeast, captioned "All Roads Will Lead to Detroit in September. Why? (see over)." The exposition site, containing the large Main Building, several smaller structures, and two ponds, is at the lower right corner of the image, to the west of Fort Wayne. The Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad; Detroit and Bay City Railroad; Michigan Central Railroad; Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway; Wabash Railroad; Detroit Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway; Belt Line; and Lake Erie, Essex and Detroit River Railway lines are all labeled, as are the communities along the Canadian side of the Detroit River--Walkerville, Windsor, Sandwich, and Mineral Spring. The verso several passages about the importance of Detroit, the expo, the expo's Main Building, music to be provided by Signor C.A. Cappa's Seventh Regiment Band, and attractions including livestock, the Art Gallery, the Floral Palace, the Industrial and Mechanical Halls. A "Sinclair, Evans, and Elliott, Detroit, Mich." stamp is on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Trade card from the Michigan Stove Company advertising Garland Stoves and Ranges. A lithograph on the recto, credited to Hughes Lithograph Company of Chicago, depicts a dog, a fox terrier, in the middle of a lush forest. A stump with a Garland Stoves and Ranges logo attached to it is depicted next to the dog. Text reading "Garland Dog (Fox Terrier) On Display at the Chicago House" is found on the bottom of the recto. An advertisement for the "Horizontal Oak-Garland" model wood burning stove, alongside an image of a Horizontal Oak-Garland stove, is on the verso.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Staple-bound storybook, written by J. Henry Smythe, for the J.L. Hudson Company. The story concerns a young boy and girl who visit the toy department of the J.L. Hudson Company Department Store, and become inspired by Santa Claus' example to deliver gifts to their neighbors. The children and Prince are pictured on the cover, with their arms, and a sled filled with parcels. An advertisement for Hudson's Toyland section is printed on the back cover.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Third card of a six trade card set from the Michigan Stove Company advertising Garland Stoves and Ranges, entitled "Before & After Marriage In Five Acts," drawn by Cassius M. Coolidge and copyrighted by George M. Hayes. On the recto is an image of a man in a white suit and hat smiling while holding a cane. In the lower left corner of the recto is an image of a man in a tan suit and a woman in a blue and white dress holding a fan as they sit together while an older man regards them from behind the woman's chair. The card's title, "Engaged," is printed in the bottom right corner of the recto. Printed on the verso is damaged advertising copy stating "[...] fine young Miss, [...] heavenly bliss, [...] to cast your lost, [...]tly wait the tying knot. [...] the happy day comes near, [...] Garland, and nothing fear."
- Date Issued:
- 1882-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- 1883 D. M. Ferry and Company catalog printed by the Gulley Printing House with illustrations by the Calvert Lithograph Company, containing information and illustrations of the company's fields and other facilities, as well as descriptions and illustrations of the fruits, vegetables, flowers, and farming tools available through the company. A girl waters flowers through a window on the front cover, and a small boy and girl share a large slice of watermelon in a field, surrounded by a border of vegetables on the back.
- Date Issued:
- 1883-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Universal Steamship Company consignee memo for an order from Valentin Blatz Brewing Company shipped from Milwaukee to the E.J. Dossin Company in Detroit, dated August 3, 1923. The document lists the shipment as one packages of "10x5 VT Signs." A Universal Steamship Company stamp at the bottom of the document has been crossed out.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Letter, dated December 18th, 1912, from the Detroit Stove Works to The Soo Hardware Company in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The letter discusses a supposed shortage in a shipment delivered to the Soo Hardware Company on November 1, 1912, with the Stove Works explaining that its records show the shipment was delivered in full. At the top of the letter are images of the company's stove works on Jefferson Avenue in Detroit and their Western Offices on La Salle Street in Chicago.
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- The envelope is postmarked February 1, 1911, and shows the letterhead of the Trussed Steel Company of Detroit, Michigan. The letterhead text is black and the paper is yellowed.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Letter addressed "To whom it is concerned," introducing the bearer, J.L. Ernst, as an authorized Encyclopedia Britannica salesman for the J.L. Hudson Company, dated November 8, 1901. The letter is typewritten on J.L. Hudson Company stationery which features an engraving of the store by the Calvert Lithographing Company. The letter is signed by the manager of the Britannica Department.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog, printed by John Bornman and Son with illustrations from Calvert Lithograph Company; front cover has an illustration picture of red, pink, white and yellow snapdragons with the caption "Snapdragon Fine Mixed"; back cover has red, orange, pink white and yellow flowers; "Seed Annual 1916, D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich." is printed on both the front and back cover; inside are lists of seeds and prices with black and white pictures and photographs, with three full page color illustrations near the front; order form missing, though order envelope is present
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Letter from D.M. Ferry and Company to Exchange Bank, Bloomfied, Iowa. "Dear Sirs:- We herewith enclose for collection draft No. 4549 Amount $8.52 and EXCHANGE on Eberline & Kneedler, (Town) Belknap, (State) Iowa. When collected, please remit proceeds by New York or Chicago Exchange and report by number. Yours truly, D. M. Ferry & Co."; on company letterhead, no image; handwritten note on bottom stating that Eberline paid representative when he took up unsold seed; Dated October 11, 1912
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail