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- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting a crowd of people on Belle Isle, with puddles on the ground from a rain. In the background is the Cedar Mount.
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Newspaper; The Detroit Times Birthday Supplement and Grand Army Souvenir, published in 1891 and sold at a cost of 50 cents. The illustrated cover shows an American flag, several Civil War generals, the seal of the state of Michigan, and several men gathered around a camp fire. A quote printed on the cover at the bottom left reads "The only national debt we can never pay, is the debt of gratitude we owe our gallant volunteers, whose heroism, devotion, and self-sacrifice made freedom and self-government a reality, and preserved to use and our children an undivided country." The table of contents, listed on the first page, is as follows: Greeting (Cuts of Veazey, Alger, Dickinson, Pingree and Duffield) - 1 Beauty (two illustrations) - 2 The Sheik - 3 Moods - 7 A Letter to My Great Grandchild - 8 Apple Blossoms - 9 After Reading Keats - 9 Faint-Hearted (half-tone) - 10 A Dream of Venice (illustrated) - 11 A Rose Tryst - 11 Romance of Yorke Mackintosh - 12 The Man with the Musket - 13 The Visit (half-tone) - 14 Eccentricities of Genius - 14 Swipsey's Lady - 16 The Spirit of Song - 17 Bashfulness (half-tone) - 17 Verse - 18 Spottsylvania - A Union Victory - A Confederate Triumph - 19 Off for the Fishing Grounds (half-tone) - 20 This item is a duplicate of 1960.197.005
- Date Issued:
- 1891-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- One map entitled "Guide Map of the City of Detroit." The map is printed in black ink on white paper and shows streets, street names, churches, ward numbers and boundaries, and railroad lines. Ward boundaries are shown in pale green lines. An alphabetical list of street names is shown at the top along with a list of recent street name changes. Also, the names of former ribbon farm owners are shown along the top of the map area with property boundaries shown in light dashed lines. The map was "Published by S. Farmer & Co., 35 Monroe Ave., corner Farmer St., Detroit, Mich." It was drawn by "Eugene Robinson, City Surveyor," at a scale of 1 inch = 900 feet and is dated 1872. The map was printed by "Corrie's Detroit Lithograph Office." The names and addresses of two advertisers are also printed on the map, namely, "Waterman's Real Estate Exchange" and James W. Frisbie, Dealer in Dry Goods, Millinery, Cloaks, Yankee Notions, & c."
- Date Issued:
- 1872-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Poster. Contains a clipping from the May 16, 1867 edition of the Advertiser and Tribune, commemorating the laying of the first stone for City Hall, along with a transcription of the article. At the top of the poster is text reading "First Stone of the New City Hall 1867," followed by the clipping which is inset inside a thin black border. The clipping is surrounded by the following names: Mayor - Merrill I. Mills, City Clerk - Henry Starkey, City Treasurer - E.S. Leadbeater, City Attorney - T.H. Hartwell, City Controller - A.H. Pedfield, City Counselor - William Gray. The bottom half of the poster contains the transcription of the article, as follows: "Laying the First Stone of the New City Hall Early this forenoon, the first stone of the new City Hall was placed in position. The large blocks, six and a half feet in width are easily handled by means of the huge derrick employed. A bed of water lime mortar is first prepared, which, filling any cavities either in the stone or the clay below, gives a firm bearing for the foundation and will do much to prevent settling. The first stone was laid without any formalities though quite a little crowd assembled to see the performance. As the structure thus commenced is one likely to endure for centuries, the record of this fact will be a matter of interest to future generations, when all now living will have laid for ages in their graves and the administration of Andrew Johnson will be regarded as a very early period in the history of the Republic. Fancy the interest that would now be awakened by the discovery in some old file of newspapers (if such were possible) of a record of the exact day and hour of the laying of the first stone of the ancient Westminster Abbey or the Tower of London, yet such interest will the files of the Advertiser and Tribune afford to the antiquary of the twenty-fourth century if not of the twenty-ninth, in relation to the venerable old pile then known as the Detroit City Hall."
- Date Issued:
- 1867-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- One topographic map entitled "A Map of the Middle British Colonies in North America." The map was originally published by Lewis Evans of Philadelphia in 1755 and was updated by Thomas Pownall. This updated version was printed by J. Almon of Piccadilly, London, England, and is dated March 25, 1776. The map area covers the Atlantic coast of North America from Norfolk and Cape Henry, Virginia, northward to the Passamaquoddy River, Maine. The map area extends westward to Fort Detroit (Fort Pontchartrain) and southwestern Ohio. A small inset map extends the area of coverage to the Mississippi River. Map details are drawn in black ink on slightly yellowed paper with green ink being used to show colony boundaries. Map information includes towns and forts, mountain ranges, rivers, lakes, Indian tribal regions, and travel distance tables as well as lines of latitude and longitude. Township names are listed for the colonies of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
- Date Issued:
- 1776-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Detroit Athletic Club membership card issued to Joseph Gearing, in 1899. The card is printed with the signatures of the club's secretary as well as G.B. Standish, its president. It's printed on a beige diamond-shaped piece of cardstock with a blue and gold delta symbol and the letters "DAC" in the center. "14," is stamped on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- A decorative sign with a passage containing series of puns and plays on Masonic terminology written in script. The compass and square symbol along with the letters F. and A.M., for Free and Accepted Masons. A book atop a portion of a large globe is depicted at the bottom, along with, "Copr. 1923 The House of Art, N.Y.," and "No. 238."
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Color lithograph, "Club House of the Detroit Fishing and Hunting Association, St. Clair Flats, Michigan." The lithograph was printed by the Calvert Lithograph Company, Detroit. It shows an illustration of the front of the club house with many sailboats and rowboats traversing to and from the club house, and many other individuals on the grounds and dock of the club house. The club house is painted yellow, with green trim and a red roof. It is topped by an American flag in the center and a blue banner on the right. A smaller building is located to the left of the larger club house, connected by a bridge. Text on the bottom left of the image reads "A.C. Varney, Architect, Detroit." Derek S. The building was known as the Rushmere Hotel. The largest of the clubhouses on the Flats, it was built in 1884 and could accommodate 150 guests. In 1908, a grease fire in the kitchen ignited a blaze that leveled the building. (per Art Woodford) Joel S.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Invitation to the grand opening of the Masonic Temple on Lafayette Boulevard and First Street on November 26, 1896; front has a picture of the building; inside are the names of those serving on various committees
- Date Issued:
- 1896-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- One mylar copy of a map entitled, "Tracing from a Map of Springwells by Lieuts. Macomb & Warner, T.E. [Topographical Engineers], 1841, with the Addition of Outlines of Fort Wayne and Public Grounds, Sept., 1865." A signature beneath the title shows "December 12, 1865, (Sd) [Signed] T. J. Cram, Col. Corps Eng'rs." The map shows the existing topography along the Detroit River from the River Rouge to about 2 miles upstream from Fort Wayne. Several roads are shown including Main Road (now Jefferson Avenue), Wood Road, and Fort Street. Also, several mounded areas are shown in the vicinity of the fort which may be the Indian Mounds that were known to exist in the Delray area of Springwells Township. A small portion of the Canadian side of the Detroit River is shown in the area of Sandwich (Windsor), Ontario. A note in the lower right corner area of the map shows the scale as "1 Foot to a Mile" or 1:5,280.
- Date Issued:
- 1865-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
