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- Description:
- One booklet entitled "Specifications for One Course Concrete Pavement and Appurtenances, Clark Avenue - Cadillac Plant, General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Michigan." The booklet consists of 20 blueprint pages that contain typewritten specifications for the construction of pavement and storm sewer at the Clark Avenue Cadillac automotive assembly plant in Detroit (Project GM-29). A black ink stamp on page one shows "Received Oct. 11, 1919, Dupont Eng. Co., Cadillac Plant, Detroit." The booklet pages are bound with two brass fasteners at the top. Five additional pages of pavement cross-sections and other details are attached at the end of the booklet with three metal paper clips. The added details are dated October 6, 7, and 17, 1919.
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Industrial History
- Description:
- Resolution from the Louisville and Cincinnati Fire Department, printed on silk, dated August 15, 1892, expressing gratitude to the Detroit Fire Department for hosting them during a recent visit. The interior of the piece is yellow with brown writing, surrounded by a green border.
- Date Issued:
- 1892-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- A staple-bound contract form between the Ford Motor Company, and the U.S. Navy establishing the terms for the construction of 100 patrol boats, the Eagle Boats, dated March 4, 1917. The spaces on the first page where the date and the name of the representative of Ford would be entered, and on the seventh page where the parties would sign have been left blank. An illegiable handwritten note has been made in the margin at the bottom of the sixth page.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Maritime
- Description:
- This white paper envelope contained an envelope with a 2-page letter that was written by Dr. Oscar LeSeur. The front of the envelope has a handwritten address, "Hon. W. C. Maybury, Office of Mayor, City Hall, Detroit." The note, "Report of Oscar Le Seur," is handwritten in the lower left corner.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Anniversaries
- Description:
- Small hardcover book, bound in a black cover with gold lettering, containing the rules and regulations of the Detroit Fire Department, dated January 1, 1905. "Supt. Horses, Chief Martin Cooney," is handwritten on the front free endpaper.
- Date Issued:
- 1905-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Staple-bound booklet advocating for the election of Democrat William Barlum Thompson over Republican George P. Codd in the 1906 mayoral election, based on Codd's support for higher fares for the Detroit United Railway. The booklet contains several political cartoons illustrating its point.
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Sheet music for the song "Belle Isle (Little Queen of All Islands)", words by Roman Arndt, music by W. C. O'Brien, published by the Roman Arndt Music Publishing Co.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Music
- Description:
- Handwritten contract in blue ink between Fred S. Church and Thomas Beagleston detailing the conditions under which Thomas Beagleston will operate a sawmill belonging to Fred Church. The text of the contract is as follows: "An Agreement entered into this the first day of March Eighteen hundred and forty by and between Thomas Beagleston and Fred S. Church as follows. Said Beagleston agrees to operate the Sawmill belonging to said Church for the ensuing season on the following conditions. He is to draw the Logs from the yard on to the Log way and saw the same as said Church may direct to draw off the Lumber and stick it up in a careful and business like manner. to pile the slabs up in the yard. to square edge all the Boards and plank (except such as will cut to great Waste by so doing). to use the Mill and Tools in a careful manner and to make all the repairs less than one Dollar and to furnish his own lights if wanted for sawing nights. Said Church agrees to have the Logs drawn to the yard. to furnish an ox team for said Beagleston to draw on the Logs. and to draw off the Lumber. to furnish files, Tallow, and every thing necessary to to [sic] operate the Mill and to pay said Beagleston one Dollar per Thousand feet board measure for all the merchantable Lumber sawed to be measured when moved from the Logway, the account to be made up and settled monthly. It is mutually agreed that in case of serious accident, to the Mill or dam, said Church shall not be called upon to repair the same to great disadvantage, but that he shall do so as soon as it can be done in an economical manner. Said Church also agrees to rent Beagleston the House and Garden now occupied by Richard Baker for the rent of one Dollar per month. Said Beagleston agrees to leave the same on the first day of November next - if said Church wishes him to do so. Signed Clarkson April 30th 1840 in presence of" The contract is signed by Fred S. Church, and was presumably signed by Thomas Beagleston on the portion of the contract now missing.
- Date Issued:
- 1840-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Invoice for Frances A. Pingree's second payment of $200 to Woodlawn Cemetery Association for the purchase of lots 151, 152, 163, and 164 in Section 14 of the cemetery on April 30, 1903. The invoice is marked, "paid May 11/03," and is signed "Jeffery."
- Date Issued:
- 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Half-folded Russell House dinner menu, dated Monday, July 4, 1904. The cover is printed with the signatures of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and decorated with a red embossed adhesive seal bearing the hotel's crest, attached to a blue ribbon. Meal options, several with patriotic names, are listed within.
- Date Issued:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail