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- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "Sunbeam" model stoves. On the recto is an illustration, credited to A. Picard of Troy, New York, of a Sunbeam stove and text advertising that it is a "New self feed or base burner; with horizontal moving and dumping grate, cast iron fire pot, large ash pit" and that it is "patented 1869."
- Date Issued:
- 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting a floral design in Grand Circus Park arranged to read "In Detroit Live is Worth Living", with buildings in the background and people seated on benches. Printed on verso: Floral Design, Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Mich. Detroit, like other progressive cities has a slogan, which is, 'In Detroit Life is Worth Living.' This floral design is located at West Grand Circus Park, one of the many parks in the central part of Detroit. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Sep 13, 1912.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Sheet music for the song "What Are You Going to Do to Help the Boys?", lyric by Gus Kahn, music by Egbert Van Alstyne, published by Jerome H. Remick & Co. The cover is illustrated by E.E.W.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Music
- Description:
- Detroit Athletic Club membership card issued to Fred M. Odena, Jr. on July 11, 1906, and paid through 1916. The card is printed with the signatures of the club's secretary and president, and is on blue paper with a gold delta symbol in the background.
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Trade card from the Michigan Stove Company advertising Garland Stoves and Ranges. A lithograph on the recto depicts a cherubic child holding a whip and reins while riding atop a turtle that is moving down a road. On the verso is a Garland Stoves and Ranges logo.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One postcard with a sepia-toned photographic image of the Grand Circus Park area of downtown Detroit. The postcard shows an elevated view of Grand Circus Park as seen from the Y.M.C.A. Building. Prominent buildings are visible in the background and are identified in small white printed text along the bottom of the postcard. These include the Whitney Building, Hotel Statler, Hotel Tuller, and the Kresge Building. Additional small white printed text in the lower right corner of the card reads "© '14 by C. R. Messinger." A black ink stamp on the verso shows a postmark of "Sep. 3, 1914."
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- White paper envelope addressed to "E. J. White, Esquire" of "Lapeer, Michigan" (handwritten in brown ink). The envelope has been cut with scissors along the left edge. It has a red 3-cent George Washington stamp and is postmarked "Detroit, Mich., May 19," however the year is not indicated. The back side of envelope shows an engraving of Duncan's Central Brewery, Detroit, along with black text. Langdon & Co. is shown adjacent to the brewery in the engraving.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Jewett and Sherman Company invoice for $343.20 for Dossin Honey, sold to the E.J. Dossin Company on June 21, 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:
- Sheet 1 of a set of three architectural drawings entitled "Wesson Ave. View of a Three Story, Eight Stores & Sixteen Apartment Building." The drawings consist of black ink and pencil on vellum paper and show a front elevation view of the proposed building as well as floor plans for each of the three floors. The proposed building was located at the northwest corner of Michigan Avenue and Wesson Avenue and shows the name, "Soldoris," over the apartment entrance doorway on Wesson Avenue. The plans were drawn at a scale of 1/8 inch = 1 foot by "J. Lawson Miller, Architect," and are dated 1922.
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Miller, J. Lawson
- Description:
- Postcard. Illustration of Cadillac Square. Front reads, "Cadillac Square From County Bldg, Detroit, Mich." City Hall can be seen in the background. Signs that can be seen in the image read, "McGregor Helping Hand Mission," McWilliams Wholesale Gr.., "Peter Smithsons Wholesale [..] Butter, Eggs & Cheese, "Marz Capsule, Manufacturer of Capsules," "Sarsaparilla Vitalizes the Blood," and "[..] Prepared Paint Color in Oil." Card was mailed and postmark reads, "[..] 4 PM, Jun 2, 1910, Mich."
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
