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- Description:
- Booklet containing the Evening News' carrier's address for New Year's, 1882. The front cover features the title of the publication and an introductory stanza for the address, surrounded by a decorative border. The introductory stanza reads as follows: "Your pardon we crave if presumptuous we seem: But our last year's long labors we hope you may deem Deserving a bonus ; no handsome annuity We ask at your hands: but a modest gratuity! -Your Newsboy.-" The booklet's first seven pages contains the full text of the address, with the eighth page featuring a calendar for the year 1882. The inside of the front cover has an advertisement for the Art Emporium and Artists' Supply Depot, while the back cover has an advertisement for the Mills & Barker furniture store. The booklet is bound by string.
- Date Issued:
- 1882-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color booklet from The Evening News, The Detroit Tribune, and The Sunday News Tribune, containing a poem, "A Happy New Year," written by Thad. Stevens Barnum. The front cover features a color illustration depicting the start of the new year, with an angelic figure and a background of an evening sky featuring a moon and two owls on the left, and Father Time and a background featuring the sun on the right. Text on the bottom left of the front cover reads "The Calvert Lith. Co. Detroit." The back cover features a color illustration of two boys selling copies of The Evening News with the title "INTRUSION." underneath the illustration in the center. The inside of the booklet contains the seven stanza poem written across four pages. Each page has a background depicting various scenes, including a newspaper salesman, a family sitting in front of a fire, a ballroom dance, and a horse drawn sleigh. The drawings are signed "Jos. Kraemer" on the bottom left.
- Date Issued:
- 1897-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
