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- Description:
- Premium list for the 1884 Michigan State Fair, held September 15-19 in Kalamazoo. Printed in Monroe, Mich.: "Commercial" Printing House.
- Date Issued:
- 1884-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- February 1893 issue of Putnam's Monthly Historical Magazine (Vol. I, No. 10, Article IX) published February, 1893. Article about Allen Family on Page 286 entitled, 'Ancestral Allen Families in America.'
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet (2 copies). The Twelfth Annual Report of the Public Lighting Commission of the City of Detroit, Michigan, an 89 page booklet. Within are charts, and graphs detailing the operations of the Public Lighting Commission for the fiscal year spanning from July 1, 1906 to June 30, 1907. Also included are photographic plates depicting the Public Lighting Commissioners, streetlights, tunnels, and facilities of the Public Lighting Commission.
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One booklet entitled "Grand Laundry Methods - Being an Appreciation of the Grand Laundry of Detroit, Mich.," by Elbert Hubbard. This softcover booklet is 26 pages long and was printed by the Roycroft Press of East Aurora, New York. The front cover has a trellis design of green leaves and purple grapes that frame a scene of a woman and child. The title is printed in green text. Pages have deckle edges.
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Staple-bound booklet containing a list of presentations given at the Target Talk meetings of the Adcraft Club of Detroit, beginning November 11, 1910 and running weekly through April 20, 1911. The booklet contains a brief forward written by Albert Henry Finn, chairman of the club's educational committee, and general manager of the Franklin Press--who printed the booklet -- explaining the aim and success of the series.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Small hardcover book, bound in a unmarked black cover, containing a list of the city's 891 fire alarm box location. The initials "B.W." are handwritten on the front free endpaper.
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet. The Third Annual Report of the Public Lighting Commission of the City of Detroit, Michigan, a 49 page booklet. Within are charts and graphs detailing the operations of the Public Lighting Commission for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898. Also included are photographic plates depicting a generator room, a boiler room, details of streetlight fixtures, a moonlight tower, a crane light, a center suspension light, and a post light.
- Date Issued:
- 1898-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One booklet with a black leather cover that is stamped in gold-colored text which shows "Municipal Manual of the City of Detroit, 1900-1901." The booklet is 112 pages in length and is printed in black text on faintly yellowed paper. It includes general facts about the city, names of city officials, names of various committees and commissions and their members, annual salaries, terms of office, rules of order for the Common Council, ward boundary descriptions, street railway routes, values of city real estate, and a summary of assessed valuations for city taxes. There is also a table of contents in the back of the manual as well as a fold-out street map of the city. On a blank page at the back of the manual, a handwritten note shows " Clarence Arthur Cotton, Secretary to Mayor, Detroit, Mich., December 31, 1900. Compliments to Mayor's Secretary of 2001."
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- 68 page parallel folded booklet describes fleet, fares, routes, and points of interest. Contains photographs, drawings, maps, and deck plans. Illustrated cover depicts frogs dancing on shore as the CITY OF DETROIT III passes.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Guidebook for participants in the 1899 Christian Endeavor International Convention, held July 5-10, 1899 in Detroit. Includes a list of church headquarters for registration and assignment, and a fold-out map. Issued by the Reception Committee. Compliments of Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Co.
- Date Issued:
- 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet concerning the reconstruction of the NIAGARA published by the Journal of American History under the auspices of the Board of Perry's Victory Centennial Commissioners of the State of Pennsylvania. John Wesley Jarvis's painting of Oliver Hazard Perry surrounded by three sailors and backed by his "Don't Give Up the Ship" banner, is printed on the cover surrounded by a yellow border.
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet, written by Hamilton Gay Howard, containing a biography of Senator Jacob M. Howard. The booklet is bound in a grey paper cover listing Howard's major accomplishments, and bearing an excerpt from the 13th Ammendment on the front.
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet containing an address delivered at the annual commencement of the University of Michigan on July 1, 1880 by Rt. Rev. Samuel S. Harris, Episcopal Bishop of Michigan. Published by the Board of Regents. Post and Tribune Steam Printing House, Detroit.
- Date Issued:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One softcover booklet entitled, "Pocket Memorandum," which includes advertisements for various Detroit businesses along with blank areas for writing notes. The cover is tan and is printed in red text. The 10 interior pages are printed in black text on yellowed paper. Business names that are mentioned on the front and back covers include: Michigan Savings Bank, G. & R. McMillan, R. W. King & Son, and L. Black & Co.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- The booklet has a decorative cover design that shows a woman who is wearing a flowing gown and is holding a torch. Two black and white pictures of a park scene and a boulevard scene are shown on each side of her. The booklet is unbound and consists of about 50 un-numbered pages of black and white pictures that feature views of Belle Isle as well as various city parks and boulevards. One of the pictures is a fold-out panoramic view of Central Avenue on Belle Isle. A list of commissioners' names is shown at the front of the booklet.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet containing illustrations of two men's outfits offered by Gregory and Jordan for their spring and summer 1897 seasons. The booklet is bound with yellow cord in a tan cardstock cover printed with a red, green, and gold crest including scissors and an iron among its iconography.
- Date Issued:
- 1897-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet detailing the activities of the American Red Cross to aid American soldiers and sailors during World War I. Numerous monochromatic photos of Red Cross personnel, hospitals, warehouses, and operations are contained within.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Illustrated souvenir booklet from the opening of the Detroit Savings Bank Building, written by George B. Catlin. Includes photos of all the branch banking houses.
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Booklet published for the memorial services of Thomas Murphy of Murphy Iron Works held on June 5, 1904 at the Fort Street Congregational Church.
- Date Issued:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Small unused stock ledger booklet printed for the sixtieth anniversary of L.B. King and Company, according to the first page. The booklet is bound in a blue leatherette cover with "L.B. King & Co., Detroit, 1849-1909" embossed in a gold ring on the back. The recto of each page is printed with a table with the columns, "Date," "Article," "Store," and "Price," as well as a "Memoranda" space below and on the recto of each leaf.
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society