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- 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:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog, printed by John Bornman and Son, with illustrations from the Calvert Lithograph Company; front and back covers are identical with a illustrations of an ear of corn, with the caption "Charlevoix, The best golden sweet corn yet introduced;" inside are lists of seeds and prices with black and white illustrations and photographs, with two full page color pictures near the front, one color picture in the middle and one color picture near the back; order form still attached
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- D.M. Ferry and Company receipt for $6.00 for rutabaga and onion seeds purchased by J.H. Vandecar of North Branch, Michigan on March 27, 1880. An engraved D.M. Ferry and Company header, listing the address of the office and stores as 189, 199, 201, 203, and 205 Woodward Avenue, and the location of the seed farms as "Grand River Ave. Beyond City Limits," is credited to the Calvert Lithograph Company.
- Date Issued:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- D.M. Ferry and Company receipt for $196.85 for containers of assorted seeds purchased by F. Tudaree on November 22, 1882. An engraving of the Ferry Warehouse from the Calvert Lithograph Company is printed at the upper left, along with a list of company executives. The company offices are listed at 20922 Croghan Street.
- Date Issued:
- 1882-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Detroit Firemen's Fund Association membership certificate, designed by the Calvert Lithograph Company, and issued to Nicholas Walsh, and dated April 1, 1905. The certificate is signed by the group's president Guy Northrop, treasurer William H. Comtney, and secretary George D. Rohde, and a red embossed Detroit Firemen's Fund Association seal has been stamped besides the signatures. A color illustration of firefighters using a ladder apparatus and of a pair of firefighters riding on a horse-drawn fire engine are on the left side of the document.
- Date Issued:
- 1905-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- Receipt, printed by the Calvert Lithographing Company, from the Wayne County Treasurer's Office to Hunt and Gable for $17.51 for property taxes for land on Gratiot Avenue, dated January 22, 1886
- Date Issued:
- 1896-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One letter from the Baugh Steam Forge Company of Detroit to Ruhle Brothers of Philadelphia, dated February 9, 1878. The letterhead is printed in black script on white paper with a watermark that shows "Calvert Lith. Co., Detroit." The letter message is handwritten in black ink as follows: "Mssrs. Ruhle Brothers, Philadelphia. Dear Sirs. In reply to yours of the 6th. Your price is now so much in advance of other standard manufacturers that we felt obliged to place our orders elsewhere. Perhaps we may be able to do something with you at some future time, at present we are supplied. Yours truly, Baugh Steam Forge Co. Fil'd."
- Date Issued:
- 1878-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Map, "Guide Map of the City of Detroit for Bicyclists, Showing Pavements." printed and published by the Calvert Lith. & Eng. Co., copyrighted in April, 1896 and "Entered according to act of Congress, A.D. 1889 by the Calvert Lith. Eng. & Map Pub. Co. in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington D.C." The legend at top right indicates that asphalt roads are highlighted in blue, brick roads are highlighted in pink, granite roads are highlighted in green, macadam roads are highlighted in gray, and wood roads are highlighted in yellow. Text at top of map details the following outside runs: Fort St. West and River Road. - Ecorse, 9 miles; Wyandotte, 12 miles; Trenton, 17 miles; Flat Rock, 25 miles. Grand River Avenue. - Greenfield, 8 miles; Farmington, 19 miles. Gratiot Avenue. - Leesville, 6 miles; Roseville, 14 miles; Toll Gate, 16 miles; Mt. Clemens, 22 miles; Chesterfield, 27 miles; Milton, 28 1/2 miles; New Baltimore, 31 miles. Jefferson Avenue. - Grosse Pointe, 10 miles; McSweeney's Club, 24 miles. Michigan Avenue. - Dearborn, 10 miles, Inkster, 15 miles; Wayne, 18 miles; Canton, 23 miles; Dentons, 26 miles; Ypsilanti, 30 miles; Ann Arbor, 38 miles. Woodward Avenue. - Highland Park, 5 miles; Whitewood, 7 miles; Royal Oak, 12 miles; Birmingham, 18 1/2 miles; Bloomfield Centre, 21 1/2 miles; Pontiac, 28 miles; Drayton Plains, 31 miles; Waterford, 33 1/2 miles; Clarkston, 35 miles.
- Date Issued:
- 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Color lithograph print by the Calvert Lithographing Company depicting the Michigan Centennial Building, in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, in 1876. The image depicts the Michigan Building with a man walking down the front steps, a child walking up the walkway, and several people standing or walking in front of the building. A Michigan banner is shown flying atop the building. Text underneath the lower right border of the image reads "Julius Hess. Architect, Detroit." Text underneath the center of the bottom border of the image reads "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1876, by F.W. Noble in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington." Text underneath the bottom right border of the image reads "The Calvert Lith. Co., Detroit."
- Date Issued:
- 1876-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Recipe booklet containing numerous advertisements from the Michigan Stove Company profiling their different models of stoves, as well as single advertisements from several other businesses. The cover is printed with an advertisement for Newcomb, Endicott, and Company, featuring a lithograph of their location credited to the Calvert Lithographing Company. C.R. Mabley and Company; the Russell House; the Banner Tobacco Company; the John H. Wendell and Company Grain Commission; M.S. Smith and Company, Jewelers and Silversmiths; and the Calvert Lithographing Company are featured in advertisements within. Two pages are also dedicated to a brief "Historical Sketch of Detroit,"
- Date Issued:
- 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Four panel brochure promoting the Detroit International Exposition and Fair held from September 17th to the 27th of 1889, mounted on red matting. The exposed face bears a color Calvert Lithograph Company illustration of Detroit, as viewed from the air above Delray, facing northeast, captioned "All Roads Will Lead to Detroit in September. Why? (see over)." The exposition site, containing the large Main Building, several smaller structures, and two ponds, is at the lower right corner of the image, to the west of Fort Wayne. The Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad; Detroit and Bay City Railroad; Michigan Central Railroad; Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway; Wabash Railroad; Detroit Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway; Belt Line; and Lake Erie, Essex and Detroit River Railway lines are all labeled, as are the communities along the Canadian side of the Detroit River--Walkerville, Windsor, Sandwich, and Mineral Spring. "The Michigan Farmer, Published by Gibbons Bros., Detroit, Mich." is stamped in the upper left corner of the print.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- 1893 D. M. Ferry and Company catalog printed by John Bornman and Sons, with illustrations from the Calvert Lithograph Company; front cover has a picture of small pink flowers along left and top side from a vase at the bottom left, with a second smaller, round vase next to it; background is blue at the tope and bottom, with tan bordered by yellow in the middle; "Seed Annual 1893" in middle, with D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich. along bottom; back cover has same background, with green lima beans hanging from vines and the caption "Horticulutral Lima Bean, Actual Size"; D. M. Ferry & Co. Seed Merchants, Detroit, Mich. at bottom; descriptions and prices of seeds and farming tools inside with black and white pictures and drawings throughout and two color pages near beginning; order form attached with envelope
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Back cover from D. M. Ferry and Company catalog; color engraving of white flowers; at top is "Autumn 1907" and at the bottom "D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich."; Calvert Lithograph Company; catalog entries for gardening tools, including several engravings, and books on verso
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog; cover only, pages are missing; front and back cover has a picture of four flowers, a yellow one "Mrs. Moon", a dark pink "Psyche", a light pink "Fairy Queen" and a purple "Philippe de Commines", with "Bulbs & Seeds Autumn 1917" at top, and "D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich." at bottom
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Booklet published by the Evening News, containing a New Years message for 1895, several images of the newspaper's presses, a list of City of Detroit officials, the sheet music for the Evening News March composed by William C.G. Wright, and calendars for the year. The cover features an illustration from the Calvert Lithographing Company of an ink pen, well, and scroll with the text, "60,000 Copies Daily."
- Date Issued:
- 1895-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- 1890 D. M. Ferry and Company catalog printed by O.S. Gulley, Bornman and Company, with illustrations by the Calvert Lithograph Company; front cover has a picture of small pink and white flowers on a black background in upper left corner, red wavy lines along the bottom, a white background and a tan background with "1890 Seed Annual" in the middle; "D. M. Ferry & Co." appears in a black circle near bottom left corner with "Detroit, Mich." to the right of it; back cover has a picture titled "New Sweet Pea" and "Miss Blanche Ferry" with and pink flowers, with prices to the left of the flowers and "Introduced in 1889 by D. M. Ferry & Co." to the right; D. M. Ferry & Co. Seed Merchants. Detroit, Mich. along bottom; inside list seeds and prices with black and white pictures; one color picture in beginning; order form attached with envelope inside
- Date Issued:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Detroit Firemen's Fund Association membership certificate, designed by the Calvert Lithograph Company, and issued to J.W. Houghton, and dated July 13, 1912. The certificate is signed by the group's president T.O. Shea, treasurer B. Cronin, and secretary W.M. Burgess, and a red embossed Detroit Firemen's Fund Association seal has been stamped besides the signatures. A color illustration of firefighters using a ladder apparatus and of a pair of firefighters riding on a horse-drawn fire engine are on the left side of the document.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Fire Department
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company color trade card advertising Morning Glories; front has a color picture from Calvert Lithograph Company, Detroit, Mich. of red, white, blue, and pink flowers on a light orange background; states "painted from actual specimens grown on D. M. Ferry & Co. trial grounds;" back has brief information about the Morning Glory, along with varieties of the flower available; copyrighted 1889.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Invitation to an event held by the Excelsior Boat Club at the Biddle House on December 17, 1869, printed by the Calvert Lithographing Company. The invitation includes an illustration of a team of rowers rowing a boat, as well as a list of the organization's managers.
- Date Issued:
- 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog, printed by John Bornman and Son with illustrations by Calvert Lithograph Company; front and back cover have an illustration of tomatoes, a cucumber, peas all on the vine against a black background; "Seed Annual 1921, D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich." is printed on both; inside are lists of seeds and prices with black and white illustrations and photographs, with two full page color illustrations near the front and another in the middle; order form still attached with envelope
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail