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- Description:
- This white paper envelope contained a 2-page letter that was written by Frank I. Cobb, leading editorial writer of the Detroit Free Press. The front of the envelope has a handwritten address that shows "The Newspapers of Detroit, Frank I. Cobb." The flap on the back side of the envelope is sealed with black wax that has been impressed with a smudged, circular design.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Anniversaries
- Description:
- Sheet music for "The Detroit Free Press Christmas March", by Wm. C. G. Wright, published by the Detroit Free Press. Dedicated to the readers of The Detroit Free Press.
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Music
- Description:
- Frank J. Hecker's self-published memoir, from an edition of seventy-five, recounting his military and business activities. The book is three quarter bound with tan cloth on blue buckram boards, and includes a tan slipcase.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Booklet from the Detroit Free Press, containing the carriers' address from New Year's, 1877. The features a header reading "A Happy [1877] New Year" at the top, "Detroit Free Press" in the center, and "Carriers' Address." at the bottom, all surrounded by a decorative blue and red border. The first page reads "New Year's Greeting of The Detroit Free Press Carrier Boys. 1877." The following seven pages contain the text of the address. The address is written as a poem, and each page features a stanza, with each stanza surrounded by a decorative black border. The booklet is bound by string.
- Date Issued:
- 1877-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Decorative print of the lyrics to a song composed in honor of Edward A. Meiser, part owner of the Detroit Free Press, and sung by the staff of the Detroit Free Press at the First Annual Banquet of the Business at the Russell House on January 15, 1901. The lyrics are supplemented with illustrations of a bowling ball and pins, and are printed on cardstock. The lyrics are: When Meiser goes to bowl He's in it heart and soul It's really very shocking If he makes a strike at all Of course you can't expect A green horn to be perfect A game in which he uses only one, one, ball.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Page containing "A Non-Political New Year's Address, to the Citizens of Detroit, by the Carrier of the Daily Free Press" on January 1, 1839.
- Date Issued:
- 1839-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Almanac published by the Detroit Free Press commemorating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' first trans-Atlantic voyage. A bronze embossed image of Columbus with Martín Alonso Pinzón is on the cover.
- Date Issued:
- 1892-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Almanac published by the Detroit Free Press, containing information for the year 1893, as well as general facts and trivia.
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Small collection of Edgar A. Guest's poetry distributed by the Detroit Free Press as a supplemental booklet printed on newsprint. Photo portraits of Guest and other family members are printed alongside poetry. Well-known Guest poems, "Home" and "It Couldn't Be Done," are included.
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- This 2-page letter was handwritten in black ink on both sides of a slightly yellowed piece of paper by Frank I. Cobb who signed the letter as the "Leading editorial writer, Detroit Free Press." His letter is entitled, "The Newspapers of Detroit," and the text of the letter has been transcribed as follows: "The Newspapers of Detroit. At the beginning of the Twentieth Century there are seven daily newspapers published in Detroit - five in English and two in German. Of the English newspapers the Free Press and the Tribune are printed in the morning, The Evening News, The Evening Journal and Today in the afternoon. The Abend-Post and the Volksblatt, German, are published in the afternoon also. The principal owner of The Free Press is William E. Quinby; of The News and The Tribune, James E. Scripps; of The Journal, William Livingstone; of Today, James Schermerhorn; of the Abend-Post, August Marxhausen; of the Volksblatt, A. Niederpruem. Of these The Free Press, independently Democratic in politics, is the most influential and the worst edited. Little attention is paid to the manner in which news matter is written for it. It is very susceptible to "respectable" influence, and always aims to voice the opinions of so-called better-element. It has no opinions of its own. It is eminently clean - and steeped. The News is the best-edited and most readable, but the least reliable - due largely to its habitual recklessness of statement, and its desire to be "clear" regardless of the facts. The Tribune is a colorless morning edition of The News; but better edited on the whole than The Free Press. It is without editorial influence. The Journal is statistically Republican in politics and is one of the few remaining types of the bigoted partisan newspaper. It is fairly well-edited, and is clean. It, too, is very susceptible to Detroit club influence. Today is a puny monstrosity, printed on cheap paper. It prints news in bulletin form under heaving black head-lines. It has no merit except cheapness. The Abend-Post is the "organ" of the German Republicans and the Volksblatt of the German Democrats. As the old German population dies off, their field is gradually becoming smaller. Detroit newspapers compare favorably with those of other cities of the size. If anything they are above the average. Like all newspapers published at this time, they are unreliable; but seldom maliciously so. Economy explains the maul of accuracy. Good salaries must be paid to good reporters; so as few as possible are hired. All reporters are so overburdened with work that they have little time to verify statements. None of the Detroit newspapers wields great influence editorially; but all more than they deserve. Being expected to prophesy, I venture to predict that the Twentieth Century's chief reform in newspaper making will be in the direction of improving the quality of the news - having it better written, more intelligently written, and more accurately written. If the Twenty-first century has newspapers and those newspapers are reliable - one who will these be dust, would wish to be resurrected long enough to glance over the head lines of one of them. Frank I. Cobb Leading Editorial Writer, Detroit Free Press."
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Anniversaries
