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- Description:
- Detroit Engineering Society membership card issued to Fred M. Odena, Jr. for the 1915-1916 year. The recto is endorsed by the society's Secretary-Treasurer and bears the group's shield-shaped symbol. A list of partnered engineering societies is provided on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- 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
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Program and menu booklet for a Detroit and Wayne County Retail Druggists' Association complimentary banquet hosted by Nelson, Baker, and Company at the Russell House on Monday, January 8, 1900. The booklet consists of four leafs of cardstock bound with blue cord. The cover is printed with an engraving by the Calvert Lithographing Company of a group of steamships gathered on the Detroit River with the city's skyline in the background, including the Fort Street Union Depot, the Fort Street Presbyterian Church, the Federal Building and Post Office, City Hall, the Majestic Building. A list of officers, the menu, a list of toasts, and a program of musical selections to be performed are contained within.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Program for an unknown event, likely a bar association dinner. "NWBA 1911," is printed on a triangular flap on the cover. Within dishes, many with whimsical names are listed, as is a series of lectures--"Pending Legislation in Congress," "The Street Railway Settlement," and "The Third Party in Congress"-- intersected with musical selections. The speakers--Frank D. Eaman, Frank E. Doremus, William Barlum Thompson, and Victor L. Berger--are all from legal backgrounds.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Invitation to the Sixth Annual Ball of the Marine Engineers' Association held at Phoenix Hall on January 14, 1880. The invitation was printed in blue and gold on beige paper by W.S. Ostler of 66 Griswold Street. A sidewheel paddle boat is printed on the front, and images of a woman holding an umbrella and fanning herself and an array of large leaves in a planter are inside.
- Date Issued:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Menu for a Bankers Club of Detroit banquet held at the Russell House on April 3, 1902. The menu consists of a two leafs of beige paper bound with blue ribbon between two beige pieces of cardstock. The cover is printed with a blue engraving of a woman in a flowing robe and a Phrygian cap holding a torch and quill while leaning on a block containing the embossed gold crest of the Bankers Club of Detroit. The menu and a program of pieces of be performed by the Russell House Orchestra under the direction of L. Alberti are contained within.
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- September 26, 1887, edition of The Grocer and Butcher, the "Official Organ of the Retail Grocers and Butchers Associations" of Detroit, Mt. Clemens, and Toledo. The issue contains news of interest to grocers including a meeting of the Detroit Grocer's Association, legislation requiring the inspection of beef and milk for tuberculosis, and trade with Canada. Numerous advertisements, primarily for grocers and dry goods, are also contained within. The issue is bound in a green paper cover with engravings of the interiors of a grocery store and a butcher shop printed in the masthead.
- Date Issued:
- 1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Schedule booklet for the Detroit Merchants and Manufacturers First Michigan Trip beginning November 28th, and ending December 2nd, 1898. A passage inside the booklet explains the purpose of the trip to being to allow members of the Detroit Merchants and Manufacturers Exchange to meet their customers around the state. The Michigan Central Railroad Depot on the corner of Third Avenue and Jefferson Avenue is pictured on the cover. The itinerary within lists arrival and departure times for the towns along the route. The itinerary uses the Michigan Central Railroad, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, Grand Trunk Railroad, Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad, and the Detroit, Grand Rapids and Western Railroad. The booklet is bound with both staples and glue.
- Date Issued:
- 1898-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- Description:
- Half-folded menu for the Detroit Laundrymen's Club dinner at the Russell House, dated Tuesday, February 11, 1902, printed on beige paper. The hotel's crest is printed on the cover in red. In addition to dinner options the menu also contains a program of selections to be performed by the Russell House Orchestra under the direction of Signor L. Alberti. A list of guests and members of the club is on the back cover.
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Program for an unknown event, likely a bar association dinner. "NWBA 1911," is printed on a triangular flap on the cover. Within dishes, many with whimsical names are listed, as is a series of lectures--"Pending Legislation in Congress," "The Street Railway Settlement," and "The Third Party in Congress"-- intersected with musical selections. The speakers--Frank D. Eaman, Frank E. Doremus, William Barlum Thompson, and Victor L. Berger--are all from legal backgrounds.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
