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- Check from D. M. Ferry & Co. to McCammon Investment Company for $24.70; Signed by Kirby B. White, Secretary; Two stamps from McCammon State Bank and one stamp from The Corn Exchange National Bank of Chicago on Front; Two stamps on bank, one Pay to the Order of The Corn Exchange Nation Bank of Chicago, Ill., other Pay The Corn Exchange Natl. Bank from the First National Bank, Detroit, Mich.; Check No. 42/83; Dated Dec. 23, 1909
- Date Issued:
- 1909-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Receipt from John S. Bagg, Postmaster, Detroit Post Office, for newspaper postage in the amount of 25 cents from January 1 to March 31, 1847, paid by Mr. D. J. Campeau. The receipt form is printed in black text on very yellowed paper which has a brown stain along the bottom edge.
- Date Issued:
- 1847-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "Globe Gas Burner" model gas burning stoves. On the recto is an illustration, credited to A. Picard of Troy, New York, of a Globe Gas Burner stove and text advertising that it is a "Illuminating Globe Stove" that "Has Gas Burning Attachment, with Horizontal Moving and Dumping Grate" and that it is "patented 1869."
- Date Issued:
- 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- 2 Internal Revenue tax receipts: No. 310, dated December 15, 1862, to William H. Teft [Tefft] & Co. for taxes paid in the amount of $22.87 on iron and tinware. No. 311, dated December 15, 1862, to William H. Teft [Tefft] & Co. for taxes paid in the amount of $29.73 on iron and tinware. The receipt forms are printed on the same page and have not been cut apart.
- Date Issued:
- 1862-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Jewett and Sherman Company invoice for $385.43 for Prime Queen Olives sold to the E.J. Dossin Company on June 22, 1923, and shipped from Milwaukee to Detroit via the Universal Steamship Company.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Softcover booklet entitled, "The Welcome Guest," published by Weil & Company in the Fall of 1911. The booklet contains 24 pages of short stories, poems, and recipes as well as advertisements for various household furnishings that are available for purchase at Weil & Company stores. The booklet cover is printed in black and red text on yellowed paper. Interior pages are printed in black text on white paper and include several black and white pictures.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- J.L. Hudson trade card advertising the company's move from the Detroit Opera House building, to their new location at 141, 143, and 145 Woodward Avenue. The recto is printed with an image of a stork walking with a bag in a bag hung from his bill, a bouquet of flowers on his back, and a white peaked hat on his head. "J.L. Hudson, Clothier, Detroit Opera House Building," is printed along the top. The verso is printed with the text, "On or about April 1st we will remove to our new stores, 141, 143 &145 Woodward Ave. where we shall be pleased to receive our Friends and Customers. J.L. Hudson." "Selma" and "Beer" are handwritten on the verso in pencil.
- Date Issued:
- 1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One lease agreement, dated 21 February 1868, made between Peter Desnoyers of Detroit, party of the first part and Arouet Richmond, Frederick H. A. Backus, and Benjamin B. Richmond of Detroit, parties of the second part. The agreement is printed in black text on both sides of a bi-fold sheet of white paper. Blank lines have been completed in handwritten black text. The text indicated that Peter Desnoyers was leasing rooms in a building located at 185 Jefferson Avenue, to the parties of the second part for five years for a total amount of $2800.00. All parties have signed their names at the end of the lease agreement in the presence of two witnesses, "Chas. N. Ayres" and "Chas. E. Safford." Four U.S. Internal Revenue stamps have been affixed to the front page of the agreement form along the left edge in the amounts of two dollars, one dollar, one dollar, and two dollars. The three upper stamps feature a red and white engraved design with a bust of George Washington at the center. The lower stamp has a green and white engraved design with a bust of George Washington at the center.
- Date Issued:
- 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Trade card from the Detroit Stove Works advertising Jewel Stoves and Ranges. A lithograph on the recto depicts a child in a bonnet standing on top of their bed while holding a pan-shaped bed warmer. Written in French at the bottom of the card is "Je Vais Me Bassiner Moi-Meme," which translates to "I Will Bathe Me Myself" in English.
- 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. The recto 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 verso several passages about the importance of Detroit, the expo, the expo's Main Building, music to be provided by Signor C.A. Cappa's Seventh Regiment Band, and attractions including livestock, the Art Gallery, the Floral Palace, the Industrial and Mechanical Halls. A "Sinclair, Evans, and Elliott, Detroit, Mich." stamp is on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
