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- Description:
- Advertisement from the Detroit Stove Works promoting their "Magnet" model hard coal burning stoves. On the recto is an illustration of a Magnet stove, credited to B. Ferguson of Albany, New York, and text advertising that it is "compact in form, very neat in design, operates readily, and will have rapid sale in all markets where hard coal is used."
- Date Issued:
- 1867-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Menu and program booklet from a Thanksgiving dinner served at the Wayne on Thursday, November 27, 1902. The menu is bound in a cream colored cardstock cover with white thread. A blackface caricature of a child rides on the back of a turkey holding an ear of corn hung from a stick in front of the bird on the cover. A list of pieces to be performed by Haug's Orchestra, as well as a list of the dishes to be served are contained within. "Very good. Give us More." is handwritten inside on the blank side of the inner leaf.
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Bill of sale from Edward Kanter to Mr. Tefft, dated March 15, 1865. The form is printed in black text with light red and blue lines and columns on white paper. The letterhead includes an engraving (by Calvert & Co. Lithograph of Detroit) of a three-masted sailing ship.
- Date Issued:
- 1865-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company, Cleveland Division freight bill invoice for 33 cases of Smucker's apple butter shipped to the E.J. Dossin Company on May 2, 1923 aboard the passenger steamer WESTERN STATES. The bill is stamped as paid by the D&C line, and several handwritten notes have been made on it. A second copy is attached along the perforated left edge.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One "United States Internal Revenue, Receipt for Special Tax," dated 1870. It was printed in black text on white paper and indicated that the Richmond & Backus Company had paid $60 for a special tax on its business as "Wholesale Dealers and Manufacturers" for the year ending May 1, 1871. The receipt was signed by "F. Blackinarr, Dep. [Deputy] Collector of the 1st District, State of Mich."
- Date Issued:
- 1870-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- 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:
- D. M. Ferry and Company confirmation receipt; header including engravings of D.M. Ferry and Company Seed Warehouses A and B, as well as a list of company executives; addressed to Alex Waddington of Waddington, California on June 13, 1900, "Dear Sir: We acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 6th inst with enclosure $43.52 which we credit to you on account with our best thanks under the following conditions: All checks on Interior Banks, and all other checks and drafts not endorsed by the sender, are taken for collection only, and we will not be held responsible for any loss that may be incurred in collecting such checks or drafts"
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- One promissory note, dated November 13, 1869, that was issued by the Richmond & Backus Company. It was printed in black text on white paper. The note terms were handwritten in black ink text and indicated that $250 was to be paid to John C. Worthington on May 13, 1870, at the Second National Bank of Detroit. A handwritten endorsement on the verso indicated that the note was assigned to Robert McMillan.
- Date Issued:
- 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Luncheon menu card from the Russell House, dated Thursday, July 31, 1902 with a tear-off postcard attached at the top. The card is printed on burgundy paper, with a small colorized photo of the hotel's dining room at the top beside the hotel's crest, providing the face of the postcard, and the menu printed in dark gold below. Mailing instructions, and space for addresses and stamps are provided on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Letter, dated September 5th, 1913, from the Peninsular Stove Company to the Soo Hardware Company of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The letter advertises the Peninsular Stove Company's Prospective Follow-Up Mail System, designed to aid stores in increasing sales by directly advertising to consumers. At the top of the letter is an image of the Peninsular Stove Company's logo and a stylized version of the company's name.
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
