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- Description:
- Typewritten letter from Walter E. Morrison, president of the Dow Portable Electric Assistant Company of Braintree, Massachusetts to the Electric Service and Appliance Company on 166 Randolph Street, dated December 11, 1901, written in reply to a previous letter from the company. Morrison, or someone writing on his behalf states that "our Mr. Morrison" will be leaving on a trip on Friday, but he will call from his trip if possible. Additionally the letter says that there has been a delay in the manufacturing of the six inch park coils which the Electric Service and Appliance Company has ordered. Morrison's signature closes the letter. It is printed on Dow Portable Electric Assistant Company letterhead, which includes an engraving of a portable receiver built into a carrying case.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Communication/Radio/Television
- Description:
- One copy of "The Detroit Daliy Post" newspaper for "Saturday Morning, June 27, 1874." It consists of a single large sheet of paper that has been folded in half in order to create four pages of black printed text. Short articles cover international, national, and local news as well as real estate, vessel passages, wholesale market prices, death notices, legal notices, weather, and advertisements. Several small engraved drawings are included among the advertisements. This newspaper was contained in the lead box time capsule that was removed from the Old City Hall on May 25, 1961.
- Date Issued:
- 1874-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Communication/Radio/Television
- Description:
- Typewritten letter sent to the Clark Electrical Engineering Company from H. Kent McCay, president of the McCay Engineering Company of Baltimore, Maryland on May 30, 1906. In the brief message McCay informs Clark that they will being sending the specifications for wireless telegraph sets for Fort Wood, New York "within a few days." McCay closes with his signature. The letter was printed on McCay Engineering Company letterhead. "Army Navy Paper," has been handwritten in pencil near the bottom left corner of the recto.
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Communication/Radio/Television
- Description:
- Inner page of an April 1865 edition of the Detroit Advertiser and Tribune mounted to a linen backing. The page includes stories on a discovery of oil in Wayne County; the theft of a set of dentures; a minor accident at an oil well on Romulus; a new venue for the Detroit Base Ball Club in a skating park; a jail break; church happenings (especially upcoming Easter services); advertisements for patent medicine, cotton, hair dye, and insurance; passenger steamer updates; and classified ads.
- Date Issued:
- 1865-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Communication/Radio/Television
- Description:
- Front page of the Saturday, April 15, 1865 evening edition of the Detroit Tribune mounted to a linen backing. The page is dominated by the news of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of Secretary of State William H. Seward, the latter of which it initially falsely reports as succeeding. The paper also includes a message from Detroit mayor Kirkland C. Barker, who requested that businesses be closed, all bells in the city be tolled for the hour between noon and one o'clock, and that the citizens gather for a meeting at City Hall at three o'clock.
- Date Issued:
- 1865-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Communication/Radio/Television
- Description:
- Typewritten letter from Ernest G. Swift, the manager of Parke, Davis and Company's Canadian laboratory to Thomas E. Clark, of the Electrical Supply and Construction Company at 166 Randolph Street, dated February 21, 1902. Within Swift thanks Clark for providing further information on his wireless telegraph systems, and says he will send one of his telegraph operators or electricians to witness a demonstration. Swift also says he awaits a price for equipping Parke, Davis and Company's Canadian and American laboratories with such a system. The letter closes with the signature of Swift. It is printed on Parke, Davis and Company, Canada Branch, Walkerville, Ontario letterhead.
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Communication/Radio/Television
- Description:
- Typewritten letter sent to Thomas E. Clark of the Electric Service and Appliance Company of 166 Randolph Street from T. Marshall, the general freight and passenger agent of the Lake Erie and Detroit River Railway on July 4, 1902. Marshall expresses that he was impressed with the demonstration of Clark's wireless telegraph during his recent visit to Clark's office. He is interested in testing the system with the Lake Erie and Detroit River Railway railroad car ferry SHENANGO. Marshall closes with his signature. The letter is printed on Lake Erie and Detroit River Railway, Traffic Department letterhead.
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Communication/Radio/Television
- Description:
- Typewritten letter sent to the Clark Electrical Engineering Company from Captain George Sabin Gibbs, of the Signal Corps on June 6, 1906. The message is in regard to order no. 5374 for "six sets of wireless telegraph instruments." Gibbs instructs that the sets should be shipped to the Signal Corps Storeroom in New York City. He adds that the army Quartermaster nearest to Detroit will follow up with specifications regarding shipping. Gibbs closes with his signature. The letter is printed on War Department, Office of the Chief Signal Officer letterhead.
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Communication/Radio/Television
- Description:
- Thursday, June 7, 1920 edition of the Detroit Radio News published by the Detroit Radio Association containing news relating to Detroit-area amateur radio enthusiasts, including an article and advertisement about the William B. Duck Company of Toledo, the return of radio courses offered through Cass Technical High School, essays on the value of amateur radio clubs to preserve access to the spectrum, etiquette, circuit diagrams for transmitters, jokes, and advertisements.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Communication/Radio/Television
- Description:
- April-May 1921 edition of the Detroit Radio News published by the Detroit Radio Association containing news relating to Detroit-area amateur radio enthusiasts, including an essay from Clyde E. Darr chiding radio operators for jamming the airwaves and making it difficult to tune into distant signals, changes in wavelength requirements, a radio station run by the Ford Motor Company, a French naval station's station, etiquette, a meeting of the Southern Ontario Radio Association, a humorous essay, a radio exhibit, several stories about commercial and professional radio operators, want ads, and advertisements.
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Communication/Radio/Television
