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- Description:
- Black and white photograph, printed on a postcard, showing a straight on front end view of a Stout Batwing inside a Motor Products Corporation building. The tips of the left and right wings are just out of frame. A man can be seen standing in the background and to the right.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting Detroit United Railway streetcar #1503 marked for overhaul at repair shop. Destination sign reads, "Fort, City Hall". Image from page 80 of D.U.R. Photographs to Accompany Report of C.H. Fessenden, Sept. 3, 1921.
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One 2-page letter from McNamee & Mann, Contractors, Montreal, to Dunbar & Sullivan, Port Colborne. The letter is handwritten in black ink on white linen paper that is watermarked "Standard, Pure Linen." The letter is transcribed as follows: "15th Jany. 1902 Messrs. Dunbar & Sullivan Buffalo, N.Y. Dear Sirs 'In the American Co. Abbey Salts' A company has been formed in London, England, to take over and control the American Co. in which American Co. you hold $6500.00 in stock and on full owning terms. They exchange your $6500 in American Co. and give you stock in English Co. with a stock bonus of 25% this makes £1630 Stg. [Sterling] Also a cash bonus of 20% on $6500 = $1300. All our firm have accepted this offer and as we promised to place your firm upon same terms as we recd. we trust this will give you satisfaction. We wish you to do the following to complete the transfer - 1st Sign name of your firm upon the 2 stubs of the new scrip for £1630 Stg. and return us the stubs. You keep the scrip. 2nd Sign enclosed receipt for cheque for $1300.00 being the cash bonus of 20% and return us the receipt. 3rd Send us and order on the Quebec Bank here to deliver us the $6500.00 in American Co. scrip which was placed with the Bank merely for safekeeping. Sign all these papers before a witness and return them right away. The English Co. are only buying a sufficient nr. of shares to control the American Co. so if you do not wish to accepts one for the other you can return us the enclosed papers. The English Co. expect to pay another bonus part cash & part stock in March next - as they are selling rights to Australia & India but they will control the stock. Yours truly, McNamee & Mann."
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Small 95 page booklet written by Frederick Humphreys, M.D. providing medical advice, always centering around his own line of numbered remedies, for a variety of ailments. A veterinary section is also included. The back section of the booklet is dedicated to advertisements for Humphreys' Homeopathic Medicine Company. A photograph of a nurse graces the front cover. The back cover advertises the availability of Humphreys' products through Charles W. Wing, Drugs and Chemicals at 838 Fort Street, Detroit, Michigan.
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One hardcover membership booklet entitled "International Seamen's Union of America - Deck Department." The pocket-size booklet has a blue cloth cover with gold-colored title text. Printed text on the first three pages gives information about the union. The fourth and fifth pages give personal details about the member, Paul Condon, an Able Seaman, who enrolled as a union member (Great Lakes No. 692) on July 19, 1924, in Chicago. The booklet contains 8 "Statement of Account" pages of pre-printed blank lines that were to be filled in as union dues were paid. Red ink date stamps indicate that dues were paid on July 11, 1924, for the months of July - September, 1924. The back pages in the booklet show printed wage tables which list total wages earned based upon various monthly wage rates and the number of days worked.
- Date Issued:
- 1924-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the COLUMBIA traveling with many passengers on deck.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the CITY OF DETROIT III with many people visible on deck. Printed on recto: Length 470 feet - Beam, moulded, 55 feet - 7 Decks - 600 Staterooms - 7600 Indicated Horse Power - Speed 21 miles - cost $1,500,000.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- "Number 26, Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging Co. First Mortgage, 5 Per Cent, $5000 Registered Gold Bond" (26 of 30). The bond is printed in printed in red, green, and black ink on white paper that is watermarked "Broun-Green Beaver Bond." It has a decorative engraved green border with engraved images at the top that depict Lady Liberty and other figures that represent American industry and a bountiful harvest. Black, Old-English style text shows the company name, "Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging Co." and lists the terms of the bond issuance and repayment. The bond has been signed by "Harris T. Dunbar, President," and "Frederick C. Slee, Secretary," and is dated March 15, 1904. The 20-year bonds were due for repayment on March 15, 1924. A round, embossed company seal is located near the lower left corner of the bond. The verso contains blank spaces which have handwritten text that show the date and name in whom the bond was registered along with the signature of the company Treasurer. Other handwritten text and notes showed subsequent bond ownership reassignments with signatures.
- Date Issued:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting a Myrtle Street streetcar. Three employees stand outside the parked streetcar, and a woman and girl are seated inside. Mounted on board.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Postcard. A color photograph on cardstock depicting an elevated view of the Y.M.C.A. Building with the tops of trees in Grand Circus Park in the foreground. Printed on verso, "Y.M.C.A. Building, corner Witherell and Adams Avenues, is the largest and most complete of its kind in the world and boasts of a gymnasium second to none in the country. It was erected in 1908 and has cost in the neighborhood of $700,000." Handwritten message on verso. Postmarked Feb 1, 1915.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
