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- Description:
- Postcard. Illustration depicts Campus Martius. Several buildings, people and a trolley are pictured. The front reads, "Detroit, Mich. Campus Martius, U.S. 650." Postcard was sent and has a one cent stamp attached and is post-marked October 25, 9 pm, 1908. A fading message is written in pencil.
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Packard Motor Car Co. advertisement. Printed in black ink on white paper. The advertisement shows a drawing of a Packard Single Six Coupe being driven through an open gate. The text of the advertisement describes the Packard Single Six manufacturing process. Hand written text in pencil at top reads "N.G.: Nov. 1922." The opposite side of the page features an article, "How Ten Minutes' Fun Every Day Keeps Me Fit," in which Walter Camp describes his "Daily Dozen" exercises.
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- "Number 11, Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging Co. First Mortgage, 5 Per Cent, $5000 Registered Gold Bond" (11 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:
- Program booklet for a production of "The Ameer," at the Detroit Opera House beginning March 18, 1901. The program also contains many advertisements including those for Theodore C. Mau, Newton Annis, the Russell House, Stroh's, Sanders', Gies's Restaurant and Cafe, P.N. Corsets, and the Monroe Improved Gold Cure for "alcohol, morphine, opium, cocaine, and tobacco habits." "Monday Eve. 3-18-'01. Mr. P." is handwritten along the top of the cover.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Photograph (and 1 copy). Sepia-toned photo showing the construction of a railroad bridge over the Rouge River. Printed text in the upper left corner of the photo shows the number, "13," and "M.C.R.R. River Rouge Bascule Bridge; Foundations; Caissons #3 & #4 & Sump Pumps; June 4, 1919." The view shows one workman standing on the top of caisson #4 while two others are standing on the adjacent railroad tracks. Two other workmen are standing near the base of the caisson. The top of caisson #3 and its vertical reinforcing bars can be seen in the right foreground area. Pumps and pipes for dewatering the excavation are visible in the center foreground area of the photo.
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One drawing of a cyclecar engine entitled "Layout 2F." The drawing consists of black pencil on vellum paper and shows side, end, and cross-section views of a proposed 2 cylinder engine. Several design notes are also shown which include references to another design, "2G," and "See other sheet." The drawing is signed "JSB [James Scripps Booth], Pasadena, 1920," in the lower right corner of the plan sheet along with the note, "JSB started 6-26-1920; changed 11-5-20."
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Promotional pocket book from the Detroit Stove Works bound in a black leather cover. The front cover has "Compliments of Detroit Stove Works, Manufacturers of Jewel Stoves and Furnaces; Detroit; Chicago" written in gold on it. The back cover has the Jewel Stoves and Ranges logo in gold. Contained within it are calendars for 1920 and 1921, appointment slots for all the days in 1920, maps of all continents except Antarctica, and pages with lists of the following purposes and facts: identification, accident and injury care, interest calculations, weather flag signals, United States population, foreign coin values, time tables for mailing to foreign locations, domestic and foreign postage rates, distances between U.S. cities, largest city populations by U.S. state, memoranda recording, telephone number recording, insurance expiration calculation, accounting, average male heights and weights, presidents of the United States, anniversaries, weights and measures, metric equivalents, time zones, and phases of the moon for 1920.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white photo of a cropped photo of Detroit United Railway streetcar number 1575, produced as order 481 by the G.C. Kuhlman Car Company of Cleveland, Ohio, as identified by a sign in the foreground. "Detroit United Rys #1575" is stamped on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sheet music for the song "My Little Persian Rose" from the musical "A Persian Garden", lyric by Edgar Allan Woolf, music by Anatol Friedland, published by Jerome H. Remick & Co. The cover is illustrated by Starmer.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the water works building in Wyandotte. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Feb 2, 1923.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
