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Advertisement from D.A.D.A. Auto Show, souvenir book of cartoons, season 1907-08 / Detroit Automobile Dealers Association ; American Printing Company. Title from cover. Primarily consists of cartoons featuring members of the Detroit Automobile Dealers Association by cartoonists Leipziger, Nash, Allan, Hassinger and Marschner.
Includes advertisements, floor plan, excerpt of rules, and musical programs by Finney’s Orchestra.
Courtesy of the National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library
Nighttimeview of Lake Goguac in Battle Creek, Michigan. Moon in background. Printed on front: “Moonlight scene on Lake Goguac, Battle Creek, Mich.” Printed on back: “No. 14510. The Metropolitan News Co., Boston, Mass. and Germany.”
Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
Found this tidbit while reading about Goguac Lake: “In the 1850s the New York Mercury, a journal which sired the dime novel and our modern mystery magazines, published a story whose setting was an island in Goguac Lake. The author is unknown. Its main character was a two personality man. He didn’t have two personalities to begin with, like the later Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but had stolen the ‘soul’ and appearance of a man dying here and placed them in his own sturdy body. The story included plenty of suspense and an evil cat.” (Wikipedia)
Advertisement on back cover of vintage sheet music. 1913.
Courtesy of the E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library
Close-upview of roundel, depicting Mercury wearing winged helmet and driving a car, during the 1909 Chicago Auto Show at the Coliseum and First Regiment Armory in Chicago, Illinois. Raised scrollwork decorates roundel. Stamped on back: “Spooner and Wells, 1931 Broadway, New York, duplicates any time, enlargements all sizes, tel. 3472-3473 Col., credit appreciated.” Handwritten on back: “Shows–Chicago Auto Show, 1909.”
Lazarnick Collection
Courtesy of the National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library
View of a laughing elephant sculpture by Arthur Kraft at Northland Mall in Southfield, Michigan. Handwritten on mount: “Northland, 5-13-61.”
Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
The oracle : compliments of Chase & Sanborn, tea & coffee importers. Advertising pamphlet for W.D. Earnley, advertising Chase & Sanborn coffee. Title from cover. Includes information on palmistry, fortune-telling, horoscopes, superstitions, birthstones and the meaning of dreams. Printed on back: “For sale by W.D. Earnley, 840-842 3rd Ave., Detroit, Mich. Copyright 1897 by the Gray Lith. Co., N.Y.”
Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
From our stacks: Illustration from Rainbow Gold. Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls By Sara Teasdale With Illustrations By Dugald Walker. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927.
From our stacks: Illustration from Rainbow Gold. Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls By Sara Teasdale With Illustrations By Dugald Walker. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927.
From our stacks: Endpapers detail from Rainbow Gold. Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls By Sara Teasdale With Illustrations By Dugald Walker. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927.
From our stacks: Illustration from Aunt Mary’sIllustrated Primer; A Series of Easy and Progressive Lessons in Spelling and Reading. With more than one hundred pictures. London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. (1871?)
View of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Branch of the Detroit Public Library, named after the children’s author. This temporary location was located on Seven Mile Road. Label on back: “Laura Ingalls Wilder Branch, exterior, May 12, 1949.”
Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
From our stacks: Illustrations by Salvador Dalí from The Maze by Maurice Sandoz. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1945.
View of Adam Strohm Hall, on the third floor of the Main Library, Detroit Public Library. Stained glass windows in background; coffered ceiling overhead. Room is furnished with tables, chairs and bookshelves. Light fixtures are suspended from ceiling. Typed on back: “Detroit Public Library, Adam Strohm Hall.” Stamped on back: “Manning Bros., Inc. Commercial photographers, 333 State St., Room 505, Detroit, Michigan.”
Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
Close-upview of coffered ceiling on third floor of Main Library, Detroit Public Library. Light fixtures suspended from ceiling. Handwritten on back: “3rd floor, interior.”
Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
Decoration for the Public Library of Detroit. Proposalby artist Edwin H. Blashfield for his mural decorations of the Main Library, Detroit Public Library. Includes pencil sketches of mural panels. Includes a brief note to Library Director Adam Strohm. Text reads: “Dear Mr. Strohm, I submit these descriptions to you to use or reject exactly as the Commission and yourself may see fit. Sincerely yours, Edwin H. Blashfield. May 10, 1922.”
Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Guild reenact tea party in period costumes. Printed on front: “Centennial, Lady Washington Tea Party, Detroit Opera House, April 19th 1875. Bigelow, Detroit.” Handwritten on back: “L. to R.: Mrs. L.H. Batter, Mrs. Charles Lathrop, Mrs. Angela (wife of President Augill), M. Fred Sibley, Ms. Davenport (aunt of Wm. L. Russel), Mrs. P.J.N. Lathrop, Mrs. W.J. Chittenden.”
Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
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