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1893013049Chicago: The Werner Company 1893. Soft cover. Good. Paper covers oblong numbers 1-15 of a 6 part series published as a weekly series by The Werner Company Chicago the series sponsored and sold by the Michigan Central Railway. Covers detached in most issues and missing altogether for number 11. Each issue with 15-16 photographs. Internals nice - full page b&w photos with complete captions of all aspects of structures and exhibits for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. The Werner Company unknown
18862380051886. Initialed on board HMA June 15/86. 1-3/4 x 8-1/4 inches. Matted. Fine. Initialed on board HMA June 15/86. 1-3/4 x 8-1/4 inches. unknown
186346962New York: S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. 1863. Folio 15¼" X 12¼" image area 13 3/4" X 11 3/4". Hand colored. Very good. Light age toning and bit of soiling. Nice bright map of these side-by-side Midwest states from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World Plans of Cities Etc." Attractive example well colored and with sharp floral border. S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. unknown
186345849New York: S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. 1863. Folio 15¼" X 12¼" image area 13 3/4" X 11 3/4". Hand colored. Very good. Faint age toning. A bright and sharp map of these two side-by-side Midwest states from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World Plans of Cities Etc." A lovely example delicately colored and featuring bold decorative border. S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. unknown
1940204597Ann Arbor: Civil Rights Federation 1940. First edition. Neatly folded twice horizontally; fine. Two-sided broadsheet approx. 8-1/2 X 11 inches printed on both sides. Announcement of the "Open Hearing" held on behalf of thirteen expelled students with a graphic image of a judge on the recto and a length text along with lists of participants and sponsors on the rear. Following a peace rally in April 1940 University President Alexander G. Ruthven fearing fifth-column Communist organizing on campus expelled the students mostly members of the left-wing American Student Union. The case drew national attention at a time when the country was deeply divided over the war in Europe. At this culminating event in November a range of speakers including representatives of the Civil Rights Federation labor unions professors and activists denounced Ruthven and defended the students' first amendment rights. In the end however the students remained expelled and a year later the U.S. was in the war. Civil Rights Federation unknown
010655Envelope or Cover. Very good. This one-page stampless folded letter was sent by C. B. Young of Detroit to the Michigan Auditor General in Lansing. It is datelined “Nov 25 1849.†It bears a circular Detroit postmark “Paid†handstamp and “5†rate mark all in red.<br /> <br /> The letter forwarded $3.00 to purchase public land in Ionia County from the sale of 1847. From the time of the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 Michigan was a public land territory and state. This meant that the federal government was responsible for disposing of all the state’s land except for a small number of private claims. Various American Indian groups could also claim sovereignty of the land as well.<br /> <br /> Although privatization was a success it was also deeply flawed. The state government took a special interest in the process for a number of reasons including quieting Native American unrest over claims surveying and platting state-claimed land reviewing the federal and state administrators responsible for processing the claims analyzing the privatization policies controlling speculation and determining privatization’s effect on settlements. <br /> <br /> This letter is likely related to the general privatization process and not the resale of military bounty land or land sold to recoup delinquent taxes.<br /> For more information see Mitchell’s “Towards a History of Privatizing Public Lands in Michigan 1785 1860†in Fall 2008 edition of the Michigan Academician. unknown
19705069Detroit 1970. Very good plus. 12pp. plus four-page section inserted at center. Original pictorial wrappers printed in blue stapled. Very minor wear. An unrecorded African-American business directory issued by the Booker T. Washington Business Association in Detroit. According to the introduction: "Booker T. Washington Business Association Detroit's oldest black business organization is proud to present the first of a series of Directories geared to support and encourage the development of more businesses within the Detroit area. This is your Directory and we urge you to begin today patronizing these black-owned businesses." The text of the directory is comprised of quarter-page advertisements for about forty said businesses ranging from automobile dealers to supermarkets according to the alphabetical index on the second page. Some of the ads are illustrated with portraits of the proprietors. The text also includes a four-page section titled "Membership Roster" inserted in the middle presumably listing the current members of the Booker T. Washington Business Association. We could locate no copies of this directory in OCLC or elsewhere. unknown
19574440Detroit: Bolar Printing and Publishing Co 1957. Very good. 20pp. Folio. Original orange printed wrappers stapled. Minor wear and light foxing. Former owner's signatures on inside front wrapper and rear wrapper. A rare directory of laypersons for the Michigan African Methodist Episcopal Church listing hundreds of congregants their addresses and phone numbers by their local churches throughout the state and even one in Chatham Ontario. The work also includes a full-page notice on the new Bishop Reverend Joseph Gomez as well as a page of "Things You Should Know About the A.M.E. Laymen's Organization" a listing of the staff of the Michigan Annual Conference an "In Memoriam" for Brother Albert Williams recently-deceased founder of the Laymen's Organization of the A.M.E. Church and a page of testimonials on serving as a layman with photographic portraits of five people. The only listing in OCLC records a 1963 edition at the Library of Michigan. Bolar Printing and Publishing Co unknown
19563463Detroit 1956. Very good. Large-format pictorial wall calendar on twelve sheets each sheet measuring 19.5 x 13.5 inches bound at top with a strip of black plastic. Minor wrinkling and staining small hole in the last leaf costing a bit of one illustration. An interesting and ephemeral wall calendar created in 1956 as a promotional for the Detroit Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company an African-American-owned life insurance company. The copyright notice is dated in that year and claimed by Charles C. Diggs Sr. the founder and president of DMMAC. The calendar features notable African descendants from America and around the world. The first month repeats the old Southern white claim that Hannibal Hamlin Lincoln's first Vice President was an African American. Hamlin is identified here as "Negro Vice-President of the United States." Other months are devoted to a variety of subjects such as Ida Wells Barnett Reverend Patrick Francis Healy two local civil rights leaders in Detroit - Francis M. Dent and Willis M. Graves Fulgencio Batista "Cuba's Negro President" "Three African Popes" and Queen Charlotte Sophia of England "Negro Ancestor of Present Day Royalty" among others.<br /> <br /> The individual days of the calendar throughout the year are populated with facts regarding major moments in the history of the African American experience i.e. January 1 - "New Year's Day - 863 Negro slavery abolished by law." January 5 reads "1943 Dr. George W. Carver scientist died at Tuskegee Institute. Carver Day established by act of Congress." Charles C. Diggs was an important African American political and business leader in greater Detroit. Over the course of his career he operated a funeral home helped found a cemetery for Black people and created the DMMAC to provide life insurance to African Americans shut out of traditional insurance opportunities through discrimination. Diggs became active politically as well becoming the first African American Democrat elected to the Michigan Senate in 1936. He worked for civil rights from within the system passing his signature legislation in 1937 known as the "Diggs Law" which punished discrimination based on race color or creed as a misdemeanor. Diggs' son Charles Jr. became the first Black man from Michigan to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.<br /> <br /> No copies of the present version in OCLC with only one copy of the previous year's calendar at the University of Kansas. unknown
19604888Detroit 1960. Very good. 40pp. Folio. Original yellow printed wrappers stapled. Moderate edge wear rubbing and dust-soiling to wrappers. Internally clean. An unrecorded program pertaining to the August 1960 biennial session of the United Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons in Michigan. The program contains the schedule of events for the session as well as numerous individual portraits and group shots of various African-American Masonic organizations for both men and women across the state of Michigan. As with similar publications of this type the program is interspersed throughout with legions of well wishes and advertisements providing important information on the network of people businesses and organiztions sympathetic to the Black Masons of Michigan. We locate no other copies of this program. unknown
192536536Pt. Huron: Era - C Printing Co. n. d. ca 1925. 1925. TRADE CATALOGUE. First edition. 8vo. 9 1/2" x 7 1/2" printed stiff wrappers double column 23 1 pp. illustrated. The uses the efficiency and the operation of the Anker - Holth Self-Balancing Cream Separator are fully described and every important detail of the machine are carefully illustrated. A single tool a wrench is all that is needed to set up or take down the entire machine. Fine copy. Era - C Printing Co., n. d. (ca 1925)]. unknown
189733751Ann Arbor: Glen V. Mills. The Inland Press 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. 365 pages. 2 square folding maps of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti included 15" x 15". Red cloth hardcover with black lettered advertisements stamped on the covers and spine. Red end sheets with advertisements. Faint printed ads top and bottom text edge. 6 red cloth thumb tabs included. 29 advertisements with color tipped inside the directory. 7 of the ads are full page. Most of the advertisements are illustrated. Light shelf wear to the binding. Maps are in very good condition. Scarce. Apparently the 1897 Directory is not located in OCLC. Microform copies indicated for various years 1888 to the early 1900's. Glen V. Mills. The Inland Press hardcover
187739794N. P.: Privately printed n.d. ca 1877. 1877. 11" x 8 1/2" broadside ad announcing that H.G. Barlow Jr. and Jno. B. Barlow have purchased the entire stock and machinery of the Democrat Bindery and are ready for business. "In 1877 the Barlow Brothers John B. and Heman G. established a bindery in the Randall Block near the foot of Lyon street." According to the ad "If you have any Periodical Music or other work that you wish to bound or Books Albums etc. in need of repairs drop us a postal card and we will give it prompt attention." Light soiling and with a horizontal crease. Very good. Privately printed, n.d. [ca 1877]. unknown
190037013Detroit: Privately printed n.d. circa 1900. n.d. circa 1900. TRADE CATALOG. 6-1/2" x 5-1/2" printed light pink wrappers. 16pp including wrappers. Black and white illustrations of children in wagons advertising the Berry Brothers Celebrated Varnishes and Architectural Finishes. Some of the pictures were taken in Mexico Honolulu and Cuba during Carnival Time. "This little booklet is dedicated with best wishes to our juvenile friends and we are proud and glad to say we have a very large number of them. All the pictures appearing herein are taken from life and show our celebrated toy wagon in actual use." View of the factory to rear wrapper and "Manufacturers of Every Grade of Varnish and Japan For Every Use Known. Also Originators and Sole Manufactureres of Genuine Hard Oil Finish Liquid Granite and Shingletint." Light soiling to wrappers else a very nice booklet. Privately printed, n.d. (circa 1900). unknown
188552242Kalamazoo: Kalamazoo Publishing Company n.d. ca.1885. 1885. 6" x 6 9/16" card folded in half to create to 4 panels. Two colorful cover panels - - one showing a woman with her parasol watering the crops with a hose as her husband is toiling at the pump. The second panel shows and man and his wife sitting on the front porch of their home while a sprinkler does the work. In background is a windmill. Two interior panels tell the story of poor Mr. And Mrs. Spoopendyke a couple who is forced to do back-breaking work in order to get water to their crops. In January of 1867 Bradley S. Williams and his brother-in-law Mr. Kirk Smith formed Williams Smith & Co. in Kalamazoo MI. The stated purpose to manufacture windmills and "reapers mowers or threshers." In 1873 the two parted ways and Williams changed the name of the company to B.S. Williams & Co. By 1889 Kalamazoo was known as “The Windmill City” with a total of eight windmill factories in operation. Over 4000 windmills were produced annually. B. S. Williams & Co. was the largest manufacturer and producing over 1200 mills annually. Light soiling and with stamp to top of one scene. Panels have been neatly taped together. Very good. Kalamazoo Publishing Company, n.d. [ca.1885]. unknown
192442217Detroit: Printed by Evans-Winter-Hebb 1924. 1924. TRADE CATALOGUE. First edition. 8vo. Original 11" x 8 1/2" pictorial beige stiff wrappers 30 2 pp. illustrated from black & white photographic images. Specifications for the new Buick six and four cylinder models are provided in some detail. Also all new features for the 1924 Buicks are listed for the six and four cylinder models. Former owner has penciled the retail price under each pictured model covers are lightly soiled center pages disconnected and a faint vertical crease to the center of the booklet else a very good copy. We find no institutional holdings for this catalogue. Printed by Evans-Winter-Hebb], 1924. unknown
192842603Flint: Buick Motor Company 1928. 1928. TRADE CATALOGUE. First edition. 7" x 11 1/2" oblong stiff pictorial wrappers 23 pp. foreword illustrated in color. Totally and beautifully illustrated specifications prices information and the original mailing envelope are provided. The lineup of vehicles offered for 1928 includes the Buick Sedan - two door- five passenger Model 20; the Buick Sport Roadster - 4 passenger - De Luxe Model 24; the Buick Sport Touring five passenger - De Luxe Model 25; the Buick Coupe 2-passenger Model 26; the Buick Country Club Coupe - 4 passenger- Model 26's; the Buick Sedan - 4 door - 5 passenger Model 27; the Buick Town Brougham - 5 passenger - Model 29; the Buick Sedan 5-passenger - Model 47; the Buick Town Brougham - 5 passenger. Model 47 s; the Buick Coupe 4-passenger - model 48; the Buick Sedan 7-passenger - Model 50; `the Buick Brougham - 5 passenger. Model 51; the Buick Sport Roadster 4-passenger - De Luxe Model 54; the Buick Country Club Coupe - 4 passenger- Model 54'c; the Buick Sport Touring - 5 passenger- De Luxe Model 55; and the Buick Coupe - 5 passenger Model 58. A fine bright copy complete with the original mailing envelope. Buick Motor Company, 1928. unknown
192842215Detroit: Evans. Winter. Hebb 1928 1928. TRADE CATALOGUE. First edition. Original 7 1/8" x 11 1/2" oblong beige stiff wrappers with gold lettering and blue medallion to front cover 23 pp. foreword illustrated in color. Laid-in are two contemporaneous business cards for Eldridge Buick Company Seattle WA. One of which is folded with 1928 vehicle prices and 16 models described and illustrated in full color. Shown in full-page views and in color are Buick Model 20 two-door five passenger sedan; the Model 24 four passenger deluxe Sport Roadster; the Model 25 five passenger deluxe Sport Touring car; the Model 26 two passenger coupe; the Model 26 S four passenger Country Club Coupe; the Model 27 four door five passenger sedan; the Model 29 five passenger Town Brougham; the Model 47 five passenger sedan; the Model 47 S five passenger Town Brougham; the Model 48 four passenger coupe; the Model 50 seven passenger sedan; the Model 51 five passenger Brougham; the Model 54 five passenger deluxe Sport Roadster; the Model 54 C four passenger Country Club Coupe; the Model 55 five passenger deluxe Sport Touring car; and the Model 58 five passenger coupe. A brief look at specifications and prices for all models is provided. An impressive catalogue in fine condition complete with the original mailing envelope which show a bit of modest wear to the extremities. An impressive catalogue. OCLC records just one institutional holding of this trade catalogue. Evans. Winter. Hebb], 1928 unknown
191242236Grand Rapids: Dickinson Bros. 1912. 1912. TRADE CATALOGUE. First edition. 8vo. Original 10 1/4" x 6 1/8" green embossed decorated stiff wrappers 32 pp. illustrated with 27 different photographic-style images of various aspects of the car including chassis engine brake assembly springs etc. plus six photographic images of Cadillac cars and four images of roof tops that are available for the line of vehicles. The models shown are the Cadillac Touring Car the Phaeton the Torpedo the Roadster the Limousine and the Coupe. Billed as The Car That Has No Crank. Front cover has a dealer's label affixed to the lower portion date "1912" in red color at top of front cover top corner edges of front and rear covers are lightly "nibbled" tiny closed tear to the fore-edge of the last page else a very good copy. OCLC locates only one copy Rochester Museum. The story of Cadillac is told very nicely in this booklet. Dickinson Bros., 1912. unknown
19699081Ann Arbor Michigan: Westport House 1969. 10 bifolium cards measuring 14.5cm x 11.5cm. One book 15cm x 11cm cardstock wraps string bound. Some signed some with other notes laid in. <br /> <br /> Archive of materials from Westport House also sometimes credited as "La Presse Sous-Sol" The Basement Press of Wallace and Joyce Bonk in Ann Arbor Michigan.<br /> <br /> "Wally" was a professor at the University of Michigan for 25 years served as the chairman of the department of library sciences and was considered an expert in building library collections. Joyce was a librarian and served as the assistant curator of books at the UM Clements Library for over 35 years.<br /> <br /> <br /> The card dated October 25 has a handwritten note laid in that says "This is the first product of my newly-acquired press.I hope I will be able to improve the product." This card and one other Christmas card are unnumbered and presumed to be cards 1 and 2. The rest of the cards are given a general number and also grouped into categories such as Historical Series Literary Series and Christmas Series. This archive contains General Numbers 12 3 5-10 13. <br /> <br /> It also contains a copy of To Hades We Will Go Westport Book II by Jane Howlon Black - actually an anagram for the publisher Wallace John Bonk. Laid in is an announcement of the cancellation of the Westport card series in spring of 1962 to publish this book with an attached specimen page as well as an address correction card. . Westport House unknown
193741314N. P.: Privately printed 1937. 1937. TRADE CATALOG. First edition. 10" x 9" pictorial wrappers n. p. 24 pp. including covers illustrated throughout in black & white from interior and exterior photographs of the 1937 line of De Soto automobiles. Also shown are the De Soto assembly line chassis cutaways engine safety features "every inch is steel" seating cushioned ride handling ventilation gasoline economy etc. The 7-passenger sedan has $995.00 written in pencil above the picture and the Touring Brougham with trunk has $955.00 written in pencil above the picture. Also pictured are the Touring Sedan Coupe with rear luggage deck the Convertible Sedan and Convertible Coupe. Small corner crease to bottom corner lightly rubbed along spine agent's black & white stamp on front cover else a very good copy. Privately printed, [1937]. unknown
193843189N. P.: Privately printed for the Chrysler Motor Company 1938. 1938. TRADE CATALOGUE. First edition. 4to. 11" x 13" pictorial wrappers n. p. 24 pp. including covers illustrated. A handsome presentation that enlists the endorsements from movie and radio stars and one major league baseball player for the line of 1938 Dodge automobiles. Joe DiMaggio's picture is on the front cover and he says "Dodge Bats Highest With Me!" and a special pictorial promotional sheet is laid-in titled "How I Learned To Bat" as told by Joe DiMaggio famous New York Yankees Home-Run Hitter." In one picture DiMaggio is shown driving a Dodge sedan along with his personal endorsement of the car. Also providing pictorial endorsements are movie actresses Claudette Colbert and Sonja Henie also a famous ice-skating champion a radio star Major Bowes and several starlets whose names I do not know. The booklet promotes "47 progressive new improvements and refinements more than the lowest-priced cars." Improvements include a better engine roomy and comfortable interior easy and simple to use steering and dials fender and headlight design improved windshields etc. Cars offered for 1938 are the Touring Sedan the Streamline Sedan the Touring Two-Door Sedan the Streamliner Two-Door Sedan the Coupe the Rumble Seat Coupe the Convertible Coupe the Convertible Sedan the Seven-Passenger Sedan and the Limousine. A light vertical fold crease a small hole punched in at the top adjacent to the spine where this booklet was most like hung a small closed tear to the top edge of the front cover panel and light rubbed at the extremities else a very good solid and attractive copy. The promotional sheet laid-in about Joe DiMaggio is also hole-punched and the top edges have small nicks and creases but not affecting any of the printing. Privately printed for the Chrysler Motor Company, 1938. unknown
193416160Hamtramck MI 1934. Hand-painted banner 8.5cm x 65cm ca 3-1/4" x 26". In red and black on a white background. Old stains and tape adhesions; complete and Good. Scarce relic from the 1934 Hamtramck Michigan mayoral campaign in which George Kristalsky and a slate of seven communist candidates for City Council were defeated. Hamtramck a working-class suburb of Detroit was a center of radical labor activity during the Great Depression. unknown
19261236Houghton Michigan: G. P. Schubert 1926. Third Printed Edition. Publisher's Green Cloth Gilt Detailing. Very Good. A Very Good Book Presumed Issued without a Dust Jacket. Book is bumped and rubbed to extremities. Cloth is a toned and a bit scuffed. Front pastedown and flyleaf have some pencil notations. Text is unmarked. All plates present as are instructional materials included in envelope at rear paste down. Gutter is visible for last few leaves binding is otherwise tight and square. Hardcover. Slim Octavo. ii 3-82pp. Laid-In Supplemental Material. G. P. Schubert unknown
192442300N. P.: Privately printed n. d. ca 1924. 1924. TRADE CATALOGUE. First edition. 3 1/2" x 5 1/4" color decorated wrappers n. p. 24 pp. full-page illustrations from photographs. Full-page views of Model "Eighty" 5-passenger Touring car Model "Eighty" Roadster Model "Eighty" Sport Touring Model "Eighty" Coupe Model "Eighty" 5-passenger Sedan and Model "Eighty" 7-passenger Sedan. Accompanying the Model "Eighty" series are vehicle specifications and prices for each vehicle F. O. B. Flint Michigan. Also pictured are full-page views of Model "Sixty" Touring car Model "Sixty" Roadster Model "Sixty" Roadster-Coupe Model "Sixty" Sedan and Model "Sixty" Brougham Accompanying the Model "Sixty" series are vehicle specifications and prices for each vehicle F. O. B. Flint Michigan. Finally pictured and with vehicle specifications and pricing F. O. B. Flint Michigan is the Flint Junior Coach-De-Luxe which is "designed and built to Flint standards and meets the demand of those thousands of motorists who have desired Flint quality in the field of low-price sixes." The Flint was an automobile marque that was assembled by the Flint Motors Division Flint Michigan between 1923 and 1927. Flint Motors was a wholly owned subsidiary of Durant Motors Company USA. The Flint was considered an assembled car because Durant Motors used components manufactured by outside suppliers to build its automobile lines. The cars were powered by a 6-cylinder Continental engine and its body stampings were made by Budd in Philadelphia. The origins of the Flint can be traced back to the Willys car company which under the direction of Walter P. Chrysler had been working on a prototype for a proposed 6-cylinder car. Willys had to sell off this prototype as part of its efforts to raise cash during a financial crisis. Once acquired this prototype was further modified to create the Flint. Following financial troubles at Durant Motors the Flint was discontinued in 1927. The Flint was priced to compete with Buick which was also assembled in Flint Michigan. Automobiles produced by Flint should not be confused with those manufactured by the Flint Automobile Company founded by A. B. C. Hardy in 1901 and which went out of business in 1903 after manufacturing only 52 automobiles in the $750–$850 price range. Inked name an address on rear cover and minor wear to the top edges else a near fine copy. Privately printed, n. d. (ca 1924). unknown
