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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
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
195695056Detroit: Detroit Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company but copyrighted by Charles C. Diggs Jr. 1956. Very Good. Black and white portrait and description on each month with some red printing. Wall calendar. 49 x 34 cm. Horizontal crease across center. Minor chipping around edges. OCLC locates 1 copy University of Kansas. We know nothing about Detroit Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company and wonder if it was a mutual burial operation rather than an insurance company selling life or other types of insurance home auto etc. since Diggs and his father were in the funeral home business in addition to their political activities. This calendar has a fact relating to African American history for every day of the year and also has some little known "fact" heading each monthly page. Detroit Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company (but copyrighted by Charles C. Diggs, Jr.) unknown
194042638N. P.: Ford Motor Company 1940. 1940. TRADE CATALOGUE. First edition. 9 " x 12" pictorial stiff wrappers n. p. 20 pp. illustrated in color information specifications. Promotes the 1941 Mercury 8 for its important advances in comfort and roominess clean styling and commanding size ease of handling and is both a big car that is unusually economical to operate. Offered for sale are the sedan the sedan-coupe the coupe the club convertible the town sedan and the station wagon. Minor wear to the spine ends else a fine copy. Ford Motor Company, [1940]. unknown
1920000011237Madison Wis.: Joint War History Commissions of Michigan and Wisconsin 1920 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo. 4 7-315 5 pp. Quarter blue cloth over brown cloth boards with red and black lettering and decorations on the front board black lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several full-page and in-text photographs and a full-page plan. 32nd-division.org The 32D ‘Red Arrow’ Division in World War I: From the ‘Iron Jaw Division’ to ‘Les Terribles' accessed 3/3/22. A thorough history of the 32nd division or the "Red Arrow" division which was comprised of men from Wisconsin and Michigan. The training of the men in Texas is recorded as well as their journey to France with a record of the casualties incurred abroad descriptions of the Division's fighting in the Second Battle of the Marne with mention of Les Terribles honors and awards earned by distinguished division members etc. The descriptions of the skirmishes and battles are excellent in their detail and invoke vivid images of the First World War. The front hinge with a small split but binding is holding strong some foxing to the endpapers. Joint War History Commissions of Michigan and Wisconsin [1920] hardcover
1951ZB257113Alumni Association of the University of Michigan 1951-1954. volumes 57-60 all complete volumes original paper wrappers ex library good PRICE IS FOR THE LOT. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Alumni Association of the University of Michigan 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
2000x-0815323441Routledge 2000. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 352 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.25 inches. Routledge hardcover
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
1921List3033Spring Lake Michigan 1921. Twelve 8 ½ x 11 inch pages affixed to backing sheet. Wear marginal damage and some tearing to backing sheet; pages folded with some wrinkling; excellent. Joos Verplanke 1844–1943 was born in Zeeland The Netherlands and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1849. They settled in Holland Michigan and besides his time serving in the Union Army Verplanke would live in the Ottawa County area for the rest of his life. Offered here is a short memoir written by Verplanke for his children in 1921 when he was in his late 70s.<br /> <br /> The Verplanke family came to the US as part of the wave of immigration that followed the Dutch Reformed Church secession and the economic downturn in The Netherlands in the 1830s. Some Seceder church leaders such as Albertus Van Raalte felt that they were being religiously persecuted by the government and that staying in The Netherlands was religiously and economically untenable for their congregants.1 By the mid-1840s several Seceder ministers had formed emigration societies to help their parishioners leave for the US. As Verplanke puts it “They went in order to live where they could be free in religious matters as they had not been entirely free in the Netherlands during the thirties.â€<br /> <br /> Joos Verplanke and his family left Biervliet Zeeland in 1849 to join the Dutch colony in what would become Holland Michigan—but they and others in their party ran out of funds by Albany. The group was sent to “the Poor Houseâ€; many including Verplanke’s mother and younger brother died from cholera and the group was forced to leave. Arriving in Grand Haven Michigan they were assisted by a farmer who had also immigrated from The Netherlands a few years prior. The farmer fed and housed the family and eventually raised funds for them to continue to Holland. In fact this ethos was important to the Dutch immigrants; some Seceder emigration societies had provisions that money would be pooled so that the richer immigrants could help the poorer reach the colony.1<br /> <br /> The Verplankes arrived destitute in Holland. Joos Verplanke describes the colony:<br /> <br /> “Holland was a very new colony practically in the woods with a few stores a few small houses. The Government land was taken up by these colonists. Rev. VanDerMeulen had settled in Zeeland. Rev. Ypma im Vriesland Rev. Bolks in Overisel and others in Graafscap; each in his colony. A few of the immigrants had money but most had just enough to get them here. It was very hard for them in this wild timbered country so different from the cultivated and thickly settled Netherlands. None of them had ever handled an axe. . However encouraged by their ministers they were determined to learn to use the axe and chop out a place where they could worship God as they wished which they had not been allowed to do in the Netherlands some time before.â€<br /> <br /> In 1862 Verplanke enlisted with the Union Army. He recalls training:<br /> <br /> “We were in Holland two weeks training. Had a jolly time everyone was good to us. We could have anything we wanted. All the beer we wanted to as there was no prohibition those days.â€<br /> <br /> He recalls the unit fighting Morgan’s raiders at “Tip’s Bend†Tebbs Bend Kentucky fighting in Knoxville and with Sherman on his March to the Sea. He also recalls his short-lived desertion from the steamer Matanzas in Washington:<br /> <br /> “So crowded was the boat that there was no room to lie down not even on the upper deck. I thought if I can get off I will not go with this boat. I talked to a few of the boys and they agreed with me. Just then the gang planks were hauled in so we could not sneak off that way. I looked over and noticed along the boat’s side the whale-fenders were hanging by ropes. We threw our knapsacks and slide sic down the ropes. . The next morning we went to headquarters and I told some kind of a story about getting left. . Though we had been booked as deserters there was nothing more said of it. So we remembered only the fun we had out of what might have proved to be a very bad venture.â€<br /> <br /> Verplanke mustered out in June of 1865. He became the town marshall in Holland and in 1876 successfully ran as a Democrat for Ottawa County Sheriff despite the county’s Republican lean. He ran again two years later as a Greenback. The Greenback Party was an agrarian anti-monopoly and pro- monetary and labor reform party but Verplanke frames his running as a Greenback as a practical decision: “I knew if I accepted the Greenback nomination I was almost certain of victory. . I needed it badly as I had spent so much money in electioneering†for the previous election.<br /> Verplanke farmed in Crockery Township and then moved to Spring Lake where he authored this document for the benefit of his nine living sons.<br /> <br /> Of interest to scholars of the Dutch settlement of Michigan following the Dutch Reformed Church split and those immigrants’ participation in the Civil War and American political life.<br /> <br /> 1 Robert P. Swierenga “‘By the Sweat of our Brow’: Economic Aspects of the Dutch Immigration to Michigan†lecture at the A.C. Van Raalte Institute for Historical Studies Hope College Holland Museum Sesquicentennial Lecture Series Holland MI March 13 1997. unknown
1965ZB3802331965-79. volumes 9-23 partly in original paper wrappers ex library good-very good PRICE IS FOR THE LOT:. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. unknown
193042856N. P: Privately printed n. d. 1930. 1930. First edition of this very rare and nicely illustrated 1931 dealer's catalogue for the last year of the V-8 Oakland whose marque would be eliminated in 1932 as the United States descended into the Great Depression and the demand for their line-up of beautiful V-8 models crashed. 6" x 9" color printed wrappers 16 pp. including covers illustrated six color plates numerous text illustrations specifications. The Oakland Motor Car Co. was founded in 1907 by Edward Murphy and purchased by GM with William Durant in 1909 and would grow to be the division which was marketed in the price range above Chevrolet but below Oldsmobile. After the introduction of the Pontiac brand by the company in the 1920s the Oakland marque began losing sales ground and the company began offering electric horns ignition theft locks automatic windshield cleaners spare rim & tires shock absorbers stop lights rear view mirrors and other equipment which has since become standard. This catalogue features the beautiful Fisher coachwork on the Custom Sedan Sport Coupe 2-door Sedan Business Coupe 4-door Sedan and the very popular Convertible Coupe. No copies located in Worldcat. Lightly rubbed along spine along with 1" split to toe penciled pricing information in the margin below the Custom Sedan else a very good copy. Privately printed, n. d. [1930]. 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
1928182801928. Randall Studio. University of Michigan Medical School student and faculty portrait 1928 documents racial and gender inclusion within a major American medical school during a period when African American and women physicians remained sharply underrepresented in medical education. The portrait supports research into professional training race gender and institutional access in interwar medicine especially because the group includes one African American man and four women among 82 students. The University of Michigan had admitted women beginning in 1870 and Sophia B. Jones became its first African American woman to earn a medical degree in 1885 giving this later class portrait added relevance within the school's longer history of medical education and inclusion.<br /> <br /> Silver gelatin photograph by Randall Studio. 1928. 22 x 18 inches. Mounted to photographer's board. The large-format image shows 82 students and faculty arranged in individual portrait format including four female students and one African American student. The scale and formal presentation identify the photograph as an institutional record of a medical cohort rather than a casual class image.<br /> <br /> The photograph captures a visibly limited but historically meaningful presence of women and an African American student in elite medical training before mid-century civil rights reforms. Small 1.5-inch tear to one corner barely affecting one of the 82 images; very small chips to side and top edges not affecting text or images; very good. Strong visual evidence of race gender and professional formation at the University of Michigan Medical School in 1928. unknown
191550955Dowagiac Michigan: P.D. Beckwith Inc. 1915. 1915. TRADE CATALOG. 12" x 9" in bright colorful pictorial wrappers and showing an illustration of Chief Doe-Wah-Jack cooking over a camp fire on the front wrapper and a display of Indian equipment on the rear wrapper. 16pp. Illustrations. The Round Oak Stove Company was founded in Dowagiac Michigan in 1871 by Philo D. Beckwith. Beckwith died in January 1889. At that time the official company name was changed to The Estate of P.D. Beckwith Incorporated. Most stoves produced after 1890 carry the mark of “Estate of P.D. Beckwith” along with “Round Oak.” Around 1900 the company introduced its mascot - Chief Doe-Wah-Jack. Chief Doe-Wah-Jack a fictional Native American Indian appeared on most Round Oak Stove Company and Estate of P.D. Beckwith Inc. advertising and stoves until the company's demise in 1946. Chief Doe-Wah-Jack was introduced when with the spread of the telephone customers had trouble pronouncing Dowagiac when asking the operator for a connection. Chief-Doe-Wah-Jack remedied that problem by providing the town's phonetic spelling. Information about and pictures of the Round Oak Chief Copper-Fused Boiler- iron Range both with and without a leg base. Information about and pictures of the Round Oak Chief Copper-Fused Boiler-Iron Range both with and without a leg base and of the Copper-Fused Chief Broiler-Iron 3-Fuel combination Range which uses coal and gas. Discusses the fire box and grates; the building of the top of the range; a three-ply flue bottom; the ash pan and chutes the range’s doors; the broiler door; the rounded corners of the range; etc. Illutrations showing every detail of the range. Finally the company has patented their design for the perfect means employed in heating the water in the ample copper reservoir and baking at the same time. "Other manufacturers shall not steal it." Light soiling and wear to the extremities. Very Good. A nicely produced brochure. P.D. Beckwith, Inc., 1915. 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
1940219737Order of the Eastern Star 1940. First Edition. Paperback. The certificate is in a very good to near fine condition with some minor marks and edge dulling. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 0 pages; One life membership certificate for the Order of the Easter Star a Freemasonry-related fraternal organization est. in Boston 1850. The certificate is awarded to Clyde E. Hadley and dated 10 June 1940. It is signed by Amanda Christian Worthy Matron; L. C. Hamilton Worthy Patron and Goldie Sherwood Secretary. Also includes invoice and membership card. Certificate dimensions: 30 x 22cm. In original envelope with Order of Eastern Star printed label. Order of the Eastern Star paperback
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
1947010237No Place: Michigan State College 1947. Book. Near Fine. Two Ring Binder. First Thus. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto viii 133 leaves : with illustrations.Uniform Title: Seltenen Erden vom Standpunkte des Atombaues English: The Structure of Matter in Single Presentations edited by M. Born and J. Franck Berlin Julius Springer Publisher 1927. Bound in stiff cardboard binder Near Fine pages printed rectos only with manuscript edits and additions in ink on almost every page made by someone with knowledge of both the science and the references. George Charles de Hevesy was a Hungarian radiochemist winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Copley Medal recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals. He also co-discovered the element hafnium.Wikipedia RARE OCLC locates only a single copy at the Univ. of Cincinnati. OCLC: 863634712 . Michigan State College Hardcover
190748895Detroit: John Borman & Son 1907. 1907. TRADE CATALOG. First edition. 5 1/2" x 9" in gray-green printed wrappers. 192 pp. Black and white illustrations. Pricing. An unusually rare buggy and wagon manufacturer's catalog which focused on direct sales rather than a network of dealers. The catalog illustrates their entire line-up of buggies surries carriages phaeton Stanhopes runabouts road wagons spring wagons express wagons delivery wagons milk bakery and mail wagons with harnesses of all kinds with illustrations information on and pricing for each. Harry and Frank Jacobs had initially partnered with H.L. Patterson in the Union Buggy Co. as early as 1901 selling the "Union" line of vehicles manufactured by other Pontiac Michigan wagon and buggy manufacturers and marketing them in their line of catalogs. After the Union Buggy Co. folded the company was reconstituted for a couple years as the Union Buggy & Harness Co. Within a couple years the company must have folded because by 1910 Harry was working for auto manufacturers in Pontiac as a purchasing agent and Frank was working as an executive with the local knitting mills. Also present is the original printed mailing envelope showing a 1907 postmark. Light scraping to front wrapper. Very good. John Borman & Son, 1907. unknown
1921ZB445218Ann Arbor 1921-1936. volumes 1-22 an uninterrupted run in publisher's cloth ex library overall very good PRICE IS FOR THE LOT:. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Ann Arbor hardcover
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
193842948N. P.: Printed in Canada by R. G. McLean Limited 1938. 1938. TRADE CATALOGUE. First edition. 4to. 12" x 9" color pictorial wrappers 24 pp. including covers color-lithograph illustrated throughout and numerous black & white photograph illustrations. This scarce dealership catalogue is the Hudson Motor Car Company's 30th anniversary lineup with fresh new styling and models. A limited numbers of these models have survived and very few appear in period photographs. Even though over 80000 cars were shipped to dealers there are very few remaining examples from one of the few surviving pre-World War II smaller automakers. For the year 1939 the company offered six new models all equipped with L-head engines with chrome-iron blocks beginning with a bare-bones Series 90 and then the Series 91 92 and 93 straight sixes and finally the fully equipped Series 95 and 97. The Country Club sedans Broughams and Coupes featured luxurious Airfoam interiors with a broad range of paint and upholstery choices. This is a very colorful and informative catalogue. Light wear to the spine and extremities else a very good clean copy. Worldcat locates 1 copy Library of Michigan Lansing. [Printed in Canada by R. G. McLean Limited], 1938. unknown
19553892Detroit Mi 1955. Very good. Panoramic photographs 10 x 18.5 inches and 12 x 19.75 inches. Moderate creasing surface and edge wear. A pair of rare small-format panoramic photographs at least one of which was produced by a Japanese American photographer featuring diners at two different Detroit conventions of the Japanese American Citizens League in the mid-20th century. The first photograph pictures hundreds of Japanese American men and women dining at the Book Cadillac Hotel in Detroit during the September 1-2 1951 convention of the JACL. According to the printed title at bottom this was the organization's "2nd biennial Midwest District Convention." This photo was produced by a photographer named Kawamoto with his name scratched into the negative at bottom right. The second features the attendees of the "Testimonial Dinner" of the Detroit chapter of the JACL at the International Institute on May 15 1955. Material from eastern JACL chapters is especially difficult to find in the present market. unknown
