Record Group 51

Detroit Finding Aid

 

Entry 1: Books and pamphlets

Shelf 149

Burton, Clarence M., The City of Detroit, 1922 Vol. 1-5

Burton, Clarence M., History of Wayne County and the City of Detroit, Michigan, 1930

            Vol. 1-2

Farmer, Silas, History of Detroit and Wayne County, 1890 (3 copies) (Acc.

            #79.5.19L)

Leake, Paul, History of Detroit, 1912 Vol. 1-3

Chronicle & Newsletter, Summer 2002 (Article about Silas Farmer) (2 copies)

 

Shelf 150

American Heritage, November 1996

Bald, F. Clever, Detroit’s First American Decade, 1948 (Acc. #2004.181.06)

Beasley, Norman and George W. Stark, Made in Detroit, 1957

Bingay, Malcolm W., Detroit Is My Own Home Town, 1946 (2 copies)

Brown, Henry, Cadillac and the Founding of Detroit, 1976 (Acc. #2004.181.13)

Burton, M. Agnes, Proceedings of the Land Board of Detroit, 1915

Burton, Clarence Monroe, When Detroit Was Young (Acc. #2004.181.11)

Catlin, George B., The Story of Detroit, 1926

Crandell, Alger Buell, Detroit First! And Western Made It!, 1963 (Acc. #78.49.1L)

Detroit Club-1903

Detroit Illustrated-The Commercial Metropolis of Michigan, 1891 (2 copies)

Detroit Motor News, bound copies of magazine (Acc. #2003.204.02)

Detroit’s 250^th Anniversary and Hudson’s 70^th Year, 1951 (Acc. #95.14.48)

General Motors-The First 75 Years of Transportation Products, 1983 (Acc. #95.98.1)

Hamlin, Marie Caroline Watson, Legends of Le Detroit, 1884

Hilberry, John D., West Canfield Historic District, November 22, 1972

            (Acc. #81.15.24L)

Jackson, H.C.L., Grand Circus Park u.s.w., 1938

Kiska, Tim, From Soupy to Nuts, 2005 (Acc. #2006.141.01)

Krum, Gracie B., History of The Detroit Historical Society, 1952

Lee, Matthew, Detroit Fire Department Apparatus History, 1989 (Acc. #89.95L)

Lodge, John C., I Remember Detroit, 1949

Lutz, William W., The News of Detroit-How a Newspaper and a City Grew Together,

            1973

MacCabe, Julius P. Bolivar, Directory of the City of Detroit for 1837 (2 copies)

            (Acc. #87.127L)

Marsh, Harriet A. and Florence A. Marsh, History of Detroit, 1935 (2 copies)  (Acc.

            #87.46)

Mason, Randy, Detroit Auto Industry Historic Sites Tour,1998

McLauchlin, Russell, Alfred Street, 1947

Metcalf, Kenneth N., Fun and Frolic in Early Detroit, 1951 (Acc. #88.18.1aL)

Meyer, Katherine Mattingly, Detroit Architecture A.I.A. Guide, 1971 (Acc.

            #2000.167.02)

Palmer, Thomas W., Detroit in 1837-Recollections of Thomas W. Palmer, 1954

            (Acc. #75.72)

Parkins, Almon Ernest, The Historical Geography of Detroit, 1918

Peckham, Howard H., Pontiac and the Indian Uprising, 1947 (2 copies)  (Acc.

            #2002.246.03, #2004.216.02)

Pingree, Hazen S., Facts and Opinions; or Dangers That Beset Us, 1895 (Acc. #76.162)

Pound, Arthur, Detroit-Dynamic City, 1940 (Acc. #2004.181.01)

Putnam, Beatrice Morgan, An Illustrated Guide to Dynamic Detroit, 1964 (Acc.

            #80.67.1L)

Quaife, Milo Milton, The Seige of Detroit in 1763, 1958 (Acc. #2004.181.07)

Quaife, M. M., This is Detroit—1701-1951, 1951 (Acc. #80.67.6L)

Quaife, Milo Milton, War on the Detroit, 1940 (Acc. #80.51.1L)

Rosalita, Sister M., Detroit: The Story of Some Street Names, 1951 (Acc. #88.18.2L)

Smith, Dwight L., With Captain Edward Miller in the Wayne Campaign of

            1794, 1965 (Acc. #76.245.1)

Souvenir Views of Detroit, Mich. (Acc. #77.237)

Stark, George W., City of Destiny-The Story of Detroit, 1943 (2 copies) (Acc.

            #2004.181.10)

Sugars, W.P., Tales of a Forgotten Village, 1953

Thumb Tack Club of Detroit-1928 Architectural Exhibition, 1928 (Acc. # 77.44)

Woodford, Frank B. and Albert Hyma, Gabriel Richard-Frontier Ambassador,

            1958 (Acc. #2004.181.05)

Woodford, Frank B., Lewis Cass-The Last Jeffersonian, 1950 (Acc. #2004.181.02)

Woodford, Frank B., Parnassus on Main Street-A History of the Detroit Public

            Library, 1965 (Acc. #2004.181.04)

 

Entry 2: Posters

Map Case 4, Drawer 1

Detroit Skyline watercolor

“Glimpses of Michigan’s Past” poster set

            Arsenal of Democracy

            Union Town

            3 Flags over Detroit

            1837 and Statehood

            Tides of Immigration

            Paris of the Midwest

            Plague and Pestilence

            Newspapers and Public Debate

            Detroit’s Urban League

            30 Who Dared to Make a Difference

“History of Michigan in Paintings” poster set

            Mme. Cadillac Arrives in Detroit-Oct., 1701 (Acc. #2003.093.07)

            Detroit Fire-June 11, 1805 (Acc. #2003.093.10)

            Detroit-World Port-1965 (Acc. #2003.093.24)

YES MICHIGAN! Poster-Detroit Institute of Arts

 

 

Entry 3: Detroit: Pamphlets & Articles

Vertical file 5229

Standard Decathlon Test event record card from 1929

Souvenir booklet of Detroit

Manual and Rules of Order of the Common Council of Detroit, 1899 (Acc. #73.116)

Detroit’s 250^th Anniversary and Hudson’s 70^th Year

Hudson’s Sixtieth Jubilee Year

Rosalita, Sister M., Detroit: The Story of Some Street Names,1951

Peckham, Howard H., Pontiac’s Siege of Detroit, 1951

Detroit in Earlier Days

World Port of Detroit ( Acc. #91.88.2L)

Handbook and Directory –World Port of Detroit, 1973 (Acc. #91.88.1L)

“The Real Detroit,” Detroit News, May 21, 1961

“Historical Tour of Greater Detroit” map, 1969

Stationary from the Business Institute, 17 sheets (Acc. #94.21.18)

Program for Christmas program at the Majestic Theater on December 22, 1921

Early Detroit told by E.A. Paddock

“Early Families of Detroit-Were your ancestors among the early families of Detroit?”      Form to be recognized as an Early Descendant (2 copies)

Centennial Souvenir-100 years of The News of Detroit, August 1, 1973

“A Time of Tragedy,” Detroit News, August 11, 1967

“Detroit was Stove Capital before becoming known as Motor City”

“A Guide to some early Detroit Landmarks” by Helen Gilbert

“Detroit in 1837,” The Exponent, January 20, 1987

“Frontier Detroit-A Little-Known DeTocqueville Trip, And a Cabin He May Have

            Visited,” written in 1831 and reprinted by Sunday News Magazine, July 4, 1976

“Detroit International fair & Exposition-Aug. 23^rd to Sept. 2^nd 1892,” (Acc. #81.23.184L)

Souvenir postcard from Detroit International Fair & Exposition in 1889

Selected Poems for Memorizing from Detroit Public Schools, 1915-16

            (Acc. #2007.34.03)

Eating around the World in Detroit, 1951 (Acc. #2007.34.02)

 

Entry 4: Detroit: Anniversary Supplements-Detroit Free Press, May 10, 1931

Map Case 4, Drawer 1

“King Auto—Epic of an Age” 

“Industry---‘Made in Detroit, U.S.A.’”

“Finance—Lifeblood of Commerce”

“Finance-Banking and Insurance”

“General Motors Gravure Section-Memory Book Glimpses of a Great Industry”

“The Story of a Century of Service”

“Bridging the Century”

“Old in Service---Young in Spirit”

“Dynamic Center of Machine Age”

Detroit skyline in 1898

 

Entry 5: Detroit Pictures

Vertical file 5239

Belle Isle

3 calendar drawings of:

            Detroit in 1820

            Detroit in 1860-Michigan Central Roundhouse

            Detroit in 1890-Steamer-Frank E. Kirby

J.L. Hudson-owner of Hudson’s

Olympia Stadium, 1940

 

Entry 6: Small maps

Community Maps box

Visitors Map of Metropolitan Detroit-AAA, 1966

1970 Freeway Guide to Metropolitan Detroit (Acc. #96.42.18 & #2007.124.13)

 

Entry 7: Large maps and atlases

Map Case 1

Drawer 6

1915 Detailed Wayne Co. Atlas (Acc. #2003.087.01)

McAlpine’s Farm Atlas of Wayne County, 1925 (Acc. #2001.092.01)

Drawer 7

General Official Atlas of Wayne Co., Michigan, 1893

Detailed Official Atlas-Wayne County, Michigan, 1891 (3 copies) (Acc. #75.48)

1904 Wayne County, Michigan Landowners Index and Maps (Acc. #2005.040.02)

Drawer 8

Indexed List of Landowners from 1876, Illustrated Historical Atlas of Wayne County,

            Michigan and Maps (Acc. #2005.040.01)

Illustrated Historical Atlas of Wayne County, Michigan, 1876 (6 copies)

            (Acc. #77.117.47, 88.79.2L, 2001.054.01, 76.203)

 

Map Case 2

Drawer 1

Vol. 1 Baist’s Surveys of Detroit, MI, 1923 (Acc. #2006.073.01)

 

Compiled by Lena Packer, 26 May 2006