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1886réf. 2380051886. 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 books
1936réf. BK0067United States 1936. Photograph measuring 9 ⅜ x 7 ½ inches. With manuscript caption date stamp and later sticker verso. Some wrinkling to edges especially right. Excellent. A 1936 press photograph showing workers laying out and riveting the roof of a massive gas tank at Ford's River Rouge complex with cranes smokestacks and plant buildings visible beyond them. The image captures the Rouge at the height of its industrial power as a vast integrated manufacturing landscape with its own steel mill glass plant power plant docks rail connections and internal energy infrastructure. The caption identifies the structure as a 10000000-cubic-foot gas tank part of the unseen systems that made Ford's celebrated vertical integration possible. Visually the photograph is especially strong with the scattered workers dwarfed by the tank's broad surface and the distant factory skyline giving the scene the scale and abstraction of Depression-era industrial photography. 1 Remko van Hoek The Making of the Supply Chain: How Five CSCMP Supply Chain Hall of Famers Shaped the Industry Epic Books 2024 39-42. . unknown books
1917réf. es4064Ypsilanti Michigan: Michigan State Normal College 1917. Royal octavo leather backed boards hardcover gilt letters 268 pp. Good with rubbed leather spine. Michigan State Normal College, 1917. hardcover books
réf. qms1017Empire Michigan: The Studio n.d. Octavo paperbound stapled b&w photo illus. wrappers 20 pp. Very Good with light edgewear & foxing age darkened spotting. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. From Introduction: Welcome to Leelanu “Land of Delight.” Leelanau County the Little Finger of Michigan is a triangular peninsula extending northwest into the fresh blue waters of Lake Michigan. Located half way between the Equator and the North Pole and wept by the clean water-washed air Leelanau is the year-round haven for living. The land is primitive in its wooded beauty but with well-kept farmlands adding a delightful pastoral touch. Nearby metropolitan areas are easily accessible. Leelanau is an Indian name meaning “Land of Delight” and from the earliest days of its settlement by lumbermen fishermen and farmers to the days when city folk discovered its healthful restful climate the country has proved in numerous ways that it truly is the “Land of Delight.” The Studio, n.d. unknown books
1843réf. BK0115Jackson Michigan 1843. Broadside 7 ¾ x 10 ½ inches. Single sheet printed in black. Old folds with short separations and small losses at several fold intersections and along the edges with general handling wear good overall. An early Jackson Michigan broadside issued by S. T. Carr offering ten dollars for the return of a wallet lost two days earlier on the road between the tavern of W. H. Monroe in Jackson and the Parma House. Carr describes the missing property in some detail: "A CALF-SKIN WALLET containing about sixty dollars in cash mostly in small bills one thirty dollar note and some papers of no value to any one except the owner. The inside of the wallet was marked S. T. Carr." Carr directed that the wallet be returned to him at Monroe's Exchange promising the reward "and no questions asked." Carr and W. H. Munroe appear together again two years later in the early history of Michigan's iron industry. In July 1845 they were among the Jackson men who organized an association to explore the mineral country south of Lake Superior. That fall Carr Munroe Philo M. Everett and E. S. Rockwell traveled north as an exploring party. Michigan mining histories record that Carr and Rockwell working with an Indigenous guide located the iron outcrop that became the Jackson mine; Carr continued the final search for the outcrop alone. The Jackson association subsequently became the Jackson Mining Company one of the earliest enterprises to develop the Marquette Iron Range.1 1 T. B. Brooks "Geological Survey of Michigan. Upper Peninsula 1869-1873 Accompanied by an Atlas of Maps" Legislature of Michigan and Julius Bien 1873 8. . unknown books
1940réf. 234851940. A substantial archive documenting the trucks drivers terminals accidents repairs freight operations and working life of the Michigan Tri-State Motor Express trucking company of Benton Harbor Michigan dating primarily from the late 1930s through the 1950s. The company grew from the Mammina Brothers transport business established by Joseph and Benjamin Mammina after their experience with heavy transport vehicles during American military service in World War I. By 1938 Joseph Mammina's independent Michigan Tri-State Motor Express operated sixty-four trucks across four Midwestern states part of the enormous transformation of American freight hauling that accelerated during the interwar and postwar years as trucks increasingly challenged railroads for regional cargo traffic. Photo archive of 122 loose silver gelatin photographs each measuring between 2.5" x 3.25" to 3" x 4". The photographs show fleets of branded Michigan Tri-State trucks and trailers lined in depots and freight yards; drivers posing beside International GMC and other commercial tractors; loading docks; warehouse operations; trailers marked "Michigan Tri-State Motor Express"; long-haul rigs parked along highways; winter driving conditions; damaged trailers; overturned freight trucks; accident recovery scenes; and mechanics standing beside wrecked equipment. Several photographs bear handwritten dates including 1940 1941 and 1950. Drivers appear repeatedly across the archive often photographed informally beside assigned vehicles emphasizing the labor force that sustained Midwestern freight circulation before interstate highways transformed American trucking after 1956. This collection showcases an intimate documentation of a regional trucking company during the period when motor freight became essential to American industrial and commercial distribution. During the Depression and World War II years trucking firms carried factory goods agricultural products machine parts and retail freight between Midwestern industrial cities and rural markets operating within a rapidly expanding road network shaped by New Deal infrastructure projects and wartime logistics demands. The accident scenes and roadside breakdowns visible throughout the archive also preserve the hazards of early commercial trucking before modern highway engineering federal safety regulation and standardized freight systems reshaped long-distance transport. Minor curling and edgewear some edges clipped and some toning throughout. Overall good condition. Collectively the photographs document the human and mechanical infrastructure of regional freight hauling during one of the decisive transitional periods in twentieth-century American commerce. unknown books
1916réf. 183011916. Diploma for female student from Allegan High School in Michigan. 1916. 21.5 x 16 inches. Awarded to Katherine Esther Tripp for completion of the general course prescribed by the Board of Education. Engraving of school building beneath large decorative text with school name across the top of certificate. The early 20th century saw new educational opportunities for American women who upon graduating from high school could attend integrated colleges. Educational activists like Catharine E Beecher advocated fiercely for women's right to enter any college based on the belief that gender equality was contingent on the quality of female education and institutional opportunities to support it. Creased where folded. Light toning to edges does not affect text or image. Original gold seal clipped but otherwise intact. Overall good condition. unknown books
1928réf. 179191928. University of Michigan Medical School Class Portrait includes four women and one Indian doctor in 1928. A large photo Measures 22" x 17.5" inches. The large image is made of smaller portraits of students and faculty each measuring 1.5" x 1" inches with students names below each one. Of the over 150 medical students 4 are women 3 of them white and one Indian. The medical faculty is entirely male. Aside from the Indian female student the entire class is white. The group all together highlight the slow diversification of the medical field to incorporate women and minorities. The photo has a small tear to one margin but not affect class images or text. Overall very good condition. unknown books
1928réf. 182801928. 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. 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. 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 books
1910réf. 164301910. Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Michigan. An Expert's Opinion: The Suffrage Question as Viewed by the Competent Michigan Woman 1910 uses the public authority of Caroline Bartlett Crane to advocate equal suffrage during the decade preceding ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Crane a Michigan minister civic reformer and suffragist known for her municipal reform work states the argument directly: "I believe in Equal Suffrage because men and women are co-partners in the great business of living." Issued by the Michigan WCTU the broadside documents the organization's use of prominent women reformers and short quotable endorsements to advance voting rights as part of its political program. An Expert's Opinion: The Suffrage Question as Viewed by the Competent Michigan Woman. Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Michigan. St. Louis: Michigan Woman's Christian Temperance Union Press Bureau 1910. Broadside. The text identifies Caroline Bartlett Crane as the authority behind its suffrage argument and centers her declaration that women's participation in civic life justified equal political participation. Crane's endorsement joined two closely connected strands of Progressive Era reform in Michigan: organized woman suffrage and the municipal reform work for which she became nationally known. The WCTU had formally endorsed woman suffrage in 1881 under Frances Willard's leadership after temperance organizers increasingly concluded that the ballot would give women political power to pursue prohibition and other social reforms. By 1910 the Michigan organization could draw upon Crane's reputation as a public speaker civic reformer and suffrage advocate to present voting rights as part of women's existing responsibility for public life rather than as a departure from it. Very good condition. A Michigan WCTU campaign broadside preserving Caroline Bartlett Crane's concise argument for political equality within the organizational campaign that linked temperance reform to women's enfranchisement. unknown books
1871réf. 425086Detroit: Michigan News Company 1871. Softcover. Good. First edition. Yellow printed wrappers. 54pp. Folding map. Good only with chips and tears including on the folding map and some spotting. A detailed account of the Great Chicago Fire with a map of the city "Chicago After the Fire" which features the damaged area. The journalist interviewed locals who had been affected as well as the mayor board of police and comptroller among others. A unique and detailed depiction of the infamous fire in Chicago. Michigan News Company unknown books
1871réf. 36926Lansing: W.S. George & Co 1871. Sm 8vo pp. 98; 1 folding table 'Compliments of agent' written on upper cover extremities lightly soiled else very good in original green printed wrappers with vignette on upper cover. W.S. George & Co unknown books
1970réf. 5069Detroit 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 books
1838réf. 40405Detroit: John S. Bagg Printer to the State 1838. Original full leather rubbed chipped and gilt-lettered leather spine label. 817pp scattered foxing. Old institutional blindstamps. Good. Michigan was admitted to the Union in 1837. This is the first statehood printing of its complete statutes. The Preface which sets forth the chronology leading to adoption and publication of the statutes observes that "In the change from a territorial to a state government great inconvenience was experienced in adopting the territorial laws under the state constitution." Printed with the statutes are the U.S. Constitution the Ordinance of 1787 the Constitution of Michigan and a detailed Index. FIRST EDITION. II Harv. Law Cat. 112. AII MI 364. Not in American Imprints Marvin Marke McMurtrie Greenly. John S. Bagg, Printer to the State unknown books
1855réf. 31095Detroit: S.D. Elwood & Co. Lansing: Geo. W. Peck Printer 1855. Original printed and illustrated wrappers dusted rear blank wrapper chipped with wrapper title as issued. 52pp. Except as noted Very Good. The rare printing of the Code governing proceedings before Justices of the Peace. OCLC 85212369 1- U MI Law as of April 2014. Not in Cohen Babbitt Sabin or Harv. Law Cat. S.D. Elwood & Co. Lansing: Geo. W. Peck, Printer unknown books
1892réf. 29205Detroit: John F. Eby & Co. Book and Job Printers 1892. 21 3 blank pp folding color map. Text printed on glossy paper. Original printed green wrappers tanned chipped at edges institutional rubberstamps rear wrap detached stitched. Institional rubberstamp on title page. Good. John F. Eby & Co., Book and Job Printers unknown books
1890réf. 29204Detroit: John F. Eby & Co. Book and Job Printers 1890. 21 3 blank pp. Original printed grey wrappers tanned a few small chips rear wrap detached stitched. Bottom outer corner of text lightly chewed. Good to Very Good John F. Eby & Co., Book and Job Printers unknown books
1878réf. 29199Detroit: Daily Post Book and Tribune Book and Job Printing Establishment 1878. 23 1 blank pp. Original printed tan wrappers some browning along edges stitched. Minor wear at bottom outside edges of text. Else Very Good. Daily Post Book and Tribune Book and Job Printing Establishment unknown books
1877réf. 29198Detroit: Daily Post Book and Job Printing Establishment 1877. 1-title 1 blank 1 1 blank 24pp. Original printed tan wrappers minor dustsoiling and wear stitched. Text quite clean. Very Good. Daily Post Book and Job Printing Establishment unknown books
1872réf. 29196Boston: Wright & Potter Printers 1872. 59 1 blank pp. Original printed purple wrappers chipped large dampstain institutional rubberstamp on front wrap stitched. Light dampstaining of first two leaves of text. Good to Good. Wright & Potter, Printers unknown books
1889réf. 29203Detroit: John F. Eby & Co. Book and Job Printers 1889. 21 3 blank pp. Original printed orange wrappers institional rubberstamps a few small chips stitched. Bottom outer corner of text lightly chewed. Else Very Good. John F. Eby & Co., Book and Job Printers unknown books
1873réf. 29197Boston: Wright & Potter State Printers 1873. 65 3 blank pp. Original printed blue wrappers institutional rubberstamp on front wrap stitched. Occasional dampstaining in margins of text lightly age toned. Very Good. Wright & Potter, State Printers unknown books
1874réf. 29222Boston: Wright & Potter State Printers 1874. 61 3 blank pp. Original printed purple wrappers institutional rubberstamp on front wrap stitched. Lightly age toned. Very Good. Wright & Potter, State Printers unknown books
1871réf. 26898New York: Press of Wynkoop & Hallenbeck 1871. Original printed self-wrappers 12pp. Stitched scattered foxing last page heavily so Good. Officers and Directors are listed the Road's Charter and route described the Road's connections delineated and the route's manufacturing capacity extolled. OCLC locates three copies under two accession numbers. Press of Wynkoop & Hallenbeck unknown books
réf. 26191Broadside 7.5" x 9.5" printed on blue paper using different typsettings. Two horizontal folds short closed tear no text loss. Docketted on verso. Good or Very Good. Signed in type by John B. Jervis and Edwin C. Litchfield. The Resolution is printed after the explanation of the need for a new issue of stock. unknown books
