Archive for the 'Art' Category

Warbach Drawings

March 18, 2008

WARBACH DRAWINGS – RG 89-78 & 94-185

Thom Paintings

March 14, 2008

The Americans take over Fort Mackinac
Before History, 10,000 B.C.
The Boy Governor
Mme. Cadillac arrives in Detroit
The Capital moves to Lansing
The Detroit Fire
Detroit – World Port
Furs – Trappers – Traders
Charles Harvey Builds the Locks
Douglass Houghton finds Copper
Jolliet and Marquette
Sieur de La Salle and the “Griffon”
Lewis Cass Expedition
The Iron Horse
Massacre at Michilimackinac
Michigan Fever
Michigan in the Civil War
Michigan Indians
The [...]

Politics

January 23, 2008

POLITICS
Applications – 1893
    B33
        F15
        F16

ALS from James Vernor, Detroit, to Governor Rich, 1893. Describes Northville as remote from City of Detroit.

Onstead News, September 1914.

Art relating [...]

Phillip Troeger Drawings

January 18, 2008

Phillip Troeger Drawings
Dept. Transportation RG 88-17
MC 379 D 18

Lake Superior Engraving

June 12, 2007

LAKE SUPERIOR ENGRAVING
 
Source:
 
1.         The Old Print Shop Portfolio, Vol. XIV, No. 9.  May, 1955.  P209. 
 
         Item 20.
Lake Superior -engraving 19”x30-1/2, plus good margins.  Hand colored:  published 1873 by M. Knoedler and Company.  Engraved by Mottram after painting by E. Hopkins ($95.00)
 

Alva Bradish

May 3, 2007

Bradish, Alvah
Source:
1.     Burton, City of Detroit.  Vol. 2, P1194
2.     Detroit Evening News.  1900 1901 etc. p44 ap/19/01.  “Alvah Bradish, one of Detroit’s most interesting characters, passed away the age of 95 years.  He was a genius in both art and literature, and in his earlier days painted the portraits of such men as [...]