Hudson Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich.

3.5x5.5 color postcard showing the factory and main office of the Hudson Motor Car Company with brief description

Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich.

3.5x5.5 color postcard showing bird's-eye view of the Packard Motor Car Company factory & stating that it is one of the largest in the world

Cadillac Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich.

3.5x5.5 color postcard of Cadillac Motor Car Company buildings showing views of the main plant, foundries, body factory, and warehouse, with a brief description of the company on the reverse

Chalmers Motor Company, Detroit, Mich.

3.5x5.5 color postcard of Chalmers Motor Company factory on Jefferson Avenue

Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich.

3.5x5.5 color postcard showing bird's-eye view of the Packard Motor Car Company factory and stating that the factory has 30 separate buildings, forty acres of floor space, and employs over 7,000 people

Dodge Brothers Automobile Plant, Detroit, Mich.

3.5x5.5 color postcard of Dodge Brothers factory on Joseph Campau Avenue

Dodge Brothers Automobile Plant, Detroit, Mich.

3.5x5.5 color postcard of Dodge Brothers factory on Joseph Campau Avenue

Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich.

3.5x5.5 color postcard showing bird's-eye view of the Packard Motor Car Company factory & stating that it is one of the largest in the world

Hudson Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich.

3.5x5.5 color postcard showing the factory and main office of the Hudson Motor Car Company with brief description

Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich.

3.5x5.5 color postcard showing bird's-eye view of the Packard Motor Car Company factory and stating that the factory has 30 separate buildings, forty acres of floor space, and employs over 7,000 people

Chalmers Motor Company, Detroit, Mich.

3.5x5.5 color postcard of Chalmers Motor Company factory on Jefferson Avenue

Letter from Henry Van Riper to Joshua Giles Benster, January 10, 1864

Letter from Henry Van Riper to Joshua Benster describing school life.

Letter from Jennie Benster to Henry Van Riper, March 24, 1865

Letter from Jennie Benster to Henry Van Riper thanking him for his letter and updating him on her family.

Cadillac Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich.

3.5x5.5 color postcard of Cadillac Motor Car Company buildings showing views of the main plant, foundries, body factory, and warehouse, with a brief description of the company on the reverse

Working detroit: the making of a union town

Babson recounts Detroit's odyssey from a bulwark of the "open shop" to the nation's foremost "union town." Through words and pictures, Working Detroit documents the events in the city's ongoing struggle to build an industrial society that is both prosperous and humane.

Babson begins his account in 1848 when Detroit has just entered the industrial era. He weaves the broader historical realties, such as Red Scare, World War, and economic depression into his account, tracing the ebb and flow …

After-music: poems

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Birth of a notion, or, the half ain't never been told: a narrative account with entertaining passages of the state of Minstrelsy & of America & the true relation thereof (from the ha ha dark side)

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At the bureau of divine music: poems

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As if we were prey: stories

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By cold water: poems

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