The lively city o' Ligg: a cycle of modern fairy tales for city children

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All our yesterdays: a brief history of Detroit

All Our Yesterdays is an accurate account based on extensive historical research when initially published in 1969, and is written in such a style as to make interesting and historical snapshot of the history of the city of Detroit.

The authors recount the founding of the town by the French, control by the British, and growth as an American city. These episodes are recounted in the words and deeds of the people who lived and worked here, men like Judge Woodward, Father Gabriel Richard, a…

Chalmers Motor Company, Detroit, Mich.

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

Chalmers Motor Company, Detroit, Mich.

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

Buried cities

Description based on print version record.

The city side: or, Passages from a pastor's portfolio

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The emerald city of Oz

Illustrated end-papers.

The motor boat club of the Kennebec: or, The secret of Smugglers' Island

Advertising matter (8 p.) bound at end.

The Motor boat club and the wireless: or, The dot, dash and dare cruise

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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 …

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

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

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

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

Maurice Sugar: law, labor, and the left in Detroit, 1912-1950

It was Maurice Sugar, labor activist and lawyer for the United Auto Workers, who played a key role in guiding the newly-formed union through the treacherous legal terrain obstructing its development in the 1930s. He orchestrated the injunction hearings on the Dodge Main strike and defended the legality of the sit-down tactic. As the UAW's General Council, he wrote the union's constitution in 1939, a model of democratic thinking. Sugar worked with George Addes, UAW Secretary-Treasurer, to nurture…

Rollo in Naples

Added t.p., engraved.