Advertising Card for A. Wilzinski, Clothier, Grand Rapids, Michigan de [Americana - Michigan] - [c. 1920]

Frederic, Michigan: George A. Emerson, 2001. 16 pages; with some black and white illustrations, usually small and embedded within articles or as part of paid advertising. With pieces concerning constitutional rights in Michigan and U.S. citizens concerned with various causes. Letters including one regarding U.S. government occupational authority from Daniel Miller, President of the Republic of Texas Provisional Government and others writing their reaction to 9/11; articles in the newspaper quote Ted Nugent, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, the 666 found in all bar codes revealed as a sign of the imminent end of the world, Free Militia pieces on property rights, anti-Muslim rants, Right Way L.A.W. of Akron OH concerning the fraudulent law profession; McGuckin and Christine Updates by Edgar J. Steele "Ruth Christine vs. the Reptiloid NWO Baby Snatchers"; a piece by Betsy McCaughey ex-lieutenant governor of NY on biological warfare; various conspiracy theories, a maritime advisory concerning… Leer más

[Detroit, 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,… Leer más

Detroit, 1956. Very good.. Large-format pictorial wall calendar on twelve sheets, each sheet measuring 19.5 x 13.5 inches, bound at top with a strip of black plastic. Minor wrinkling and staining, small hole in the last leaf costing a bit of one illustration. An interesting and ephemeral wall calendar created in 1956 as a promotional for the Detroit Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company, an African-American-owned life insurance company. The copyright notice is dated in that year and claimed by Charles C. Diggs, Sr., the founder and president of DMMAC. The calendar features notable African descendants from America and around the world. The first month repeats the old Southern white claim that Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln's first Vice President, was an African American. Hamlin is identified here as "Negro Vice-President of the United States." Other months are devoted to a variety of subjects such as Ida Wells Barnett, Reverend Patrick Francis Healy, two local civil rights leaders in Detroit - Francis M.… Leer más