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- Business Card for "G.D. Detection," 1974-1990 - "Doc" Prud'homme is the former owner and chief examiner of Polygraph Specialists Company. Polygraphs are more popularly known as "lie detector" machines. Prud'homme trained to use these devices while stationed in Vietnam. Upon returning to Michigan, he established his own business. The mobility of the polygraph machine allowed him to administer tests throughout the Metro-Detroit area.
- 1974-1990
- Collections - Artifact
Business Card for "G.D. Detection," 1974-1990
"Doc" Prud'homme is the former owner and chief examiner of Polygraph Specialists Company. Polygraphs are more popularly known as "lie detector" machines. Prud'homme trained to use these devices while stationed in Vietnam. Upon returning to Michigan, he established his own business. The mobility of the polygraph machine allowed him to administer tests throughout the Metro-Detroit area.
- Trade Card for the Tahoe Inn, circa 1945 -
- circa 1945
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for the Tahoe Inn, circa 1945
- "The Dinerman" Business Card Mockup, circa 1975 -
- circa 1975
- Collections - Artifact
"The Dinerman" Business Card Mockup, circa 1975
- Business Card for Motor City Valet Shop, Detroit, Michigan -
- Collections - Artifact
Business Card for Motor City Valet Shop, Detroit, Michigan
- Letter of Thanks from Austin W. Curtis after a Visit to the George Washington Carver Cabin in Greenfield Village, August 26, 1982 -
- August 17, 1982
- Collections - Artifact
Letter of Thanks from Austin W. Curtis after a Visit to the George Washington Carver Cabin in Greenfield Village, August 26, 1982
- "Alexander Bros. Custom Shop," Detroit, Michigan, 1962-1969 - Among the best-known car customizers of the 1950s and 1960s were brothers Larry and Mike Alexander, commonly called the "A Brothers." This is one of their business cards from the 1960s.
- 1962-1969
- Collections - Artifact
"Alexander Bros. Custom Shop," Detroit, Michigan, 1962-1969
Among the best-known car customizers of the 1950s and 1960s were brothers Larry and Mike Alexander, commonly called the "A Brothers." This is one of their business cards from the 1960s.
- Trade Card for Bon Ton Chromo, Blakeslee & Company, circa 1895 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- circa 1895
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Bon Ton Chromo, Blakeslee & Company, circa 1895
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- Business Card, Piero [Peter] Roveda Architetto, circa 1916 -
![Business Card, Piero [Peter] Roveda Architetto, circa 1916](https://collections-media.thehenryford.org/CollectionImages/_detail/photos/thf144782.jpg)
- circa 1916
- Collections - Artifact
Business Card, Piero [Peter] Roveda Architetto, circa 1916
- Business Card, "Americans Shopping in Paris Assisted By Madame M. L. Salle," 1928 -
- 1928
- Collections - Artifact
Business Card, "Americans Shopping in Paris Assisted By Madame M. L. Salle," 1928
- The Toll House, Kenneth and Ruth Wakefield, Whitman, Massachusetts, 1930-1935 - Ruth Wakefield was a dietitian and food lecturer until she and her husband Kenneth opened the Toll House Inn restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts, in 1930. At the Toll House Inn, Wakefield served home-cooked meals for tourists and local customers. And, in the late 1930s, she "invented" what would become America's favorite cookie -- the chocolate chip.
- 1930-1935
- Collections - Artifact
The Toll House, Kenneth and Ruth Wakefield, Whitman, Massachusetts, 1930-1935
Ruth Wakefield was a dietitian and food lecturer until she and her husband Kenneth opened the Toll House Inn restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts, in 1930. At the Toll House Inn, Wakefield served home-cooked meals for tourists and local customers. And, in the late 1930s, she "invented" what would become America's favorite cookie -- the chocolate chip.