Holiday Season in Michigan
This month Michigan Memories is celebrating the holidays and festivals that close out the year. Please see our Facebook page for updates.
Captain Harry W. Wilson training helpers at the Santa Claus training school
Year: 1938
Source: The Detroit News Photograph Collection, The Virtual Motor City Collection at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc31188
Observing Hanukkah
Year: 1981
Source: The Detroit News Photograph Collection, The Virtual Motor City Collection at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc6112_1
Christmas Eve with the family of John Harvey Kellogg
Year: 1906
Source: Bentley Image Bank, John Harvey Kellogg Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-bl000158/bl000158
Millard Pitts, champion of the Higgins Lake Trout and Ice Festival
Year: Unknown
Source: Jack Van Coevering Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-hs18769/hs18769
Clement C. Moore's "The Night Before Christmas"
Note: This book is in the public domain.
Year: 1906
Source: Eloise Ramsey Collection of Literature for Young People, Wayne State University Digital Collections, Wayne State University Libraries: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:nightbef1906b21421109
Eloise Ramsey Collection of Literature for Young People, Wayne State University Digital Collections, Wayne State University Libraries: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:collectionRamsey
Light display on the side of the J. L. Hudson's store on Woodward Avenue in Detroit
Year: 1961
Source: The Detroit News Photograph Collection, The Virtual Motor City Collection at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc4100
Holiday shoppers in downtown Detroit
Possible research questions:
How does this amusement park compare to a modern-day amusement park?
What building materials were commonly used to construct the rides?
Year: 1936
Source: The Detroit News Photograph Collection, The Virtual Motor City Collection at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc72681
Danish Christmas party in Detroit
Year: 1938
Source: The Detroit News Photograph Collection, The Virtual Motor City Collection at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc76261
Students in snow sculpture competition at the Winter Carnival
Possible research questions:
How does this amusement park compare to a modern-day amusement park?
What building materials were commonly used to construct the rides?
Year: c. 1966
Source: News and Information Services, University Photographs, Grand Valley State University Libraries: https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/40393
Optimist Winter Festival in Rochester Hills
Description: People standing together on a frozen lake for a fire department ice rescue demonstration during the Optimist Winter Festival at Thelma Spencer Park in Rochester Hills. Spencer Park Development Slide Collection, Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm, Rochester Hills, MI
Year: Unknown
Source: Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm
The Detroit Free Press Christmas March
Description: Sheet music for "The Detroit Free Press Christmas March", by Wm. C. G. Wright, published by the Detroit Free Press. Dedicated to the readers of The Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1893
Source: Detroit Historical Society: http://detroithistorical.pastperfectonline.com/archive/B71723CF-38C3-4AAF-AAA9-870293661777
Christmas Chimes
Description: One sheet music booklet entitled "Christmas Chimes" which includes "Words and Music by Eva Best, Written for the Detroit Free Press." The cover page is printed in black ink on slightly yellowed paper. The two interior pages and the back page show the printed music as well as the words for the title song. Printed text at the bottom of the cover page shows that the music was a "Supplement to the Detroit Free Press."
Year: 1892
Source: Detroit Historical Society: http://detroithistorical.pastperfectonline.com/archive/2E325894-FA5F-40D2-A80F-623044380430
Leaf from "A Book of Services for Christmas, Holy Week"
Description: From a "Book of Services for Christmas, Holy Week”, with musical accompaniment, published at Salamanca in 1570 by Matthias Gastius.
Year: 1570
Source: Pages from the Past collection, Western Michigan University Special Collections, Western Michigan University: https://luna.library.wmich.edu/luna/servlet/detail/wmich~4~4~85~159887
Buildings lit for Christmas in downtown Detroit
Year: 1954
Source: The Detroit News Photograph Collection, The Virtual Motor City Collection at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc4099
Christmas tree in downtown Detroit
Year: Unknown
Source: The Detroit News Photograph Collection, The Virtual Motor City Collection at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc72286_1
New Year's menu from the Hotel Wolverine
Year: 1924
Source: Detroit Historical Society: http://detroithistorical.pastperfectonline.com/archive/ED727885-8E94-468A-8910-927489553818
Munsey Ward at Christmas during World War I
Year: 1915
Source: Bentley Image Bank, Frederick A. Coller Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-hs8086/hs8086
New Year's Eve
Year: 1936
Source: The Detroit News Photograph Collection, The Virtual Motor City Collection at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc22991_1
Ten Red Cross Christmas seals
Description: Sheet of ten Red Cross Christmas Seals with a half-folded explanatory sheet. The stamps are printed with an image of Liberty holding a torch and shield, below a pattern of mistletoe and the Red Cross symbol. The sheet explains the stamps are a reward for involvement in the organization's Christmas Roll Call, and contains information on tuberculosis, some geared toward dealing with infected soldiers.
Year: 1918
Source: Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical Collection, Detroit Historical Society: http://detroithistorical.pastperfectonline.com/archive/955C7BE2-EFF5-4271-B3B9-192103952474
Ice skating on the Huron River
Year: Unknown
Source: Bentley Image Bank, Sam Sturgis Photograph Collection, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-hs1631/hs1631
Coasting in Grayling
Year: 1930
Source: The Detroit News Photograph Collection, The Virtual Motor City Collection at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc17937
Coasting in Grayling
Year: 1930
Source: The Detroit News Photograph Collection, The Virtual Motor City Collection at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc17937_2
Children Tobogganing
Year: 1910
Source: The Detroit News Photograph Collection, The Virtual Motor City Collection at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc49929
Children Tobogganing
Year: 1910
Source: The Detroit News Photograph Collection, The Virtual Motor City Collection at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc49929_3
Men ice fishing on Saginaw Bay
Year: Unknown
Source: The Detroit News Photograph Collection, The Virtual Motor City Collection at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc38250
The Ice Fountain on Belle Isle
Year: 1908
Source: Detroit Historical Society: http://detroithistorical.pastperfectonline.com/photo/72D39801-81AF-4FFF-8E4F-098261813460