Clipping, Newspaper

Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion

1 - Single page from: "Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion", dated November 1, 1856, pgs. 281-282. Page 281 features three Detroit-related etchings. The etching on the top left depicts a Post Office on Woodward Avenue with pedestrians walking on the sidewalk and a horse drawn carriage in the street. The etching in the center on the right depicts St. Ann's Church at the corner of Larned and Bates Street with a woman and child walking along the sidewalk and a child playing with a dog in the street. The etching on the bottom left depicts Odd Fellow's Hall on Woodward Avenue with grocery, drug, and hardware stores also depicted. The verso, page 282, contains a poem titled: "A Memory," by Eliza F. Moriarty, and a story titled "Too Miserable by Half," by Herbert Linton.