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Burton, Clarence. The City of Detroit Michigan, 1701-1922 Vol. II 1922.
Burton, Clarence. History of Detroit 1780-1850: financial and commerical. 1917
City of Detroit : Journal of the Common Council from January 13, 1874 to January 12, 1875
The Charter of the City of Detroit with Amendments Thereto and the Acts of the Legislature relating to or affecting the City of Detroit. 1904
Detroit Illustrated: the commercial metropolis of Michigan, containing a detailed statement of its bracing climate, wonderful resources and capablities: its origin and history; interspersed with illustrations of its fine public and private buildings. Harr
Farmer, Silas. All About Detroit: an illustrated guide, map, and historical souvenir, with local stories 1899..
Farmer, Silas. History of Detroit and Wayne County and Early Michigan: a chronological cyclopedia of the past and present. 1890
Guide to the Streets, Street Pavements, Street Car Routes and House Numbers of Detroit with other Interesting Information. 1905
Leake, Paul. History of Detroit: a chronicle of its progress, its industries, its institutions, and the people of the fair city of the straits. Vol. 1. 1912
Leake, Paul. History of Detroit: chronicle of its progress, its industries, its institutions, and the people of the fair city of the straits. Vol. II. 1912
Leonard, John William. The Industries of Detroit: historical, descriptive, and statistical: her relations as a center of trade, manufacturing establishments and business houses. 1887
Manual of the Common Council Together with a List of Officers of the City of Detroit for the Year 1873
Marquis, Albert Nelson. The Book of Detroiters: a biographical dictionary of leading living men of the City of Detroit. 2nd rev. ed. 1914
Concise biographical sketches of leading business men in Detroit in 1914. Not comprehensive--the entries were solicited by the publisher.
Mitchell, James L. Detroit in History and Commerce; a careful compilation of the history, mercentile and manufacturing interests of Detroit; illustrated with the views of the city's principle streets, points of interest, prominent buildings and its noted
Samman, George P. Market Survey of the City of Detroit. 1918
"This treatise aims to set forth a practical working basis for the establishing of both wholesale and retail public markets in the City of Detroit."

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