Print, Photographic

Black and white photographic print of a plaque affixed to a wall in the Detroit Historical Museum acknowledging the many contributions to the building fund. The plaque reads, "Detroit Historical Museum; Founded in 1928 by the Detroit Historical Society, presented to the city of Detroit in 1945, together with a building fund representing contributions by 1,638 members of the society and friends of the museum, including: A.&P. Food Stores; Anonymous; Waldo A. Avery; Mr. & Mrs. A. Edward Barit; Charles Clark Bowen; Walter Owen & Jane Briggs Fund; Burton Abstract and Title Co.; Chrysler Corporation; Carl F. Clarke; Continental Motors Corp.; Crowley, Milner & Co.; Cunninghams Drug Stores; Davidson Brothers; Detroit Creamery Company; The Detroit Edison Company; The Detroit Free Press; The Detroit News; The Detroit Times; Mrs. Horace Elgin Dodge; Horace E. Dodge, Jr.; Oliver S. Dustin; Eaton Chemical and Dyestuff Co.; Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Epstein; Henry T. Ewald; Drusilla Farwell Foundation; Mr. & Mrs. Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.; Fintex Clothes; Great Lakes Steel Corporation; Alex J. Groesbeck; D.J. Healy Family; The Historic Memorials Society; James & Lynelle Holden Fund; Bryson D. Horton; The J.L. Hudson Company; Edward Elmore Kane, 1846-1922; Helen Hall Newberry Joy; Robert M. Kerr; L.B. King & Co., Est. 1849; Mrs. Anna E. Kresge; S.S. Kresge Company; The Kresge Foundation; Stanley S. Kresge; Alfred C. Marshall; Michigan Bell Telephone Co.; Michigan Consolidated Gas Co.; The Michigan Farmer; Hazel Pingree Depew Mills; Major & Mrs. J. Bell Moran; Motor Products Corporation; Dr. Fred T. Murphy; Mrs. Mary E. Murphy; National Bank of Detroit; Mr. & Mrs. J.A. Peters; Oscar H. & Maud E. Pharis; Mrs. Charles Burrall Pike; William Henry Rea; Roman Cleanser Company; Sams Incorporated; Fred Sanders; Mr. & Mrs. Wesson Seyburn; Mrs. Allan Shelden; B. Siegel Co.; Simons - Michelson Co.; Mrs. Thomas H. Simpson; Dudley Wetmore Smith; Mrs. & Mrs. Lloyd DeWitt Smith; Mr. & Mrs. Herman A. Sperlich; Mr. & Mrs. Stephen T. Stackpole; Edward D. Stair; Dr. Rollin H. & Dr. Mary T. Stevens; Minnie Tietsort Stewart; The Stroh Brewery Company; Harry Suffrin; Dr. Ernest T. Tappey; Mrs. Frederick L. Van Lennep; James Vernor Company; Mrs. Alfred G. Wilson; Alfred H. Whittaker, M.D."