The Nankin Township Historical Society

I have a fairly good memory so when I purchased this Wayne cabinet card and tracked it to the studio that William Corlett, first President of said village, owned with a man named Frank Hickok, I recalled that post by The Wayne Historical Society about two women photographers taking over for their dead husbands. Mamie Corlett was one of them and since the lone name appearing on this card is her married name we can assume that she had taken full charge of the studio by this time, Anna Hickok having sold her share in the venture in 1895. Now to identify the people.

Yes, Ypsilanti is outside the periphery of Nankin Township but being where it is in proximity to the general area of said place it has many ties to the community. As such, anytime I have an opportunity to pick up relics from the town I will do so and feature them here. I've had such opportunities numerous times in the past year and took full advantage of the fact. I don't know the campus of Eastern Michigan University very well and it's probably a hate crime to post these vintage photographs of EMU coeds "misappropriating the heritage" of the Huron Indian tribe but I would assume that they were just having fun, somehow, in the age before cell phones. I don't recognize the buildings and those who attend the campus and would have knowledge of such claim none. So until somebody happens upon this with pertinent information we're stuck assuming that these are former buildings of the Eastern Michigan University campus. The EMU jersey screams the 1970s but that...

I've posted several photos previously concerning Fellrath's Lumber in Inkster and came across more today. Shopping fatigue likely kept me from finding these months ago since I have searched the same vendor's booth before and came out with other photos from Fellraths but somehow skipped past the others. This photo shows the company truck parked in front of the office or outbuildings on Inkster Rd. between Michigan and Carlysle. I'm horrible at determining automobile models but I'm assuming that its current to the year the photo was taken give or take a few years.

I bought this photomatic snapshot at an estate sale in Westland a few years back, sat on it for a while, and when I finally searched the name of the man featured here found that a man by his name, Clarence Rehn, had died at Eloise in 1946 . Which dates to the era when the photomatic booths were popular. His age, 66, matches the man depicted as well. The photo is dated January 1941.   Seemingly clinching the matter is that his grandson and other family members were also featured in this and other photos purchased at the sale. The woman featured is Betty Rehn, whom a 1940 census record shows , is his daughter-in-law. 

Somebody is selling this reproduction photo of an actual postcard of a Little Caesar's Pizza Treat store in Garden City that looks to be from the 1960s. After being successful with his first few stores, including the first in Garden City in 1959, Mile Illitch began franchising the Little Caesars brand in the early 1960s, expanding to norther Ohio and Indiana in 1963. It was the original store and operated until 2018. Detroit Free Press , October 11, 1963

This photo appears to be from the 1970s and a few people have suggested that this Wayne County Road Commission building was located at the southwest corner of Howe Road and Michigan Avenue in Wayne. The address is on the building but is illegible in this scan.

This photo of the Milatz family east of Rawsonville, MI was taken on May 30, 1917. Rawsonville is a defunct town that mainly lies beneath Belleville Lake and the eastern portion of Van Buren Township. I don't know the geography of that area that well but I would assume that the body of water in the background is the Huron River.

I've always wanted a Burroughs adding machine but whenever I see one at an estate sale at a decent price--which most are because nobody wants them besides me--I realize that it's an impractical idea and I take leave of my foolish desires. Luckily, I found the next best thing: a photo of some sort of gigantic reproduction that was as big as a house. Which seems weird except that the Detroit area also has a huge Uniroyal tire on the side of I-94 heading into the city. Regardle ss, I've been unable to find out anything about the interesting photo. I would guess that the location is somewhere in Detroit. Burroughs adding machines were popular office gadgets in the late 1880s into the first half of the 1900s. Based in Plymouth, Michigan the company moved to Detroit after the owners death and became the standard for adding machines in the United States. It later became Unisys in the 1980s but has since returned to being Burroughs something or other. As for The Burroughs Mag...