Digital Collection
2025.120.009

Matchbook

One matchbook cover from one of the steamships of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company fleet. The cover is made of heavyweight tan card stock paper that is printed in multi-color ink which shows a drawing on the exterior that depicts a port side view of the passenger steamship, GREATER DETROIT, underway in fair weather on a lake. Adjacent black/red/white text reads "Detroit and Cleveland, Detroit and Buffalo," and "D&C Lake Lines Steamers - The Grand Fleet of the Great Lakes" as well as "Passenger, Auto, and Freight Service," and "The Great Lakes Way." The matchbook cover interior is blank. A match striker strip is located along the lower edge of the matchbook and adjacent small white printed text reads "The Ohio Match Co., Wadsworth, Ohio," and "Made in U.S.A."

Date
1940s
Collection
Material
Paper
Request Image