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Digital Collection: Random Images

Receipt

Magazine - Harper's Weekly, August 17, 1889

Map - Carte de La Riviere du detroit depuis Le Lac Erie jus'ques au Lac Ste Claire [Map of the Detroit River from Lake Erie up to Lake St. Claire]

Print, Photographic

Music, Sheet - Ev'ry Sammy Needs His Smokin' Overthere

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Negative, Film

Painting

Certificate

Print

Newsletter - Monroe La-Z-News

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Minutes - Minutes of the Meeting Held at the War Memorial in Grosse Pointe, Tuesday, March 27, 1951

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Automobile - 1905 Henry Leland's Cadillac "Osceola"

Program, Theater

Letter

Blueprint

Negative, Film

Candlestick

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Letter

Block, Alphabet

Letter - Hebrew Homes and Charities in Detroit

Album, record - Who I Am

Newspaper - Truck Tracks

Postcard - Detroit, Mich. Bridge Scene, Belle Isle.

Booklet - Free Enterprise for Europe
Military Measures Alone Will
Not Win the Security We Seek

Booklet - Tiger Tales

Print, Photographic

Painting - The Street was Never the Same Again

Postcard - Log Cabin, Palmer Park, Detroit, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Postcard - Greetings from Detroit

Program, Theater - Madam Butterfly

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Ashtray

Postcard - Hotel Plaza, Detroit, Mich.

Blueprint - The James N. Jones Building [Moross House]

Box

Newsletter - Jib Sheet

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Print, Photographic

Yearbook - Detroit Tigers 1987 Yearbook

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