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Digital Collection: Random Images

U-Matic - DOT Rodeo Raw Footage
9/27/85

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Cookbook - My Meat Recipes

Postcard - Bath House, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

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Lamp, Mantel

Budget

Card, Membership - Glengarry Golf Course

Drawing

Bootjack

Postcard - City Hall, Detroit

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Film, Motion Picture - 1946 Mackinac

Program

Negative, Sheet Film

Mask, Holiday

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Periodical - DSR Reporter, March, 1955

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Advertisement

Directory, Business

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Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Magazine - The Adcrafter, Vol. 5, No. 6

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Lithograph - The Charles M. Freer House

Album, Record - Giving You the Best That I Got

Program - Commandery Class, March, 1912

Print, Photographic - East Side of St. Aubin Between Hendrie and Palmer

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Rabbet Plane

Stereograph - Partial View of The Top Department Showing Tops In Various Stages Of Construction, Hudson Motor Car Co, Detroit, USA

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Print, Photographic - St. Louis #47 Truck

Print, Photographic - Car #3047

Token, Transportation

Stereograph

Print, Photographic

Booklet - The Fisher Building

Advertisement - Sunbeam

Animal, Stuffed

Automobile - 1905 Henry Leland's Cadillac "Osceola"

Minutes - Minutes of the First Annual Meeting of the International Tugboat Racing Association Held at 2015 Dime Building, Detroit 26, Michigan, on Friday, June 1, 1951

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Print, Photographic

Pamphlet

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