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Digital Collection: Random Images

Print, Photographic

Report, Annual

Advertisement - DHD/DHS Programs 1989-1990

Film, Motion Picture - Neighborhood
Rich's Walk, S. Hatfield (Cutaways)
Rich's Interview
"Neighborhood"
Rolls 3 to 7 & 2 w/o #'s

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Program, Theater

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Transparency

Postcard - A group of Residences, East Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Mich.

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Program - Southwestern High School

Music, Sheet - Knights Templar March and Two-Step

Button, Promotional

Booklet - Kresge's Golden Anniversary Year, 1899-1949, Fifty Years of Achievement

Shoe

Transparency, Slide - 12th St. Cross

Lithograph - St. Mary's Falls Canal,
The Movable Dam

Brochure - The Museums, Libraries, and Parks of Detroit

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Drawing, Technical - Engine Room Plans

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Box, Shoe

Drawing, Architectural - The Plaza Cafe -
Front Elevation

Stereograph - Finishing Wheels In The Paint Department Of The Hudson Motor Car Company, Hudson Motor Car Co, Detroit, USA

Negative, Glass-plate

U-Matic - Master for "My Heart Is With Detroit"

Postcard

Sign, Regulatory

Booklet - Planning Detroit 1943

Print, Photographic

Letter

Helmet, Firefighter's

Postcard - Gate Lodge Entrance, Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan

Lyrics, Song - Friends Like Us

pennant

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