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Digital Collection: Random Images

Cotton, Dressing

Postcard - Belle Isle as seen from an Aeroplane, Detroit, Mich.

Rifle, Percussion

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Medal, Commemorative

Menu - Honoring Marshal Ferdinand Foch

Poster

Music, Sheet - I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover

Negative, Film

Transparency, Lantern-slide - Wooded Road, Belle Isle

Booklet - Kiwanis Club #1 Foundation of Detroit, Inc.

Flatiron

Pass

Print, Photographic - Ren. Cen. and Trolley Track Construction

Book, Address - Garland Stoves and Ranges

Cup, Coffee

Towel, Hand

Print, Photographic

Resolution - Resolution by Councilman Van Antwerp

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Michigan Consolidated Gas Company Building

Certificate, Gift

Print, Photographic

Scorecard

Print, Photographic

Stereograph - Dipping Tanks In The Enameling Department Of The Hudson Motor Car Company, Hudson Motor Car Co, Detroit, USA

Booklet - Zion Lodge Number One Is Celebrating Its Two Hundredth Anniversary from Seventeen Sixty Four to Nineteen Sixty Four

Print, Photographic

Knife, Pocket

Photograph, Cabinet

Image, Digital

Mitten

Film, Motion Picture - Mayor Gribbs in Israel

Chart, Navigational - Straits of Mackinac,
From Presque Isle, Lake Huron to Charlevoix, Lake Michigan

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Report - A New System of Surface Rapid Transit

Sconce

Print, Photographic - Apartment Building, New Center Commons, Third & Delaware

Layout

Print, Photographic - Car #3030

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Program

U-Matic - Master Tape 1.
K. Butler
G. Cain
Master Dub
Detroit Alive & Well
9-18-87

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