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With two great museums, the Detroit Historical Society offers engaging opportunities to learn about and explore the city's rich history, from its automotive legacy to its maritime heritage.

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Detroit Historical Museum

Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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Digital Collection: Random Images

Print, Photographic

Booklet - 32 Years Ago
[Union Trust Company]

Print, Photographic

Marking Gauge

Decoration

Poster - Farm To Win Over There

Menu - Hotel Metropole

Print, Photographic

Menu

Blueprint - Great Lakes Excursion Steamer, Put-In-Bay

Negative, Film

Magazine - The Main Sheet

Print, Photographic

Automobile - 1905 Henry Leland's Cadillac "Osceola"

Booklet - Illustrated Guide to Highlights of Detroit History in Miniature

Dress

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Newsletter - Charlie Noble

Medal, Commemorative

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Drawing, Technical - Massachusetts & Merrimac,
Construction Draft of Steamers No. 54/55

Print, Photographic

Platter

Painting

Directory - SAE International Exposition of Automotive Engineering

Negative, Film

File, Digital Video - Alexander '09
Masterclass

Print, Photographic

Deed

Yearbook - Tigers 1966 Yearbook

Report, Annual - 1954 Annual Report McLouth Steel Corporation

Print, Photographic

Pitcher, Cream

Negative, Film

Drawing, Architectural - Eight Family Apartment Building
to be Erected at No. 25 & 27 Nineteenth Street, Detroit, Mich.

Brochure - Detroiters! this is YOUR Street Railway, A Model for the World

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Postcard - New Masonic Temple, Temple Avenue and Second Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan.

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Ledger

Program

Brochure - The Home of Vernor's Ginger Ale

Matchbook

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