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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

Card, Holiday

Print, Photographic - Steel Frame - Motor Car - At Bolster

Card, Trade - For A Thanksgiving

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic - 3386 and 3384 16th Street, Detroit, Michigan

Print, Photographic

Negative, Roll Film

Image, Digital - Randolph St. Sewer - Crack N. of Shaft (W. Side)

Print, Photographic - The Palms Apartment, E. Jefferson

Print, Photographic

Booklet - Movement,
Detroit's Electronic Music Festival 04

Ad, Magazine

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Music, Sheet - Old Belle Isle

Print, Photographic

Bill-of-sale - George J. Reindel & Company

Sign

Hatbox

Letter

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Advertisement - Yule Tide Greetings

Print, Photographic

Cup, Coffee

Print, Photographic

Case, Toilet Bottle

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Booklet - Rationing: Why and How

Negative, Film

Letter

Print, Photographic

Magazine - The Council of Trades and Labor Unions and the Labor Movement of Detroit

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Film, Motion Picture - Young & Rubicom
Atm: Sal Lumetta
Unique Film Studio
Sue Marx Original for Xfer by Young & Rubicam

Report, Annual

Automobile - 1987 Cadillac Hearse

License, Occupational - United States Coast Guard Master License

Ledger

Drawing - Medicide; The goodness of Planned Death

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Newcomb Endicott Co., Detroit, Mich.

Print, Photographic

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