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Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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Digital Collection: Random Images

Receipt

Print, Photographic

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Booklet - Byzantine Art and the New Old First

Report - My Boyhood School Days

Newsletter - Parke-Davis Review, Perspective, vol. 31, no. 7, September 1974

Print, Photographic

Booklet - Third Annual Report of the Public Lighting Commission of the City of Detroit, Michigan

Negative, Film

Yearbook - The Beacon

Print, Photographic

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Model - USS SCORPION

Print, Photographic

Stereograph - Making Hudson Super-Six Seat Cushions - Note The Plaited Upholstering, Hudson Motor Car Co, Detroit, USA

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Program, Theater

Book - The Soldier's Hand-Book; for the Use of the Enlisted Men of the Army

Newspaper

Print, Photographic

Letter - Chrysler Corporation

File, Digital Video - Gaines Dinner
#1 Dinner/Awards

Music, Sheet - Brides and Butterflies Waltzes

Booklet - Telephone Almanac for 1958

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Film, Motion Picture - 250th Anniv. Parade '51

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Plate, Commemorative

Print, Photographic - Third and Bethune W

Chart, Navigational - West End of Lake Superior,
Little Girls Point, Mich., to Silver Bay, Minn.,
Including the Apostle Islands

Print, Photographic

Calendar - University of Michigan Department of Medicine and Surgery Order of Exercises, First Semester, 1889-90.

Horn, Vehicle

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Pamphlet - We Congratulate Our Chief, Robert M. Kerr On this, his Fiftieth Business Anniversary

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Envelope

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Print, Photographic

Newsletter - La-Z-News

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Drawing, Architectural - Front Elevation

Negative, Glass-plate

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