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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

Cup, Demitasse

Letter

Booklet - FORD
Details and
Specifications of the
V-8 Car
For 1935

Letter

Negative, Glass-plate

Ashtray

Transparency, Slide

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Entrance End

Emblem, Automotive

Music, Sheet - The Girl That Waits for Me

Toy

Chart, Organizational - Proposed Organization Chart

Extinguisher, Fire

Menu - The Sanders Menu, Vol. 3, No. 3

Negative, Film

Invitation

Tin

Card, Trade

Certificate, Marriage

Transparency, Lantern-slide - Wooded Road, Belle Isle

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Looking South Across Monroe Street

Radio, Table

Postcard - Soo Locks Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

Automobile - 1911 Model T Ford Touring Car

Print, Photographic

Blueprint - One Story Store Building to be Erected at 14533-14539 Woodward Ave.

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Booklet - The Liggett Scene 1878-1951

Moccasin

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Screwdriver

Card, Playing

Film, Motion Picture - Urban, S723 3169 - 3693

Postcard - The New Farwell Building, Detroit Mich.
At the Head of Griswold Street

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Directory, Telephone - The Speaking Telephone!
List of Subscribers connected with the Central Office System

Print, Photographic

Letter

Print, Photographic

Brochure

Print, Photographic

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