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Digital Collection: Random Images

Game, Dexterity

Toy

Ticket, Admission

Menu

Records, Family

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Postcard - U.S. COAST GUARD CUTTER MACKINAW

Newsletter - Monroe La-Z-News

Letter - Woman's Suffrage - Retrospect and Prophecy

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Painting - Freighters at Buffalo

Negative, Film

Map - Detroit's Historic Churches within the Grand Blvd. Area

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Card, Instruction - Talbot Lumber and Coal Company

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Print, Photographic - Wight Street and Adair, Facing East

Button, Souvenir

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Magazine - Ford Times Henry Ford Centennial Issue

Negative, Film

Booklet - Official Roller Hockey Rules
of the National Skating Association and Affiliated Bodies

Invoice - Statement
Rehabilitation Institute of Metropolitan Detroit

Print, Photographic

Letter - Hebrew Homes and Charities in Detroit

Map - Map of Detroit and Environs

Candleholder

Letter - The Growth of the Woman's [Women's] Club Movement

Carriage - 1890's Enclosed Rockaway Carriage - Dhs_1948_145_028_arceye_user_01

Print, Photographic

Bowl, Covered

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Hammond Bldg., Detroit, Mich.

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Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Menu - The Sanders Menu, Vol. 2, No. 15

Print, Photographic

Recipe - New--From Hudson's Kitchen

Negative, Glass-plate

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Hearse - 1893 Cunningham Coach Co. Hearse

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