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Digital Collection: Random Images

Print, Photographic

Map

Log, Taffrail

Plate, Butter

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Reno Machine & Eng. Co., Cobblestone on Walker

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Chain, Key

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Transparency

Print, Photographic

Hearse - 1893 Cunningham Coach Co. Hearse

Drawing, Technical - Construction Plan, 36 Ft. Sport Cruiser -
Cabin Detail, Port Side

Print, Photographic

Banner, Promotional

Card, Trade

Blueprint - [University of Detroit - New Dental Center]

Ad, Magazine

Postcard - Columbus Caravals, Detroit, Mich.

Specification - Specification for - Building: Brick Veneer Two Family Flat and Two Car Garage, Owner: I. Satovsky, Location: South Side of Calvert Ave. Between Fourteenth Ave. and LaSalle Boulevard, Lot 1233, Detroit, Michigan.

License, Occupational

Book - Beyond the Difference

Carving

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Cedar Hill and Cascade, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Card, Political - (X) Vote for Robert J. Baker

Card, Political

Print, Photographic

Music, Sheet - The Red and Gray

Image, Digital

Print, Photographic

Agreement - Agreement between Champion Spark Plug Company Ceramic Division Detroit Plant and International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Affiliated With The American Federation of Labor - Congress of [.

Booklet - D&C Lake Lines Low Cost All-Expense Romance Cruises to Mackinac Island, Harbor Springs, Georgian Bay

Ad, Magazine

Guidebook - Guide to Streets, House Numbers, and Electric Car Routes of Detroit

Print, Photographic - Jeffery Dewitt Kiln, Pre-Heating End

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Postcard - 100: Interior of the Shrine of the Little Flower, Royal Oak, Mich.

Music, Sheet - My Heart Says You Are Mine

Lithograph

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