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Digital Collection: Random Images

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Stereograph - Laboratory Machine Room Where All Experimental Machining Is Done, Hudson Motor Car Co, Detroit, USA

Ticket

Menu

Bag

Poster - SERVICE FALL IN!

Negative, Glass-plate

Model - USS NIAGARA

Negative, Film

Camera, Instant

Print, Photographic

Transparency, Lantern-slide

Print - The Evolution of the Street Car in Detroit Frome Horse Car to Present Time-1921

Drawing, Technical - Joiner Plan,
Promenade Deck

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Dress

Quilt

Music, Sheet - Cove Over to Dover

Image, Digital

Sticker, Bumper - Let's Back Ike

Program - Rebroadcast, 1985

Poster - We Are United Nations - Citizens Of The Future

Catalog - Seed Annual, 1916

Instruction Sheet

Transparency, Slide

Map

Print, Photographic - World Championship Rodeo

Music, Sheet - "Jerry" Me Lad

Postcard

Print, Photographic

Letter

Postcard - Aquarium and Horticultural Buildings, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.

Postcard - Dining Room Foyer, Hotel Cadillac, Detroit.

Magazine - Girl Scout Leader

Menu

Poster - We Are United Nations - Miracles of Medicine

Negative, Film

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Stereograph - Hudson Super-Six Motors On The Block Test, Hudson Motor Car Co, Detroit, USA

Mold, Candle

Program, Theater - Olsen and Johnson Present Hellzapoppin

Booklet - Low-Cost All-Expense Great Lakes Cruises, Detroit to Niagara Falls, Mackinac Island, Harbor Springs, Georgian Bay

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