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Digital Collection: Random Images

Postcard - Jordan Boarding House in Greenfield Village - Dearborn, Michigan

Transparency

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Newsletter - Messiah Messenger, Vol. 21, No. 4, July-August 1938

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Newspaper - The Evening News, Number 1 (reprinted August 18, 1963)

Envelope

Advertisement - M. Walsh & Company

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Y.M.C.A. Building, Detroit, Mich.

Negative, Glass-plate

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Image, Digital

Embosser

Booklet - The Religious School of the Northwest Hebrew Congregation, 1945-1950

Program

Postcard - Detroit, Mich. Canal Scene, Belle Isle.

Print, Photographic

Return, Tax - U. S. Individual Income Tax Return

Print, Photographic

Image, Digital

Print, Photographic - Frank's

Ledger - Payroll Sheets from Jan 1, 1924 to Dec. 31, 1924

Pennant

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Grand Circus Park, - Floral Piece: "In Detroit, Life is Worth Living."

Negative, Film

Image, Digital

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Booklet - Social Service Department of the Children's Free Hospital. Detroit, Michigan, 1916

Music, Sheet - It's Tulip Time in Holland (Two Lips Are Calling Me)

Music, Sheet - Wayne University

Print, Photographic

Painting

Sauceboat

Album, Record - The Man At The Pool (LP-26)

Transparency, Slide

Transparency, Slide

Envelope

Print, Photographic

Negative, Glass-plate

Print, Photographic

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