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Carriage - Dhs_1951_213_001_arceye_user_002

Book - Beyond the Difference

Print, Photographic - Entrance End

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Blueprint - Passenger & Freight Stmr.,
Hull #104, Type Sections

Catalog - Seed Annual, 1922

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Card, Greeting - Steamer MAYFLOWER and Detroit Riverfront from Canada in the Year 1852

Bottle

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Box, Trinket

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List, Price - Regulation Set of Fittings for 36" Model Racing Yacht
by A. J. Fisher, Inc.

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File, Digital Video - Elizabeth Acevedo
31st Annual Bauder Contemporary American Authors Lecture

Drawing, Technical - James F. Joy, 1866

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Negative, Film

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Report, Annual - Report of Walter S. McLucas, Chairman of the Board, at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of Stockholders

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Map - Map of the City of Detroit

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Negative, Film

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Postcard - New Belle Isle Bridge, View from Island, Detroit, Mich.

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Poster - Keep This Hand of Mercy at its Work

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Ticket

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Bucket, Fire

Postcard - Soldiers Monument, Detroit, Mich.

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Print, Photographic - East End Pic-Nic Grounds

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