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Digital Collection: Random Images

Postcard - Ambassador Bridge, Windsor, Canada to Detroit U.S.A. - Ambassador Bridge

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Transparency, Lantern-slide - Rustic Bridge, Belle Isle, Detroit

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Print, Photographic - Main Entrance & Tower

Map - Partie Occidentale du Canada
et Septentrionole de la Louisiane
avec une Partie de la Pensilvanie

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Toy, Truck

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Postcard - Palmer Park Light House, Detr., Mich.

Postcard - David Stott Bldg. and View Looking Down Griswold Ave. Detroit, Mich.

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Postcard - Biddle Av. Wyandotte, Mich.

Casserole

Letter - The Stage in Detroit

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Postcard - Book Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, Mich.

Painting - CITY OF BUFFALO

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Projector, Filmstrip

Postcard - Double Cross of Justice

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Program

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Postcard - Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church, Detroit, Mich.

Postcard - Jefferson Avenue, Detroit

Coin

Program - World Team Tennis

Cup, Coffee

Poster - Manifest k Ceskoslovenskemu Lidu v Americe!

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Postcard - Hotel Normandie, Detroit, Mich.

Negative, Film

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Poster - Serve with Pride ... Go Navy

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Animal, Stuffed

Toy, Automobile

Film, Motion Picture - Edmund Fitzgerald Launching 1958
B/W People Coming off Boat at Tashmoo Park
Great Lakes Engineering Works

Negative, Film

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