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With two great museums, the Detroit Historical Society offers engaging opportunities to learn about and explore the city's rich history, from its automotive legacy to its maritime heritage.

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Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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Digital Collection: Random Images

Model - HMS GENERAL HUNTER

Booklet

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Cotswold Cottage, Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Mich.

Trophy - Aaron DeRoy Memorial Trophy
For Fastest Heat Championship

Envelope

Film, Motion Picture - Launch of the Edmund Fitzgerald Hull #301, Great Lakes Engineering Works

Pencil

Negative, Film

Poster - Workers, Lend Your Strength to the Red Triangle

Toy

Blueprint - Yankee One-Design Class Boom

Mold, Candle

Poster, Informational - What's My Pay and Rank?

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Certificate

Program - University Liggett Antiques Show

Menu

Print, Photographic

Magazine - The Student, Vol. XIV, No. 5, February 1918

Sculpture - Christ & Lost Sheep

T-Shirt

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Card, Trade

Transparency

Print, Photographic - Detroit Yacht Club

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Program - Official Program, Stroh's Thunderfest, June 24th to June 30th, 1985

Bond - Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging Co.
First Mortgage Registered Gold Bond

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Brochure - Suggestions for the Family Vacation

Print, Photographic

Carte-de-visite

Transparency, Slide

Program - 1991 Michigan State Fair Souvenir Program

Platter

Newsletter - La-Z-News

Print, Photographic

VHS - Gospel Concert #4 Orig.

Print, Photographic

Drawing, Architectural - Front Elevation

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