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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

Manual - How to Operate G-E Equipped PCC Cars

Toy

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Poster, Advertisement

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

Poster - An Accident To You May Cause More

Magazine - Odds and Ends, Vol. XVI, No. 4, January 1931

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Medal, Commemorative

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Log - Engine Co. 3

Magazine - Performance: The Magazine of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Vol. IX, Issue II

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Transparency, Lantern Slide

Automobile

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Program - 41st Annual Presentation of Industry Sings

Envelope - Detroit Bank Corporation

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Map - Detroit's Historic Churches within the Grand Blvd. Area

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Postcard - First Congregational Church, Detroit, Mich. - First Congregational Church, Detroit, Mich.

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Magazine - Detroit Lions Report
Official Magazine of the Lions
Volume 6, Issue 3

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Newsletter - Detroit Radio News, Vol. 2, No. 3-4

Judgment - Release of Lien Under Execution

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Drawing

Program, Theater

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Magazine - The Detroit News Sunday Pictorial, March 11, 1962

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