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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

Music, Sheet - The Detroit Free Press Christmas March

Print, Photographic

Booklet

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Drawing, Technical

Poster - Light Up Livernois, 2018

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Letter

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Negative, Film

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Menu - Auto Biography of the Horseless Carriage,
Hotel Fort Shelby

Print, Photographic - Trumbull Car Barns Detroit, Mich.

Drawing, Architectural - Front Elevation,
Woodward Ave. Side Elevation

Print, Photographic - 3018 14th, Detroit, Mi

Record, Phonograph - Smokey's Family Robinson

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Calendar - University of Michigan Department of Medicine and Surgery Order of Exercises, First Semester, 1889-90.

Print, Photographic - Railroad Yard on the River Front

Photograph, Cabinet

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Postcard - Hotel Fort Wayne - Detroit, Michigan

Stamp, Postage

Letter

Gown, Evening

Postcard - Parade Float

Postcard - Cedar Hill and Cascade, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

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Print, Photographic

Epaulet

Block, Alphabet

Agreement

Ticket, Admission

Postcard - The Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, Detroit 31, Michigan.

Report - Elmwood Cemetery Centennial Report 1846-1946

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Transparency, Slide

Spike, Rail

Painting

Conversation Tube

Radio

Booklet - The Directory Journal

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Print, Photographic

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