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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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Detroit Historical Museum

Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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Learn about our history, meet the dedicated team preserving Detroit’s legacy, and discover what we’re doing today.

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Digital Collection: Random Images

Periodical - DSR Reporter, April, 1955

Program - 2nd Annual Tampa Suncoast Cup Regatta
for Unlimited Hydroplanes

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Bridge, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Letter - The American Mother of the Nineteenth Century

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Music, Sheet - Hang Your Hat in Detroit

Postcard - Mail in Outing Post Card

Booklet - The Magic in Candy Canes

Print, Photographic

Badge, Insignia

Sculpture - South Wind

Balance, Torsion

Photograph, Cabinet

Postcard - Hudson Motor Car Co., Detroit, Mich

Print, Photographic

Menu

Newsletter - Jib Sheet

Jug

Brochure - D&C Great Lakes Cruises
For a Carefree 1949 Vacation

Photograph, Cabinet

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Patch, Insignia

Photograph, Cabinet

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Letter

Print, Photographic

Muff

Negative, Film

Program, Theater - Detroit Town Hall

Radio

Invitation

Negative, Film

Bag, Shopping

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Puppet, Hand

Postcard - For He Is Raised

Postcard - Detroit, Mich., Majestic Building, Showing Soldiers and Sailors Monument

Catalog - Universal Almanac and Catalogue of Garden Seeds, 1888

Negative, Film

Card, Membership - Grand Council,
Order of DeMolay

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