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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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Digital Collection: Random Images

Print, Photographic - Intersection of Gratiot and Farmer

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Image, Digital

Postcard

Print, Photographic

Baseball

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Yale Woolen Mills

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Negative, Film

Advertisement - Mossman Drive Yourself System

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

U-Matic - Freedom Festival Press Conference Mayor Office, 4-9-90

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Magazine - Pioneering, A Magazine of Detroit and Michigan

Print, Photographic

Poster - Unconditionally Surrender!

Print, Photographic

Program - Spirit of Detroit Association
Gold Cup Regatta, Unlimited Hydroplanes

Print, Photographic

Lithograph - St. Mary's Falls Canal,
The Movable Dam

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Hat

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Poster - A Little Starving Child brought back to life
because you went without some luxury

Letter

Bottle, Medicine

Print, Photographic

Magazine - The Main Sheet

Print, Photographic

Postcard - U.S. Ship Canal, St. Clair Flats.

Schedule - Rapid Railway System, Detroit and Port Huron Electric Fast Line

Printer, Dot Matrix

Print, Photographic

Film, Motion Picture - The Story of FTD's 50th Anniversary Convention, 1960

Postcard - Tashmoo Off for a River Trip, Detriot, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Iron

Receipt

Postcard - Scene in Water Works Park, Detroit, Mich.

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