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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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Digital Collection: Random Images

Postcard - Steamer A.H. FERBERT Two Harbors, MINN.

Program

Print, Photographic - 240 Orleans, Looking West

Rifle, Percussion

Program - Detroit for All...All for Detroit

Toy, Automobile

Stereograph

Cannon - Dhs_2008_004_013_arceye_user_001

Cup, Coffee

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Stereograph

Print, Photographic

Booklet - The Detroit Tribune's Epitome of Base Ball

Print, Photographic

Postcard - The Ice Fountain, Washington Boulevard, Detroit, Mich.

Postcard - S.S. Kresge Company Building, Detroit, Mich.

U-Matic - Thomas Hearns
Emmanuel Steward[sic]
B-day Greeting to Mayor C.A.Y.

Poster, Advertisement - Sears

Print, Photographic

Blueprint - Sail Plan of Yacht Trident

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Card, Business - Dr. C. N. Jaekel, M. D.

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Music, Sheet - Memories

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Sign, Informational

Print, Photographic

Box

Program, Theater

Print, Photographic

Blueprint - Detroit Residential Manpower Center
Fort Wayne, Detroit, Michigan

Newsletter - Jib Sheet

Map - Partie Occidentale Du Canada.

Report, Annual - Annual Report,
Fiscal Year April 30, 1964
La-Z-Boy Chair Company

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Postcard - The Pavilion, Belle Isle Park, Detroit - z

Pennant

Print, Photographic

Quilt

Print, Photographic - Industrial Waste Treatment, Dearborn Specialty Foundry, Ford Motor Company

Postcard - Lily Pond and Phlox Bed in Bloom, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Episcopal Church, Wyandotte, Mich.

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