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Digital Collection: Random Images

Negative, Film

Flyer

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Stereograph

Program - Detroit International Riverama Presents... Al Sheehan's Aqua Follies of 1956, 2nd Annual Edition

Announcement - Highland Park High School

Boat, Toy

Letter

Handbill - Caledonian Games

Print, Photographic

Letter - Office of the Controller

Print, Photographic

Map - D.M. & M.R.R. Land Plan,
Part of Private Claims at St. Ignace.

Negative, Film

Postcard - David Whitney Bldg., Book Tower and Statler Hotel, Detroit Mich.

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Bray's Hamburgers

Print, Photographic

Invoice

Brochure

Desk Set

Negative, Film

Model

Postcard - Lobby - Union Trust Building, Detroit, Mich.

Magazine - Therapeutic Notes, vol. 13, no. 5, September 1906

Ticket, Transportation - Workingman's Ticket
Detroit Citizens Street Railway Company

Postcard

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Music, Sheet - San Antonio

Menu

Minutes - Minutes of the First Annual Meeting of the International Tugboat Racing Association Held at 2015 Dime Building, Detroit 26, Michigan, on Friday, June 1, 1951

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

Print, Photographic

Transparency, Slide

Invitation

Newsletter - Monroe La-Z-News

Program, Theater

Print, Photographic

Statue

Folder, File - The Detroit College Promise

Dress

Transparency, Slide

Print, Photographic

Card, Political

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