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Digital Collection: Random Images

Print, Photographic - Wilson Barn, W. Chicago and Joy Rd., Livonia

Advertisement

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Pamphlet - Pontchartrain: a Name with historical Significance

Brochure - All Roads Will Lead to Detroit in September. Why? / Detroit's Great Fair and Exposition

Negative, Glass-plate

Print, Photographic

Transparency, Slide - 12th St. Store Cook Out

Postcard - Pavilion, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Booklet - The Oldsmobile

Print, Photographic

Blueprint - End Framing [Hull 393]

Print, Photographic

Catalog - Ferry's Seed Annual, 1928

Ashtray

Negative, Film

Emblem, Automotive

Automobile - 1960 Chevrolet Corvair 2-Door Coupe

Envelope - The Jewish People in Mercantile, Social, and Professional Life in Detroit

Film, Motion Picture - Color Travel

Calendar - Schedule of Class and Laboratory Work in Qualitative Chemistry for Medical and Dental Students in the Chemical Laboratory of the University of Michigan, 1885-6

Image, Digital

Advertisement - Farmer's Boiler

Jacket

Print, Photographic

Magazine - Harper's Weekly, August 17, 1889

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic - Wayne County College

Print, Photographic

U-Matic - My Heart Is With Detroit
Devil's Night Program 1992
10-29-92
Tape 2

Radio

Postcard - Canoeing at Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Manuscript - History, American-Swedish Club of Detroit by H.V. Wade

Transparency, Lantern-slide

Report, Annual - La-Z-Boy Chair Company
1989 Annual Report

Print, Photographic

Postcard

Animal, Stuffed

Film, Motion Picture - Doner "Boblo" 1x:10 Sel Ocn for Xfer HD

Image, Digital

Print, Photographic

Cart - 1953.231.002 Piano Cart Handhelds_arceye_user_001

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

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