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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

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Card, Membership - Port Huron Lodge No. 2,
International Ship Masters' Association

Cup, Demitasse

Print, Photographic - Actor Paul Homann

Print, Photographic - Check Valve Parts

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Postcard - Park Boulevard and Adams Ave. looking South, Detroit, Mich.

Drawing

List - Fire District, Chief of the Fifth Battallion

Negative, Film

Sign

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Blueprint - Site Plan - Detroit Historical Museum

Negative, Film

Postcard - Palmer Park - The Big Log, Detroit, Michigan

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Postcard - Campus Martius

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Postcard

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Crate

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Plate, Dinner

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Lithograph - Phoenix Steam Fire Engine No. 3 of Detroit as it apeared in the funeral procession of the late President Lincoln, April, 25th 1865. Presented by Robert Meginity

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Print, Photographic - Car No. 3061

Transparency, Lantern-slide

Album, Record - In The Stone/You and I

Print - Last Light

Stereoscope

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Resolution - Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 15

Negative, Film

Mortgage - Discharge of Mortgage

Film, Motion Picture

Print, Photographic

Toy

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Negative, Film

Booklet - 20th Annual Capuchin Charity Guild, Detroit Tigers, N.Y. Yankees, Baseball Dinner.

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