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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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Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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Digital Collection: Random Images

Report, Annual

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Central High School, Detroit, Mich.

Engraver, Metal

Postcard - Michigan Central Station, Detroit, Mich.

Print, Photographic - Ralph J. Bunche Visits Cyprus

Poster - Human Rights
[Milliken for Michigan]

Album, Record - In The Stone/You and I

Menu

Ensemble

U-Matic - Mayor Coleman A. Young (PSA)
Do It In Detroit Neighborhood Shopping Days
July 18-21, 1985
Taped: 7-11-85
3:30 p.m.

Print, Photographic

Pitcher, Cream - Dhs_2025_091_008_1_sf

Magazine - The Detroit Clinic

Card, Political

Crate

Tire, Tractor

Print, Photographic

Image, Digital

Flag

Print, Photographic

Menu - To My Valentine from Sanders

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Letter

Menu

Brochure

Program

Advertisement - Social Parlor

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Aerial of Elmwood Cemtery Looking East, Entrance Gate at Right

File, Digital Video - 4-8-05
Authors Series 05
Edward P. Jones
Masterclass
1 of 1
Master

Postcard - Skating, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.

Postcard - Hotel Fort Wayne - Detroit, Michigan

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Str. "City of Toledo"

Plate, Dessert

Print, Photographic

Postcard - The Michigan Stove Company

Dictionary - The Most Popular Music Dictionary

Transparency, Slide

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

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