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Digital Collection: Random Images

Report, Annual

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - 3018 14th, Detroit, Mi

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Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Letter - Headquarters, Michigan Military Academy

Negative, Film

Chair, Side

Postcard - Athletic Headquarters, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Rifle, Percussion

Negative, Glass-plate

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Film, Motion Picture - Detroit Needs The Proposed International Bridge

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Program - 23rd Annual Concert of Industry Sings

Negative, Film

Napkin

Print, Photographic

Newsletter - Charlie Noble

T-Shirt

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic - Entrance to Conventional Hall, Str. "City of Cleveland"

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Paper, Letterhead - International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Brochure - D&C Lake Lines, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Niagara Falls

Print, Photographic

Program - The 101st Annual Michigan State Fair and Exposition Premium List

Program, Theater

Negative, Glass-plate

Shoe - Dhs_1959_132_003_sf_01

Print, Photographic

Music, Sheet - They Wake Us in the Morning

Print, Photographic - The Re-Steel Center Corporation, East Side on Wight and Mt. Elliot

Print, Photographic

Menu - The Sanders Menu, Vol. 1, No. 16

Candlestick

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Parade

Print, Photographic - Church on Concord between St. Paul and E. Fort Sts., looking northeast

Print, Photographic - The Traugott-Schmidt Complex; Trappers Alley; Greektown

Program, Concert

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