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Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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Digital Collection: Random Images

Report, Annual - Annual Report, 1986-1987

Negative, Film

Music, Sheet - Song of Detroit

Menu - Detroit's 250th Birthday Festival

Menu - The Sanders Menu, Vol. 2, No. 23

Advertisement

Balance, Analytical

Postcard - Cadillac Square & Monroe Ave., Detroit, Mich.

Film, Motion Picture

Case, Toilet Bottle

Headset, Radio

Post Folder - Souvenir Views of Detroit, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Newsletter - La-Z-News

Letter

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Maquette

Print, Photographic

Film, Motion Picture - "Detroit Ren Center" May 10, 1977

Music, Sheet - March of Progress

Ashtray

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Tin

Drawing, Architectural - Plans for a Fire-Proof Comparator Room at Fort Wayne

Drawing

Print, Photographic

Transparency, Slide

Negative, Glass-plate

Flier, Political - FACTS On Integrity In Government

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Newsletter - Charlie Noble

Postcard - Ponies, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Postcard - Aviation Town and Country Club Building, Detroit, Mich. - Aviation Town And Country Club Bldg.

File, Digital Video - Danticat
Masterclass
1
Master

Music, Sheet - Rainbow

Music, Sheet - The Detroit Free Press Christmas March

Print, Photographic

Gown, Evening

Print, Photographic

Album, record - The Motown Sound, A Collection of 16 Original Big Hits, Volume 9

Directory, Business - Hudson's Store Directory, Downtown

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