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Digital Collection: Random Images

Magazine - La-Z-News

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Brochure - The Music Hall Restoration

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Invoice

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Lantern

Catalog - Universal Almanac and Catalogue, 1889

Advertisement

Letter

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

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Music, Sheet - Sweet Georgia Brown

Mug, Coffee - Dhs_2025_091_006_01_sf

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Program, Theater

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Print, Photographic - Ticket Office, Train Station

Cannon - Dhs_2008_004_013_arceye_user_001

Film, Motion Picture - "Detroit Today and Tomorrow, Detroit Clearing House and the Civic Center" telecast WWJ Jan 12 1958

Newspaper - The Detroit Times, 44th Year, No. 248, June 6, 1944

Blueprint - Scow Schooner, Milton

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Menu

Balance, Analytical

Iron

Periodical - DSR Reporter, January-February

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Moccasin

Sign, Trade

Handbill

Drawing, Architectural - Wesson Ave. View of a Three Story, Eight Stores & Sixteen Apartment Building.

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Print, Photographic

Postcard

Card, Advertising

Drawing, Technical - James F. Joy, 1866

Desk Set

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Recipe - Heinz Peanut Butter Recipes

Painting

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Plymouth Central Middle School

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Coat

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