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Digital Collection: Random Images

Binder, Post - Appraisal of Buildings for Michigan Bell Telephone Co.
by Albert Kahn, Inc.

Blueprint - Historic Fort Wayne,
Post Hospital Restoration

Negative, Film

Music, Sheet - Hang Your Hat in Detroit

Print, Photographic

Plate, Dinner

Drawing, Architectural - First Floor Plan,
Cobo Hall - Convention Arena,
Civic Center - City of Detroit, Michigan.

Print, Photographic

Transparency, Slide

Automobile - 1942 Packard Custom 8 Convertible

Postcard - The First Ford, Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan

Booklet - Annual Report of the Public Lighting Plant For the Year Ending June 30, 1920

Poster - They're fighting harder than ever -
Are you buying More War Bonds than ever?

Shoe

Postcard - Hotel Fort Wayne - Detroit, Michigan

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Panorama of Campus Martius. Detroit, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Program

Postcard

Bowl, Sugar

Poster - Meeting the Challenge

Program - Chaminade Testimonial Dinner
Honoring Basket Ball Team and Dramatic Club

Postcard - Burns Hotel, Cadillac Square, Detroit, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Newsletter - The Second Baptist Advocate, Vol. 30, No. 1, January-March 1981

Stereoscope

Print, Photographic

Folio - Detroit Illustrated

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Album, Record - The Motown Sound, Collection of Original 16 Big Hits, Volume 10

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Postcard

Dress

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Cong. Church, Wyandotte, Mich.

Letter

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Looking East on Fort St., Detroit, Mich.

Newspaper - Detroit New Booster, Vol. 27, No. 1

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Poster

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