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Digital Collection: Random Images

Postcard - 530 - Woodward Avenue Looking South from Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Michigan.

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Poster - Detroit Grand Prix

Print, Photographic

Lamp, Oil

Print, Photographic

Ad, Magazine

Car, Railroad

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Booklet - Official Songs

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Postcard - The Boyhood Home of Thos. A. Edison, Edison Beach, Port Huron, Mich.

Box, Gift

Stereoview

Photograph

Menu

Booklet - High Lights of Detroit Industrial History
No. 1, Detroit-Michigan Stove Company

Model - Viking - 35

Epaulets

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Bob-Lo Island Collection

Postcard - County Bldg., Detroit, Michigan.

Print, Photographic

Envelope - Prudential Insurance Company of America

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Brochure - S.S. Put-In-Bay

Poster - MISS PEPSI Unlimited Multiple Step Hydroplane, 1949-1956

Print, Photographic

Newsletter - Detroit Roller Skater

Pitcher, Cream

Note

Cup, Coffee - Dhs_2024_128_007_front_sf

Invoice

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Moccasin

Letter

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Extinguisher, Fire

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Postcard - Corner of Campus, from State St., Ann Arbor, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Brochure - 1913 Steamer Schedules

Manual, Employee - Penn Central Safety Rules, Maintenance of Way and Structures Employes, Eddective July 1, 1968, Revised 2-75

Postcard - Michigan Central R. R. Depot Detroit, Mich.

Nametag

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