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With two great museums, the Detroit Historical Society offers engaging opportunities to learn about and explore the city's rich history, from its automotive legacy to its maritime heritage.

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Detroit Historical Museum

Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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Digital Collection: Random Images

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Print, Photographic - Michigan Central Train Depot, Lunch Counter

Poster - S.S. South American Deck Plans / S.S. North American Deck Plans

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Postcard - Water Works Park, Detroit, Mich.

Contract - Act of March 4, 1917, Contract for the Construction of 100 Patrol Boats

Card, Trade

Tin

Postcard - West Dearborn, Michigan. Home of Ford Engineering Lab. & Edison Institute.

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Menu

Sign, Informational

Block, Toy

Crate

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Print, Photographic

Post Folder - 30 Views of Detroit, Michigan.

Print, Photographic - Car #5104

Postcard - Sally Jordan Boarding House of Menlo Park, as Restored at Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan

Pitcher, Cream

Program, Dance

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Print, Photographic

VHS - Detroit Police Department
Project Safe Streets
(December 11, 2002)
Tape One

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Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - "Belle Isle Casino- Senior Citizen Center"

Postcard - View in Oron Park, Detroit, Mich

Menu

Calendar - This is Your 1944 War-On-Waste Calender and Illustrated Household Guide

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Negative, Film

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Mold, Candle

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Menu

Transparency, Slide

Stationery

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Cabinet, Medicine

Blueprint - SS City of Cleveland

Poster - Can You Qualify for the Army Air Corps?
Keep 'Em Flying!

Plate, Commemorative

Ticket, Transportation

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