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Digital Collection: Random Images

Transparency, Slide

Print, Photographic

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U-Matic - Tape #3
No Crime Day
Raw Footage
9-4-86

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Writing set

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Music, Sheet - Dream House

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Postcard - Woodward Ave Detroit Mich - Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich.

Drawing

Transparency, Slide - 12th St. - Bussing

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Print, Photographic - Tel-Way

Cannon - Dhs_2008_004_013_arceye_user_001

Box

Bill-of-sale - Tuttle & Clark

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Postcard - Front View Overlooking 30 Lanes, Located at 19600 Woodward Ave. Detroit, Mich.

Print, Photographic - World Championship Rodeo

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Booklet - Detroit Police Department

Balance, Analytical

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Advertisement

Postcard - Looking North from Great Lakes Avenue, River Rouge, Mich.

Booklet - 32 Years Ago
[Union Trust Company]

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File, Digital Video - Marygrove College
Authors Lecture Series 1998
Reading/Reception Ernest J. Gaines

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Toy, Truck

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Print, Photographic - Interior of United Shirt Distributors Store at 83 Monroe

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Pitcher, Water

Statement, Financial - City Taxes 1871 - Richmond & Backus

Mug, Coffee

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Lamp, Kerosene

Negative, Film

Drawing

Pants

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