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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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Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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Digital Collection: Random Images

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Bird's-Eye View of Saugatuck, Mich.

Print, Photographic - Washington Blvd. Facing North

Trumpet, Speaking

Carte-de-visite

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Lathe, Record

Certificate, Membership

Print, Photographic

Magazine - Creem, Vol. 9, No. 12

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Bag, Gift

Print, Photographic

Transparency, Lantern-slide - Canal, Bell Isle - Detroit

Print, Photographic

Button, Souvenir

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Puzzle, Jigsaw - American Maritime History

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Capitol Square Park, Detroit, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Drawing, Technical - Offsets for Fire Tug, Clevelander
[Hull No. 75]

Program, Theater

Film, Motion Picture - Plbg. Bur. Office 1

Print, Photographic

Map - Tracing from a Map of Springwells by Lieuts. Macomb & Warner, T.E. [Topographical Engineers], 1841, with the Addition of Outlines of Fort Wayne and Public Grounds, Sept., 1865.

Print, Photographic - "Belle Isle"

Blueprint - City of Detroit 27 Passenger Motorbus, 822 Units of This Type

Poem

Nail

Coaster

Print, Photographic - Students and Backview of Quarton Lake School

Bottle, Cologne

Print, Photographic

Letter

Print

Lithograph

Negative, Film

Manual, Employee

Print, Photographic

Tin

Uniform, Occupational

Brochure - Go By Boat, It's Fun Afloat

Negative, Film

Charter - Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic

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