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Digital Collection: Random Images

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Memorial Park, October 1981

Menu

Drawing, Architectural - Front Elevation

Print, Photographic

Coat

Print, Photographic - Michigan Central Railroad Station

Film, Motion Picture - H.P. 2946 Boblo WK Pix :30 x 10 HDS

Print

Print, Photographic

Blueprint - Historic Fort Wayne Parade Ground Project No. 76.10H

Postcard

Top

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Invitation

Survey, Land - Fort Wayne Grounds

Print, Photographic

Chart, Navigational - St. Mary's River,
Lake Munuscong to Sault Ste. Marie Including Lake George

Image, Digital

Postcard - Detroit High School, Detroit, Mich.

Booklet - The Saguenay Trip

Letter - The American Mother in Detroit

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

Newsletter - WE Winkelman Employees
December, 1972

Snuffbox

Paperweight

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Poster - Will YOU supply EYES for the NAVY?

Pack

Program

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Envelope - Progress of Public Education in Detroit in the 19th Century

Menu - The Sanders Menu, Vol. 2, No. 2

Transparency, Slide

Poster

Booklet - Communication of Hon. Wm. C. Maybury on Controller F. A. Blades' Plan for Making Permanent Improvements in the City of Detroit by the Issue of Thhirty Year Four Per Cent Bonds.

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Postcard

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

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