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Digital Collection: Random Images

Postcard - David Whitney Building and Statler Hotel, Detroit, Mich.

Booklet - Twelfth Annual Report of the Public Lighting Commission of the City of Detroit, Michigan

Report, Annual - The Merrill-Palmer Institute of Human Development and Family Life Report For the Year Ending June 1, 1960.

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Sleigh - 1890s C.R. Wilson Co. Sleigh

Automobile - 1984 Pontiac Fiero 2M4 2-Door Coupe

Print, Photographic

Poster - Kick Out the Jams: Detroit's Cass Corridor, 1963-1977

Postcard

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Transparency, Lantern Slide

Block, Alphabet

Booklet - The Eastern

Print, Photographic - No. 71 The Merrill-Palmer School

Postcard - Kresge Administration Bldg., Detroit, Mich.

Music, Sheet - Pingree March

animal, stuffed

Radio, Portable

Stein - "Your Partners in Preserving America" Wildlife Stein Collection

Print, Photographic - Car No. 3079

Booklet - High Lights of Detroit Industrial History
No. 8, Wright, Kay & Company

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Machine, Sewing

Print, Photographic

Dress

Postcard - Bathing Beach, Bob-Lo, Bois Blanc Island, Detroit River.

Print, Photographic - Old Main, Basement Class Room

Newsletter - Detroit Radio News, Vol. 1, No. 6

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Case, Beer

Transparency, Lantern-slide

Print, Photographic - Farmers Market

Negative, Glass-plate

Card, Trade

Automobile - 1911 Model T Ford Touring Car

Print, Photographic

Program

Carriage - 1890's Enclosed Rockaway Carriage - Dhs_1948_145_028_arceye_user_01

Negative, Film

Negative, Film

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