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Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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Digital Collection: Random Images

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Poster - See Him Through,
Help Us To Help The boys

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Mich. - Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Mich.

Catalog - Ferry's Seed Annual, 1925

Print, Photographic - Belle Isle Police Station

Minutes - Minutes of Meeting Held at the Bayview Yacht Club, Tuesday, May 20, 1952

Bowl, award

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Poster

Jack

Postcard

Postcard

Program - The 104th Annual Michigan State Fair and Exposition Premium List

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Negative, Film

Chart, Organizational

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Transparency

Magazine - The Student, Vol. VIII, No. 8, May-June 1912

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Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Souvenir

Letter

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Card, Trade

Print, Photographic

Booklet - The Story of the 57

Lithograph - The Wayne County Building

Postcard - Light House, Palmer Park, Detroit, Mich.

Menu

Drawing, Technical - SS South American,
Built in 1915 by G. L. [Great Lakes] Engineering Works

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Booklet

Music, Sheet - The Only Pal I Ever Had Came From 'Frisco Town

Blueprint - [University of Detroit - New Dental Center]

Statement, Financial

Stick, Hockey

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