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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

Tricycle

Resolution - Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 294

Postcard - SS Milwaukee Clipper on Lake Michigan

Print, Photographic

Pamphlet - We Congratulate Our Chief, Robert M. Kerr On this, his Fiftieth Business Anniversary

Moccasin

Negative, Film

Program, Theater

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Brochure - D&C Presents the New Gay Daylite Cruise

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Positive, Film

Poster - Food Control is a War Measure

Bag, Shopping

Negative, Glass-plate

Menu - Honoring Marshal Ferdinand Foch

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Dress

Accordion

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Envelope, Shipping - Cunningham's Drug Stores

Print, Photographic

Painting

Postcard - Puritan Machine Company, 415 lafayette Boulevard, Detroit, Mich.

Postcard - Bird's-Eye View of Midget City, Detroit, as it Looks from Mountain at Rear

Card, Advertising - Backstage with the 4 Dukes at the Supper Club

Magazine - The Main Sheet

Automobile - Dhs_1952_364_001_arceye_user_008

Negative, Sheet Film

Image, Digital

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Yearbook - The Beacon

Poster

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic - Peter Smith #3P Heater

Postcard - Nothing doing in Detroit, Mich.

Engraving

Postcard - Log - Cabin - Palmer Park - Detroit - Mich.

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