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Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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Digital Collection: Random Images

Receipt - Detroit Post Office, DR.

Negative, Glass-plate

Print, Photographic

Postcard

Postcard - Art Museum, Detroit, Mich.

Print, Photographic

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Speaker

Poster - Get A War Job
to Help Him Fight

Card, Trade

Print, Photographic

Discharge, Military

Poster - Protect His Future

Print, Photographic

Yearbook - 1978-79 Detroit Pistons Media Guide/Yearbook

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Music, Sheet - Michigan, The State Where I Was Born

Transparency, Slide

Dress

Letter

Postcard - The J. T. Wing Under Sail - Now a Marine Museum in Detroit

Print, Photographic - Media Center

Poster - Republican National Convention Historical Timeline, 1856-1984

Map

Newsletter - Charlie Noble

Stadimeter

Postcard

Booklet - Christmas at the Ford Rotunda

Print, Photographic

Catalog - Detroit Jewel Stoves Price List 1884

Print, Photographic

Painting - PHILO PARSONS

Brochure - D&C Delightful Cruises on the Great Lakes

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Carriage, Doll

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Print, Photographic

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Postcard - Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit Mich.

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Manual, Employee - Hudson's Blue Cross Blue Shield Benefits

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Print, Photographic

Carriage - 1890's Enclosed Rockaway Carriage - Dhs_1948_145_028_arceye_user_01

Negative, Film

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