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Digital Collection: Random Images

Menu - The Sanders Menu, Vol. 1, No. 14

Print, Photographic

Letter

Transparency

Postcard - The Ford Motor Company, River Rouge Plant, Dearborn, Michigan - Ford Motor Company, River Rouge Plant

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Postcard - Detroit, Mich., The Casino, Belle Isle Park.

Negative, Film

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VHS - Detroit River Cannon Recovery
Oct. 1, 1987

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Bond - Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging Co.
First Mortgage Registered Gold Bond

Negative, Film

Brochure - D&C Lake Lines, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Mackinac Island, Chicago

Postcard - Detroit River, Closed First Time in Fourteen Years

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Cross

Poster - U. S. Marines Soldiers of the Sea

Negative, Film

Baseball

Negative, Film

Stereograph

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U-Matic - Grand Prix Revised
Montreux Detroit Jazz
Handy/Potter 1.00

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Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Case, Toilet Bottle

Postcard - Cedar Mount, Waterfall and Canoes, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Program - United Spanish War Veterans and Auxiliary,
Annual Report and Proceedings, Sixty-First Annual Encampment

Program, Theater

Print, Photographic

Flier, Political - For Equal Representation...
Vote YES on Proposal 2
and NO on Proposal 3

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Music, Sheet - Musical Gem

Warranty

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Invitation

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Print, Photographic

Booklet - Summer Tours, 1906

Letter

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Sketch

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Bottle

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