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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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Digital Collection: Random Images

Painting

Postcard - Home of Ray Quality Products

Poster

Postcard - Detroit Mich. in 1847.

Record, Phonograph

Program, Dance

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - School Children - Pontiac

Postcard

Negative, Film

Poster - "you buy 'em we'll fly 'em!"

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Muff

Music, Sheet - I Want to Go Back to Michigan (Down on the Farm)

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Case, Card

Coat

Print, Photographic

Program - Zion Lodge No. 1 F. & A.M. Past Master's Night, February 21, 1912

Brochure - Attractive New Low Fare All Expense D&C Cruises between Detroit & Mackinac island & St. Ignace; Chicago & Mackinac Island and between Detroit & Chicago and Chicago & Detroit

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Drawing, Architectural - Wesson Ave. View of a Three Story, Eight Stores & Sixteen Apartment Building.

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - St. Louis #47 Truck

Postcard - J. F. Weber & Co.

Telegram - The Western Union Telegraph Company

Card, Trade

Uniform, Organizational

Book, Ration - War Ration Book No. 3

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Transparency, Slide

Lantern

Print, Photographic

Coat

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Tintype

Print, Photographic - P.V. Brake Valve Parts

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Magazine - DAC News

Chart, Navigational - Re-Examination of the Outlet of the South Channel of the St. Clair River

Print, Photographic

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