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Digital Collection: Random Images

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

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Lithograph - Camp Palmer, 1st Regiment Mich. Cavalry.

Print, Photographic

Print

Registration - Library of Congress

Photograph, Cabinet - Annette Alger

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Menu - London Chop House

Transparency, Slide

Print, Photographic

Ad, Print

Program - World Team Tennis

Minutes - Minutes of the Rules Committee Meeting Held on Tuesday, April 24, 1951, at the Home of Captian Earl McQueen in Amherstburg

Cane - Front

Image, Digital

Letter

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Toy

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Negative, Sheet Film

Tag, Luggage

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Program - Fiftieth Annual Announcement, Cercle Dramatique
Detroit, Michigan, 1961-1962

Print, Photographic

Scarf, Neck

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Negative, Glass-plate

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Major-General George G. Meade

Postcard - Standard Drug Store, 14 and 16 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit, Mich. Andrew R. Cunningham, Proprietor.

Chair, Side

Poem - My Heaven

Postcard - Fighting the Flames, Detroit, Mich.

Postcard - Nurses Home, Grace Hospital, Detroit, Mich.

Schedule - Detroit and Milwaukee Railway, No. 20, Private Time Table of Passenger and Freight Trains; And Special Instructions for the Exclusive Use of Conductors, Enginemen, &c. to take effect on Monday, September 6, 1858.

Image, Digital

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Envelope - Republican Speakers:
Here is your Ammunition on Waste, Corruption, Communism

Photograph, Cabinet

Print, Photographic

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