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Digital Collection: Random Images

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Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Transparency, Slide

Carriage, Doll

Transparency, Slide - Linwood Property Loss

Blueprint - Detroit Residential Manpower Center
Fort Wayne, Detroit, Michigan

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Dress

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Certificate

Postcard - Horticultural Building and Aquarium, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.

Poster - Traugott Schmidt & Sons

Postcard - Freighters Waiting Their Turn to Enter the Locks, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. "In The Land of Hiawatha".

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Martha Jean Miller as a Teenager

Diploma

Booklet - Father Richard: Notes on His Printing in Early Detroit

Microphone

Negative, Glass-plate

Negative, Glass-plate

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Drawing

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Blueprint - Historic Fort Wayne Parade Ground Construction

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Postcard - Entrance to Palmer Park, Detroit, Mich.

Postcard - The Aquarium, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Transparency, Slide

Print, Photographic

Menu

Dress

Letter - Progress of Public Education in Detroit in the 19th Century

Print, Photographic

Saucer

Print, Photographic - Helen Building, Floor 22

Booklet - The Book-Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, Michigan - Dhs_2000_005_004_cover_sf

Transparency, Slide

Catalog - Detroit Jewel Catalog, 1907-1908

Booklet - House Rules and Regulations of Priscilla Inn

Print, Photographic

Register, Cash

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