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Digital Collection: Random Images

Index

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Transparency, Slide

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Postcard - West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Mich.

Letter - The Growth of Manufacturing in Detroit During the Nineteenth Century.

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Poster - WE CLEAR the WAY for Your FIGHTING DOLLARS

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Negative, Film

U-Matic - Neighborhood/City Clips
Demolition
7-10-89

Dictionary - The Most Popular Music Dictionary

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Print, Photographic

Postcard - The Detroit News Building, The World's Greatest Newspaper Plant

Poster, Instructional - Steamers Greater Detroit and Greater Buffalo
Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Co.
Station Bill

Postcard - Bicycle Headquarters Belle Isle

Board, Sleeve

Box, Accessory

Sculpture - Top O' the Heap

Film, Motion Picture - The Detroit Lions 1954 Football Highlights

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Box, Food Storage

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Postcard - Union Depot, Detroit, Mich.

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Plate, Offering

Plate, Engraving

Report - A New System of Surface Rapid Transit

Map - Map of the State of Michigan, Engraved and Printed Under the the Supervision of the Commissioner of Railroads of the State

Negative, Film

Blueprint - City of Detroit, Peter Witt Type--60 Passenger

Postcard - Entrance to Palmer Park, Detroit, Mich.

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Menu

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Postcard - General Motors Building, Detroit, Mich.

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Negative, Film

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Print, Photographic - N. Side of Kirby Between Secor and G.T.W.R.R. Tracks

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