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Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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Digital Collection: Random Images

Lithograph - St. Mary's Falls Canal,
The Movable Dam

Print, Photographic

Program

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Music, Sheet - Winter Moon

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Poster, Political

Print, Photographic

Cup, Coffee

Yearbook - 1961 Detroit Tigers Official Yearbook

Postcard - Tunnel Between Detroit and Windsor, Canada.

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Postcard - Columbus Caravals, Detroit, Mich.

Brochure - The Drug Industry--A Story With No End

Print, Photographic - Commandant's Quarters

Receipt

Postcard - J. F. Weber & Co.

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Water Front by Illumination, Detroit, Mich.

Negative, Film

Postcard - Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company

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Print, Photographic

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U-Matic - Freedom Festival Press Conference Mayor Office, 4-9-90

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Postcard - On West Side of Saginaw Street Between Kearsley and First Streets - 1855

Magazine - Water Way Tales - The Magazine of the Great Lakes

Print, Photographic

Transparency, Slide

Letter

Brochure

Negative, Film

Drawing

Carving

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Print, Photographic - Woodward Ave Baptist Church, View from Sibley and Woordward

Amplifier

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Postcard - Yacht Club, Detroit, Mich.

Booklet - The Riot
A Presentation of Grade School Children's
Thoughts About the Detroit Riot - Summer 1967

Card, Mourning

Resolution - Card of Thanks

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

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