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Digital Collection: Random Images

Drawing

Print, Photographic

Automobile - 1934 Chrysler Airflow 4-Door Sedan

Transparency, Lantern-slide

Postcard - Bath House, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Postcard

Drawing, Architectural - Store House, Fort Wayne, Michigan,
Office A.A.Q.M., November, 1889

Print, Photographic

Flier - D.S.R. Ready Fare

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Bracket, Candle

Print, Photographic

Veil, Wedding

Dress

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Post Office and Vicinity, Detroit, Mich.

Drawing, Architectural - Front Elevation

Cartoon

Negative, Film

Postcard - New Casino, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Print

Negative, Film

Drawing, Technical - Main Deck Plating for Fire Tug, Clevelander
[Hull No. 75]

Image, Digital

Post Folder - Folding View Book of Detroit, Mich.

Negative, Film

Negative, Glass-plate

Hook

Menu

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Letter - The Growth of the Woman's [Women's] Club Movement

Bookmark

Drawing, Technical - Main Deck Side Plating,
For'd [Forward] End

Postcard - Woodward Avenue in Winter, Detroit, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Directory

Letter

Report - My Boyhood School Days

Postcard - Cadillac Square, looking east from City Hall, Detroit, Mich

Negative, Film

Bowl, Cereal

Toy

Transparency, Slide

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