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With two great museums, the Detroit Historical Society offers engaging opportunities to learn about and explore the city's rich history, from its automotive legacy to its maritime heritage.

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Detroit Historical Museum

Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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Digital Collection: Random Images

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Booklet

Postcard - Log Cabin in Winter, Palmer's Park, Detroit, Mich.

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Image, Digital - Detroit & Canada Tunnel New Plaza Improvements

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Needle, Injection

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Image, Digital

Photograph, Cabinet

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Album, record - Who I Am

Print, Photographic - 3306 17th Street, Detroit, Michigan

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Drawing, Technical - Design for 40 Ft. Motor Launch for U. S. Lake Survey

Certificate

Drawing, Technical - No. 39, C. W. Elphicke

Program - Miss Budweiser
Press Information Souvenir Magazine, 1970

Postcard - Drive, Water Works Park, Detroit, Mich.

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Negative, Film

Automobile

Poster - Egypt As You've Never Seen It Before

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Poster - UNITED WE SERVE

Book - Beyond the Difference

Ad, Magazine

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Booklet - Premium List of the Michigan State Agricultural Society Thirty-Sixth Annual State Fair and Fifteenth Annual Fair of the Michigan State Horticultural Society at Kalamazoo

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Negative, Sheet Film

Postcard - St. Francis Home, Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich.

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Card, Identification - United States Coast Guard Auxiliary

Print, Photographic - E. Jefferson & Chene, Facing S.

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Trophy - Aaron DeRoy Memorial Trophy
For Fastest Heat Championship

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