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Digital Collection: Random Images

Postcard - U.S.A.T. PVT. ELDEN H. JOHNSON

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Specification - Specifications for Mr. George Kolb, Sr., for a Hollow Tile and Brick Residence Located on the North Side of Center Avenue Between Chase and Tromble Streets, Bay City, Michigan.

Print, Photographic

Card, Greeting

Negative, Film

Transparency, Slide - Cleaner Cleaners

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Letter

Purse

Moccasin

Print, Photographic

Dress

Print, Photographic

Balance, Analytical

Print, Photographic

Booklet - 32 Years Ago
[Union Trust Company]

Cover, Map - The Detroit Free Press Bicycle Road Map, 1896

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Booklet - Tips from the Champs

Uniform, Occupational

Menu

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Postcard - ALDEN GIFFORD --A Cargo Boat. Built by Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wis.

Negative, Film

Model, Architect's

Postcard - Palmer Park Light House, Detroit, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Program - The 117th Annual Michigan State Fair Community Arts Premium List

Crate

Report, Annual - 98th Annual Report, Detroit Fire Department, 1965, Detroit, Michigan

Print, Photographic

Music, Sheet - On the Road to Mexico (Through Dixieland)

Sleigh - 1890s C.R. Wilson Co. Sleigh

Computer, Desktop

Negative, Film

Postcard

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Driveway & Walks in Water Works Park, Detroit, Mich.

Magazine - The Main Sheet

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