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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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Enjoy a variety of events, from lectures, book talks, and film screenings to family-friendly activities, behind-the-scenes tours, concerts, and more!

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Learn about our history, meet the dedicated team preserving Detroit’s legacy, and discover what we’re doing today.

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Digital Collection: Random Images

Print, Photographic

Mahjong

Program

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Magazine - The Main Sheet

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Postcard - Water Works Park, Detroit, Mich.

Program

Cover, Document

Toy, Car

Print, Photographic

Program

Carriage - Dhs_1951_213_001_arceye_user_002

Transparency, Slide

Print, Photographic

Program - Eighteenth Annual Great Lakes Shipwreck Festival

Program, Theater

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Music, Sheet - Pingree Memorial March

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Print, Photographic

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VHS - Devil's Night '95

Coat

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Print, Photographic - Ethnic Festival '76

Transparency, Lantern-slide - An old bridge on Belle Isle

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Print, Photographic

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Program - Tenth Annual Concert of Industry Sings

Negative, Glass-plate

Map - Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie Sheet -
Portions of Algoma, Sudbury, and Manitoulin Districts

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Program - Forty-Eighth Annual Announcement, Cercle Dramatique
Detroit, Michigan, 1959-1960

Print, Photographic

Stand, Music

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Postcard - Episcopal Church, Wyandotte, Mich.

Sculpture

Negative, Film

Pamphlet - We Congratulate Our Chief, Robert M. Kerr On this, his Fiftieth Business Anniversary

Booklet - What Wartime Price Control Means to You

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