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Digital Collection: Random Images

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Catalog, Auction - The Remaining Contents of Rose Terrace,
Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, U.S.A.
The Property of the late Mrs. Anna Thomson Dodge

Photograph, Cabinet

Automobile - 1905 Henry Leland's Cadillac "Osceola"

Radio

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Scrapbook - Hutchinson

Bugle

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Postcard - Freighters Waiting Their Turn to Enter the Locks, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. "In The Land of Hiawatha".

Postcard - Detroit Yacht Club's Home, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.

Roster - Rotary Club, Highland Park

Album, Record - Welcome to my Nightmare

Advertisement - Detroit Jazz Composers "Live" at the Paradise Theatre 1979

Figurine

Poster - U. S. Marines, Soldiers of the Sea

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Booklet - A History of Gray Marine Motor Company

Postcard

Crate

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Booklet - Piso's Pocket Book Almanac for 1904

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Program

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Drawing, Architectural - Front Elevation

Lamp, Kerosene

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Poster - Kick Out the Jams: Detroit's Cass Corridor, 1963-1977

Negative, Film

Bottle, Medicine

Negative, Film

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Image, Digital

Instruction Sheet

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Model

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