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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

Photograph, Cabinet

Flyer

Notepad

Menu

Letter - The Chamber of Commerce

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Conversation Tube

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Circular

Roster - R.S.R.O.A. Membership at the Close of the Fiscal Year, April 4, 1939

Postcard - Wilson Foundry and Machine Company, Pontiac, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Transparency, Slide

Print, Photographic

Patch, Military

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Program, Theater

Print, Photographic

Lighter

Menu - Sanders Makes It Better

Card, Trade

Print, Photographic

Box

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Concourse

Blueprint - Historic Fort Wayne,
Post Hospital Restoration

Menu - Holiday Menu

Print, Photographic

Resolution

Booklet - "There From The Start" On Every Front!

Print, Photographic - 14176 Warwick Job No. 8623

Chart, Navigational - Lake Charlevoix, Michigan

Negative, Film

Blueprint - Parking Area DHS-34,
Historic Fort Wayne Restoration Project, Detroit, Michigan

Knife, Pocket

Negative, Film

Negative, Glass-plate

Program, Theater

Poster - Rebirth Presents 1900's Locomotive,
Passage into the Year Two Thousand, Celebrating One Century of Jazz

Saucer

Catalog, Sales

Print, Photographic

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