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Digital Collection: Random Images

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Menu

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Negative, Film

Program - 1813-1913 Perry's Victory Centennial Put-in-Bay, Ohio and Lake Ports

Coffeepot

Plan, Site - Proposed Reconstruction at Fort Wayne

Program - We Rally For Freedom

Print, Photographic - Fox Creek Enclosure Under Jefferson Avenue

Music, Sheet - If You Talk in Your Sleep Don't Mention My Name

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Postcard - Horticultural Building and Aquarium, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.

Card, Business

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Rules - Rules and Regulations of the Detroit Fire Department

Model - Viking - 35

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Negative, Glass-plate

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Print, Photographic - Bob-Lo Island Collection

Postcard - River Scene near Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.

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Print, Photographic - Thanksgiving Parade

Print, Photographic - Sheltered Pier

Program - Annual Church and Memorial Service Under the Auspices of the Friendship Lodge No. 417, F. & A.M.

Negative, Film

Transparency, Slide

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Negative, Film

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Newsletter - The Racquet Club, Fall 1976

Postcard - Boat House, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Dress

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Card, Membership

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Pamphlet - "Vandals desecrate history"

Statement, Financial

Postcard - Old Saint Mary's Church, Downtown, Detroit, Mich.

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Certificate

Magazine - The Student, Vol. XIV, No. 5, February 1918

Carving

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