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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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Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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Digital Collection: Random Images

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Teapot

Brochure - Wake Up and Live!

Map - Department of Street Railways Service Map

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Poster - In the strength of great hope we must shoulder our common load,
Buy Victory Bonds.

Postcard - Greenfield Village Stagecoach, Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan

Negative, Film

Card, Trade

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Bottle, Medicine

Blotter, Desk - S. A. Mauer, Inc.

File, Digital Video - Authors 4-8-05
Jones Dinner (Master)

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Camera, Instant

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Newsletter - WE Winkelman Employees
December, 1971

Negative, Film

Window

Newsletter - Y.M.C.A. Monthly Bulletin, Vol. VIII, No. 1.

Negative, Film

U-Matic - B-roll/Belle Isle - '85
Tape #2

Candlestick

Music, Sheet - Chung Lo

Painting - Ballet Artistry

Card, Membership

Tire, Tractor

Magazine - The Main Sheet

Print, Photographic

Card, Trade

Trailer, Camping - 1929 Covered Wagon Trailer Co. camper - Dhs_1956_373_001_arceye_user_001

Letter - Woman's Suffrage - Retrospect and Prophecy

Book - The Wonders of the World's Fair

Dress

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Postcard

Button

Painting - Below Fort Wayne, Detroit, Sep. 13, '81

Radio

Newsletter - Monroe La-Z-News

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Automobile - 1963 Ford XD Cobra prototype

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