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Digital Collection: Random Images

Envelope - Foundation of Detroit by the French

Brochure - Welcome to the Detroit-Wayne Major Airport

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Postcard - St. Francis Home, Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich.

Card, Membership - American Association of Railroad Superintendents

Lantern

Announcement

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Tin

Card, Holiday

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Transparency, Roll-film

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Chart, Navigational - Chart No. 1 of River Ste. Marie from
Point Iroquois to East Neebish

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Medal, Commemorative

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Booklet - Articles of A Treaty Made and Concluded at Saginaw, in the Territory of Michigan, between the United States of America, by their Commissioner, Lewis Cass, and the Chippewa Nation of Indians.

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Music, Sheet - The Skirt Dance

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Booklet - Father Richard: Notes on His Printing in Early Detroit

Blueprint - Three Masted Schooner, J. T. Wing,
Hull Lines & Details.

Image, Digital

Negative, Film

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Postcard - Charlevoix Hotel, Detroit, Mich.

Photograph, Cabinet

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Amplifier

Negative, Film

Program - The 109th Annual Michigan State Fair and Exposition Premium List

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Postcard - Hurlbut Memorial Entrance to Water Works Park, Detroit, Mich.

Magazine - The Main Sheet

Book - Beyond the Difference

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