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Digital Collection: Random Images

Postcard - Alexander Blain Hospital, Jefferson Clinic, Detroit, Michigan.

Postcard - Interior, Horticultural Building, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Letter

Print, Photographic

Advertisement - Downtown Detroit Days

Hubcap

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Card, Baseball

Negative, Film

U-Matic - My Heart Is W/Detroit
Devil's Night Program 1992
10 29 92 #1

Ensemble

Print, Photographic - Detroit River Frount

U-Matic - Mayor C.A.Y. Media Day Speech #4
T.O.P. Top of the Pontch
5-13-88

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Postcard, Picture - First National Bank Bldg. Detroit, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Magazine - Parke-Davis Review, vol. 21, no. 1, January-February 1964

Ashtray

Print, Photographic

Postcard - James Scott Memorial Fountain, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Michigan

Autograph

Booklet - D&C Lake Lines Low Cost All-Expense Romance Cruises to Mackinac Island, Harbor Springs, Georgian Bay, visit Buffalo and Niagara Falls.

Sign

Cutlery

Print, Photographic

Pass

Negative, Glass-plate

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Madison Theatre; Main Floor and Screen

Blueprint - 63 Ft. Aircraft Rescue Boat - Mark 3,
Lighting Wiring Diagram

Helmet, Firefighter's

Case, Cigar

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Drawing

Advertisement

Postcard - Chalmers Motor Company, Detroit, Mich.

Booklet - The Evening News 1895

Print, Photographic

Negative, Glass-plate

Postcard - Hudson Motor Car Co., Detroit, Mich

Negative, Film

Pull, Drawer

Invitation

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