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Digital Collection: Random Images

Negative, Film

Newsletter - WJZ-News

Postcard - Waterworks, Detroit, Mich.

Chalkboard

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Magazine - The Hudsonian, Vol. 27, No. 5

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Poster - D. M. Ferry & Co.'s Challenge Dwarf Wax Black Bean

Negative, Film

Periodical - Commentator, vol. 27, no. 4

Advertisement

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Atomizer, Perfume

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Print, Photographic

Specification - International DN Ice Yacht Racing Association
Official Specifications - June, 1967

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Certificate - Detroit Police Department
Commissioner's Citation

Poster, Advertisement - Sears

Pamphlet - It's Your DSR

Envelope - Our Legislative City Government

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Automobile - 1905 Henry Leland's Cadillac "Osceola"

Toy

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Dress

Coat

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Program - Southwestern High School

Toy, Truck

Postcard - Floral Clock in Waterworks Park, Detroit, Mich.

Receipt - Income Tax Receipt

Card, Trade

Postcard - Hospital, Fort Wayne, Detroit, Mich.

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Blueprint - Steam Survey Boat, Gen. C. B. Sears

Brochure - Jefferson East, Inc.
Helping Detroiters Stay in Their Homes

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Music, Sheet - The Song of Michigan

Program, Theater - Playtime at the Riveria and Shubert Theatres

Blueprint - Sail Plan of a 20' x 5'-6" Stock Sail Boat

Print, Photographic

Booklet - The Pontchartrain Club

Booklet - D&C Lake Lines Low Cost All-Expense Romance Cruises to Mackinac Island, Harbor Springs, Georgian Bay

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Program, Concert - Tenth Annual Old Timers' Day and Dedication of the Jerome H. Remick Music Shell, at Belle Isle July 13, 1950

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