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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

Postcard - "Having a wonderful time in Detroit ..."

Map - Detroit Traffic Study Area - Land Use

Print, Photographic

U-Matic - 20 sec. P.S.A. Shopping Area

Directory - Railway Express Agency Rate Scales Applying From Detroit and All Other Points in Block 742-M In Connection with Schedule of First and Second-Class Express Rates No. 13 Also Superintendents, Claim Agents and District Accounting Bureaus, 7th Edi

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Washington Boulevard Facing East, Detroit

Album, Record - War/He Who Picks a Rose

Film, Motion Picture - Up To Now

Menu

Negative, Film

Souvenir

Pamphlet, Instruction - Hudson's Shows You How to Tie a Bow Tie

Sculpture - St. Francis of Assisi

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Card, Membership

Invoice - Herman Kiefer Hospital

Print, Photographic

Ticket, Transportation

Program

Print, Photographic

Poster - Good Bye, Dad, I'm Off To Fight For Old Glory,
You Buy U.S. Gov't Bonds, Third Liberty Loan

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Menu - The Sanders Menu, Vol. 3, No. 6

Drawing, Technical

Print, Photographic

Lamp

Negative, Film

Postcard - Rustic Bridge, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Transparency, Slide

Bottle, Medicine

Model

Menu - The Sanders Menu, Vol. 2, No. 1

Music, Sheet - A Kangaroo Hop

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Painting

U-Matic - Piston Parade #1 1990
6-18-90

Flyer

Postcard - Woodward Avenue; South from Willis Avenue. Detroit, Mich.

License, Occupational

Recipe

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