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Digital Collection: Random Images

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Michigan Central Depot, Detroit, Mich.

Button

Print, Photographic

Image, Digital

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print

Negative, Film

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Chart, Navigational - Preliminary Chart of Eagle Harbor, Lake Superior

Hammer, Claw

Postcard - May your Hallow-E'en Pumpkin Be Like Cinderella's coach and Four.

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Bottle

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Hotel Palmetto

Yearbook - 1979 Tiger Yearbook

Negative, Glass-plate

Poster, Political

Baseball

Button, Souvenir

Postcard - Floral Flag, Gladwin Park, Detroit, Mich.

Blueprint - United States Steamer Michigan

Report - Proposed Super-Highway Plan for Greater Detroit

Print, Photographic

Receipt - Collection Department of the Mercantile Agency of R. G. Dunn & Co.

Print, Photographic

U-Matic - Tape #1, 5/29/85
Belle Isle B-Roll
0202

Map - Mitchell's Travellers Guide the United States. A map of the Roads, Distances, Steamboat and Canal Routes

Post Folder - Souvenir Folder of Detroit Michigan

Print, Photographic

Invitation

Booklet

Menu - The Sanders Menu, Vol. 2, No. 8

Print, Photographic

Post Folder - Detroit's Largest Industries and Hotels

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Exit End Foundation

Print, Photographic

Automotive Product

Yearbook - Annual of the Ontario Curling Association for 1942-1943, Vol. LXVIII

Letter

Negative, Film

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