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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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Detroit Historical Museum

Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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Digital Collection: Random Images

Print, Photographic

Menu - The Sanders Menu, Vol. 2, No. 7

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Hat

Iron

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Animal, Stuffed

Lamp

Brochure - Joe Louis Congressional Gold Medal Concept Design Competition
February 24, 1983

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Print, Photographic

Postcard - Private Banquet Room, Cafe Roma, 80 John R Street, Corner Adams, Detroit, Mich.

Trophy - Aaron DeRoy Memorial Trophy
For Fastest Heat Championship

Box, Food Storage

Brochure - One Hundred Million Dollar Plan
for Street Widenings and Financing

Print, Photographic

Blueprint - Cross Section of Str. No. 59

Flatiron

Ribbon, Political

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic - Gratiot Market Grocery - Eastern Farmers Market

Nameplate

Postcard - Present Henry Ford Factory, First Ford Machine Built, First Henry Ford Factory. - Ford Motor Company

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Drawing, Technical - Great Lakes Ore Carrier, S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald

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Poster

Print - Firemen's Hall

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Print, Photographic

Compass

Transparency, Lantern-slide

Game, Educational

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Print, Photographic

Postcard - The Gothic Room

Menu

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Music, Sheet - Detroit U.S.A.

Button, Promotional

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Print, Photographic - Car No. 3042

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