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Digital Collection: Random Images

Print, Photographic - 3629 Piquette

Sign

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Ad, Magazine

Postcard - Detroit, Mich., River Tunnel as it appears at Windsor, Ont.

Negative, Glass-plate

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Packet

Print, Photographic

Report, Annual - La-Z-Boy Chair Company 1985 Annual Report

Booklet

Film, Motion Picture - Edmund Fitzgerald Launching 1958
B/W People Coming off Boat at Tashmoo Park
Great Lakes Engineering Works

Program - Detroit Aglow Sing-Along, 1985

Menu

Postcard - Moonlight on the Lake near Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Button, Souvenir

Music, Sheet - Detroit's Own 339th Infantry March

Program, Theater - The Playgoer, Volume 22, Number 29

Negative, Glass-plate

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Image, Digital - Diagram of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel Plaza Complex

Print, Photographic

Chart, Navigational - Coast Chart No. 3, Lake Huron
Tawas Harbor to Rogers [City], Michigan

Print, Photographic

Tractor, Farm

Plate, Soup

Program, Theater

Drawing, Architectural - Fort Wayne,
Plans & Sections Showing the Scarp Walls & Casemates
to be Constructed at the East Bastion.

Print, Photographic

Brochure - Detroit Jazz Artists, Inc.

Print, Photographic

Magazine - Notes Therapeutiques, vol. 55, no. 2, 1958

Cap, Military

Image, Digital

Print, Photographic - 7100 Wing Lake Road

Print, Photographic - Woodward Ave., & Clifford, South, Southeast View

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Check, Bank

Letter

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