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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

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Negative, Film

Print, Photographic - Belleview St. between E. Jefferson and E. Lafayette, facing east

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Automobile

Fan, Hand

Saucer

Catalog - Universal Almanac and Catalogue of Garden Seeds, 1888

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Report, Annual

U-Matic - Montreux Detroit Jazz Fest Opening, July 25, 1990

Button

Print, Photographic

Magazine - The Legal History of Detroit

Menu

Plane

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Postcard - Woodward Ave. and Washington Blvd. Heart of Downtown; Detroit's Retail Shopping District, Looking South.

Book

Belt

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Postcard - Main Salon and Staircase, Steamer Greater Detroit

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Tube, Vacuum

Postcard - 29. Casino, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.

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Card, Trade

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Handbill

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Negative, Film

Iron

Page - Jarves-Alger

Newsletter

Invitation - Joe and Max

Card, Membership

Postcard - The J. T. Wing Under Sail - Now a Marine Museum in Detroit

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Layout - Sanders Good Things To Eat

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