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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

Poster - Concours d'Elegance

Program, Theater

Print, Photographic - View from Entrance End

Transparency, Lantern-slide - Pavilion, Belle Isle, Detroit

Print, Photographic

Drawing, Technical - Clutch Assy. Type "R"
Transmission Type "A"

Album, Record - War/He Who Picks a Rose

Print, Photographic

Matchbook

Print - A. Great Lakes Steamer - Greater Detroit
B. Xylotones

Program

Print, Photographic - Sausage Room, Delray Super Market, 8346 W. Jefferson

Print, Photographic

Towel, Hand

Lamp, Carbide

Music, Sheet - Detroit Central High School Class Song, June 1918

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Dancing Pavilion at Bob-Lo (Bois Blanc Island), Detroit River.

Envelope, Shipping - Cunningham Drug Stores

Blueprint - Plan of Supplemental Elevations (After Demolition Work)

Letter - Denominational Churches in Detroit

Drawing, Technical

Print, Photographic - Civic Center, Ford, and Robin Hood Flour

Tractor, Farm

Pot, Mustard

Negative, Film

Program, Theater

Postcard - 219 - James Scott Memorial Fountain by Illumination, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.

Dress

Suit, Exercise

Print, Photographic

Drawing, Technical - Magnetic Observation Tent

Pitcher, Water

Postcard - Light House, Palmer Park, Detroit, Mich.

Postcard

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print

Book, Address

Moccasin

Negative, Glass-plate

Card, Membership

Pass

Negative, Film

Baseball

Postcard - Hotel Statler, Detroit

Print, Photographic

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