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Digital Collection: Random Images

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Cannon - Dhs_2008_004_013_arceye_user_001

Letter

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Pamphlet

Negative, Glass-plate

Program - We Rally For Freedom

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Program

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Carriage - 1890's Enclosed Rockaway Carriage - Dhs_1948_145_028_arceye_user_01

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Postcard - Woodward Avenue, North of Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Mich.

Postcard - Pathfinding for the Glidden Tour - Detroit to Denver and return. 2600 miles in rainy April. Car was an E-M-F "30" - Price $1250.

Saucer

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Coat

Stick, Walking

Lamp, Carbide

Book, Ration - War Ration Book One

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Postcard - St. Stanilaus [sic] Church, Detroit, Mich.

Negative, Film

Drawing, Technical - Structural Survey and Study - Pittsburgh Steamship Fleet;
Previously Available Stress Diagrams

Blueprint - Thirty-two Foot Cruiser

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Print, Photographic - Car #3098

Poster - Save your Child from Autocracy and Poverty

Negative, Film

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Poster

Certificate - Honorary Doctor of Humanities Certificate

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Jacket, Record - I Heard It Through the Grape Vine (CH-73)

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Goggles

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