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Digital Collection: Random Images

Negative, Film

Postcard - Bridge at Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Booklet - Canaries, Cage Birds and Pet Animals
(Royce & Passmore)

Box

Negative, Film

Film, Motion Picture - Neighborhoods
Sync Pic + Trk #1
"Neighborhoods"
1- Original & Workprint
Soccer, Eastern Market, Corktown House moving, New Center Trivia Game

Print, Photographic

Postcard - Lighthouse, Palmer Park, Detroit, Mich.

Camera, Digital

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Baton

Certificate, Stock - Detroit Window and Stained Glass Company

Magazine - Look [magazine]

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Drawing, Technical - SS Joseph S. Young Lengthening,
Midship Section and Transverse Bulkhead

Print, Photographic

Newsletter - WE Winkelman Employees
February, 1973

Candlestick

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Animal, Stuffed

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Re-Steel Corporation Headquarters, Behind Wear House

Print, Photographic

Booklet - Introducing You to Your Library and Its Branches

Postcard - Boating on the Detroit River at Amherstburg, Can.

Note, Private Bank - Bank of Macomb County

Program

Negative, Film

Program, Theater - The Playgoer, Volume 18, Number 11

Postcard - Florentine Room, Hotel Addison, Woodward Ave. at Charlotte St., Detroit, Mich. - Florentine Room, Hotel Addison

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic - Balcony

Program

Lithograph

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print - Blick auf Detroit von der City Hall.

Print, Photographic

Writing set

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Drawing

Print, Photographic - Check Valve Parts

Ad, Print

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