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Digital Collection: Random Images

Postcard - Scene, Water Works Park, Detroit, Mich.

Drawing, Technical - Full Size Sketch of Composition Hinges for Freeing Ports,
Str. [Steamer] No. 66

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Car, Railroad

Catalog - Peninsular Furnaces, Stoves, Ranges, Warranted the Best

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Magazine - Creem, Vol. 9, No. 4

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Radio, Table

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Postcard - Glaser's Edelweiss Cafe, Broadway at John R. Street Detroit, Mich.

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Music, Sheet - Beautiful and Best

Iron

Postcard - The Dime Savings Bank Bldg., Detroit, Mich.

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Drawing, Technical - Extension Shaft for Motor Sprocket

Box

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Stereograph - Curtains Are Of Best Quality Silk - Note Carpet-Covered Footstools Used Instead Of Old-Fashioned Footrail, Hudson Motor Car Co, Detroit, USA

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Print, Photographic - Berger School

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Postcard - High School, Redford, Mich.

Poster - HELP All Three Your Fighting Men Your Allies Your Neighbors Give to the WAR CHEST.

Postcard - 208--Belle Isle Bridge, View From Island, Detroit, Mich.

Transparency, Lantern-slide - Lily Pads River Rouge near Dix Rd

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Postcard - Lily Pond, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Sticker, Bumper - Clara W. Rutherford, 7
City Treasurer

Print, Photographic - Edsel Ford

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Magazine - Therapeutic Notes, vol. 12, no. 4, September 1905

Poster - Support the Invasion

Letter - Second National Bank of Detroit

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Postcard - 12,000 Employees at the Ford Motor Company's Plant, Detroit

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Model

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