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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

Print, Photographic

Epaulet

Jacket

Program, Theater

Brochure - Air Pioneer, William B. Stout

Poster - Traugott Schmidt & Sons

Postcard - Michigan Avenue, Detroit, Mich.

Machine, Sewing

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Main Lobby - Bootblack

Postcard - Parade Float

Newsletter - The Second Baptist Advocate, Vol. 29, No. 4, October-December 1980

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Drawing, Technical - Official Plans - DN Ice Yacht
International DN Ice Yacht Racing Association

Print, Photographic

Poster - Serving America's New Quest for Quality in Cars and Missiles

Booklet - The Program of the Merrill-Palmer School

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Candlestick

Case, Toilet Bottle

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Waiting Area, Train Station - Detroit

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Stein

Brochure - Welcome to the Detroit-Wayne Major Airport

Letter

Menu

Print, Photographic

Certificate, Stock

Print, Photographic

Music, Sheet - My American Beauty Rose

Print, Photographic

letter - Michigan Military Academy

Moccasin

Postcard - Water Works, Wyandotte, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Painting

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Print, Photographic

Report - The Shuroil System of Centralized Automatic Chassis Lubrication

Booklet - A Brief History of Detroit in the Golden Days of '49

Transparency, Slide

Letter

Print, Photographic

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