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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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Detroit Historical Museum

Dossin Great Lakes Museum

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Digital Collection: Random Images

Print, Photographic

Menu - The Sanders Menu, Vol. 2, No. 16

Newsletter - Detroit Radio News, Vol. 1, No. 6

Postcard - Hello from Detroit, Michigan

Print, Photographic

Card, Political

Program - Great Western Lodge No. 47 A.F. & A.M., Lodge of Instruction 1912

Print, Photographic - Texaco Gas Station, 8041 John R, Detroit, MI

Telegram

Print, Photographic

Menu

Poster - Bomb Tokyo With Your Extra Change

Yearbook - Stag

Program, Theater - The Playgoer, Vol. 7, No. 10

Automobile - 1905 Henry Leland's Cadillac "Osceola"

Wagon

Blueprint - Stout Model 11,
2 Place Cabin Monoplane

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Shoe

Poster

Mug, Coffee - Interlake Steamship

Purse

Box, Cigar

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Magazine - The Main Sheet

Postcard - 33 Cedar Mound, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.

Newsletter - Jib Sheet

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Plate, Decorative

Plate, Engraving

Automobile - 1942 Packard Custom 8 Convertible

Painting - OWEGO

Stereograph

Print, Photographic

Postcard

Engraving

Print, Photographic - Pic-Nic and Base Ball Grounds

Postcard - Hotel Statler, Grand Circus Park, Detroit. Cost $3,500,000.

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Letter

Letter

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