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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

Brochure - The Camp Fire Girls

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Glass, Champagne

Print, Photographic

Program, Theater - The Playgoer

Stein

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Drawing, Technical - Arch Reconstruction, Midship Section,
Steamers Venus and Neptune, Also Str. Jupiter

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Music, Sheet - I Want to Go Back to Michigan (Down on the Farm)

Print, Photographic

Necktie

Print, Photographic

Advertisement - The Meteor

Transparency, Slide

Plate, Soup

Print, Photographic

Check, Bank - The Detroit Bank

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Blueprint - Station Bill and Muster List

Print, Photographic

Bottle, Wash

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Soap

Flatiron

Blueprint - The James N. Jones Building [Moross House]

Lamp, Table

Program - Official Program, Detroit APBA Gold Cup Race, July 8 - 11,1999

Print, Photographic

Postcard, Picture

Transparency, Slide

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Elwood Bar

Program - The Scarab Club presents an Exhibition of the Paintings of Robert Hopkin (1832-1909)

Transparency, Roll-film

Toy

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Advertisement - True's Neatsfoot Harness Oil Blacking

Hook

Postcard - Aquarium and Horticultural Hall, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

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