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Digital Collection: Random Images

Sticker - Walled Lake Park Roller Rink

Specification - Specifications for a Complete System of Low Pressure Steam Heating and a Ventilating System to be Installed in the Residence to be Erected for Mrs. James Edgar, Situated on Iroquois Avenue, Detroit, Michigan.

Postcard - Michigan's Largest Home Furnishers, 90-96 Michigan Ave., Detroit.

Recipe - Heinz Oven Baked Beans Recipes

Book

Print, Photographic

Catalog - Ferry's Home Garden Guide

Postcard - Michigan Central Station, Detroit, Mich.

Letter - News Bulletin
Central Business District Association

Menu

Lamp, Kerosene

Menu

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Baseball

Transparency, Lantern-slide

Print, Photographic

Menu - The Sanders Menu, Vol. 1, No. 5

Stein

Postcard - Detroit in 1820.

Drawing, Technical - Lines & Offsets

Bond - Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging Co.
First Mortgage Registered Gold Bond

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Sidewalk Installation at Joe Louis Sports Arena

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Program

Novelty, Promotional

Negative, Film

Coat

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Bulletin - MRL Bulletin, August 1953

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Layout

Map - North America Sheet V The North West and Michigan Territories

Booklet - Burton Historical Collection Leaflet, Vol. VIII, No. 1

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Elementary School, Harvey C. Parke; Milwaukee East & Grand Blvd East; Built 1900

Letter - Dhs_1948_054_012_1_sf

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Postcard

Negative, Film

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