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Digital Collection: Search

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Film, Motion Picture - Hist. Mus.

Film, Motion Picture

2015.011.045Archive

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U-Matic - Hart Plaza Footage for P.S.A.

U-Matic

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Hart Plaza Footage for P.S.A.

Fan, Hand

Fan, Hand

2013.097.004Archive

Print - LaSalle's "Griffon," Lake Huron, 1679

Print

2013.049.506Archive

LaSalle's "Griffon," Lake Huron, 1679

Negative, Film

Negative, Film

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Print, Photographic - Photo of Robert Hopkin Painting '4 Ships in Fog'

Print, Photographic

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Print, Photographic - Close-Hauled Brig at Sea - Photo of Robert Hopkin Painting Close - Hauled Brig at Sea'

Print, Photographic

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Close-Hauled Brig at Sea

Print, Photographic - Full In the Wind - Photo of Robert Hopkin Painting 'Full In the Wind'

Print, Photographic

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Full In the Wind

Print, Photographic - Photo of Robert Hopkin Painting

Print, Photographic

2013.048.562Photo

Print, Photographic - Scow Schooners - Photo of Robert Hopkin Painting 'Scow Schooners'

Print, Photographic

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Scow Schooners

Print, Photographic - Photo of Two Robert Hopkin Paintings

Print, Photographic

2013.048.560Photo

Print, Photographic - Off Sleeping Bear Point 'Old Zack Chandler' - Photo of Robert Hopkin Painting 'Off Sleeping Bear Point 'Old Zack Chandler

Print, Photographic

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Off Sleeping Bear Point 'Old Zack Chandler'

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