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Digital Collection: Random Images

Negative, Film

Memorandum - D&S Stone Piles East & West of Livingstone Channel

Postcard - Log Cabin, Palmer Park, Detroit, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Bookstand

Poster

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Map - Carte de La Riviere du detroit depuis Le Lac Erie jus'ques au Lac Ste Claire [Map of the Detroit River from Lake Erie up to Lake St. Claire]

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Book, Ticket

Music, Sheet - Varsity Eight Two Step

Poster - We Are United Nations - Unity Is Strength

Booklet - High Lights of Detroit Industrial History
No. 1, Detroit-Michigan Stove Company

Negative, Film

Button, Souvenir

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Shoe

Postcard - A Residence and Detroit Athletic Club. Detroit. Mich.

Print, Photographic

Cup, Traveling

Negative, Film

Notebook - Grinnell Bros.

Menu

Magazine - Creem, Vol. 9, No. 4

Print, Photographic

Title, Abstract - Abstract of Title,
Lot 764, Leinbach-Humphrey's Woodward Avenue Subdivision

Negative, Film

Print - Woodward Ave. looking north from Campus Martins

Cover, First Day

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Advertisement

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Prospectus - Detroit and Deadwood Gold Mining Company

Print, Photographic

Automobile - 1963 Ford Cougar II prototype

Print, Photographic

Bottle, Water

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic - Washington Jr. H.S.

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

Envelope - Recollections of Practice of Medicine in Detroit

Plate, Engraving

Print, Photographic - Church on Concord between St. Paul and E. Fort Sts., looking northeast

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