Tag Archives: aviation

Bentley Historical Library

An Arctic Escape

Madeleine Bradford | Winter 2021

With the world watching, two pilots went down over Greenland in 1928. Their rescue would hinge on William Hobbs, a professor-turned-adventurer leading U-M’s Greenland Expedition. His papers at the Bentley reveal how, in order to get everyone out alive, he’d have to face peril again and again.

Greenland Expedition

Bentley Historical Library

From the Top

Lara Zielin | Summer 2021

When Talbert Abrams received his pilot’s license at age 21, it was signed by none other than one of the famous first-to-flight siblings, Orville Wright. Several of Abrams’ images of the University of Michigan campus, commissioned for various units during the late 1920s and early 1930s, have been digitized and are available in the Bentley’s online Image Bank.

aerial photography