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Michigan Today
Ann Arbor’s ‘Music Man’
Deborah Holdship | August 28, 2020 performing arts
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The great bygone annual #UMich tradition - pillow fights.⁠
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Each year the graduating classes competed in giant tug-of-wars, push ball, and of course sawhorse pillow fights. ⁠
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This contest took place in April 1931 between the freshman and sophomore classes, photographed by student Gary Muffly.⁠
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#HistoryofUM #ClassWarfare #StudentLife #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

Students crossing in front of the Union, 1947.⁠
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Happy April everyone!⁠
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#SpringFeeling #HistoryofUM #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

Looking east through Nickels Arcade, circa 1930.⁠
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Nickels Arcade, your 1-stop shop for book rentals, ice cream, and secretarial school.

1903 #UMich Women's Basketball team, photo via the Michiganensian.⁠
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Basketball has changed quite a bit since this team took the court, but maybe both the WBB and MBB team could use the "sitting on your teammate's shoulder" strategy in this weekend's #SweetSixteen games?⁠
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#MarchMadness #HistoryofUM #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

Hail to the Victors!⁠
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Join Gary Krenz from the Bentley Historical Library as he sits down (virtually) with Mark Clague, Associate Dean of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, to discuss harmonies and dissonance in U-M’s songbook.⁠
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Campus Chords⁠
Thursday, March 18, 2021⁠
7:00 P.M. Eastern Time⁠
Hosted on Zoom ⁠
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Registration link in our bio!⁠
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In this online discussion, you’ll learn the origin stories of Michigan’s traditional songs, as well as the social functions of songs and singing on campus. And you’ll discover how racism and sexism are heard in American popular music and how it echoes in the University’s own historical songbook today.⁠
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This talk is free and open to the public.

This Giving Blueday you can help bring more of the Bentley into the digital age. We want to upload more of our fascinating collections online, making them accessible to everyone, no matter where you are. ⁠
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Every dollar counts when it comes to digitization. Projects like the Michigan Daily Digital Archive, the Bentley Image Bank, and our Digital Media Library would not be possible without the support of our donors. Make Michigan History this Giving Blueday. Make a donation the Bentley Digitization fund. Click the link in our bio. ⁠
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#GivingBlueday #BentleyHistoricalLibrary #Digitization⁠

Muriel Webb Treman pictured with her dog outside of her home in Nanjing, China circa 1920.⁠
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Treman was an American missionary and educator who worked in Nanjing and Canton, China, with the Methodist Mission Board and YMCA from 1919 through 1950. ⁠
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This photo is part of her digitized photo album that documents her voyage to China with her parents, Lew and Ella Webb; missionary work with her husband Robert in Nanjing; and travels through China and Japan with her family in the early 1920s. ⁠
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#WomensHistoryMonth #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

Before Michigan Basketball played in Crisler Arena, it was "The House that Cazzie Built"⁠
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Russel was a three-time All-American, three-time Big Ten champion, and future NBA champion. ⁠
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In 1966 he averaged over 30 points a game. ⁠
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In their closely contested game against Iowa: "Both teams played superb basketball, but only one team had Cazzie Russel."

The Michigan League Dining Room circa 1950. ⁠
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The Michigan League opened in 1929 and was intended to to provide a space for women's activities on campus since women were banned from entering the Michigan Union unless escorted by a man. ⁠
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The fundraising was organized by the Alumnae council and the Women's League. ⁠
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#WomensHistoryMonth #TBT #HistoryofUM #BentleyHistoricalLibrary⁠
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Photo from the digitized scrapbook of the Delta Delta Delta sorority at the University of Michigan. ⁠
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The scrapbook was originally created in 1914 by residents of Hilary House (a Women’s League house, a precursor to modern dormitories) as a petition to the national Delta Delta Delta sorority for the formation of a local chapter (Iota) at the university, which was installed in 1915. ⁠
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Among the 114 pages of the scrapbook are photographs of prospective sorority members and campus facilities, lists of extra circulars like the YWCA and Masques drama society. ⁠
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#WomensHistoryMonth #UMich #TriDelta #HistoryofUM #BentleyHistoricalSociety

Rosa Parks visiting campus in February, 1983 as part of the University's Black History Month event: "The Civil Rights Movement in Retrospect: Looking Backward to Move Forward."⁠
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Rosa Park's visit made front page news at the Michigan Daily.⁠
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📸: DAAS digitized collection. ⁠
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#BlackHistoryMonth #RosaParks #HistoryofUM #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

Together we can overcome anything the world throws at us. ⁠
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In this photo Ann Arbor police help dislodge a taxi from a snow back circa 1939. ⁠
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It's from a series of Ann Arbor slice-of-life photos taken by local photographer Eck Stanger. Stanger was a photographer for The News and Booth Newspapers for over 50 years.⁠
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The Eck Stanger collection is available for researchers at the Bentley. ⁠
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#AnnArbor #AnnArborHistory #Snow #SnowDay #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

“My strongest motivations have been to get good Black poets published, to produce beautiful books, help create and define the soul of Black folk, and to know the joy of discovering new poets,” - Dudley Randall on the founding of Broadside Press.⁠
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Randall was best known for his poems "The Ballad of Birmingham" and "Booker T. and W.E.B." ⁠
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He was declared Poet Laureate of Detroit by Mayor Coleman Young in 1981. ⁠
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His papers are at the Bentley and are open to research. ⁠

John C. Dancy, community activist and executive director of the Detroit Urban League, address a crowd in front of Ann Arbor's Dunbar Community Center.⁠
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Dancy was joined by U-M President Ruthven to celebrate the paying-off of the mortgage on the 420 N Fourth Avenue building. ⁠
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Dunbar Community Center's stated purpose was "to promote civic and cultural and recreational interest and activities to serve all ages and both sexes and to direct character building and community betterment programs among the colored citizens of Ann Arbor and its suburbs"⁠
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Dancy was the executive director of the Detroit Urban League from 1918 to 1960.⁠
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The papers of John C. Dancy, the Dunbar Community Center (now Ann Arbor Community Center), and the Detroit League are all in the Bentley Archive.⁠
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#BlackHistoryMonth #AnnArborHistory #DetroitHistory #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

The star chart of James Watson with his hand-written observation of the planet Vulcan.⁠
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Watson, U-M professor and the second director of the Detroit Observatory, had been on a quest to discover a new planet and cement his legacy. ⁠
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In the summer of 1878, he headed west to observe a solar eclipse, confident he would find a new planet. The story of his quest—preserved in his papers at the Bentley—reveals the challenges of science in the late-1800s and the fine line separating fascination and folly.⁠
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Get the full story in the latest Collections, available now online. Link in bio.⁠
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#HistoryofUM #Astronomy #Eclipse #TotalEclipseoftheHeart #Vulcan #BentelyHistoricalLibrary

Professor William Hobbs (center), had to pause his everything at U-M’s Greenland Expedition in 1928 to rescue two pilots who crash landed on the ice.⁠
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Read the story of the harrowing rescue in this month's Collections magazine, available online now. Link in bio. ⁠
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#HistoryofUM #Arctic #ArcticRescue #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

Polio vaccine clinic sponsored by the Urban League of Greater Muskegon, 1959

Pathways to navigate a snow-covered Diag after a blizzard, circa 1983. ⁠
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📸: U-M News and Information collection⁠
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#HistoryofUM #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

Jonas Salk and U-M Professor Thomas Francis announcing on April 12, 1955 that the polio vaccine was "80-90% effective in preventing paralytic polio." ⁠
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A few weeks after their announcement at that U-M sound stage, Ann Arbor school children began to receive their inoculations.⁠
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A few years after, polio was all but eradicated.⁠
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#HistoryofUM #PolioVaccine #UMich #UMMedicine #BentleyHistorical Library⁠
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From everyone here at the Bentley, may you have a safe and peaceful holiday season.

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