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These are some of the earliest photos of African American students living off-campus!

Rare photos like these, from the recently donated Richard Hill Jr. collection, are treasures, and sharing them is important. Recent crowd-sourcing efforts have helped us identify some of the people in these photos, like Frederick H. Miller (see second slide.)

However, there is still so much more to do.

You can help us collect and share more treasures like these, by supporting the Bentley Digitization fund: myumi.ch/EkXkJ

That means more faces – like Frederick Miller’s – can be shared and identified.

We are grateful for all you do for the Bentley. Thank you for supporting us during Giving Tuesday!

#GivingTuesday #SupportLibraries #LoveYourLibrary #BookCommunity #HistoricalLibrary #Archives #BentleyHistoricalLibrary

Meet Cornelius Henderson!

One of the first African American students to earn a U-M engineering degree, Henderson helped build the Ambassador Bridge—the longest suspension bridge in the world, at the time it was created. (If you’ve ever driven to Canada, chances are, you’ve benefited from his work without knowing it!)

We won’t keep you in suspense! You can learn more about him through the African American Student Project here: https://myumi.ch/5W9Dy

📸: 1911 Michiganensian, yearbook portrait

#AfricanAmericanHistory #BlackHistory #CorneliusHenderson #EngineeringHistory #BridgeHistory #StudentHistory #AmbassadorBridge #SuspensionBridge #UniversityofMichigan

🦃 Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

The Bentley Historical Library is closed for the holiday (November 24 - November 25) but we look forward to seeing you again on Monday, November 28!

#Thanksgiving #TurkeyDay #WildTurkeys #LibraryCourtyard

Did you know that you can find classic game films in our video archives? You can prepare for the big game by watching some of your favorite football moments!

See a list of Wolverines vs. Buckeyes films here: https://myumi.ch/G1bEe

Or search our Digital Media Library for your favorite game: https://bentley.mivideo.it.umich.edu/

📸: News and Information Photographs, 1956

#Wolverines #Buckeyes #UniversityofMichigan #GoBlue #FootballHistory #FootballFilms #FootballFootage #SportsHistory #VideoArchives

Getting ready for the Ohio State football showdown on Saturday? If you want some inspiration for cheering on the Wolverines, swipe through to see a few historical football chants!

Which one is your favorite? 🏈

#GoBlue #Wolverines #FootballHistory #HailtotheVictors #UniversityofMichigan #FootballCheers

Images:
1: Cheerleader’s megaphone, pom-poms, and “Go Blue” signs, Robert Kalmbach photographs, 1999
2: Ferry Field postcard, 1910, Ken Magee Collection, loaned for scanning
3: Block M at Ferry Field, ca. 1907, Postcard Collection
4: Pennsylvania game at Ferry Field, 1911, Department of Athletics records
5: U-M vs. Cornell, 1917, Alfred Wilkinson Wilson Scrapbook

The calendar: “It’s still autumn!”
Michigan weather: “Snow it isn’t!”

Our library’s courtyard transforms every time it snows. You’re always welcome to wander this wintery space!

If you have some historical research to do, and you’d like to see this lovely landscape from the safety of our library’s reading room, you can sign up for an appointment at: https://bentley.umich.edu/research/make-an-appointment/

#MichiganWinter #UniversityofMichigan #HistoricalLibrary #LibraryCourtyard #SnowCovered #WinterWonderland #SnowBlue #GoBlue #WrapUpWarm

This 1920 dance card is cleverly disguised as a winter hat! ❄️

Booklets like this one, with pencils attached, were created to track who was dancing with who at historical parties. This wintery dance card, from the Josephine Lang scrapbook, notes her “First Invitation" from John Watson, her very first dance partner for the evening.

John C. Watson belonged to the class of 1922 (and, as far as we're aware, he didn't know anyone named Sherlock Holmes!)

To see more booklets like this, you can
schedule a visit to our library to look through our scrapbooks! Learn more here: https://bentley.umich.edu/research/make-an-appointment/

#Scrapbook #HistoricalScrapbook #DanceCard #HistoricalDancing #UniversityofMichigan #StudentHistory #JosephineLang #JohnWatson #1920s

🎉 Happy Birthday 🎉 to the Marching Band!

In mid-November 1896, more than 20 musicians met for the first time in the University of Michigan’s Harris Hall. Their first big performance was the very next year!

(They didn’t have a uniform quite yet, but they made an effort, with plenty of bowler hats and newsboy caps.)

📸: U-M Vertical Photo File, 1897

#UniversityofMichigan #BandHistory #GoBlue #HailtotheVictors #MarchingBand #MMB125 #UMichBand

Can you guess where this is in Michigan? (Answer below!)
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This colorful painting shows old New Baltimore! Located on the shore of Lake St. Clair, in Macomb County, you can see here some of the plots of land that farmers once worked. According to the city’s website, “the depth of the [land] parcel was determined by how far a man could plow or cultivate in a day.”

Painting ca. 1880/1889.

#Macomb County #NewBaltimore #LakeStClair #MichiganHistory #ArtHistory

Who painted it? And why does the Bentley have it?

When artist Francis Estrada saw this painting at the Bentley Historical Library, he quickly recognized the hallmarks of a famous artist: Fernando Amorsolo, the first National Artist of the Philippines.

Learn about this painting’s long journey, and how the Reconnect/Recollect project, bringing Michigan’s colonial past in the Philippines to light, may have finally reconnected it to its maker: https://myumi.ch/9PrrE

#MichiganHistory #FernandoAmorsolo
#ArtHistory #PhilippinesHistory #PaintingIdentification #HistoryMystery

It’s election day in Michigan! This historical poster celebrates women’s right to vote. Today Michigan citizens exercise that very right all across the state!

Find your polling place on the Department of State website: https://www.michigan.gov/sos/elections/hava/quicklinks/michigan-election-and-voter-information

Or check out govote.umich.edu for on-campus voting options!

#VotingHistory #ElectionDay
#Suffrage #MichiganHistory #Vote #GoVote #GoVoteMichigan

When most of the country started daylight saving time in the mid-1960s, did you know that Michigan said no?

Michigan voters only approved daylight saving time years later, #OTD in 1972!

It was hotly debated, as you can see in the Michigan Daily Digital Archives: https://myumi.ch/G1Pny

Some people thought this shift was amazing, and others found it alarming. ⏰ Chime in on this historical debate: what do you think?

📸: U-M Photo Vertical File

#DaylightSavingTime #MichiganHistory #DaylightSavings
#FallBack #SpringForward

Have you ever wondered what happened during U-M's first ever football game? Here's a brief recap!

Irving Pond didn't only score U-M's first touchdown: he was also part of the architectural team behind the Michigan Union and the Michigan League!

Image sources:
1: Pond Family Papers, Box 7
2 and 3: U-M Photographs Vertical File, UBImusF84. Folder: 469
4: 1880 Palladium, Athletic Association page
5: University of Michigan student portraits, Box 3
6: 1898 Letterhead, Charles Baird Papers, Box 1

#FootballHistory #Wolverines #EarlyFootball #UniversityofMichigan #IrvingPond #DavidDeTarr #Football #UniversityHistory

Did you know that the Bentley Historical Library has a magazine full of stories from the archives that we publish twice a year?

In the newest issue, dive into our collections and learn about a woman who fought in the Civil War, an unidentified painting, and more!

You can find the Collections magazine online (https://myumi.ch/29GJ6), pick up a copy in our reading room, or email laram@umich.edu to subscribe for free.

#MichiganHistory #HistoricalMagazine #Archives #CivilWar #HistoryMystery #HistoricalLibrary #UniversityofMichigan

On this day in 1957, the Mackinac Bridge opened for use!

Here, you can see Prentiss Brown, G. Mennen Williams, John F. Kennedy, and another, unidentified man, standing on the bridge ca. 1960. Governor Williams started the tradition of an annual Labor Day walk across the Mackinac Bridge!

We actually have several recordings relating to the construction and opening of the Mackinac Bridge in our collections! Take a look:

https://bentley.mivideo.it.umich.edu/media/t/1_hj9e2z1g
https://bentley.mivideo.it.umich.edu/media/t/1_2pdcndrp
https://bentley.mivideo.it.umich.edu/media/t/1_oyoqskd8

Thanks to our Lead Archivist for Audio Visual Curation, Melissa Hernández-Durán, for tracking these down!

📸: Prentiss Marsh Brown Papers

#MackinacBridge #Mackinac #GovernorGMennenWilliams #GMennenWilliams #MichiganHistory
#PrentissMarshBrown #JohnFKennedy #JFK #Bridgehistory

It’s a bird! No—it’s Tom Harmon! 🏈

Of course, Harmon wasn’t actually flying here, but the audience may have felt like he was. Scoring all 21 points for the Wolverines during this 1940 game, Harmon led the team to victory against Michigan State.

Tomorrow, the Wolverines will go up against the Spartans for the 115th time!

How do you think the game will go?

Learn more about the 1940 football season on our Athletics History page: https://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/fbteam/1940fbt.htm

📸: Ivory Photographs, Eck Stanger

#FootballHistory #TomHarmon #Wolverines #GoBlue #UniversityofMichigan #UofMWolverines #Football

One of the more unusual questions we’ve ever received was: “who’s haunting my house?”

We really can’t speak to the validity of ghosts—not our area of expertise—but if you’re researching your house’s history, our city directories are a great place to start!

We have directories from all over Michigan! Discover whether they include your hometown, by searching in our Catalog online: https://myumi.ch/6NWkw

#CityDirectories #Ghosts #HouseHistory #HouseResearch #HistoricalLibrary #Halloween #SpookySeason #LocalHistory #MichiganHistory #AnnArborHistory #MichiganResearch

When Dr. Sharon F. Patton offered our library a collection of her grandfather's photos, you can imagine how delighted our Bentley archivists were to discover some of the earliest photographs they had seen of African American students living off-campus!

The latest edition of our Collections magazine includes an article about how these newly donated photos made their way to our library—learn which fraternities and houses are highlighted, and how you can help us make sure future researchers know their names, here: https://myumi.ch/Nm2y3

📸 : Richard Hill photo collection, Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity banquet on April 10, 1910.

#AfricanAmericanHistory #BlackHistory #UniversityofMichigan #StudentHistory #AlphaPhiAlpha #Historians #archives

Do you recognize this space?

Initially called the Alumni Memorial Hall, you may know this building better as the University of Michigan Museum of Art!

Here, it’s flooded with flowers during the 1913 chrysanthemum show. The Michigan Daily reported that this display held a dazzling 3,000 varieties of "mums," transforming the space into a “veritable flower garden!” 🌼

The stars of the show were green chrysanthemums from Austria, but most of the varieties came from U-M's very own botanical gardens. According to the Daily, "two thousand people thronged the main corridor" to catch a glimpse of these beautiful blooms!

Interested in learning more about the history of the Alumni Memorial Hall? We can help! Check out collections like our Buildings and Grounds records, and our Alumni Association records, for more!

📸 : Alumni Association records

#UMMA #AlumniMemorialHall #UniversityofMichigan #UofMHistory #AnnArborHistory #ChrysanthemumShow #gardenhistory

OK, you’re right—there wasn’t REALLY a rainbow on this sunny day on campus in the 1930s! But there ARE really interviews about LGBTQ+ history from our Spectrum Center collection available online, through our Digital Media Library! 🌈

It’s LGBTQ+ History Month, which means that this is the perfect time to find some headphones, choose a comfy spot to sit, and listen to descriptions of what life was like for people in historical gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and queer communities—and beyond!

You can listen to these histories here: https://myumi.ch/z1e49

🌈 Happy LGBTQ+ History Month! 🌈

#LGBTQHistoryMonth #LGBTQHistory #SpectrumCenter #AnnArborHistory

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