Use the U-M Library Search to explore the Bentley's collections.
Hours:
Monday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
1150 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113 U.S.A.
734-764-3482
You don’t have to be an academic to visit the Bentley, but you do have to be human!
(We’re sorry, wild turkeys.) 🦃
Human beings are welcome to drop in during the Bentley’s open hours, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday through Friday. 😊
Wild turkeys must stay outside, but of course we appreciate their interest in history!
📸: A flock of wild turkeys next to the Bentley Historical Library
#WildTurkeys #AnnArbor #UMich #HistoricalLibrary #MichiganBirds #BeLikeABird #SupportYourLocalLibrary
You don’t have to be an academic to visit the Bentley, but you do have to be human!
(We’re sorry, wild turkeys.) 🦃
Human beings are welcome to drop in during the Bentley’s open hours, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday through Friday. 😊
Wild turkeys must stay outside, but of course we appreciate their interest in history!
📸: A flock of wild turkeys next to the Bentley Historical Library
#WildTurkeys #AnnArbor #UMich #HistoricalLibrary #MichiganBirds #BeLikeABird #SupportYourLocalLibrary
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Robert Frost, U-M’s first poet-in-residence, was born on this day 150 years ago! 🎉
Frost lived and wrote in Ann Arbor, starting in 1921, then on and off through the mid-1920s!
While working as U-M’s poet-in-residence under the “Fellow in Creative Arts” program, Frost also mentored student poets who wrote for “The Whimsies,” a student-run literary magazine. 📖
His poetic work impacted the local economy, too!
In a letter to a friend, Frost shared that an Ann Arbor store had "advertised on a window the confection of ice cream encased in chocolate known as Frost-Bite.” 🍦
He added: “The book-store next door, not to be outdone, advertised my books as Frost-Bark– Very Little Worse than His Bite."
After he left, Frost dedicated one of his books to Michigan! 😊
Do you have a favorite Robert Frost poem?
📸: Photo from “The Whimsies,” a U-M student publication, dedicated to Robert Frost as a mentor, 1921
#RobertFrost #OTD #UMich #AnnArbor #MichiganHistory #Poet #DidYouKnow
Robert Frost, U-M’s first poet-in-residence, was born on this day 150 years ago! 🎉
Frost lived and wrote in Ann Arbor, starting in 1921, then on and off through the mid-1920s!
While working as U-M’s poet-in-residence under the “Fellow in Creative Arts” program, Frost also mentored student poets who wrote for “The Whimsies,” a student-run literary magazine. 📖
His poetic work impacted the local economy, too!
In a letter to a friend, Frost shared that an Ann Arbor store had "advertised on a window the confection of ice cream encased in chocolate known as Frost-Bite.” 🍦
He added: “The book-store next door, not to be outdone, advertised my books as Frost-Bark– Very Little Worse than His Bite."
After he left, Frost dedicated one of his books to Michigan! 😊
Do you have a favorite Robert Frost poem?
📸: Photo from “The Whimsies,” a U-M student publication, dedicated to Robert Frost as a mentor, 1921
#RobertFrost #OTD #UMich #AnnArbor #MichiganHistory #Poet #DidYouKnow
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Who says modern people have all the fun? 😂
This silent video clip is a vintage treasure from 1920s Ann Arbor!
After enjoying a May Music Festival at U-M in the roaring twenties, these dapper attendees were inspired to improvise their very own pop-up concert. 🎵
However, there’s a twist: if you look closely, towards the end of the video, you’ll notice that one of these makeshift musicians is playing a pretty unusual instrument!
Remember the man nodding and grinning with his friend at the beginning of the video?
Well, he appears to have lent his crutch to his friend, to use as an improvised cello! 🤯
Archived videos like this one help remind us that the past had plenty of silly moments, too.
Happy Flashback Friday! 🎉
We hope you have as much fun today as these 1920s musicians did! 😊
📸: Video clip from a recording of a 1920s U-M May Music Festival in Ann Arbor, from the papers of Earl V. Moore, a professor of music, and dean of the Music School
(If you want to use a crutch as a musical instrument, of course, please make sure to ask for permission, as the gentleman in this video does!)
#1920s #AnnArbor #UMich #SchoolOfMusic #MayFestival #FlashbackFriday #SilentFilm #BlackAndWhiteVideo
Who says modern people have all the fun? 😂
This silent video clip is a vintage treasure from 1920s Ann Arbor!
After enjoying a May Music Festival at U-M in the roaring twenties, these dapper attendees were inspired to improvise their very own pop-up concert. 🎵
However, there’s a twist: if you look closely, towards the end of the video, you’ll notice that one of these makeshift musicians is playing a pretty unusual instrument!
Remember the man nodding and grinning with his friend at the beginning of the video?
Well, he appears to have lent his crutch to his friend, to use as an improvised cello! 🤯
Archived videos like this one help remind us that the past had plenty of silly moments, too.
Happy Flashback Friday! 🎉
We hope you have as much fun today as these 1920s musicians did! 😊
📸: Video clip from a recording of a 1920s U-M May Music Festival in Ann Arbor, from the papers of Earl V. Moore, a professor of music, and dean of the Music School
(If you want to use a crutch as a musical instrument, of course, please make sure to ask for permission, as the gentleman in this video does!)
#1920s #AnnArbor #UMich #SchoolOfMusic #MayFestival #FlashbackFriday #SilentFilm #BlackAndWhiteVideo
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Imagine attending U-M during the Gilded Age! ⭐
That was the life of Marian Sarah Parker, one of the earliest women to earn an engineering degree at U-M! 🎓
Marian attended U-M from 1893-1895, during a time when x-rays were first discovered, the earliest car races were being held, and the Hershey Chocolate Company had just been established. 🍫
She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering, and moved to New York after graduating, where she specialized in designing the steel structures of skyscrapers! 🏢
Several of the buildings she helped create are now considered New York City landmarks, including the iconic triangular "Flatiron Building." 🏅
She also helped design the steel structure of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, once located on the very site where the Empire State Building stands today!
Click through to learn more about Marian, and what her life at U-M was like!
📸: Images sourced from the Camilla and Ethel Green Family Papers, the Alumni Files, the David LeFavour photographs, and a George Ogle & Co. map of Ann Arbor from 1895
#1890s #UMich #GildedAge #AnnArbor #NewYork #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #StudentLife
Imagine attending U-M during the Gilded Age! ⭐
That was the life of Marian Sarah Parker, one of the earliest women to earn an engineering degree at U-M! 🎓
Marian attended U-M from 1893-1895, during a time when x-rays were first discovered, the earliest car races were being held, and the Hershey Chocolate Company had just been established. 🍫
She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering, and moved to New York after graduating, where she specialized in designing the steel structures of skyscrapers! 🏢
Several of the buildings she helped create are now considered New York City landmarks, including the iconic triangular "Flatiron Building." 🏅
She also helped design the steel structure of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, once located on the very site where the Empire State Building stands today!
Click through to learn more about Marian, and what her life at U-M was like!
📸: Images sourced from the Camilla and Ethel Green Family Papers, the Alumni Files, the David LeFavour photographs, and a George Ogle & Co. map of Ann Arbor from 1895
#1890s #UMich #GildedAge #AnnArbor #NewYork #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #StudentLife
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Hours:
Monday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
1150 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113 U.S.A.
734-764-3482