Faculty Collections

Greeenland Expedition
1926 Greenland Expedition

Faculty collections often include film and video documenting research, professional activities, university facilities or personal travels and experiences. The films may have been created by the faculty member or collected by them and range from "home movies" to professional productions.



Belknap, Ralph

Belknap, Professor of geology at the University of Michigan, was a member of the U-M Greenland Expedition of 1928, led by professor William Hobbs. Film records departure by ship from New York, arrival in Greenland and various expedition activities.


[8581-1] Ralph Belknap 1926 Expedition to Greenland  [view video]
  • Original: 16mm film, b/w, silent, 00:39:37, 1926

Elzada Clover papers

Curator of the University of Michigan Botanical Gardens and professor in the Department of Botany; In 1938, she was a member of the Norman Nevill party which traveled the Colorado River from Green River, Utah through Cataract and Grand canyons to Boulder Dam. Clover made the trip to catalog the flora of the Grand Canyon. Clover and her graduate assistant Lois Jotter were the first women ever to complete the run of the entire Grand Canyon.


[85109-1-1] Clover Colorado River film; Part 1  [view video]
  • Original: 16mm film, b/w, silent, 00:09:25, 1938

[85109-2-2] Clover Colorado River film; Part 2  [view video]
  • Original: 16mm film, color, silent, 00:12:01, 1938

Joseph Ralston Hayden papers

Hayden was a University of Michigan professor of political science, specialist in Philippine Island politics and government, vice governor of the Philippines in the 1930s. [Collection Finding Aid]


[851643-1] Philippine film - Batanes Islands  [view video]
  • Original: 16mm film, b/w, silent, 00:07:48 @ 18 fps.,

[851643-2] Philippine film - Mindanao  [view video]
  • Original: 16mm film, b/w, silent, 00:36:04 @ 18 fps,

James K. Pollock papers

Pollock was a University of Michigan professor of political science, special advisor to the U.S. Military Government in Germany after World War II [COllection Finding Aid]

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[8635-1-1] Germany 1934  [view video]
  • Original: 16mm film, b/w, optical, 00:31:40
  • The Vereiningung Carl Schurz presents "Germany 1934" directed by O. V. Bothmer. A pictorial record of the "Carl Schurz Tour" of American professors and students through Germany in the summer of 1934.

Edward Young papers

Instructor in Geodesy and Surveying at the University of Michigan. Served on staff of U-M's Camp Davis field station, first at Lake Douglas Michigan and then at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. [Collection Finding Aid]


[07182-1] Camp Davis/Douglas Lake Pre-1929 Hydrographic Survey Training  [view video]
  • Original: 16mm film, b/w, silent, 00:07:00 @ 18fps.,

[07182-2] Camp Davis/Douglas Lake, Michigan 1928  [view video]
  • Original: 16mm film, b/w, silent, 00:10:28 @ 18 fps, 1928

[07182-3] Camp Davis 1929 - Reel 1  [view video]
  • Original: 16mm film, b/w, silent, 00:13:26 @ 18 fps, 1929

[07182-4] Camp Davis 1929 - Reel 2  [view video]
  • Original: 16mm film, b/w, silent, 00:10:55 @ 18 fps, 1929

[07182-13] Untitled (972)  [view video]
  • Original: 16mm film, b/w, silent, 00:15:40 @ 18 fps., 1930