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#TBT to football fans forming a block “M” in the stands at this 1916 game at U-M’s old Ferry Field! 〽️
The students in this picture were singing “The Yellow and Blue,” according to this historic photo’s label. 🎵
What’s your favorite song to sing during U-M football games?
If you don’t have one yet, you could always find one in our Reading Room: here are just a few U-M songs you can find in the archives!
📖 Bluebook Blues
💙 Dear Old Michigan
💛Next to the Grand Old Flag is the Yellow and Blue
🎉 Cheer, Cheer, Cheer for Michigan
🎵 ‘Tis of Michigan We Sing
100 days until the Wolverines’ football season starts again! 🏈
📸: Hand-colored photo of Michigan students forming a block M in the Ferry Field Stands from the John Maulbetsch scrapbook collection
#GoBlue #Wolverines #UMich #FootballHistory #MichiganSongs
#TBT to football fans forming a block “M” in the stands at this 1916 game at U-M’s old Ferry Field! 〽️
The students in this picture were singing “The Yellow and Blue,” according to this historic photo’s label. 🎵
What’s your favorite song to sing during U-M football games?
If you don’t have one yet, you could always find one in our Reading Room: here are just a few U-M songs you can find in the archives!
📖 Bluebook Blues
💙 Dear Old Michigan
💛Next to the Grand Old Flag is the Yellow and Blue
🎉 Cheer, Cheer, Cheer for Michigan
🎵 ‘Tis of Michigan We Sing
100 days until the Wolverines’ football season starts again! 🏈
📸: Hand-colored photo of Michigan students forming a block M in the Ferry Field Stands from the John Maulbetsch scrapbook collection
#GoBlue #Wolverines #UMich #FootballHistory #MichiganSongs
Which would you rather ride to work: a horse, or a bicycle? 🐎✨🚲
Throwback to this amazing photo from the Bernice Maynard collection, showcasing these two ways to travel, over 100 years ago! 🕑
A local of both Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Bernice Maynard preserved incredible photos, like this one, capturing moments from Michigan history.
Bernice also worked at several hospitals across Michigan over the years, and she helped draft the Michigan Constitution of 1963, which is still in effect today!
Her photograph collection offers some amazing glimpses into Michigan’s past, including historic bicycles, horse-drawn carriages, and more, which you can explore in the Bentley’s Reading Room. ⭐
Click through to see some of the other wonderful historical snapshots from the Bernice Maynard photograph collection!
#TBT #AnnArbor #Ypsilanti #MichiganHistory #VintagePhotos #LocalHistory
Which would you rather ride to work: a horse, or a bicycle? 🐎✨🚲
Throwback to this amazing photo from the Bernice Maynard collection, showcasing these two ways to travel, over 100 years ago! 🕑
A local of both Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Bernice Maynard preserved incredible photos, like this one, capturing moments from Michigan history.
Bernice also worked at several hospitals across Michigan over the years, and she helped draft the Michigan Constitution of 1963, which is still in effect today!
Her photograph collection offers some amazing glimpses into Michigan’s past, including historic bicycles, horse-drawn carriages, and more, which you can explore in the Bentley’s Reading Room. ⭐
Click through to see some of the other wonderful historical snapshots from the Bernice Maynard photograph collection!
#TBT #AnnArbor #Ypsilanti #MichiganHistory #VintagePhotos #LocalHistory
100 years ago today, Angell Hall was being built on U-M’s campus! 🕑
Here are four fun facts about this campus landmark that you may not know:
🦉 Carvings on Angell Hall include centaurs, owls, and reliefs featuring the personifications of Poetry, History, Art, and Science!
🏛️ The space in Angell Hall was desperately needed: at the time it was built, University Hall was so overcrowded that some classes were sharing classrooms!
🌋 Some of the stone used to construct this building only exists because of volcanoes!
According to the Michigan Daily’s “Building Progress” updates in 1924, the travertine limestone used in Angell Hall’s lobby is “volcanic in origin,” and found in the Mediterranean Sea.
📐 Angell Hall was also designed by none other than Albert Kahn, a famous architect who also designed Hill Auditorium, the Clements Library, and other iconic campus buildings.
Click through to see photos of Angell Hall’s construction 100 years ago, including some photos that were taken on this day, in 1924!
📸: Buildings and Grounds Department Records, and U-M Photographs Vertical File
#OTD #AngellHall #AnnArbor #UMich #100YearsAgo #1920s
100 years ago today, Angell Hall was being built on U-M’s campus! 🕑
Here are four fun facts about this campus landmark that you may not know:
🦉 Carvings on Angell Hall include centaurs, owls, and reliefs featuring the personifications of Poetry, History, Art, and Science!
🏛️ The space in Angell Hall was desperately needed: at the time it was built, University Hall was so overcrowded that some classes were sharing classrooms!
🌋 Some of the stone used to construct this building only exists because of volcanoes!
According to the Michigan Daily’s “Building Progress” updates in 1924, the travertine limestone used in Angell Hall’s lobby is “volcanic in origin,” and found in the Mediterranean Sea.
📐 Angell Hall was also designed by none other than Albert Kahn, a famous architect who also designed Hill Auditorium, the Clements Library, and other iconic campus buildings.
Click through to see photos of Angell Hall’s construction 100 years ago, including some photos that were taken on this day, in 1924!
📸: Buildings and Grounds Department Records, and U-M Photographs Vertical File
#OTD #AngellHall #AnnArbor #UMich #100YearsAgo #1920s
Did you know that the aurora borealis has been seen in Ann Arbor before? ⭐
Star-watchers were treated to “streamer” lights from the aurora in Ann Arbor in 1916, and again during World War I!
The Michigan Daily later wrote that the lights were taken as a sign:
“There were dire predictions among the pessimistic that the world would end,” while “the optimistic” thought it was an omen that peace was on the horizon! 🕊️
In 1920, the northern lights glowed in Ann Arbor’s skies once more, although this time, the Daily wryly noted, everyone “had the chance to witness the phenomenon without trying to connect it to any event to come.”
In contrast, in 1940, electrical storms related to the aurora actually ended up overloading telegraph lines in Ann Arbor.
As a result, a message full of swimming competition results was delayed, and couldn’t reach the newspaper in time for printing, in what the Michigan Daily called an act of “fate alone.”
Did you get to see the northern lights this weekend? ✨
📰: Michigan Daily Digital Archives
#AuroraBorealis #AnnArbor #NorthernLights #MichiganHistory #MichiganDaily #AstronomyHistory
Did you know that the aurora borealis has been seen in Ann Arbor before? ⭐
Star-watchers were treated to “streamer” lights from the aurora in Ann Arbor in 1916, and again during World War I!
The Michigan Daily later wrote that the lights were taken as a sign:
“There were dire predictions among the pessimistic that the world would end,” while “the optimistic” thought it was an omen that peace was on the horizon! 🕊️
In 1920, the northern lights glowed in Ann Arbor’s skies once more, although this time, the Daily wryly noted, everyone “had the chance to witness the phenomenon without trying to connect it to any event to come.”
In contrast, in 1940, electrical storms related to the aurora actually ended up overloading telegraph lines in Ann Arbor.
As a result, a message full of swimming competition results was delayed, and couldn’t reach the newspaper in time for printing, in what the Michigan Daily called an act of “fate alone.”
Did you get to see the northern lights this weekend? ✨
📰: Michigan Daily Digital Archives
#AuroraBorealis #AnnArbor #NorthernLights #MichiganHistory #MichiganDaily #AstronomyHistory