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A month before the first Earth Day in 1970, U-M held a four-day Teach-In on the environment! 🌿
This Teach-In on U-M’s campus drew incredibly large crowds, and was organized by a group of students that called themselves “Environmental Action for Survival,” or “ENACT!”
According to the Michigan Daily at the time, the event featured over 125 “workshops, seminars, speeches, and exhibits,” with a kickoff rally in Crisler Arena themed around the motto: “Give Earth a Chance.”
There were talks on environmental law, pesticides, and the future of the Great Lakes, an “environmental scream-out,” and a car was even “put on trial” and found guilty of pollution!
There was entertainment, too, including music by the Chicago cast of the musical “Hair,” and by Michigan singer Gordon Lightfoot.
Putting the Teach-In’s ideals into action, they also held a clean-up walk along the banks of the Huron River, where participants picked up litter and debris.
A month later, “Earth Day” was officially created by Senator Nelson, one of the very people who had spoken at U-M’s Teach-In!
Happy Earth Day! 🌎
#EarthDay #UMich #TeachIn #Environment #MichiganHistory #DidYouKnow
A month before the first Earth Day in 1970, U-M held a four-day Teach-In on the environment! 🌿
This Teach-In on U-M’s campus drew incredibly large crowds, and was organized by a group of students that called themselves “Environmental Action for Survival,” or “ENACT!”
According to the Michigan Daily at the time, the event featured over 125 “workshops, seminars, speeches, and exhibits,” with a kickoff rally in Crisler Arena themed around the motto: “Give Earth a Chance.”
There were talks on environmental law, pesticides, and the future of the Great Lakes, an “environmental scream-out,” and a car was even “put on trial” and found guilty of pollution!
There was entertainment, too, including music by the Chicago cast of the musical “Hair,” and by Michigan singer Gordon Lightfoot.
Putting the Teach-In’s ideals into action, they also held a clean-up walk along the banks of the Huron River, where participants picked up litter and debris.
A month later, “Earth Day” was officially created by Senator Nelson, one of the very people who had spoken at U-M’s Teach-In!
Happy Earth Day! 🌎
#EarthDay #UMich #TeachIn #Environment #MichiganHistory #DidYouKnow
On this day in 1924, this is what the Law Quad looked like under construction! 🔨
With its Gothic Revival buildings, the Law Quad is an iconic part of U-M’s campus in Ann Arbor, and it has been a home to many students over the years!
Construction on the Law Quad started in 1923, replacing “almost an entire block of fraternity houses,” according to the Michigan Daily.
The Law Quad’s first building, the Lawyers Club, opened to students in the fall of 1924, just a handful of months after these photos were taken!
“No description can possibly convey the beauty and distinction which the buildings have added,” the Michigan Alumnus magazine wrote about the Law Quad in 1925.
Built in a “collegiate Gothic style,” the earliest buildings on the Law Quad were described as “solid masonry construction of the most permanent character,” with stone walls, oak trusses, and large windows filled with cathedral glass, to give “a very pleasing soft sunlight effect.”
You can learn more about the history of how the Law Quadrangle was built with the Law School records, and books like “Giving it all away: the story of William W. Cook & his Michigan Law Quadrangle” by U-M Librarian Emerita Margaret Leary!
📸: Law School records
#TBT #UMich #OTD #LawQuad #1920s #HistoricBuildings
On this day in 1924, this is what the Law Quad looked like under construction! 🔨
With its Gothic Revival buildings, the Law Quad is an iconic part of U-M’s campus in Ann Arbor, and it has been a home to many students over the years!
Construction on the Law Quad started in 1923, replacing “almost an entire block of fraternity houses,” according to the Michigan Daily.
The Law Quad’s first building, the Lawyers Club, opened to students in the fall of 1924, just a handful of months after these photos were taken!
“No description can possibly convey the beauty and distinction which the buildings have added,” the Michigan Alumnus magazine wrote about the Law Quad in 1925.
Built in a “collegiate Gothic style,” the earliest buildings on the Law Quad were described as “solid masonry construction of the most permanent character,” with stone walls, oak trusses, and large windows filled with cathedral glass, to give “a very pleasing soft sunlight effect.”
You can learn more about the history of how the Law Quadrangle was built with the Law School records, and books like “Giving it all away: the story of William W. Cook & his Michigan Law Quadrangle” by U-M Librarian Emerita Margaret Leary!
📸: Law School records
#TBT #UMich #OTD #LawQuad #1920s #HistoricBuildings
Flashback to Detroit’s Woodward Avenue over 100 years ago! 🕑
Here, you can see horse-drawn carriages, people walking, and even a woman pushing a baby carriage. (As you can see, the baby did not want to stay still for the photograph!)
This photo shows the east side of Woodward Avenue, which was lined with shops that sold hats, dry goods, and jewelry.
Some of the buildings you can spot here include the Roehm & Wright jewelers on the corner, Nall’s dry goods store, and Finney House, a hotel that was well known in the area at the time.
Early photos like this one, which was taken circa 1890-1920, really show how much cities like Detroit can change over the years!
If you’re interested in seeing more historical photos of early Detroit, you can find them in the George Washington Merrill photograph collection, which anyone is welcome to view in our reading room, as well as in the online Image Bank!
#Detroit #MichiganHistory #Flashback #Over100YearsAgo #HorseDrawnCarriages
Flashback to Detroit’s Woodward Avenue over 100 years ago! 🕑
Here, you can see horse-drawn carriages, people walking, and even a woman pushing a baby carriage. (As you can see, the baby did not want to stay still for the photograph!)
This photo shows the east side of Woodward Avenue, which was lined with shops that sold hats, dry goods, and jewelry.
Some of the buildings you can spot here include the Roehm & Wright jewelers on the corner, Nall’s dry goods store, and Finney House, a hotel that was well known in the area at the time.
Early photos like this one, which was taken circa 1890-1920, really show how much cities like Detroit can change over the years!
If you’re interested in seeing more historical photos of early Detroit, you can find them in the George Washington Merrill photograph collection, which anyone is welcome to view in our reading room, as well as in the online Image Bank!
#Detroit #MichiganHistory #Flashback #Over100YearsAgo #HorseDrawnCarriages
TBT to a snowy day on campus in the spring of 1922! ❄️
The historical storm you see here, which also included sleet, was much more intense than today’s spring snowfall!
"Ann Arbor is the scene upon which nature has enacted an appealing tragedy, and now is strewn with fallen trees and the choicest of their branches," the Michigan Daily announced in 1922, describing the “lofty and majestic trees, scintillating with their icy jackets."
After that 1922 springtime storm, trains ran off schedule, telephone service was impacted, and traffic was slow due to the fallen branches!
Thankfully, the snow that fell on U-M’s modern Ann Arbor campus looks more like powdered sugar than sleet, and seems to be melting quickly.
Click through to see a photo of the snow in our library courtyard today (as well as a deer that stopped by to visit!)
📸: 1922 photo from the Mabel Warner scrapbook
#TBT #Snow #UMich #ThenVsNow #1920s #AnnArbor
TBT to a snowy day on campus in the spring of 1922! ❄️
The historical storm you see here, which also included sleet, was much more intense than today’s spring snowfall!
"Ann Arbor is the scene upon which nature has enacted an appealing tragedy, and now is strewn with fallen trees and the choicest of their branches," the Michigan Daily announced in 1922, describing the “lofty and majestic trees, scintillating with their icy jackets."
After that 1922 springtime storm, trains ran off schedule, telephone service was impacted, and traffic was slow due to the fallen branches!
Thankfully, the snow that fell on U-M’s modern Ann Arbor campus looks more like powdered sugar than sleet, and seems to be melting quickly.
Click through to see a photo of the snow in our library courtyard today (as well as a deer that stopped by to visit!)
📸: 1922 photo from the Mabel Warner scrapbook
#TBT #Snow #UMich #ThenVsNow #1920s #AnnArbor