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One Michigan Daily writer in 1912 was convinced that the true cure for gloominess was the beauty of an Ann Arbor fall.
So convinced, in fact, that they wrote an article about it!
Titled “Fall Tonic,” that article recommends all kinds of fall activities to cure sadness, including:
🐤 Bird-spotting, because birds like “mallard and teal and mud-hens” are just waiting for anyone who knows the “secret of stealth.”
(And if you’re really bad at bird-spotting, don’t worry:
“For the man who cannot gain the confidence of the wilder wild life,” there are “black-birds and winter birds in new plumage.”)
🐿️ Squirrel-watching! After all, they have "long hours of harvesting" to do, stocking up on acorns.
📷 Photography walks: autumn’s the perfect time to take pictures of the river “peeking out of its framework of exquisitely-tinted foliage.”
Fall color is just starting to fill the trees today, but we have it on good authority from this anonymous 1912 article that it’s going to be spectacular.
“The color-work of the frost,” they wrote, “Has given the hickory a dress of yellow, the sumac a crimson gown, and the maples, splashes of both.”
Happy fall, Wolverines! 🍁🍂
📸: Students on the Central Campus diagonal walk on a crisp autumn day, News & Information Photographs, 1947
📸: Students walking through fall leaves on the Ann Arbor campus, Ivory Photo collection, ca. 1930
#FallActivities #ThingsToDo #AnnArbor #UMich #MichiganDaily #MichiganHistory #Autumn
One Michigan Daily writer in 1912 was convinced that the true cure for gloominess was the beauty of an Ann Arbor fall.
So convinced, in fact, that they wrote an article about it!
Titled “Fall Tonic,” that article recommends all kinds of fall activities to cure sadness, including:
🐤 Bird-spotting, because birds like “mallard and teal and mud-hens” are just waiting for anyone who knows the “secret of stealth.”
(And if you’re really bad at bird-spotting, don’t worry:
“For the man who cannot gain the confidence of the wilder wild life,” there are “black-birds and winter birds in new plumage.”)
🐿️ Squirrel-watching! After all, they have "long hours of harvesting" to do, stocking up on acorns.
📷 Photography walks: autumn’s the perfect time to take pictures of the river “peeking out of its framework of exquisitely-tinted foliage.”
Fall color is just starting to fill the trees today, but we have it on good authority from this anonymous 1912 article that it’s going to be spectacular.
“The color-work of the frost,” they wrote, “Has given the hickory a dress of yellow, the sumac a crimson gown, and the maples, splashes of both.”
Happy fall, Wolverines! 🍁🍂
📸: Students on the Central Campus diagonal walk on a crisp autumn day, News & Information Photographs, 1947
📸: Students walking through fall leaves on the Ann Arbor campus, Ivory Photo collection, ca. 1930
#FallActivities #ThingsToDo #AnnArbor #UMich #MichiganDaily #MichiganHistory #Autumn
Art inspired by the archives! 🎨🖌️
Using history as inspiration, and plenty of glue, participants at last night’s "Art + Archives" event made collages with copies of photos from the Bentley’s own collections!
🎨 Renowned multimedia artist Avery Williamson provided encouragement and advice...
📸 Bentley archivists talked about how to find archival photographs...
⭐ And the historic Detroit Observatory became a hub of creativity!
It was incredible to see history transform into art. We had so much fun seeing what everyone made!
If you share your art from this workshop, feel free to tag us. We’d love to see your creations!
Also, shoutout to Detroit Observatory student worker Sophia for putting “Go Blue” in her collage. 😄
Click through to see more photos of the event!
📸: Photos taken by Detroit Observatory Assistant Director Austin Edmister
#History #Archives #Collages #ArtWorkshop #InspiredByHistory #GoBlue
Art inspired by the archives! 🎨🖌️
Using history as inspiration, and plenty of glue, participants at last night’s "Art + Archives" event made collages with copies of photos from the Bentley’s own collections!
🎨 Renowned multimedia artist Avery Williamson provided encouragement and advice...
📸 Bentley archivists talked about how to find archival photographs...
⭐ And the historic Detroit Observatory became a hub of creativity!
It was incredible to see history transform into art. We had so much fun seeing what everyone made!
If you share your art from this workshop, feel free to tag us. We’d love to see your creations!
Also, shoutout to Detroit Observatory student worker Sophia for putting “Go Blue” in her collage. 😄
Click through to see more photos of the event!
📸: Photos taken by Detroit Observatory Assistant Director Austin Edmister
#History #Archives #Collages #ArtWorkshop #InspiredByHistory #GoBlue
When was U-M’s first Homecoming game?
Well, it depends who you ask!
As early as 1897, U-M alumni were coming back to Ann Arbor for “alumni games,” in which the “old grad” team would go up against varsity players. 🏈
"Impromptu speeches" were given, they were led to Regents Field by a cheerful band procession, and special buttons were worn by the returning Wolverines!
Some consider these alumni games to be the first Homecoming games of the University of Michigan, because they were games that alumni specifically returned to watch.
Others believe that it’s all in the name: they argue that only the games actually called “Homecoming” games should be counted.
What’s your opinion? Does the first alumni game count as a “Homecoming?”
Happy Homecoming Week!
Sources:
📰 Michigan Daily Digital Archives
🏆 Athletic Department Records
🙂 Athletics Archivist Greg Kinney
#HomecomingGame #TBT #FootballHistory #UMich #Alumni #GoBlue
When was U-M’s first Homecoming game?
Well, it depends who you ask!
As early as 1897, U-M alumni were coming back to Ann Arbor for “alumni games,” in which the “old grad” team would go up against varsity players. 🏈
"Impromptu speeches" were given, they were led to Regents Field by a cheerful band procession, and special buttons were worn by the returning Wolverines!
Some consider these alumni games to be the first Homecoming games of the University of Michigan, because they were games that alumni specifically returned to watch.
Others believe that it’s all in the name: they argue that only the games actually called “Homecoming” games should be counted.
What’s your opinion? Does the first alumni game count as a “Homecoming?”
Happy Homecoming Week!
Sources:
📰 Michigan Daily Digital Archives
🏆 Athletic Department Records
🙂 Athletics Archivist Greg Kinney
#HomecomingGame #TBT #FootballHistory #UMich #Alumni #GoBlue
Meet Emma Rooney! ✨
One of our newest student assistants, Emma’s journey to graduate school actually began at the Bentley!
“When I was an undergrad at U-M, I was in a history class where our final project was doing research with a student scrapbook at Bentley,” Emma says.
“I got to use the scrapbook, the Alumni Files, and more, to learn about a student who went to Michigan in the early 1900s, who was the same age as me!
I felt so connected to the past and the place I was going to school.”
“That project was part of the reason I considered going to library school in the first place,” she says.
Emma is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Information, with a focus on Digital Curation.
Click through to learn what advice she’d give to new researchers, and what she hopes to do in the future!
#StudentLife #Archives #LibraryScience #LibraryAssistant #UMSI #UMich #OurStaffIsAwesome
Meet Emma Rooney! ✨
One of our newest student assistants, Emma’s journey to graduate school actually began at the Bentley!
“When I was an undergrad at U-M, I was in a history class where our final project was doing research with a student scrapbook at Bentley,” Emma says.
“I got to use the scrapbook, the Alumni Files, and more, to learn about a student who went to Michigan in the early 1900s, who was the same age as me!
I felt so connected to the past and the place I was going to school.”
“That project was part of the reason I considered going to library school in the first place,” she says.
Emma is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Information, with a focus on Digital Curation.
Click through to learn what advice she’d give to new researchers, and what she hopes to do in the future!
#StudentLife #Archives #LibraryScience #LibraryAssistant #UMSI #UMich #OurStaffIsAwesome