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Help protect U-M athletics history! 🏈
U-M’s athletic past is a critical part of the university’s story.
This includes the sports you love, like football, basketball, and so many other men’s and women’s varsity sports at U-M!
By supporting the Bentley’s Athletics Archive fund, you can help keep this history available for generations to come!
Together, we can provide access to one-of-a-kind historical materials, and preserve early football films, hockey programs, basketball photos, rosters, statistics, and more.
For Giving Blueday, help support the Athletics Archive fund at the link in our Instagram story!
Help us spread the word by sharing this with a friend or relative who loves Michigan athletics, giving this post a heart, or letting us know about your favorite piece of U-M athletics history in the comments below.
Thank you for supporting Michigan history! 💙💛
📸: Photos from the historical postcard collection, the Athletic Department records, the Rentschler`s Studio photographs, and the Wilfred B. Shaw Papers
#UMich #GoBlue #GivingBlueday #Wolverines #SportsHistory #SupportWhatYouLove
Help protect U-M athletics history! 🏈
U-M’s athletic past is a critical part of the university’s story.
This includes the sports you love, like football, basketball, and so many other men’s and women’s varsity sports at U-M!
By supporting the Bentley’s Athletics Archive fund, you can help keep this history available for generations to come!
Together, we can provide access to one-of-a-kind historical materials, and preserve early football films, hockey programs, basketball photos, rosters, statistics, and more.
For Giving Blueday, help support the Athletics Archive fund at the link in our Instagram story!
Help us spread the word by sharing this with a friend or relative who loves Michigan athletics, giving this post a heart, or letting us know about your favorite piece of U-M athletics history in the comments below.
Thank you for supporting Michigan history! 💙💛
📸: Photos from the historical postcard collection, the Athletic Department records, the Rentschler`s Studio photographs, and the Wilfred B. Shaw Papers
#UMich #GoBlue #GivingBlueday #Wolverines #SportsHistory #SupportWhatYouLove
In honor of the Michigan Women’s Basketball Team’s upcoming game on Friday, here is one of the earliest pictures we know of that shows women playing basketball on campus!
Women began playing basketball at U-M in the early 1900s, with mentions of women’s basketball found as early as 1902 in U-M’s yearbook.
"The athletic spirit has taken possession of the young ladies of the University, and has manifested itself in the form of basketball," the Michigan Daily wrote in 1903.
The basketball game shown here was held circa 1904 in Barbour Gymnasium, which was the U-M women’s gym for many years!
The varsity Michigan Women’s Basketball Team was started about 70 years after this photo was taken, and they’re still going strong today!
Click through to see the full photo from circa 1904, sourced from the Wilfred B. Shaw Papers.
#Umich #Wolverines #WomensBasketball #BasketballHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #GoBlue
In honor of the Michigan Women’s Basketball Team’s upcoming game on Friday, here is one of the earliest pictures we know of that shows women playing basketball on campus!
Women began playing basketball at U-M in the early 1900s, with mentions of women’s basketball found as early as 1902 in U-M’s yearbook.
"The athletic spirit has taken possession of the young ladies of the University, and has manifested itself in the form of basketball," the Michigan Daily wrote in 1903.
The basketball game shown here was held circa 1904 in Barbour Gymnasium, which was the U-M women’s gym for many years!
The varsity Michigan Women’s Basketball Team was started about 70 years after this photo was taken, and they’re still going strong today!
Click through to see the full photo from circa 1904, sourced from the Wilfred B. Shaw Papers.
#Umich #Wolverines #WomensBasketball #BasketballHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #GoBlue
Recreating a U-M football uniform from 1904! 🏈
When fashion student Adam Denzler reached out to learn about the uniforms of the 1904 Wolverines for this project, we were excited to help!
Inspired by the U-M alumni in his family, Adam decided to make a replica of this historical U-M football uniform as part of his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, while learning about fashion history. 🪡
He used all kinds of items from the archives for this project, including:
📷 A photo of early U-M football star Willie Heston in his uniform
✉️ A letter about football uniforms ordered by U-M in 1904
📖 An illustrated catalog of historical athletic equipment
🎨 Early postcards and posters, as references for the fabric colors!
Details from the archives at the Bentley, combined with his hard work, resulted in this incredible replica of a historical U-M football uniform!
Click through to see photos of the replica U-M football uniform that Adam created, as well as the photo of 1900s football star Willie Heston that helped inspire him.
📸: Photos by Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp fashion student Adam Denzler (at untitled.perfect.lovers), used with permission, and Willie Heston from the Athletic Department records
#UMich #Wolverines #FootballHistory #1900s #GoBlue #HistoricalCostuming #HistoricalRecreation
Recreating a U-M football uniform from 1904! 🏈
When fashion student Adam Denzler reached out to learn about the uniforms of the 1904 Wolverines for this project, we were excited to help!
Inspired by the U-M alumni in his family, Adam decided to make a replica of this historical U-M football uniform as part of his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, while learning about fashion history. 🪡
He used all kinds of items from the archives for this project, including:
📷 A photo of early U-M football star Willie Heston in his uniform
✉️ A letter about football uniforms ordered by U-M in 1904
📖 An illustrated catalog of historical athletic equipment
🎨 Early postcards and posters, as references for the fabric colors!
Details from the archives at the Bentley, combined with his hard work, resulted in this incredible replica of a historical U-M football uniform!
Click through to see photos of the replica U-M football uniform that Adam created, as well as the photo of 1900s football star Willie Heston that helped inspire him.
📸: Photos by Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp fashion student Adam Denzler (at untitled.perfect.lovers), used with permission, and Willie Heston from the Athletic Department records
#UMich #Wolverines #FootballHistory #1900s #GoBlue #HistoricalCostuming #HistoricalRecreation
TBT to this beautiful Ann Arbor photo from circa 1930/1940!
Here, you can see the corner of North University Avenue and State Street, in a snapshot from the collection of local photographer Melvin Ivory.
This corner has been a key area in campus life ever since the University of Michigan first moved to Ann Arbor in 1837!
This intersection marks the corner of the Diag, home of U-M’s very first Ann Arbor buildings. The Diag contained the whole campus during U-M’s earliest years here.
U-M has grown since then, but this corner is still one that you’ve probably walked across, and one that many students see every day, although it looks different than it used to!
Scanned photos of Ann Arbor history from the Ivory Photograph collection at the Bentley are available to be explored online, if you are interested in seeing more images like this one!
#TBT #AnnArbor #StateStreet #UMich #Diag #MichiganHistory
TBT to this beautiful Ann Arbor photo from circa 1930/1940!
Here, you can see the corner of North University Avenue and State Street, in a snapshot from the collection of local photographer Melvin Ivory.
This corner has been a key area in campus life ever since the University of Michigan first moved to Ann Arbor in 1837!
This intersection marks the corner of the Diag, home of U-M’s very first Ann Arbor buildings. The Diag contained the whole campus during U-M’s earliest years here.
U-M has grown since then, but this corner is still one that you’ve probably walked across, and one that many students see every day, although it looks different than it used to!
Scanned photos of Ann Arbor history from the Ivory Photograph collection at the Bentley are available to be explored online, if you are interested in seeing more images like this one!
#TBT #AnnArbor #StateStreet #UMich #Diag #MichiganHistory