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Rising to the Challenge
Director Alexis Antracoli shares her thoughts on the archives, including how they show the many ways that people across Michigan history have risen to the challenges of their time.
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Light Years
U-M’s Lantern Night was a chance for the women of the senior class to symbolically pass the torch to younger students. Over time, it evolved to include a dance pageant, and more.
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Pattern Recognition
How fashion student Adam Denzler used Bentley collections to painstakingly recreate a 1904 University of Michigan football uniform—down to the drawers.
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Good Sports
University of Michigan students Lily Fritsch and Nathan Schreck are part of a new fellowship program that helps preserve and share U-M athletics history.
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An Archivist Finds Her True Career Passion
Meet Michelle Light, whose training at the Bentley changed her career path. Today, she’s an associate librarian for Yale’s Library Special Collections & director of the Beinecke Library.
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And Then There Was One
U-M’s first buildings were the Professors’ Houses, built in 1840. Only one stands today. Bentley collections reveal which one has endured, and what happened to the rest.
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Early Michigan Letters
A rare and surprising cache of sixty new letters makes its way to the Bentley to supplement an existing collection.
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