University of Michigan students or alumni are either the main focus of these resources, or the resources include material related to students and alumni in a database with other content.
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A searchable database lists the names and years of attendance of every African American student who attended the University for any length of time from 1853 until 1970. Includes archival materials and other data for an in-depth look at African American experiences at U-M.
Go to African American Student Project
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In 1924, more than 3,000 female alumni and former students of U-M replied to an Alumnae Council survey, asking them for an update on their occupations and U-M memories dating back to 1870. You can search and view the digitized surveys.
Go to Alumnae Survey
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Search this database for files on alumni and former students who attended U-M and who died prior to 1965. You can request to see the entire file in our Reading Room or order a copy.
Go to Alumni Files Index
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Start your historical journey into U-M sports! The Bentley is the official archive for the U-M Athletic Department, and our Athletic Archivist has created searchable rosters and other online exhibits about U-M sports.
Go to Athletics History
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Deep Blue is the University’s institutional repository. It is digital storage for material such as articles, conference posters, theses, video, and audio recordings. U-M faculty, staff, students, departments, or units can deposit materials here, and anyone can search the database, which includes some Bentley digital collections.
Go to Deep Blue
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Home movies, interviews, musical performances, private recordings or public broadcasts – drawn from a wide range of collections – are shared here for online search or streaming.
Go to Digital Media Library
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The Bentley has digitized some full collections or large segments of collections and made them available here. Examples include early records of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and a survey of early female graduates of the University. Check the “online content” tag for digital material dealing with more specific subjects – like our Civil War collections.
Go to Digitized Collections
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Many Bentley collections include photographs, maps, drawings, or other items with a strong visual element. We’ve scanned a selection of these items and shared the digital images here for online searching and download.
Go to Image Bank
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This selection of photos was donated by former Michigan Daily photographers to represent their best work. Most of the images date from 1960’s and 1970’s.
Go to Michigan Daily Alumni Photographers
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The Michigan Daily student newspaper has been digitized from 1890-2014. This collection is fully searchable, and individual pages can be downloaded for free.
Go to Michigan Daily Digital Archives
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These records of the Board’s meetings and official actions begin in 1837. The full text is searchable through MLibrary, and is a good place to look for information about faculty hirings and promotions, and the establishment or reorganization of schools and departments.
Go to Proceedings of the Board of Regents
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Many publications archived at the Bentley – for example, the Michiganensian and Ann Arbor city directories – have been scanned and added to HathiTrust. Using the HathiTrust collections linked here makes it easier to search a range of dates, rather than one year at a time.
Go to Publications in HathiTrust
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The Subject Guides highlight Bentley collections and items (and sometimes background information) related to different topics. They are no longer updated and may not include more recent information, but are useful for identifying different collections with material about the same area or subject.
Go to Subject Guides
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The University of Michigan Library hosts many online image collections that include U-M material. Some Bentley resources – our Image Bank and Michigan Daily Alumni Photographers database – are included, along with collections from other campus units.
Go to University of Michigan History Digital Images
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The vertical file contains newspaper clippings and other miscellaneous published material. They are organized according to people, places, organizations, or issues affecting the University or the state as a whole.
Go to Vertical File