Old School
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July 27, 2015
Batter up
People enjoy America’s pastime on campus at mid-20th century, with the U-M Veterans Readjustment Center building in the background.
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July 13, 2015
Postwar housing
A couple with a baby examines temporary U-M student housing following the end of World War II in 1945.
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June 22, 2015
Class rings and magazines
A magazine salesman in June 1932 tends to his stand at the Nickels Arcade. A sign advertises University of Michigan official rings.
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June 8, 2015
Players
Two University of Michigan theater students act in the 1932 production of the play “Berkley Square.”
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May 26, 2015
Fighting pernicious anemia
In the 1920s, pernicious anemia was mysterious and deadly. After the disease killed Thomas Henry Simpson in 1923, his wife offered $400,000 to create an institute at U-M devoted to its study and a cure.
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May 4, 2015
Classical music legend
Pianist Arthur Rubinstein is pictured backstage with University Musical Society President Gail Rector, on the occasion of one of his UMS performances in the 1950s or ’60s at Hill Auditorium.
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April 27, 2015
At the gym
Women participate in physical education in 1910, as shown in a photo from the records of the U-M Department of Physical Education for Women.
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April 20, 2015
A Different Diag
When U-M was moving two Ann Arbor, the Board of Regents had two locations to select from, the flat farm field where the university ultimately was built, and another at the north end of State Street. It spread across the promontory offering a view to the northeast across the Huron River valley.
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April 13, 2015
Music master
Aaron Copland waits backstage April 2, 1976, during the United States Bicentennial year before conducting his “Fanfare for the Common Man” at Hill Auditorium.
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April 6, 2015
Teach-In on the Environment
Hundreds assemble on the Diag to listen to speakers at U-M’s Teach-In on the Environment, which took place in March 1970, a month before the first Earth Day celebration.
