Campus Photos - Early to Mid 20th Century
The new Michigan Today has a great slideshow from the university's first "Staff Photographer" George Robert Swain. It's a nice slice of U-M history, and worth your time - especially if you're an alumnus. The article is here: http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2013/01/slideshow/index.html#1 .
Structural and functional deficiencies notwithstanding, it would have been nice for some more of these structures to have survived. For example, a shot of the old library:
January 17th, 2013 at 9:58 AM ^
I think I can see Manti's girlfriend waving from the window.
January 17th, 2013 at 10:23 AM ^
Couldn't the uni have done a better job when replacing the beautiful old edifice? The UGLI? Come on.
January 17th, 2013 at 10:25 AM ^
Thanks for posting. I love old photos like these. Pretty darn cool.
January 17th, 2013 at 11:13 AM ^
where I ended up looking up old census records for Ann Arbor when talking about the birth of college football, and I'd love to see what State or Main or Packard, M campus generally or downtown generally looked like when the population was 20,000.
Very cool OP, by the way. +1, would read/look again.
January 17th, 2013 at 3:58 PM ^
The Bentley rocks for things like this. Have you checked out their image bank? It's open to the public. Just search for "Ann Arbor Main Street" or whatever and all kinds of interesting pictures come up.
January 17th, 2013 at 4:35 PM ^
Thanks for this. Definately not going to accomplish anything the rest of the workday, but its awesome.
State street doesn't look so different from 1908: http://bit.ly/10i7Hnf
January 17th, 2013 at 4:41 PM ^
Thanks for finding that, and for gomaize11 pointing out the Bentley had the archive in the first place.
January 17th, 2013 at 12:54 PM ^
...as UGLI as the new one.
I tried, I tried not to...but I couldn't resist.
January 17th, 2013 at 1:09 PM ^
It was next to the Grad library on the UGLI/engineering side of the quad.
January 17th, 2013 at 5:45 PM ^
I was an undergrad engineering student then, so I walked by the building a lot of times going to class in East and West Engineering and the chemistry building. IIRC, it was around 1980 or 1981 when it caught fire.
It was a strange building within the diag. White rather than brick, and small and more house-like than the surrounding buildings. I thought it always looked out of place.
January 17th, 2013 at 1:59 PM ^
The old Haven Hall looked pretty cool. I wish they still had those columns to create that little porch-like entrance.