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:
I think I can see Manti's
WOW, the West Engineering Annex was really nice
Couldn't the uni have done a better job when replacing the beautiful old edifice? The UGLI? Come on.
Thanks for posting. I love
Thanks for posting. I love old photos like these. Pretty darn cool.
Disgruntled former moderator. I got a lot of problems with you people!
There was a thread a while back...
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.
Go Blue!
Bentley Image Bank
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.
Thanks for this. Definately
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
That's awesome.
Thanks for finding that, and for gomaize11 pointing out the Bentley had the archive in the first place.
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Not quite
...as UGLI as the new one.
I tried, I tried not to...but I couldn't resist.
...just one man's opinion.
Some of you may remember when the Econ building burned down
It was next to the Grad library on the UGLI/engineering side of the quad.
Your opinion has no value.
Yeah, I remember it.
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.
The old Haven Hall looked
The old Haven Hall looked pretty cool. I wish they still had those columns to create that little porch-like entrance.
I think I can see Manti's girlfriend waving from the window.