Historic Photos of Ann Arbor
Founded in 1824, Ann Arbor got its name originally from Annsarbour in honor of the founders' wives, both of whom were named Ann. The Tree City boasts more than 50,000 trees and is home to the main campus of the University of Michigan.
Historic Photos of Ann Arbor, a photographic history with images collected from the area's top archives, shows Ann Arbor's historical growth from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s in stunning black-and-white photography. The book chronicles life, government, events, and people important to the city's history. Spanning two centuries and nearly two hundred photographs, this handsome coffee table book is essential reading for any lifelong resident or history lover of Ann Arbor.
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Book details
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Photography › Subjects & Themes - Topics
- Ann Arbor, Michigan · local history · black-and-white photography · pictorial history · University of Michigan · Midwest history · 19th and 20th century
- ISBN-13
- 9781596523890
About the authors
ALICE GOFF is a historian and co-author of Remembering Ann Arbor and Historic Photos of Ann Arbor.
Goff holds a BA from Bryn Mawr College, an MSI in Archives and Records Management from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. She joined the University of Chicago Department of History in 2017 and was named a 2020 recipient of the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin.
MEGAN COONEY is a co-author of Remembering Ann Arbor and Historic Photos of Ann Arbor.
At the time of co-authoring Historic Photos of Ann Arbor, Cooney was a master’s degree student at the University of Michigan and worked at the university’s Bentley Historical Library, the source of the book’s nearly 200 historic photographs.