Historic Photos of University of Michigan
Founded in Detroit, Michigan, in 1817 as one of the first public universities in the nation, the University of Michigan moved to Ann Arbor in 1837. What started as a forty-acre campus with four buildings, expanded over the next 170 years to become a university with four campuses: Central, Athletic, Medical and North. It has become one of the most distinguished universities in the world.
Historic Photos of the University of Michigan depicts the unfolding history of the college in Ann Arbor from its early stages in the 1850s to its more modern self of the late 1970s. Exceptional black and white images of the campus and surrounding area, selected from the Bentley Historical Library's extensive collection, provide a taste of campus life while taking readers through the evolution of buildings, the beginning of an athletic legend, and the historic events that united the campus with a community. These photographs—many rarely seen—portray the richness that forms the proud history of the University of Michigan.
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Book details
- Author
- Michael Chmura
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Education › History - Topics
- Ann Arbor · campus history · black-and-white photography · pictorial history · American universities · Michigan history · archival photographs
- ISBN-13
- 9781683369820
About the authors
MICHAEL CHMURA is a librarian, writer, and co-owner of a software and web design company. Her recent books include Remembering the University of Michigan and Historic Photos of University of Michigan.
Chmura holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Alma College, a master’s degree in Information Science, and a teaching certification from the University of Michigan.
When she’s not writing, Chmura works as a school librarian and co-runs a software and web design company with her husband, David.
Michael lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
CHRISTINA M. CONSOLINO is a writer and editor who taught college-level anatomy and physiology for close to twenty years. Her recent books include The Marriage Debt, The Weight We Carry and Rewrite the Stars.
Rewrite the Stars was named one of ten finalists for the Ohio Writers' Association Great Novel Contest 2020. Consolino has also served as senior editor at the online journal Literary Mama.
When she’s not writing, Consolino draws on her background in physiology, having earned a BA in French and a PhD in physiology from the University of Michigan.
Christina lives in Kettering, Ohio.