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Sit-In in Ann Arbor City Council Room, August 1963

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Ann Arbor News, August 20, 1963
Caption
SIT-IN SCENE: City Administrator Guy C, Larcom, jr., foreground, talks to demonstrators seated in the City Council room last night following the council meeting. LaMar Miller, chairman of the Ann Arbor Area Fair Housing Association which sponsored the sit-in, is seen in front of Larcom taking notes on a pad.

Year
1963
Month
August
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University of Michigan Women Students Form Band in Protest, September 1971

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Published In
Ann Arbor News, September 23, 1971
Caption
Coeds Formed All-Women 'Band' To Protest Discriminatory Policies

Year
1971
Month
September
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Marina Oswald at the University of Michigan English Language Institute

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Published In
Ann Arbor News, February 2, 1965
Caption
Mrs. Marina Oswald is congratulated by Prof. John C. Catford upon graduation from the University's English Language Institute. Mrs. Oswald, along with 17 other students, received certificates noting successful completion of the eight-week course in ceremonies yesterday. Her future plans have not been announced.

Year
1965
Month
February
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Marina Oswald at the University of Michigan English Language Institute

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Published In
Ann Arbor News, January 5, 1965
Caption
Mrs. Marina Oswald, the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, who was accused of assassinating President John F. Kennedy, is taking an eight-week cram course in English. The ELI course consists of five hours of classes and laboratory work daily, six days a week, and is aimed at giving foreign students a working knowledge of English. Her two daughters, June Lee, 3, an Marina Rachel, 1, remained in Dallas.

Year
1965
Month
January
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Beatles Bushes

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Ann Arbor News, September 14, 1984
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Real Beat Bushes: Shrubs growing in a shape similar to the hair styling of The Beatles quartet drew "identification" signs and subsequent attention over the weekend. The bushes are located on the Observatory St. side of the Mosher-Jordan women's dormitory complex.

Year
1964
Month
September
Description

Beatles Bushes

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Batman and Robin Play Pool at the Michigan Union

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Ann Arbor News, February 2, 1966
Caption
Batman Battles With Billiard Balls?: Has Batman, the arch enemy of crime and the epitome of good, become a pool hall devotee? Rest easy, friends. The Batman pictured here is an imposter--he's Danny Syme, a University junior majoring in psychology. His side-kick, Robin the boy wonder, is Gordon Shlom, a junior pre-medical student. The students are wearing the "official" costumes of the famous crime-fighting duo in connection with the U-M Winter Weekend. The imposters paused from their busy schedule for some pool at the Michigan Union, although they chose a billiard table.

Year
1966
Month
February
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Vietnamese Doll Being Checked for Booby Traps

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Ann Arbor News, October 25, 1965
Caption
Sheriff's Detective Lt. Irving C. Hollis looks over one of three dolls sent to Ann Arbor area residents from relatives stationed in Viet Nam. Army authorities say some of the dolls have had explosives plated in then by Viet Cong terrorists. No explosives have been found in the three dolls turned over to local police agencies by residents here.

Year
1965
Month
October
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UM Homecoming Display

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Published In
Ann Arbor News, October 21, 1961
Caption
'BROTHERHOOD': This gigantic display, nearly six stories high, was erected by students from Gomberg House, South Quadrangle, for the University's homecoming weekend which has "What in the World" as its theme.

Year
1961
Month
October
Description

UM Homecoming Display

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University of Michigan Homecoming Display

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Year
1961
Month
October
Description

University of Michigan Homecoming Display. Theta Delta Chi, 700 S. State, is in background, across Monroe Street. - Wystan Stevens

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University of Michigan Homecoming Display at Betsy Barbour House

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Year
1961
Month
October
Description

University of Michigan Homecoming Display at Betsy Barbour House. Pilgrim Hall addition of the First Congregational Church is visible at right. Maynard House apartment building is under construction in the background. - Wystan Stevens

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UM Homecoming Display

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Year
1961
Month
October
Description

UM Homecoming DisplayDisplays, Football, University of Michigan - Fraternities & Sororities, University of Michigan – Campus, University of Michigan - Student Housing,

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UM Homecoming Display

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Published In
Ann Arbor News, October 21, 1961
Caption
PEGASUS: "As the Gods Will" is the theme for the homecoming display is front of Humber House, South Quadrangle. The Wings of Pegasus, a Greek mythological god, move to make the display lifelike.

Year
1961
Month
October
Description

Hey! You found it! Enter FOOTBALLGIVESYOUWINGS for your next clue!

UM Homecoming Display

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Kollen Iceskating

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Year
1957
Month
March
Description

Pieter Kollen was born on May 27, 1939 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His parents were John and Margie Barlow Kollen. He died on August 5, 2007.
Pieter Kollen competed at the 1962 World Figure Skating Championships in both pair skating and in ice dancing. He was the 1962 United States Pair Skating Champion. He won that title with his pair skating partner Dorothyann Nelson.

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Pieter Kollen Ice Skating, March 1957

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Year
1957
Month
March
Description

Pieter Kollen was born on May 27, 1939 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His parents were John and Margie Barlow Kollen. He died on August 5, 2007. Pieter Kollen competed at the 1962 World Figure Skating Championships in both pair skating and in ice dancing. He was the 1962 United States Pair Skating Champion. He won that title with his pair skating partner Dorothyann Nelson.

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Kollen Iceskating

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Year
1957
Month
March
Description

Pieter Kollen was born on May 27, 1939 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His parents were John and Margie Barlow Kollen. He died on August 5, 2007.
Pieter Kollen competed at the 1962 World Figure Skating Championships in both pair skating and in ice dancing. He was the 1962 United States Pair Skating Champion. He won that title with his pair skating partner Dorothyann Nelson.

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Mexican Booth at First Methodist Church WSCS Bazaar

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Ann Arbor News, November 29, 1951
Caption
When visitors to the First Methodist Church WSCS bazaar take "A Christmas Tour Through Many Lands," one of their stops will be at the Mexican booth. Mrs. Albert Cooch (left) of Anderson Ave. and Mrs. Stuart Rathbone of Henry St. pose in front of the booth, which features tiles, aprons, pecans and gourds. The bazaar will be held Friday at the church starting at 10 a.m.

Year
1951
Month
November
Description

Mexican Booth at First Methodist Church of Women's Society of Christian Service

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Groundbreaking for School Addition at First Methodist Church

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Ann Arbor News, July 31, 1954
Caption
Groundbreaking ceremony for the First Methodist Church's $207,000 church school addition were held yesterday with the Rev. Merrill R. Abbey, pastor (far left)), handling the ceremonial shovel. Others taking part in the groundbreaking were (left to right): Miss Alma Goulette, a Sunday school teacher for 25 years, who is partially hidden behind the pastor; Mrs. F. Ridlen Harrell, president of the Women's Society of Christian Service; Emerson Powrie, chairman of the building committee; Stuart Abbey, president of the Youth Council; The Rev. L. LaVerne Finch, district superintendent; the Rev. Erland J. Wangdahl, associate minister; the Rev. Eugene J. Ransom, minister to students; and A. E. White, chairman of the trustees.

Year
1954
Month
August
Description

Groundbreaking for School Addition at First Methodist Church

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Ann Arbor Police Department - Police Chief Krasny with Phony University of Michigan Football Tickets, September 1967

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Ann Arbor News, September 28, 1967
Caption
Ann Arbor Police Chief Walter E. Krasny holds in his right hand a stamp used by a teen-age boy to place phony seat and row designations on the University football tickets he holds in his hand. Other tickets sold by the youth are in front of Krasny. Police are attempting to locate other bogus tickets which may now be in circulation.

Year
1967
Month
September
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Police Comb Murder Scene on Glacier Way, July 1968

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Ann Arbor News, July 6, 1968
Caption
Senior Police Capt. Harold E. Olsen, foreground, top picture, and Assistant Prosecutor Thomas F. Shea check the spot where the body of a 20-year-old Eastern Michigan University coed was found yesterday. Olson holds missing reports on the woman student which were received last Sunday from Ypsilanti city police. Below, Ann Arbor policemen move in a line across a field neat where the murder victim was found in a search for a purse or other clues which could aid in apprehension of the killer. A thunderstorm interrupted the field search at it was resumes this morning.

Year
1968
Month
July
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Police Investigating Murder Scene on Glacier Way, July 1968

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Ann Arbor News, July 6, 1968
Caption
Senior Police Capt. Harold E. Olsen, foreground, top picture, and Assistant Prosecutor Thomas F. Shea check the spot where the body of a 20-year-old Eastern Michigan University coed was found yesterday. Olson holds missing reports on the woman student which were received last Sunday from Ypsilanti city police. Below, Ann Arbor policemen move in a line across a field neat where the murder victim was found in a search for a purse or other clues which could aid in apprehension of the killer. A thunderstorm interrupted the field search at it was resumes this morning.

Year
1968
Month
July
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Theta Xi Homecoming Display, October 1952

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Ann Arbor News, October 25, 1952
Caption
CARDBOARD, WOOD AND VICTORY HOPES: About 60 University men's houses and 30 women's houses constructed homecoming displays this week-end. This is the display put up by Theta Xi fraternity of 1345 Washtenaw Ave. A giant Michigan man floods the Michigan Stadium, forcing Minnesota's Golden Gophers back to their native state.

Year
1952
Month
October
Description

Homecoming Display

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Homecoming Display at Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity, October 1952

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Year
1952
Month
October
Description

Homecoming Display at Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity -- 1408 Washtenaw at S. University. - Wystan Stevens

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Homecoming Display

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Ann Arbor News, October 25, 1952
Caption
LOOKING AHEAD: Minnesota's Gophers were distinctly underdogs in the football theme of University of Michigan students' homecoming displays. Students looked ahead to Jan. 1 in this one outside South Quadrangle's Gomberg House at 600 E. Madison St. Symbolic Michigan fans awaited the arrival of the stork, hopefully expected to bring a bid to the New Year's Day Pasadena Rose Bowl game.

Year
1952
Month
October
Description

Homecoming Display

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Church Choir to Perform Tribute to St. Cecilia

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Ann Arbor News, November 14, 1981
Caption
St. Cecelia Mass performers will include (from left) Philip Pierson, Sally Carpenter, Ray Shuster, Linda Mohler, Julia Broxholm, and Marilyn van der Velde.

Year
1981
Month
November
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Homecoming Display

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Published In
Ann Arbor News, October 25, 1952
Caption
POISON FOR MINNESOTA: Three witches stirred a potent brew in the Little Brown Jug outside Helen Newberry House, dormitory for women at 432 S. State St. The display, part of traditional homecoming festivities, paraphrased Shakespeare's MacBethian witches with "Double, double; toil and trouble, Minnesota burn, Michigan bubble."

Year
1952
Month
October
Description

Hey, were you looking for the 2014 Summer Game code? You found it! Enter FIREBURNANDCAULDRONBUBBLE on your My Player page.

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Kappa Alpha Theta's Homecoming Display, October 1952

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Ann Arbor News, October 25, 1952
Caption
WE'VE GOT MINNESOTA'S NUMBER: Homecoming displays predicting defeat for Minnesota in this afternoon's football game sprang up overnight on the campus. Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at 1414 Washtenaw Ave. displayed a "victory" telephone, with the slogan, "We'll Ring Up Minnie's Number."

Year
1952
Month
October
Description

Homecoming Display

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University of Michigan Professor Orlan W. Boston With Boston Cutting Tool

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University of Michigan Professor Orlan W. Boston With Boston Cutting Tool. "Born in 1891, Orlan W. Boston graduated from the University of Michigan Engineering College in 1913, received a Masters degree in 1917, and the degree of Mechanical Engineer in 1926. In 1917 he was commissioned in the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance and later was employed by the Cleveland Tractor Company. In 1921 he joined the University of Michigan faculty as Professor, College of Engineering. Part of his archive collection, now at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History, consists of technical papers, tables, charts, photographs and other information on tests of the physical and chemical properties of metals as determined by various cutting and other processes. An additional 21 linear feet of his files are at the Bentley Historical Library in Ann Arbor. Prof. Boston was president of the Washtenaw County Historical Society in the 1960s. He lived to the age of 101, and died in Florida, where his second wife had him buried. His first wife is buried in Ann Arbor's Forest Hill Cemetery -- under a memorial stone that also bears his name." - Wystan Stevens

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University of Michigan Professor Orlan W. Boston and Assistant With Boston Cutting Tool

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University of Michigan Professor Orlan W. Boston and Assistant With Boston Cutting Tool. "Born in 1891, Orlan W. Boston graduated from the University of Michigan Engineering College in 1913, received a Masters degree in 1917, and the degree of Mechanical Engineer in 1926. In 1917 he was commissioned in the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance and later was employed by the Cleveland Tractor Company. In 1921 he joined the University of Michigan faculty as Professor, College of Engineering. Part of his archive collection, now at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History, consists of technical papers, tables, charts, photographs and other information on tests of the physical and chemical properties of metals as determined by various cutting and other processes. An additional 21 linear feet of his files are at the Bentley Historical Library in Ann Arbor. Prof. Boston was president of the Washtenaw County Historical Society in the 1960s. He lived to the age of 101, and died in Florida, where his second wife had him buried. His first wife is buried in Ann Arbor's Forest Hill Cemetery -- under a memorial stone that also bears his name." - Wystan Stevens

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Assistant Working With University of Michigan Professor Orlan W. Boston's Boston Cutting Tool

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Assistant Working With University of Michigan Professor Orlan W. Boston's Boston Cutting Tool. "Born in 1891, Orlan W. Boston graduated from the University of Michigan Engineering College in 1913, received a Masters degree in 1917, and the degree of Mechanical Engineer in 1926. In 1917 he was commissioned in the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance and later was employed by the Cleveland Tractor Company. In 1921 he joined the University of Michigan faculty as Professor, College of Engineering. Part of his archive collection, now at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History, consists of technical papers, tables, charts, photographs and other information on tests of the physical and chemical properties of metals as determined by various cutting and other processes. An additional 21 linear feet of his files are at the Bentley Historical Library in Ann Arbor. Prof. Boston was president of the Washtenaw County Historical Society in the 1960s. He lived to the age of 101, and died in Florida, where his second wife had him buried. His first wife is buried in Ann Arbor's Forest Hill Cemetery -- under a memorial stone that also bears his name." - Wystan Stevens

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Regent Edmund C. Shields Watches the Laying of the Cornerstone of the Rackham Hall at University of Michigan

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Year
1936
Description

The Rackham building was designed by William E. Kapp, of Smith, Hinchman Grylls, one of Detroit's largest architectural firms. Ground for it was broken in May 1936, and it was officially dedicated on June 17, 1938.

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Michigan League - University of Michigan

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Year
1936
Month
March
Day
15
Description

"In 1921, the University Alumnae Council began to lead a campaign to raise funds for a building that would become a center for women's social, cultural and recreational activities on campus. One million dollars was raised and in May 1929 the Michigan League was officially opened." - University of Michigan

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