We believe that all of the works in this digital collection are in the public domain, and not restricted by copyright. It's overall technological infrastructure is currently overseen by Wayne State University Library System with advisory support from the advisory committee of the Michigan Service Hub.Biographies and selected works of poets Will Carleton, John C. Wright and Edgar Guest. CMU's Digital Collections offer free access to Michigan newspapers, CMU scholarly works and history, historical publications, and more. Workers were rehired at a trickle’s pace as vacancies occurred, and the dispute continued until 2000, when a Federal Court of Appeals reversed NLRB and lower court rulings on an unfair labor practice and thus ended the unions’ final recourse to prevail.The newspaper covered current events in general, with in-depth coverage of local news and labor issues. Michigan Memories provides access to collections from cultural institutions throughout the state of Michigan. We also consult with other academic units around the university and elsewhere who are interested in digitization.Our staff are trained in the care and handling of rare and fragile objects and artifacts. These materials were digitized and cataloged with the assistance of the Wayne State The Michigan collection was given to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO). The DSO performed selections from this collection regularly over the next 40 years. They organized and sponsored many expos, exhibits, summits, and other social gatherings. There are also separate collections on UMDL dedicated to … Our goal is to reopen to the public August 24. The full collection is housed in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Archive, and consists of more than 300 compositions that include copied parts for both conductor's scores and individual instruments from the WPA. This digitized collection is the result of a partnership between the Detroit Public Library and Wayne State University.
Contact the library for more information.The Digital Dress Collection contains images of clothing worn in Michigan during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The digital collection of cookbooks is a collaborative effort between the University Library and the Indianapolis Public Library and will focus on Indiana cookbooks dating from the turn-of-the-century, with a special emphasis on fundraising cookbooks published by …
This digital collection was originally made possible by DALNET, IMLS, and Library of Michigan grants in 2002-2007. Our primary mission is to digitize materials from the general stacks and more specialized collections. Additional related materials are available.An active member of the Detroit women's rights movement, journalist Toni Swanger worked with the Detroit Women's Radio Workshop on programming for the Detroit public radio station WDET, and served in various roles for Detroit newspaper, Metro Times, including production manager and managing editor. Ramsey's personal papers can be found at the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University.The first U.S. heart transplant took place on December 6, 1967 at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., just three days after Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first transplant in Cape Town, South Africa. These digitized items are part of a larger collection in the Wayne State University Library Special Collections, which contains more correspondence, books, and other items.Herman Miller, Inc., based in Zeeland, Michigan, began in 1923 as a manufacturer of residential furniture. This focused exclusively on the arts and encompassed separate Federal Projects for Theater, Music, the Visual Arts, and Writers. The collection spans the 1920s-1960s and includes coverage of Isle Royale, urban Saginaw, as well as the National Parks and the Caribbean. These letters are part of the Frank Howard Collection of Civil War History in the Wayne State University Library Special Collections. At some point during the 1980s, the collection was boxed and stored in a basement room under the main stage of Orchestra Hall, the performing home of the DSO, and not discovered there until 2005. Distributed nationally, Kick Magazine provided the LGBT community with information, awareness, and a way to organize. The public can also learn more about born-digital resources acquired by the Briscoe Center. This collection consists of 35mm and lantern slides, drawn from a broader collection that also includes documents, 16mm films, and more. Digital Collections. When the WPA orchestras and library were disbanded in 1943, the music was sent to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO), the oldest and largest continuing orchestra in the state. The WPA music copies include historically important compositions by American and European composers, as well as compositions by women and composers of color whose contributions have long been neglected.