AmericaJR’s Jason Rzucidlo recently visited the Detroit Historical Museum to check out their new exhibit “200 Years Young: Detroit and the University of Michigan.” It is described asan exhibition about the longstanding interactions between Detroit and the University of Michigan, built around the six themes of U-M’s bicentennial celebration. Through words, images and artifacts, the exhibition will show how each community has been made stronger by the ideas and contributions of its members, from public health improvements and broadened civil rights to architectural design and compelling journalism.
Outside the Detroit Historical Museum
Chippewa Wampum Belt (1760)
Draft to establish the University of Michigania (1817)
The Cass Cane (1850s)
Detroit was a fur trading village in 1820
Lewis Cass brokered a treaty that led to Native Americans ceding land for U of M.
Michigan Bicentennial logo
Jonathan Kearsley served on the U-M Board of Trustees (1827-37)
Detroit’s Bicentennial celebration (1901)
Detroit Mayors who attended U of M
Current Mayor Mike Duggan attended U of M
Former Detroit Mayor Frank Murphy graduated from the U of M Law School.
WJR’s Paul W. Smith
Ismael Ahmed attended the U of M Dearborn
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy (left)
Employees building B-24 bombers at Ypsilanti’s Willow Run plant
Josephine Gomon diary (1925)
Cornelius Henderson
The Belle Isle Bridge
Comedian Gilda Radner
David Alan Grier
English Grammar by Lindley Murray (1802)
Dinah Shore
The Detroit Observatory on the U-M campus
U-M alum Henry F. Vaughan joined the Detroit Dept. of Health in 1913