U. of M. League Bldg.

View from the northwest corner showing contruction site with crane lifting metal frame. Korwin negative number 729. On verso: GEO.F.KORWIN COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHER ANN ARBOR, MICH. DIAL 4829 NEGATIVE NO. 729. (circular stamp) On image: U. of M. LEAGUE BLDG. POND & POND, MARTIN & LLOYD ARCH'S. LOVERING-LONGBOTHAM CONT'S MARCH 3, 1928 FROM NW COR. MAIN BLDG. PHOTO BY KORWIN, ANN ARBOR. 729

U. of M. League Bldg.

View from the northeast corner showing contruction site with home in the background. Verso: GEO.F. KORWIN COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHER ANN ARBOR, MICH. DIAL 4829 NEGATIVE NO. 730. On image: U.of M. LEAGUE BLDG. POND & POND, MARTIN & LLOYD ARCH'S, LOVERING-LONGBOTHAM CONT'S. MARCH 3, 1928. FROM N.E. COR MAIN BLDG. PHOTO BY KORWIN, ANN ARBOR, 730

Aerial view of University of Michigan

Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this aerial view shows the Burton Memorial Tower, Michigan League and the Thomas M. Cooley fountain. The Burton Memorial Tower houses the Baird Carillon, 3rd largest musical instrument in the world. The bells range from 12 pounds to 12 tons.

Burton Tower

On verso: This is a sketch made at the B&G [Buildings and Grounds] offices [contractor] showing the projected development of the Central Mall -- with Burton Tower, proposed School of Music building back of it and new Graduate School building. It was made for the President's Report for 35-36. The President thought it would be appropriate to preserve it among the archives.

Finnish Miners versus Ivy League Capitalists

Finnish immigrants were recruited to work in the copper mines of Michigan by Boston capitalists intimately associated with Harvard. Boston capitalists defined the culture of capitalism in the United States. They extended their culture across the continent as they acquired mines and railroads. Finnish workers encountered Ivy League capitalism in Michigan, Minnesota, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Arizona—often with the same interrelated group of capitalists. The two groups continually met in explosive confrontations in Montana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Arizona. To the Ivy League capitalists, Finns were terrorists who threatened the American social order. For the Finns, it was a war for social justice. In my presentation, I will trace the experience of Finnish workers in corporations controlled by Ivy League capitalists from the first strike at Calumet & Hecla in 1873 to the Red Scare of 1919-1921.

Building the New Society in the Shell of the Old: Finnish-Canadian Hall Socialism and the Canadian Industrial Unionist Support League

The literature on Finnish immigrant working-class movements in North America frequently makes reference to the phenomenon of "hall socialism," so-called because of the central position that the socialist or labor hall occupied in the political, associational, and cultural life of many Finnish communities throughout the twentieth-century. In the 1930s, over 80 such Finnish halls were spread across Canada, and many people associated with these halls vigorously supported the mission of organized labor. This paper will examine the history, ideas, and practices of the Industrial Workers of the World-influenced Canadan Teollisuusunionistien Kannatus Liitto (CTKL; Canadian Industrial Unionist Support League), and its connections to Finnish Canadian hall socialism. The paper will consider the role of the CTKL in supporting workers' struggles, the significance of the hall as a part of the infrastructural bedrock that sustained this support, and the broader interaction between social and radical organizing commitments.

First Urban League float, 1950. U.F. Torch parade

1950 United Fund Parade, Detroit Michigan

Meeting on housing between Detroit Urban League and City of Detroit, Common Council

On verso: Hearing--Common Council--City of Detroit, Pres. Remus G. Robinson, Sec'y Willam Price, On housing

Women's League party, 1911

Detached image from student scrapbook

Pete Appleton (Jablonowski) UM Baseball, 1924-1926, major league card, with New York Yankees in 1933

[Big League Chewing Gum baseball card]

Pete Appleton (Jablonowski) UM Baseball, 1924-1926, major league card with Chicago White Sox

[Brian Williams, Play Ball baseball card, 1940]