Students crossing State St. in front of Michigan Union. Taken for the Michigan Alumnus, April, 1947

On negative sleeve: A suggestion of warmer days ahead for winter-weary Michiganders is contained in this early spring picture, taken from the Michigan Union looking across to Alumni Memorial Hall just as students leave classes at the noon hour

John F. Kennedy on the Michigan Union steps--Peace Corps speech

On verso: John F. Kennedy proposing the Peace Corps during the presidential campaign speech at 2 a.m. Oct. 14, 1960, on the steps of the Michigan Union at the University of Michigan (Daybook, image #58)

Fountain. In the center of the circular driveway between the Michigan Union and the Administration Bldg.

Gift of Clas of 1956

Michigan Union

Irving Kane and Allen B. Pond, architects. Plans for the Union were on a scale unknown at the time for "club houses" in American colleges and universities: 250 feet long and 200 feet wide. Construction began in 1916 and owing to war time difficulties was not ready to be used by students until 1919. View from the northeast.

Dedication of Michigan Union wing

Irving Kane and Allen B. Pond, architects. Plans for the Union were on a scale unknown at the time for "club houses" in American colleges and universities: 250 feet long and 200 feet wide. Construction began in 1916 and owing to war time difficulties was not ready to be used by students until 1919. Two new wings to the south were completed in 1936 and 1938. Verso: Dedication of $2,900,000 Union Wing Oct. 30, 1954. Edward Parker, first Union president, Tom Leopold, "55, Union president. 10 AM stone laying ceremony part of the weekend observance of the Golden Anniversary of the Union.