[Women’s History] [Gender and Sexuality] [Photography] Cartwright, Margaret. Photograph album, circa 1914 to 1923 documents female youth culture, wartime social life, and gender nonconforming expression in Albion, Michigan during the World War I era. The album records a network of young women associated with local school and community institutions and.....

Mine inspection and safety archive of six booklets dating from 1893 through World War I, documenting evolving labor practices and safety standards in the mining industry. Mine safety practices expanded rapidly after lethal mining disasters and labor conflicts of the late nineteenth century forced government intervention in regulating ventilation, machinery.....

Transgender and cross-dressing periodical archive documents grassroots publishing, community formation, and evolving discourse on gender nonconformity in the United States and Europe between 1983 and 1996, a period marked by limited mainstream recognition and expanding internal advocacy networks. Produced by organizations, independent publishers, and media distributors, these materials capture the.....

[Labor Organizing] United Auto Workers and CIO labor photograph archive documenting strike action, union leadership, and collective bargaining negotiations during the expansion of organized labor in the American automobile industry, 1938-1949. The archive traces the period immediately following the 1935 Wagner Act, when unions gained federal legal protection for collective.....

Germaine Smith high school scrapbook, 1929–1930, documenting female student life, Catholic education, and youth social networks in interwar Detroit. Created by a graduating student of St. Anthony High School, the album preserves written exchanges, photographs, and ephemera that record peer relationships, institutional culture, and expectations for young women at the.....

[Labor Organizing] Ford River Rouge plant labor photo archive documenting the struggle over union recognition, strike enforcement, and industrial bargaining at Ford Motor Company between 1941 and 1953. River Rouge was Ford’s massive Dearborn complex, where raw materials, blast furnaces, rail lines, ships, assembly shops, and tens of thousands of.....

Bakke-era affirmative action and anti-racist organizing pamphlets, press photographs, and municipal employment forms which preserve how the 1977-1978 Regents of the University of California v. Bakke fight extended beyond the Supreme Court into university admissions, public hiring, and school desegregation, documenting the political language and administrative practice surrounding one of.....

[Labor Organization] Chrysler strike press photo archive documenting the 1937 sit down strikes and picketing campaigns at Dodge Main and other Chrysler facilities in Detroit and Highland Park, Michigan, during the decisive phase of industrial unionization in the American automobile industry. The archive records workers occupying plants, mass picket mobilizations.....

Unidentified compiler. Photograph album, 1922–1929, documents rural one-room school education in the American Midwest, with particular emphasis on student life, teaching practices, and community interaction in small farming regions including Michigan. The album provides primary visual and textual evidence of how rural schools operated as social and educational centers, capturing.....

Imperial size silver gelatin portraits of students and faculty at University of Michigan Medical School, including one African American man and four women among the students. 1928. This large photo measures 22 x 18 inches. Mounted to photographer's board. 82 student including four female students and one African American student.....

[African American Photography - Historic Baptist Church] Silver gelatin photograph of seven men and eight women sitting and standing in two rows, wearing matching suits, white shoes, and white gloves. 1949. 8" x 10". Inscribed on verso in pencil "July 11, 1949" and stamped "For Extra Pictures This Is Your.....

[African American][Comics] DC Comics. Green Lantern (1984–1985) marks the period in which John Stewart, an African American architect from Detroit, assumes sustained narrative control of a major DC superhero title. Published between 1984 and 1985, these issues place Stewart as the primary Green Lantern, moving him from a secondary or.....

[Woman Suffrage] US House of Representatives. "Extending the Right of Suffrage to Women." 48th Congress, 1st Session. Report No. 1330. April 24, 1884. First edition. 8 pages. Original paper wrappers. 9 x 6 in. “We believe that every citizen in the United States in made more intelligent, more learned, and.....