The 1918 Pandemic in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Items

• Image from Mark Schilling Collection
  Untitled pamphlet with abstracted Japanese text in black ink
• Typed copy of Benjamin Linder's April 10, 1987 letter
  Pages 15 - 17 of "United States volunteers in Nicaragua and the death of Benjamin Linder : hearing before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One hundredth Congress, first session, May 13, 1987." This letter was sent days before the author, who is the namesake of Linder Cooperative House, was killed by contra forces in Nicaragua during his time helping to build hydroelectric dams in local communities.
• Black Elk Tour
  Check out Black Elk Cooperative House! Black Elk is a vegetarian co-op and has many lovely murals, amentities (ball pit!!), and cool people!
• Vail Haus Tour
  Follow Hope throughout Vail Haus, a co-op in the Inter-Cooperative Council of Ann Arbor.
• Nakamura Co-op House Tour
  Follow Hayden as they introduce you to the spaces and people of Nakamura Co-op!
• Debs House Tour
  Check out Eugene V. Debs Cooperative House! We are one of the student housing cooperatives in the town of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Escher Cooperative House Tour
  Check out what Escherites have to say about living in their co-op home! Escher is the North Campus Co-op in the ICC Ann Arbor, and one of the only co-ops on campus that allows you to pick your room when signing (single room for sure!) and has a lovely yard, interior, and house culture. Many undergrads, grad students, and young professionals find home in Escher, making it one of our more mature but still playful co-ops. If you need quiet, you can find it, and if you want a social atmosphere, you can find it. It is right nearby baits, burs, courtyards, the ncrb, and other north campus buildings, with a very competitive bus stop located right outside, as well as a plentiful amount of parking. Learn more about escher and see the HOUSE TOUR WALKTHROUGH on the icc website: www.icc.coop !
• Ruths' Co-op House Tour
  Follow Inés as she takes you around Ruths' Cooperative House, one of our smallest ICC co-ops!
• ACT-UP Flyer
  Flyer announcing protest of UM Regent Deane Baker
• “Kiss In” Photograph
  Protesters hold up a sign that reads “Kissing does not kill. Homophobia does.”
• “Demonstration sponsored by ACT-UP, July 31, 1990”
  Protester holds “Recall Baker” sign, referencing UM Regent Deane Baker.
• “Gay Rights Protest”
  LGBTQ protestors wear paper bags over their heads to protect identities.
• “Gay Rights Protest”
  “GAY RIGHTS PROTEST: Student protestors covered their heads with grocery bags Friday, as they marched around campus to demonstrate for gay rights. Their hour-long protest was silent, but slogans on their bags proclaimed, ‘Let me out of the closet.’ The 12-member group briefly occupied the office of U-M President Harold T. Shapiro. Shapiro was out of town, but the protestors left a message: ‘We won't be silent anymore and we will be back.’ For more than a year, gay men and lesbians on campus have been pressuring U-M for a policy to prohibit discrimination against homosexuals” (Caption).
• “Gay Rights Protest”
  LGBTQ protestors wear paper bags over their heads to protect identities.
• "Plants that Will Grow in Michigan"
  An article with historic photographs from the June 17, 1923 issue of the Detroit Free Press. It shows plants growing in the University of Michigan's Nichols Arboretum and suggests that these could inform what people plant in their own gardens.
• “Being Gay Still Isn't Easy Despite U's Liberal Image”
  “Cautious – This speaker at a gay rally against violence held in Ann Arbor this summer wears a paper bag over his head to protect his identity. Lesbians and gay men say discrimination at the university and in town continues, despite efforts to curb its effects.” (photo caption)
• Peony Garden. University of Michigan. [postcard]
  A postcard of the University of Michigan's Peony Garden in bloom sometime from 1930 to 1935. Dimensions: 3.7 x 4.7 inches photo print Repository: Bentley Historical Library Item Number: HS11905 Box: 17 A
• The Peony Garden at the Arb
  A photograph of the Peony Garden in full bloom during August of 2004.
• Populus deltoides ssp. deltoides 22099*A at the Arnold Arboretum
  Image of Populus deltoides ssp. deltoides (Eastern Cottonwood) from the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University in Boston, MA
• Nichols Arboretum: The "Big" 10
  A map of the "biggest" trees in the Nichols Arboretum by the diameter of the trunk (DBH) and the species.
• "From Hell" letter
  A letter sent to George Lusk, the head of Whitechapel's Mile End Vigilance Committee, on October 16, 1888. The message was supposedly accompanied by half of a kidney (purportedly from Catherine Eddowes), which was later thought to be a prank.
• "Saucy Jacky" postcard
  A postcard, sent to the Central News Agency on October 1, 1888 and signed "Jack the Ripper, which takes credit for the murders of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes the previous night.
• "Dear Boss" letter
  A letter, written in red ink, mailed to the Central News Agency between September 25-27, 1888, and then sent to Scotland Yard (London Metropolitan Police), claims responsibility for the murder of Annie Chapman and includes details from the crime scene that were not known by the public. The content of the message and threats of future victims implied that the author of the note could be the real killer. The famous pseudonym "Jack the Ripper" comes from the signature line on this letter.
• "Murder at Buck's Row"
  The front page of one of the earliest British tabloids, illustrating the murder of Ripper victim Mary Ann Nichols on Buck's Row in the Whitechapel district of London.
• "The Nemesis of Neglect"
  An illustration from the satirical magazine "Punch" that connects the crime of London's slums to neglect and makes vague references to the Jack the Ripper murders in the East End's Whitechapel district. It also has a caption reading, "There floats a phantom on the slum’s foul air Shaping, to eyes which have the gift of seeing, Into the spectre of that loathly lair. Face it – for vain is fleeing. Red-handed, ruthless, furtive, un-erect, 'Tis murderous crime, the nemesis of neglect."