The 1918 Pandemic in Ann Arbor, Michigan

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• Affirmations Reading Rainbow
  The Ferndale Area District Library in Ferndale, MI hosts a monthly book club for children 8-12 years old that also doubles as a social event for children. The book club is hosted the second Tuesday of each month starting this December and is from 4-5pm ET. The Ferndale Library also regularly hosts events for kids such as youth book clubs, tutoring help, and literacy programs and reading trackers for newborns, toddlers, and those entering Pre-K and Kindergarten. The book club is hosted at Affirmations, which is down the street from the library. The main library is open 10am - 8pm on weekdays and 12pm - 5pm on weekends.
• MSU LGBT Special Collections Resources
  Within the Michigan State University libraries, there exists extensive collections, archives, papers, magazines, clippings, audio, and letters that tell hundreds of stories of the queer community all around Michigan. This resource is made for the MSU student and faculty community, as well as any interested visitor or researcher that can sift for hours through this vast collection through online finding aids, glossaries, guides and tutorials, or with the help of an outreach librarian. Librarian Eli Landaverde can be contacted at elandav@msu.edu. In-person appointments can be made Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 10am - 4pm through MSU's website (3 business days recommended in advance) or one can visit during open hours which vary by library and collection. Materials can only be used inside of the reading room and cannot be checked out. Further, MSU's library also provides services such as passport services, information literacy librarians, assistive listening devices, and motorized carts that can be used to move around the library's physical premises.
• Russell J. Ebeid Library & Resource Center
  Housed within the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, the Russel J. Ebeid Library & Resource Center is open to the public and includes an array of resources for the public, including a cookbook collection and a graphic novel collection. This library and resource center is meant to enrich the museum with supplmental collections and resources, and even includes archival finding aids for many of the Arab American history collections it includes. Further, there are librarians that can be approached or contacted with questions about the center.
• Western Michigan University LGBT Community Library
  The lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender student services on Western Michigan University's campus in Kalamazoo, Michigan is both a library and resource center for students. This library is also a space to go to for information on on- and off-campus housing, campus policies, academic resources, counseling help, ally guides, and name change support. It also acts as a lounge for assorted media and entertainment and LGBT-related news materials. This space is open to everyone, especially LGBT-identifying students and can be found in the LGBT student services office space in the Adriam Trimpe Multicultural Center on 2466 Ring Road S, Kalamazoo, MI 49006 (main campus's address is 1903 W Michigan Ave, Kalamazoo, MI). Materials can be checked out with an appropriate student ID, or a "bronco card." Non-students and non-faculty are also welcome to visit during open visiting hours, which are 9am - 5pm Monday through Friday.
• Treaty of Saginaw
  Also known as the Treaty with the Chippewa, it was an agreement between the United States and the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi tribes. Signed September 24 1819, in Sagninwa Michigan. The tribes ceded six million acres of land which encompassed much of the central and eastern lower peninsula of Michigan. Signed by Lewis Cass, territorial governor of Michigan. The treaty promised that the US government would pay $1000 every year forever to the tribes and hunting and fishing rights on the land. The US government also promised blacksmiths and tools for farming. Additionally Several smaller tracts of land for tribal use within the ceded territory was also stated in the treaty.
• 1775 Michigan and Ohio Relative Positions
  Map showing relative positions of Michigan and Ohio territories in 1775.
• Treaty of Detroit
  In 1807, the Chippewa Nation, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Gaaching Ziibi Daawaa Anishinaabe, and Wyandot of Anderdon Nation ceded millions of acres of land to Ohio and Michigan. In exchange, the four designated tribes only received $10,000 collectively. After the treaty was signed, their lands in the area were reduced to reservation lands between 1 and 6 square miles.
• Jim Toy Library
  A library housed within the University of Michigan's Spectrum Center in the Union, the Jim Toy Library acquires the latest LGBT fiction and non-fiction and also offers DVDs, CDs, and board games in addition to its books. This library is added to our collection because it prioritized LGBT communities and their writing. The library is open to students, faculty, and visitors outside the institution. To check out books during open hours (Monday through Friday 9am - 6pm), however, one will need an M Card (University of Michigan ID). This library is named after LGBT activist and alumnus Jim Toy who established the now-called Spectrum Center in 1971.
• The Leaping Lesbian: Volume I, #7
  The Leaping Lesbian sought to fill the needs of the Ann Arbor lesbian community. This issue contains reflections on the second annual Michigan Womyn's Music Festival and the fourth annual National Women's Music Festival. Also included is an article written by the feminist collective behind Womanspace, a local Ann Arbor bookstore with a women-only policy, an interview with a local lesbian struggling for child custody, instructions for a wiccan spell to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, and an ad for the local lesbian-feminist record label Olivia Records.
• Lesbian Connection: Volume VI, Issue 1
  This issue of Lesbian Connection contains articles and forums discussing the experiences of incarcerated women, sexual abuse survivors, Jewish lesbians, and bisexual women, as well as news clippings submitted by readers across the nation relevant to LGBT and women's rights. This issue also includes reports on the seventh annual Womyn's Music Festival, both celebrating the feminist music festival and critiquing the festival as disorganized and exclusionary to women with disabilities.
• Nine Miles to Detroit City Hall
  A photograph depicting a sign on the northwest side of Mack Avenue reading "9 Miles to Detroit City Hall."
• Neon sign promoting Fisher Body
  A neon sign sits atop an industrial building in Detroit, Michigan promoting Fisher Body, a popular maker of auto bodies and chassis.
• WPA Workers: Your Credit is Good Here
  A rent-to-own store with a neon sign in the window, advertising available credit to workers employed with the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
• Noble Pianos Advertisement
  A sign advertising Noble pianos that reads, "You Save $100.00 When You Buy a Noble from Factory to You, 903 Grand River Av. 1216 Gratiot." The sign is attached to the gate of a home.