This article clipping from "The Observer", a liberal London newspaper, reports the murder of the second of the five canonical Ripper victims, Annie Chapman. It shares many details of the crime scene, the timeline of the murder and subsequent investigation, and interviews with some who knew Chapman.
Photo from the play "Flint" by José Casas. A diverse group of young actors in casual clothing appear onstage. Most of them are seated on blue barrels of the kind used to dispose of toxic waste. An African-American woman stands to the left, leaning on a broom; a white man and an African-American man sit center stage wearing smocks of the kind used in barber shops. The scenery involves an arrangement of water pipes; there is an outline of the lower peninsula of Michigan center stage.
Photo of the cast of José Casas' "Flint" onstage. The photo depicts four couples dancing; three of them appear to be mixed-sex while the fourth (on the viewer's right) is two women. A man in the foreground gestures to the audience; he has brown skin and wears a crown, sash, and blazer. The scenery is made up of water pipes with an outline of the lower peninsula of Michigan on the stage.
Poster for the play "Flint" by José Casas. The poster shows a rusted water tank against an acid-green sky; above the tank is a pipe bearing the tagline "It's not just about the water..." The production ran from 4-14 April 2019 at the Arthur Miller Theatre.
Program for UM School of Music, Theatre & Dance production of "Flint," by José Casas. The production was staged at the Arthur Miller Theatre and ran from April 4-14, 2019. The cover shows a rusted water tank against an acid-green sky. Program contains biographies of cast, creatives as well as program notes, theatre staff and policies, alumni news, and donor list.
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.
An example of cultural appropriation commonly committed during the 1950s. A photo of members of the Michigan Indian Foundations, Inc. wearing ceremonial headdresses at an event.
A book published by the Inter-Cooperative Council in Ann Arbor, Michigan that is dedicated to telling the history of the cooperative housing movement and it's relations to the city of Ann Arbor as well as the University of Michigan, up to 1993.
This is an illustration done by Arthur Rackham for the 1928 illustrated version of "The Lonesomest Doll" (1901) by Abbie Farwell Brown. It features the words "In the Queen's Palace," and depicts the female main character surrounded by toys.
The front page of a weekly London magazine, "Puck", showcasing a cartoon of a man struggling to identify the culprit of the 1888 Whitechapel murders attributed to Jack the Ripper.
A painting by German impressionist artist Walter Sickert that depicts his interpretation of Whitechapel murders' killer Jack the Ripper. Some investigators suspected (and continue to suspect) that Sickert could have been Jack the Ripper, though no DNA evidence exists to prove his involvement in the case.
The front page of one of the earliest British tabloids, reporting on the lack of evidence available in the Jack the Ripper case after a few weeks of investigation.
An article about the spread of the pandemic throughout the country. According to the report, cases in army camps had increased from the last day, but cases among civilians were expected to rise.
A digital scan of two pages of the Michigan Daily from October 12th, 2000, featuring two halves of an article about LGBT students seeking political and social recognition on campus. This article covers the 2000 National Coming Out Day Rally on UM campus and LGBT students calling for political awareness (in the face of the 2000 presidential election) and gender-neutral housing on campus for "transgender, transsexual and gender-queer" students.
A digital scan of two pages of the Michigan Daily from November 18th, 2004, featuring two halves of an article about the experiences of transgender students at UM. This covers the 2004 University's Report of the Task Force on the Campus Climate for Transgender, Bisexual, Lesbian and Gay Faculty, Staff and Students. This includes personal accounts from transgender students (Denise Brogan, André Wilson, Stephen Rassi) and information spreading awareness about the personal and legal struggles of transgender and transsexual individuals in general.
