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Farewell to Our Friend and Colleague

The staff of the Reuther Library is mourning the loss of a dear friend and colleague, Tom Featherstone. ... 15. His passing leaves a tremendous void at the Reuther Library, and in the archival world as a whole. Tom joined the Reuther Library audiovisual staff in 1979. Having earned a B.A. in History from the ...

Blog entry - mwallace - 10/01/2013 - 11:13 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

General Gordon Baker, Jr.: A Detroit Revolutionary to the Core

... Michigan State House of Representatives. The Reuther Library is the home to a number of resources that document Baker’s earlier ... Baker’s life or that fit elsewhere within the Reuther Library Collection Policy , please contact the field archivist Louis Jones at ...

Blog entry - ljones - 09/11/2014 - 16:17 - 0 comments - 2 attachments

Noel Night Historical Calendar 2019

... buildings on campus on the Tales from the Reuther Library podcast . December 18, 1948: WDET studios dedicated by the ...

Blog entry - scaloia - 01/02/2020 - 09:40 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Solidarność Exhibit — 2010

... to the end of the Cold War in Eastern Europe. The Reuther Library’s latest exhibit, "Solidarność: Poland’s Struggle for Freedom, ... Detroit, Hamtramck Historical Commission, Hamtramck Public Library, The Polish Mission at Orchard Lake, Tamara Sochacka, and the Albert ...

Blog entry - kchinery - 10/01/2013 - 10:20 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Collection Spotlight: Dale Rich Collection

... longtime newspaperman, and historian, came to the Reuther Library to research African Americans and labor. As I, Access Archivist ... and I suggested he start a collection here at the Reuther Library, and, in 2002, he officially donated the Dale Rich Collection. Since ...

Blog entry - cdavis - 10/01/2013 - 11:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Reuther Welcomes Shae Rafferty, LUAC Archivist

The Walter P. Reuther Library is pleased to welcome Shae Rafferty as the Labor and Urban Affairs ... she began working at the school’s Bentley Historical Library. When Shae matriculated to UM’s School of Information archives ... basis?” In her short amount of time at the Reuther Library, Shae has made a significant dent in the backlog of unprocessed ...

Blog entry - gstrassel - 06/27/2018 - 15:10 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Archivist of the United States Celebrates Wayne State University Archives Program

... , Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the History and Library Science Departments at Wayne State University and past president of the ... while the institution housing this collection, the Reuther Library, celebrated its 35th anniversary. This year, another of Dr. ...

Blog entry - jruss - 10/01/2013 - 11:12 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Meet Rebecca Bizonet, Oral History Project Archivist

The Reuther Library is pleased to welcome Rebecca Bizonet as project archivist for its oral ... (NHPRC) Documenting Democracy grant awarded to the library in 2014. The main purpose of the project will be to facilitate ... and communities." Ms. Bizonet comes to the Reuther Library with a combined fourteen years experience at the University of Michigan ...

Blog entry - drice - 05/11/2015 - 11:13 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

2016 Sam Fishman Travel Grant Recipients

The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is pleased to ... provide up to $1,000 to support travel to the Reuther Library to access archival records related to the American labor movement. The ... speak about their work at an informal event at the Reuther Library or as part of the North American Labor History Conference (NALHC) held ...

Blog entry - enordberg - 03/07/2016 - 16:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Subject Focus: Merrill-Palmer Summer Camp

... With the school year now upon us, the Reuther Library presents a look back at summers past as recorded in the Merrill-Palmer ... Rice is an Audiovisual Archivist at the Walter P. Reuther Library (Camps, Child development, Child psychology, Merrill-Palmer ...

Blog entry - drice - 10/16/2014 - 09:41 - 0 comments - 0 attachments