A leisurely Look at Michigan’s stories and traditions from yesterday to yesteryear.
This week at the Archives of Michigan we are piloting a new and exciting education program. With generous and valuable assistance from the staff at the White House Decision Center, Truman Presidential Library, the Archives has developed a program titled “The Governor’s Decision Room.”
I grew up in Detroit during the 1960s. Even though I now live in Lansing, Detroit is my home, my main street. There are over five hundred Detroit images at seekingmichigan.org
These women are in the midst of a sit-down strike against their employer – the Farm Crest Bakery of Detroit. It is February 1937, and sit-down strikes have become “all the rage!”
Stevens T. Mason made an indelible mark on Michigan. Yet, he lived his final days in New York and was buried there. In 1905 – over sixty years after his death – Michigan’s “boy governor” finally came home!
The women in this vintage photo seem to be having fun in the “old stage coach.” One suspects that, even then, the stagecoach could evoke the “romance” of the old frontier.
The Michigan death records collection here at Seeking Michigan, covering the years 1897 to 1920, is now largely complete. With the records added recently, there are now more than 960,000 certificates available for free at this site, meaning that the project is now 99% complete.
As the United States entered World War II, the US military needed weapons. Already well known for expertise in manufacturing, Michigan seemed the logical place to begin mass production of defense products.
Here is the “World’s Largest Stove” at its current location – the State Fairgrounds in Detroit. The “giant stove” symbolizes Detroit’s time as the center of the American stove industry.
On September 1, 1980, Emil and Mary Petri hosted a Labor Day picnic to remember. Their guests included Republican Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan and Michigan Governor William Milliken. (That’s Mary Petri seated in the middle, between the two.)
