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The Birds. Vertigo. Dirty Harry. Harold and Maude. San Francisco has one of the greatest film legacies of any American city. This map shows locations so you can check out the scenes yourself — from dark comedies to classics to horrors. #MapMonday https://myumi.ch/jV43V
Happening NOW in the Clark Library: the opening of "Muted Volumes: Book-objects, patterned papers, and the closed stacks of Buhr," an exhibit of handbound unopenable book-objects as symbolic stand-ins for books languishing in offsite storage. https://myumi.ch/Mpbk6
Most library locations are closed Saturday, 5/23 through Monday, 5/26 for the Memorial Day holiday. Shapiro Library is open regular hours Saturday and limited hours Sunday. See hours for details: https://myumi.ch/D8g88
Zooniverse volunteers helped us transcribe and digitize our collection of letters that were sent to Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre in the aftermath of his War of the Worlds broadcast. Watch "My Dear Mr. Welles: War of the Worlds Fan and Hate Mail": https://myumi.ch/bDZVy
Joe Veazey, the artist behind the famous Atlanta Rap Map, spent two years eating at 150+ barbecue joints to make this map. It charts 180+ restaurants, 25 barbecue legends, and the full regional history of American barbecue, all painted by hand. #MapMonday https://myumi.ch/kVwjV
100 years ago on May 12, 1926, the first undisputed sighting of the North Pole took place by airplane! Advances in arctic exploration led to the creation of many maps of the top of our globe in the 1920s, including this one from 1929. #MapMonday https://myumi.ch/G2w8E
Ella Hall was a Black landlord and cook in Ann Arbor. Her manuscript cookbook (1920-1940ish) resides in our Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive, and a facsimile will be released by U-M Press in June. Read about Hall, her cookbook, and her cornbread! https://myumi.ch/qw87D
In the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room: The People’s Bicentennial. Original artifacts document the work of the Peoples Bicentennial Commission (PBC), which challenged the official, corporate-sponsored commemoration of the 1976 bicentennial. https://myumi.ch/nVk1V
This declassified D-Day map (1 of 2) was used by the American military to plan the Omaha Beach landings (Normandy, France on June 6, 1944). These remarkable maps include red print detailing intelligence readings. #MapMonday https://myumi.ch/NrAVG
Not all maps are made for adults! This 1998 map reimagined Chicago for children. Chicago and beyond are illustrated with points of interest, a Loop inset, and an index to everything worth seeing when you're small & the Windy City feels enormous. #MapMonday https://myumi.ch/rw7Dn
