Ann Arbor Observed
Subtitle: Selections from Then and Now
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/Regional
Published: July 24, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780472031757
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Michigan; History; History - U.S.; History: American; Pictorial works; United States - State & Local - Midwest; History / United States / State & Local; Historic buildings; Ann Arbor; Ann Arbor (Mich.)
Description: "Twenty-five years ago Grace Shackman began to document the history of Ann Arbor's buildings, events, and people in the Ann Arbor Observer. Soon Shackman's articles, which depicted every aspect of life in Ann Arbor during the city's earlier eras, became much-anticipated regular stories. Readers turned to her illuminating minihistories when they wanted to know about a particular landmark, structure, personality, organization, or business from Ann Arbor's past." "Packed with photographs from Ann Arbor of yesteryear and the present day, Ann Arbor Observed compiles the best of Shackman's articles in one book divided into eight sections: public buildings and institutions, the University of Michigan, transportation, industry, downtown Ann Arbor, recreation and culture, social fabric and communities, and architecture."--BOOK JACKET.