Browse Items (15 total)

  • Collection: Origins and Firsts

1908 Block M

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Hinchman Diary Page

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Waterman Gym interior

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Entrance to Waterman gym

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1882 Baseball Team

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A team photo of the 1882 baseball team, which was noteworthy for the presence of Fleet Walker, the first African-American athlete at Michigan (bottom row, third from the right)

Original U-M baseball diamond/playing field (ca. 1865)

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Letter from Hinchman to his parents on April 26, 1863

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Moses Fleetwood Walker

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Elmer Mitchell, 1911

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Dott and Walker Necrology Files

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On the left is Dott's necrology file and on the right is Walker's necrology file. The two men attended U-M during the same time and played baseball with one another. Yet Dott has clearly been remembered, while Walker has been all but forgotten.