Clarke Historical Library

It's #ThrowbackThurday and we're bringing you a #ThreadsThrowbackThursday post. This weekend, designers and models at CMU will take the stage in the Plachta Auditorium to show off the 2025 Threads Fashions. Pictured are shots of Threads from 2005, 2008, and 2014.

For the 1st 200 people attending the 75th anniversary of Finch on Sat, March 22 from 11am-2pm, you will receive some RPL swag, including this “rookie” trading card! FIRED UP IN FINCH! @cmuniversity @cmuehs @cmualumni @Clarke_Library

Extra! Extra! Libraries, museums, historical societies, & similar organizations can apply for the DigMichNews Award to have your community's historical newspapers uploaded into the DigMichNews Database. Applications due 1/31/2025. Apply today! tinyurl.com/45a5pxf9

Happy to announce the videos from the new Finch Interpretive Trail are now on the RPL website. Just click the link in the 2nd paragraph on our home page to learn more about the history of this iconic building at CMU! @cmuniversity @cmuehs @cmualumni @clarke_library @CMUAthletics

Come see the new Finch Interpretive Trail! Seven spots throughout the building. Find the plaques, scan the QR codes and learn all about the incredible history of this iconic building in the heart of campus! 🔥👆

We are 75 days away from the 75th Anniversary Celebration of Finch! Sat, March 22 / 11am-2pm!🔥👆Use the link below to register! This is a FREE EVENT & your registration helps us with planning! go.cmualum.com/finch75 @cmuniversity @cmuehs @cmualumni @cmuathletics @clarke_library

On this day, Dec. 17, in 1903, the Wright Brothers' flying machine took the the skies for the first time. Read all about this experiment in manned flight from the Alpena Evening News of December 19, 1903: tinyurl.com/4m44cyuv

The Clarke Historical Library will be open through Fri., Dec. 20. We will be closed for the CMU winter break beginning Sat., Dec. 21, reopening Jan. 6, 2025. Image: a group of revelers enjoys festive celebrations in the 100 block of E. Broadway St., Mt. Pleasant, ca. Dec. 1955.

Some of Michigan's best pictures involve those frozen crystalline flakes falling from the sky, like this postcard from Mackinaw City... or the picture we might snap with the weather today!

Calling all libraries, museums, historical societies, & similar organizations: Apply today for the DigMichNews Award to have your community's historical newspapers scanned and uploaded into the DigMichNews Database. Applications are due January 31. cmich.edu/research/clark…

Students at @CMUniversity are gearing up for finals and the end of the semester. We looking back at students using the library in 2005 and 2013... Nothing says getting work done like a big CRT monitor and a 1st gen iPod! #LifeAtCentral @CMUAlumni

The Clarke Historical Library was delighted to team up with CMU English for an evening with Poet Laureate of Michigan Nandi Comer. Read more about last month's program on CMU News: cmich.edu/news/details/s…

The Clarke will be closed Thursday, November 28 and Friday, November 29 for the Thanksgiving holiday. We'll reopen on Monday, December 2 for regular business. Picture is a Thanksgiving greeting card, from the 1930s, found in the Nellie May Davis Finley papers.

Today is #OpeningDay of firearms deer hunting season in Michigan. Back in the 1800s, a photographer with a stereographic camera (two lenses, which creates a 3D effect with the right viewer) snapped this photo of an unidentified group of men at their deer camp in #Michigan.

We are getting excited about our 75th Anniversary of Finch “Party” on March 22! This new bulletin board in Finch gives some detail about the event & some awesome photos from throughout the years! 🔥👆💎 @cmuniversity @cmuehs @cmualumni @cmuathletics @cmuactivities @clarke_library

A big thank you to our friends at @WCMUNews for shining a light on Dr. Baugh's work. Learn more about Dr. Baugh's research from a recording of her presentation to the Clarke Historical Library in 2020: youtube.com/watch?v=I4tVlT…

The Clarke has a great deal by & about the Indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes region. Learn more about Ojibwe-language children's book, Simon Pokagon's birch bark books, records related to Company K, and more: tinyurl.com/3d3ktzmd #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

View of Broadway Street around 1935, looking west from about where the Broadway Theatre is today.

Join us tonight (11/6) to listen to Nandi Comer, Michigan's poet laureate.

The Clarke is excited to support the CMU Dept. of English Language & Literature's next guest for the Meijer Visiting Writers Series, Michigan's Poet Laureate, Nandi Comer. The event takes place on Wednesday, November 6 at 7:00 pm in the CMU Libraries Auditorium.