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Teaching American Studies at UMMA

The UMMA collections are often used by classes organized under the "American Studies" heading. This collection contains portfolios in this vein, as well as additional materials that may be of use for university faculty and UMMA staff.



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Created by
Rachel Lockwood Miller
Last Updated
April 4, 2020 1:13 p.m.

47 Items in this Learning Collection
Manifest Destiny and the American West, 1850-1950

A black and white phot of two men dressed in a Western style with a tent. One man is standing in front of the tent, while the other is sitting on a rolled up canvs in front of the tent.


Beige bowl, wider at the top, with a rim formed in a braided pattern.
Collection with 5 items
W16 Steward - HISTORY 197 - Crossing the Color Line
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
Resource with 12 media
U.S. Freedom Struggles of the Long 1960s
Two women holding signs at a protest march. They are talking together on the side of a street.


A group of African Americans praying while kneeling on a street. There is concrete pavement and a brick building behind them.

A group of African Americans praying while kneeling on a street. There is concrete pavement and a brick building behind them.
Collection with 6 items
Recreation, Leisure, and Sport in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century America

Resource with 130 media
School and Education in the U.S.

Resource with 24 media
F16 Mora - AMCULT 213 / LATINOAM 213 - Introduction to Latina, Latino Studies
A photograph of a view from a rooftop. A man stands on the left side of the composition, watching pigeons fly above the scene. In the distance, more pigeons flock above the skyline.
Resource with 19 media
W15 Carroll - AMCULT 698 - Methodologies in American Culture: Gender, Ethnicity, Race, Class
This is a line drawing done in colors of red, orange, blue, yellow, brown and green, on white paper. In the top center portion of the sheet are the words, "A LIE". Below this are forms that resemble an egg, a slice of bacon, a piece of bread with a pat of yellow butter. Below these forms are some round shapes, labeled "flakes", a bowl and a carton of milk, labeled "milk".
Resource with 17 media
Politics, and Social Reform in the US, 1901-1950

Resource with 234 media
F13 Gunckel - AMCULT 335 - Arts and Culture in American Life
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
Resource with 12 media
U.S. Radicalism

Resource with 66 media
Social Justice and Art 1946-1968
This print is made of colorful forms and words in bright letters and bold fonts, arranged on a white background. Block letters display words in a mixed-up format, some upside down, some on their sides. On left side there is a section with smaller writing in yellowish ink on grey.<br /><br /> Text:<br /> To the Lovings, new hope i love you much (most beautiful darling) more than anyone on earth and i like you better than everything in the sky--sunlight and singing welcome your coming although winter may be everywhere with such a silence and such a darkness no one can quite begin to guess (except my life) the true time of the year-- and if what calls itself a world should have the luck to hear singing (or glimpse such sunlight as will leap higher than high through gayer than gayest someone's heart at your each nearness) everyone certainly would (my most beautiful darling) believe in nothing but love. cummings
Resource with 47 media
Social Justice and Art 1900-1928
Shack belonging to a group of ragpickers.
Resource with 19 media
Social Justice and Art 1929-1945
In the foreground, there is a man laying on a large human-sized book, one hand on his chin and the other holding a pencil to the page. In front of his pencil, the text &quot;Mendez&quot; and &quot;1945&quot; is printed. On the pages of the book are a skeleten-creature and on the opposite page an angel. Behind the man and the book is a large cactus, and then a large cross rises from its base. The cross is encircled by a large snake-like creature whose head is open, facing away, and an eagle is crucified with knives. Coming from the ends of the cross are what seems to be spears, pointing clockwise. Behind this foreground scene, there is an army marching under a flag with the skull and crossbones. A priest follows behind the army, seemingly coming from the open mouth of the large serpent whose tail holds the feet of the crucified eagle. To the left there are two more crucified figures, whose crosses are on fire. In the far background, there is a vista of a large city.&nbsp;
Resource with 60 media
Understanding Race - selection for LSA Theme Semester, Winter 2013

Resource with 35 media
W16 Peplin - SAC 376 - New Media Theory
This vertical print shows a slick advertising image in the top half with a man and a woman watching an early model television set. The woman is smoking a cigarette. A text box is inserted asking three questions. The bottom half is less slick, simply a diagram and text, some of it in a typewriter font. Text above and below asks about how soon television sets will be widely available in homes and museums. The date 1944 is included in parentheses at the top of the image.
Resource with 24 media
Borders of Identity in North America
Photographed from atop a high ridge, this photograph depicts a view looking down into a winding desert canyon.
Resource with 87 media
W16 Calvo-Quiros - AMCULT 103 / LATINOAM 103 - Car Culture

Resource with 20 media
Sp15 MacGillivray - AMCULT 204 - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality in North American Borderlands
This photograph depicts an elevated, wide view of a curving river winding through a wooded valley, with snowcapped mountains rising in the distance. The sky above the landscape is filled with clouds.
Resource with 19 media
U.S. Wars
Half-length seated portrait of a bearded man, his face in profile, wearing a military uniform.
Resource with 67 media
W15 Molldrem - ENGLISH 125 - Science, Technology, Medicine, Homosexuality
Oak panel with screen print; signed K.Haring 88 along lower right edge.
Resource with 17 media
WPA Woman Artists
Night view of New York City skyscrapers seen from above.
Resource with 41 media
W15 Suhadolnik - RCHUMS 251 - Sounds of New York: Music and Place in an Urban Landscape
This black and white stereoscopic image features two images of a man with a large camera seated on a slender line high above Fifth Avenue in New York City. It is surrounded by the text: Set No. 8; Underwood &amp; Underwood, Publishers, Unique; 8288—Photographing New York City—on a slender support 18 stories above pavement of Fifth Avenue.
Resource with 14 media
Social realism, mid-19th century to mid-20th century
This painting, done in thick brushstrokes, shows a group of women gathered on the grass in a wooded area. There are six figures, four seated and two standing, and they fill the foreground of the composition. They are grouped in a semi-circle, however, there is no communication or eye contact between the figures. The women are wearing traditional Breton costumes with brightly colored aprons, caps and sashes. They have bright white collars and caps with purple, burgundy and green ribbons.
Resource with 79 media
Southern Landscapes and Cityscapes
A foggy landscape with silhouetted trees recedes from the left into the hazy distance and sky. The corners of the images are vignetted and the&nbsp;photograph is toned with tea, giving it a light brown-peach color.&nbsp;
Resource with 36 media
Documentary Photography & Social Realism
Shack belonging to a group of ragpickers.
Resource with 148 media
F15 Steward - HISTORY 230 - The Roaring Twenties and the Rough Thirties: America During the Interwar Years
View of a storefront with people sitting in front on benches and entering the shop through a doorway.
Resource with 19 media
History of New Media 

Resource with 172 media
W14 Carroll - AMCULT 311 / LATINOAM 311/ ENGLISH 317 - Borderwork: Representing the Mexico-U.S. Border
This photograph depicts a view of a desert landscape with a fish hanging from the top of a thin pole in the foreground. &nbsp;Behind the fish is a small cemetery that has mounds and crosses and in the distance are a few small buildings. Two more poles with fish hanging from them appear farther away in the image to the right of the fish in the foreground.
Resource with 21 media
F16 Markovits - POLSCI 386 / SOC 379 / GERMAN 379 - Sports, Politics, and Society
This costume design shows a dancer leaning back to the right with a golf club in the right hand. The dancer wears a white top with short sleeves and yellow culottes with brown and black trim at the waist and along the side of the left leg.
Resource with 18 media
F15 Carroll - AMCULT 301 / LATINOAM 301 / ENGLISH 407 - Codeswitch: Hybrid identities in American culture.
Photograph of field with wild flowers. Church is visible in background. Dark, thick clouds loom overhead.<br /><br /> Eva Caston 2017
Resource with 26 media
W16 Chamberlin - ENGLISH 317 - Rust Belt Narratives
Two orange buildings on snow-covered ground on either side of an unplowed road.&nbsp;
Resource with 15 media
Sp15 Hass - AMCULT 231 - Visual and Material American Culture Studies
The photograph is a portrait of a girl in a straw hat standing in front of a wooden fence.
Resource with 24 media
Essay: Warhol, Roberson
This work shows a black and white photograph of a crowd of people outdoors, with trees in the background. On the left is a uniformed policeman holding a dog on a leash in one hand and a club in the other. In the center area there is a man, with his back to the viewer, who is being attacked by two dogs. One, controlled by another policeman, is ripping his clothing and the other, with teeth bared, is attacking his right hand. In the crowd there are men watching the attack and looking at the policemen.
Resource with 3 media
Weems, Saar, Campos-Pons Essay
This image is a circular format black and white photograph depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass. Three girls sit or prop themselves up and look at the camera, the fourth girl lays down, with her eyes closed. The glass in the frame has a domed surface, creating a fish-eye effect.
Resource with 2 media
Prison and Punishment
This photograph depicts a view of a canal lined with stone buildings; an ornate covered-bridge spans the water, connecting the structures on either side. Two men stand on an embankment to which a series of gondolas are docked. 
Resource with 57 media
Glenn Ligon Essay    
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
Resource with 5 media
W15 Levinson - COMPLIT 122 - Insiders and Outsiders

Resource with 19 media
Romare Bearden Essay
At the center of the painting, two animals meet: a horse and a bull. Painted in a variety of colors, the two animals are abstracted in a Cubist style. The painting is signed (u.r.) in black paint "Bearden". 
Resource with 1 media
Sp16 Shapero - ANTHRCUL 298 / ENVIRON 242 - Nature vs. Culture? Anthropological Perspectives on Environmental Conflict

Resource with 23 media
Essay: Cunliffe, Washington, Lincoln, and Douglass
A full-length portrait of a standing male in a lanscape setting. To the left of the composition stands a pair of birches near the figure; to the right, the landscape opens up to a distant expanse of trees and hills. The man stands facing to the right but looking out of the canvas to the left. He holds a bow and quiver of arrows; a black hat with a feather is on the ground at his feet. He is dressed in tan pants and waistcoat with a green frock coat and black boots.
Resource with 8 media
Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros Essay
This print is a contour drawing of several rows of figures: in the foreground are three squating figures facing away from the viewer; in the background are several squatting figures facing the viewer, and in between are standing figures. The squatting figures sit before the goods they are selling and the standing figures are purchasing from them. 
Resource with 4 media
Early Modern Atlantic World
Goldweights are small objects cast from brass used to weigh out quantities of gold and gold dust. They are cast using a lost-wax casting technique, wherein wax is sculpted into the desired shape and a mold is pressed around the wax model. Then, the mold is heated and the wax drained out, leaving a void in the shape of the original wax model. Liquid brass is poured into the mold and allowed to set before the caster cracks the mold open and retrieves the finished goldweight.
Resource with 35 media
American Culture

Copyright
Creative Commons by-nc-sa
Created by
David M Choberka
Last Updated
April 4, 2020 1:13 p.m.

50 Items in this Learning Collection
TV Culture and Criticism
Portrait of Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe.
Resource with 51 media
Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

Resource with 14 media
Black and African American Woman Artists
This image is a circular format black and white photograph depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass. Three girls sit or prop themselves up and look at the camera, the fourth girl lays down, with her eyes closed. The glass in the frame has a domed surface, creating a fish-eye effect.
Resource with 26 media
All Objects from South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
A print done in shades of gray of a home scene. A woman wearing a dress and holding a sun umbrella walks up the side stairs of a simple covered porch attached to the front of a wooden house. On the porch are two adult figures talking and three seated children, one of which sits on the stairs. A tall wooden fence with a door extends the front face of the house, out of which a young girl walks.
Resource with 381 media
American Orientalist art at the turn of the 20th century

Resource with 5 media
Arizona
Car being excavated in a desert scene.
Resource with 15 media
Art of the Works Progress Administration WPA

Resource with 175 media
Arts of Mexico

Resource with 158 media
Ashcan School

Resource with 29 media
Asian America in Art

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This drawing shows the head of a man. Sketched lines with shading around cheeks and eyes, which are closed, create the visage.  A faintly visible hat is sketched on the head. The drawing is signed (u.r.) "Anton Refregier." It may also say "San Francisco" although the handwriting is not clear.


This photograph depicts a view of a desert landscape with a fish hanging from the top of a thin pole in the foreground. &nbsp;Behind the fish is a small cemetery that has mounds and crosses and in the distance are a few small buildings. Two more poles with fish hanging from them appear farther away in the image to the right of the fish in the foreground.
Photo of a woman in a floor-length and brightly striped formal gown standing in a multi-level staircase. The photo is taken from above and captures the woman, her companion, and the ornate handrail and stair runner.
An oil painting on canvas, this is an abstract painting predominantly using black and white oil paints. The background appears to be white paint with a black box on the upper half. The two colors are connected by a long black brushstroke down the middle. The brushstroke does not touch the edges of the canvas but instead takes up 2/3 of the canvas length-wise and 1/3 width-wise.&nbsp;
This calm, horizontal abstract watercolor has registers of aquamarine, ochres, greens and dark blues. 

Collection with 10 items
Borders of Identity in North America
Photographed from atop a high ridge, this photograph depicts a view looking down into a winding desert canyon.
Resource with 87 media
Politics, and Social Reform in the US, 1901-1950

Resource with 234 media
California
This is a black and white photograph depicting an outdoor scene with dense vegetation. Leafy plants cover the ground in the front and taller bushes and trees are in the background. The viewpoint is from above looking down.
Resource with 127 media
Caribbean Objects
A color print of a small, square door in a wall. The opened door casts a long shadow on the wall.
Resource with 105 media
Cars and Car Culture

Resource with 78 media
Celebrity
Bust-length portrait of Marilyn Monroe positioned in front of a red background; Haring used a poster of the actress onto which he applied sumi ink in a series of outlines, marks and drips over the face, neck, chest and shoulders.
Resource with 110 media
Chicago
This black and white stereoscopic image features two images of the view looking through the inside of a Ferris wheel near the top. It is surrounded by the text: Set No. 8; Wanderings Among the Wonders and Beauties of Western Scenery; CHICAGO and VICINITY. 313. Looking through the Ferris Wheel, near the top.<br />
Resource with 25 media
Cowboys and Cowboy Art
A black and white phot of two men dressed in a Western style with a tent. One man is standing in front of the tent, while the other is sitting on a rolled up canvs in front of the tent.
Resource with 41 media
Detroit Metro

Resource with 131 media
Enrique Chagoya: Flipping Europe on its Head

Resource with 4 media
Exploring Identity and Identity Politics in American Culture
A blurred bust-length portrait of a man's head; he stares straight ahead, his mouth open.
Resource with 78 media
Film Noir, Visuality and Themes

Resource with 105 media
Folk, Self-taught, Amateur, and Visionary Art

Resource with 114 media
Indigenous North America Arts
Beige bowl, wider at the top, with a rim formed in a braided pattern.
Resource with 104 media
Latin American Revolutions and Civil Wars

Resource with 15 media
Maine

Resource with 21 media
Manifest Destiny and the American West

Resource with 76 media
Era of the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican Muralist Movement

Resource with 83 media
Montana
Car up on lifts surrounded by evergreen trees. The car is part of an excavation.
Resource with 5 media
New Mexico
A smaller tree with light colored leaves amongst many taller trees, foliage on bottom.
Resource with 12 media
New York City
Elevated view of traffic on an urban street. 
Resource with 127 media
Nineteenth-century American and European Representations of Wildlife

Resource with 51 media
Political Protest in the U.S.
Two women holding signs at a protest march. They are talking together on the side of a street.
Resource with 22 media
Race, Gender, Class, and American Identity
This is a line drawing done in colors of red, orange, blue, yellow, brown and green, on white paper. In the top center portion of the sheet are the words, "A LIE". Below this are forms that resemble an egg, a slice of bacon, a piece of bread with a pat of yellow butter. Below these forms are some round shapes, labeled "flakes", a bowl and a carton of milk, labeled "milk".
Resource with 343 media
Recreation, Leisure, and Sport in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century America

Resource with 130 media
Religion in the Americas
This is a photograph of a wooden sculpture from Huexotla, Mexico. The sculpture depicts a man with a crown of thorns.
Resource with 48 media
Religious Encounters in the New World

Resource with 30 media
Representations and Misrepresentations of Indigenous America

Resource with 65 media
Rust Belt
Two orange buildings on snow-covered ground on either side of an unplowed road.&nbsp;
Resource with 167 media
School and Education in the U.S.

Resource with 24 media
Southern Landscapes and Cityscapes
A foggy landscape with silhouetted trees recedes from the left into the hazy distance and sky. The corners of the images are vignetted and the&nbsp;photograph is toned with tea, giving it a light brown-peach color.&nbsp;
Resource with 36 media
U.S. Civil Rights Movement
A black and white photograph of a man&#39;s profile against a glass door. He faces to the viewer&#39;s left, head lowered and eyes closed.
Resource with 38 media
U.S. Civil War

Resource with 42 media
U.S. Freedom Struggles of the Long 1960s
Two women holding signs at a protest march. They are talking together on the side of a street.


A group of African Americans praying while kneeling on a street. There is concrete pavement and a brick building behind them.

A group of African Americans praying while kneeling on a street. There is concrete pavement and a brick building behind them.
Collection with 6 items
U.S. Radicalism

Resource with 66 media
U.S. Vietnam War

Resource with 11 media
U.S. Wars
Half-length seated portrait of a bearded man, his face in profile, wearing a military uniform.
Resource with 67 media
World War I Posters from the U.S.
Text: New Consecration is the Duty of the Living so that Our Dead Shall Not Have Died in Vain - (center) &quot;To such a task (Victory over German Autocracy and all it represents) we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to shed her blood and her treasure for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.&quot; - Woodrow Wilson - (left panel heading) Al Soldier&#39;s Farewell - Written on the Even of his Departure &hellip; - (right panel heading) A Mother&#39;s Comfort - Words of Plato Console Now Whose Son Fell in Battle &hellip; - (bottom) &quot;You ask me when peace will come. We went into this war for a great and worthy object. Peace will come when that object has been attained. Before God I hope it may not come until that time.&quot; - Abraham Lincoln In Darkest Days of Civil War - Issued by
Resource with 178 media
WPA Woman Artists
Night view of New York City skyscrapers seen from above.
Resource with 41 media
Zombies, Skeletons, and the Undead

Resource with 101 media
Land and People

Copyright
Creative Commons by-nc-sa
Created by
David M Choberka
Last Updated
April 4, 2020 1:13 p.m.

51 Items in this Learning Collection
Detroit Metro

Resource with 131 media
Ann arbor and the university of michigan

Resource with 58 media
Architecture in Photography 1900-1948
View of an unfurnished room, whose walls are decorated with pilasters.
Resource with 40 media
Architecture in photography 1949-1989
Photograph of a white painted post holding up the tin roof of a porch.
Resource with 72 media
Arizona
Car being excavated in a desert scene.
Resource with 15 media
Art from Michigan

Resource with 215 media
Art of the Works Progress Administration WPA

Resource with 175 media
Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

Resource with 14 media
Aviation

Resource with 14 media
Berlin in the first half of the twentieth century
A man in uniform and heavy coat looks to his right as he stands posed next to a broken sign and broken mannequins in the rubble-filled street of Berlin.
Resource with 15 media
Bicycles

Resource with 16 media
Borders of Identity in North America
Photographed from atop a high ridge, this photograph depicts a view looking down into a winding desert canyon.
Resource with 87 media
British Empire
Façade of an Egyptian temple structure in a state of partial ruin.
Resource with 75 media
Politics, and Social Reform in the US, 1901-1950

Resource with 234 media
California
This is a black and white photograph depicting an outdoor scene with dense vegetation. Leafy plants cover the ground in the front and taller bushes and trees are in the background. The viewpoint is from above looking down.
Resource with 127 media
Cars and Car Culture

Resource with 78 media
Chicago
This black and white stereoscopic image features two images of the view looking through the inside of a Ferris wheel near the top. It is surrounded by the text: Set No. 8; Wanderings Among the Wonders and Beauties of Western Scenery; CHICAGO and VICINITY. 313. Looking through the Ferris Wheel, near the top.<br />
Resource with 25 media
Cities



A man in uniform and heavy coat looks to his right as he stands posed next to a broken sign and broken mannequins in the rubble-filled street of Berlin.
This black and white stereoscopic image features two images of the view looking through the inside of a Ferris wheel near the top. It is surrounded by the text: Set No. 8; Wanderings Among the Wonders and Beauties of Western Scenery; CHICAGO and VICINITY. 313. Looking through the Ferris Wheel, near the top.<br />
Man standing at a podium, crowd surrounding, one man on a horse.



This black and white stereoscopic image features two images showing the busy intersection of Piccadilly Circus in London. There are many horse-drawn carriages and wagons and pedestrians on the streets and walkways. It is surrounded by the text: Sample Set No. 1; C. H. Graves, Publisher and Gen’l Manager; 7505 Piccadilly Circus, London<br />
Elevated view of traffic on an urban street. 

Two abstracted, bust-length figures, one male and one female, look directly at the viewer with large smiles. The background is tan, and filled with swirling lines and scribbles. The face and eyes of each figure are outlined in thick green, the mouths in thick yellow. The &ldquo;whites&rdquo; of the eyes are red, while the pupils are circles of pale purple. Purple paint drips down from the eyes of the male figure, while the paint on the female figure drips upward.
Man seated at a table with Armageddon sign. He is wearing a striped shirt and looking at the camera. There is a New York City bus map posted on the column behind him.
View of an empty street in front of a men's clothing store.
Collection with 15 items
The Crowd
Man standing at a podium, crowd surrounding, one man on a horse.
Resource with 117 media
Detroit-Area Artists

Resource with 202 media
Environment, Ecology, Conservation

A mixed media assemblage consisting of welding goggles, rusted metal, a padlock, and two rusted bells hanging from a chain mounted on a wooden board with screws. The position of the objects, with goggles at the top, makes the assemblage look vaguely face-like.

Collection with 3 items
Environmental Justice

Resource with 95 media
Food Cultures

Resource with 218 media
Garbage Art - art made with and about garbage
A mixed media assemblage consisting of welding goggles, rusted metal, a padlock, and two rusted bells hanging from a chain mounted on a wooden board with screws. The position of the objects, with goggles at the top, makes the assemblage look vaguely face-like.
Resource with 74 media
Images of Jerusalem

Resource with 22 media
Immigration, Migration, and Displacement

Resource with 94 media
Ireland
This photograph depicts the darkened interior of a hut with a man and woman seated inside.
Resource with 17 media
Italy in 19th-Century Photography

Resource with 81 media
Landscape and Nature, Comparative and Historical

Resource with 376 media
London
This black and white stereoscopic image features two images showing the busy intersection of Piccadilly Circus in London. There are many horse-drawn carriages and wagons and pedestrians on the streets and walkways. It is surrounded by the text: Sample Set No. 1; C. H. Graves, Publisher and Gen’l Manager; 7505 Piccadilly Circus, London<br />
Resource with 76 media
Maine

Resource with 21 media
Manifest Destiny and the American West

Resource with 76 media
Medieval Mediterranean
This large bronze faucet features a peacock spigot and a lion-headed spout.
Resource with 29 media
The Modern Metropolis

Resource with 82 media
Montana
Car up on lifts surrounded by evergreen trees. The car is part of an excavation.
Resource with 5 media
New Mexico
A smaller tree with light colored leaves amongst many taller trees, foliage on bottom.
Resource with 12 media
New York City
Elevated view of traffic on an urban street. 
Resource with 127 media
Nineteenth-century American and European Representations of Wildlife

Resource with 51 media
Paris, Scenes and Artists, 19th and 20th Centuries

Resource with 143 media
Representations and Misrepresentations of Indigenous America

Resource with 65 media
Rust Belt
Two orange buildings on snow-covered ground on either side of an unplowed road.&nbsp;
Resource with 167 media
Seasons

Resource with 38 media
Southern Landscapes and Cityscapes
A foggy landscape with silhouetted trees recedes from the left into the hazy distance and sky. The corners of the images are vignetted and the&nbsp;photograph is toned with tea, giving it a light brown-peach color.&nbsp;
Resource with 36 media
Street Art, Graffiti Art, Urban Assemblage, and Collage
Two abstracted, bust-length figures, one male and one female, look directly at the viewer with large smiles. The background is tan, and filled with swirling lines and scribbles. The face and eyes of each figure are outlined in thick green, the mouths in thick yellow. The &ldquo;whites&rdquo; of the eyes are red, while the pupils are circles of pale purple. Purple paint drips down from the eyes of the male figure, while the paint on the female figure drips upward.
Resource with 27 media
Subways
Man seated at a table with Armageddon sign. He is wearing a striped shirt and looking at the camera. There is a New York City bus map posted on the column behind him.
Resource with 8 media
The City in Photography 1900-1948
View of an empty street in front of a men's clothing store.
Resource with 50 media
The Sea
This photograph depicts an aerial view of a coastline with waves approaching the shore.
Resource with 57 media
Tourism
A perspective shot of the Eiffel Tower from below, looking up. A building to the right has an ornate wrought iron balcony.
Resource with 85 media
Transportation

Resource with 394 media
Transportation



Man seated at a table with Armageddon sign. He is wearing a striped shirt and looking at the camera. There is a New York City bus map posted on the column behind him.
A perspective shot of the Eiffel Tower from below, looking up. A building to the right has an ornate wrought iron balcony.

Collection with 7 items
Urbanization
View of an empty street in front of a men's clothing store.
View of an unfurnished room, whose walls are decorated with pilasters.
Photograph of a white painted post holding up the tin roof of a porch.


Collection with 5 items

Southern Landscapes and Cityscapes

A foggy landscape with silhouetted trees recedes from the left into the hazy distance and sky. The corners of the images are vignetted and the&nbsp;photograph is toned with tea, giving it a light brown-peach color.&nbsp;
Sally Mann
Virginia, Untitled (Blue Hills)
gelatin silver print, toned with tea, on paper
30 x 38 in. (76.2 x 96.52 cm);32 x 40 in. (81.28 x 101.6 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by Myron and Bobbie Levine
View Object Record
Antique- and aged-looking photograph of a dreamy, perhaps nocturnal, landscape. In the foreground, a massive tree rises up into the hazy night, and trees recede into the distance. White pock marks give the whole scene, sky and land, an ethereal starry look.
Sally Mann
Battlefields, Manassas (Lumpy Cedar)
varnished gelatin silver print on paper
40 in. x 4 ft. 2 1/16 in. (101.6 x 127.16 cm);40 1/2 in. x 4 ft. 2 11/16 in. (102.87 x 128.75 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
View Object Record
Girl standing in a field holding on to the sides of her bright white dress.
Sally Mann
Easter Dress
gelatin silver print on paper
8 in x 10 in (20.32 cm x 25.4 cm)
Gift from the Collection of David S. Rosen MD, MPH
View Object Record
A girl and a man standing in front of a dollhouse.
Sally Mann
Untitled
gelatin silver print on paper
8 in x 10 in (20.32 cm x 25.4 cm)
Gift from the Collection of David S. Rosen MD, MPH
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View of the main mansion of the Greenwood Plantation in Louisiana.
Walker Evans
Greenwood Plantation, Louisana
gelatin silver print on paper
10 in x 8 in (25.4 cm x 20.3 cm);14 3/8 in x 19 3/8 in (36.51 cm x 49.21 cm);9 1/2 in x 7 5/8 in (24.2 cm x 19.3 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Lunn, Jr., in Honor of the Centennial of The Michigan Daily
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American
View of Charleston, South Carolina
engraving on paper
8 3/8 x 20 7/8 in. (21.27 x 53.02 cm);22 1/16 x 28 1/16 in. (56.04 x 71.28 cm);6 3/4 x 19 13/16 in. (17.15 x 50.32 cm)
The Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
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Jane C. Stanley
St. Philip's, Charleston
graphite on white paper
17 7/8 x 11.9 in. (45.4 x 30.32 cm)
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
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In this painting there are six buildings surrounded by green grass and tall tress without leaves. On the right side of the painting, a green and brown water tank rises out of and stands above the buildings at the height of a tree house. A brown fence separates the water tank from the buildings behind it.
Henry Lee McFee
Buildings with Water Tank (Bellevue Plantation, Virginia)
oil on canvas
29 15/16 in x 24 3/16 in (76.04 cm x 61.44 cm);35 3/8 in x 29 1/2 in (89.85 cm x 74.93 cm)
Gift of The Ann Arbor Art Association, in memory of Ruby S. Churchhill
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Large oak tree.
Sam Stauffer
300-Year Old Louisiana Oak
gelatin silver print on paper
13 3/8 in. x 10 1/4 in. ( 33.97 cm x 26.04 cm )
Gift of Margaret and Howard Bond
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View of an unfurnished room, whose walls are decorated with pilasters.
Walker Evans
Breakfast Room at Belle Grove Plantation, White Chapel, Louisiana
gelatin silver print on paper
14 4/5 in x 19 4/5 in (37.62 cm x 50.32 cm);14 4/5 in x 19 4/5 in (37.62 cm x 50.32 cm);20 in x 24 in (50.8 cm x 60.96 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
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View of pond and surrounding scenery. The pond creates a mirrored image of the sky above.
Norm Walker
Pond at Magnolia Plantation
gelatin silver print on paper
10 1/4 in. x 13 1/4 in. ( 26.04 cm x 33.66 cm )
Gift of Margaret and Howard Bond
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John Huddleston
Conrad Noll/Tapp Farm, Wilderness, Virginia, 5-7 May 1864
photograph and photocopy on paper
11 7/8 in. x 26 7/8 in. ( 30.2 cm x 68.2 cm )
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
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