Dept. of Physical Education for Women (University of Michigan) records, 1878-1972.

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Dept. of Physical Education for Women (University of Michigan) records, 1878-1972.

Annual reports, minutes of staff meetings, scrapbooks, topical files, history of physical education for women at the University, and other materials relating to the Women's Athletic Association; also photographs.

9 linear ft.Photographs 1 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8302458

Bentley Historical Library

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University of Michigan. Dept. of Physical Education for Women.

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Classes in physical education for women were first conducted in 1894. Barbour gymnasium for women was completed in 1898, in expectation of which Eliza M. Mosher, M.D., was named professor of hygiene and was put in charge of the Women's Gymnasium. The Women's Athletic Association was organized in 1905, and in 1908/09 a women's athletic field (Palmer Field) was purchased and equipped. The regents established a Department of Physical Education and a Division of Hygiene and Public Health in 1929. Th...

University of Michigan. Women's Athletic Association.

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The Women's Athletic Association ("W.A.A.") was organized in 1905 to promote the participation of women students in athletic activities and to foster a comprehensive recreational program for women at the University of Michigan. Basketball, baseball and tennis were the first sports organized. By 1908, when the W.A.A. handbook was printed, a much wider range of activities was available to women. Through the years, the association has worked to procure adequate facilities for women's sports. ...

University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...