 Fish species in Michigan
Can you make a positive identification? Information to help you identify your Michigan fish. |
 First People Galleries
What is the story of Michigan's birth as a land and a people?
Most of Michigan's story is unwritten. It is almost entirely an American Indian story. Its 14,000 years are known through Native American tradition and clues discovered by archaeologists. The first galleries of the Michigan Historical Museum tell its story. |
 Settling a State Gallery
Between 1830 and 1840 Michigan grew faster than any other state or territory. "Settling a State" provides a minitour of the Michigan Historical Museum's Statehood and Settlement galleries. |
 Civil War Gallery
More than 90,000 Michigan men served in the Civil War. This was 23% of Michigan's male population. Michigan soldiers included whites, Blacks and Native Americans. They fought in almost every major battle in the war even though no battles took place in Michigan. Take a minitour of the Michigan Historical Museum's Civil War gallery. |
 Mining in Michigan Gallery
A towering mine headframe of timber and a massive piece of float copper mark the entrance to the Mining in Michigan Gallery. Beyond are exhibits about copper and iron mining, life in Michigan's Upper Peninsula mining communities and the state's other mineral resources. Tour the mining gallery. |
 Rural Michigan, 1865 - 1900
At the end of the 19th century Michigan was still a rural state. Sixty percent of Michigan people still lived in rural areas. Farmers socialized with townspeople at schools and churches, opera houses, Masonic Temples, Grange Halls and Grand Army of the Republic halls. They participated in local fairs to showcase their farm products and livestock Visit a bit of rural Michigan. |
 Farm, 1900 - 1930
Michigan's farmscape was transformed in the early 20th century. Farmers began to use new technology, such as tractors. The size and number of farms grew. The Michigan Historical Museum's Farm Gallery tells the story. |
 Factory, 1900 - 1930
At the start of the 20th century Michigan began to create a new industry: automobile manufacturing. These pages present an on line minitour of the Michigan Historical Museum's Factory Gallery. It features Michigan's early automobile industry. |
 Growth of Manufacturing
Mining and lumbering, industries based on the extraction of natural resources from the land, were the foundation of Michigan's growth during the 19th century. These natural resources and profits from those industries would provide the basis of the state's next growth spurt?manufacturing. Visit the Growth of Manufacturing gallery. |
 Stroll Through the 1920s
Michigan soldiers returning from World War I joined a decade of growth and energy known as the "Roaring Twenties." As you stroll through our 1920s city street scene you see sights that offer an impression of many Michigan cities during the decade. |
 Great Depression
Labor Unions Rise •
Unemployment and Relief •
Michigan's Natural Resources Mural•
Lighthouses Automated
Visit the Great Depression Gallery to learn more about these topics. |
 Arsenal of Democracy
Even before the United States entered World War II, Michigan was producing weapons and supplies for the countries fighting against Germany and Japan. Learn more about Michigan and World War II |
 Lakes and Land
Be a tourist, an environmentalist or an outdoors enthusiast in the Lakes and Land gallery at the Michigan Historical Museum. |
 1950s—Cars, Consumerism and the Cold War
The Cold War may have been in the headlines, but Michigan automobile makers were putting chrome streets. The 1957 Detroit Auto Show gallery features a red Corvette and a fabulously finned Plymouth Fury. |
 1960s—To Everything There Is A Season
It's a noisy time, filled with music, disagreement, shouts of joy and cries of despair. This gallery takes as its theme Pete Seeger's folk-rock song Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) which took its lyrics from the Book of Ecclesiastes. As you explore this gallery, you will find different, often contradictory voices of people's recollections of the 1960s. |
 Michigan's Watchable Wildlife
This online version of the popular Michigan Wildlife Viewing Guide, features 121 of the best places in Michigan to view wildlife. We've also added links to some of the best resources available. No matter where you are in the state, sites in this guide are only minutes away! |
• Genealogy Tools
1870 Michigan Census, Cemetery Sources, Naturalization Records, County Clerks Directory, and more |
 Plates by the Year
Do you play license plate games while driving on a long trip? Is the plate from your first car hanging on your garage wall? Are you curious about what the plate looked like during the year you were born? Do you collect license plates? If so, "Plates By the Year" is for you!
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 Library of Michigan's Martha Griffiths Rare Book Room
Public hours are:
1-4 p.m. Monday, Thursday
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
By appointment Saturday; 7 days' advance notice required. For an appointment, please call (517) 373-4301. |
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