Tag Archives: sloan musuem

UM-Flint history student preserves Flint's past with Sloan Museum

The Sloan Museum in Flint boasts a collection of 35,000 historical photos, and UM-Flint senior history student Rachel Gonzalez got to work with them over them summer.

There was no cooler place for Rachelle Gonzalez to have worked this summer than in the archives department of the Sloan Museum of Discovery. In order to preserve the thousands of postcards, letters, photos, scrapbooks and other documents included in the museum's collection, they are housed in a climate-controlled room between 67 and 68 degrees[…]