Collections : [University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library]

The Visual Material series includes both photographs and a motion picture film. The photographs depict the College of Engineering as it looked when housed in West Engineering, now known as West Hall. There are also photographs taken in Kearsarge and in Ann Arbor. Within a red album are photographs of the Liddicoat family in Kearsarge, many of these are of Professor Liddicoat's wife, Carmen, and their infant son, Richard, Jr., and some World War I memorabilia. Also included is a formal photograph of the Liddicoat family, and a portrait of Professor Liddicoat. There are a number of images documenting his education and career as an engineer at the University of Michigan. These include pictures of Liddicoat as a student surrounded by his undergraduate friends, as a teacher in a West Engineering classroom, with colleagues in his West Engineering office, photographs of the interior of his laboratory at the University of Michigan. The motion picture concerns Liddicoat's research with helicopters. The film has not yet been viewed because of broken sprockets and access will be prohibited until the film has been copied into a videotape format.