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The San Diego Union-Tribune
The San Diego Union-Tribune
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The Bentley Historical Library is a one-story, nondescript brick building in the University of Michigan’s northeast corner. It’s across the Huron River from the main campus, in a grove of trees tucked between a cemetery and biomedical engineering building, with leaves dancing in the autumn wind and a pile of snow next to the entrance. It houses the university’s archives as well as collections documenting the state’s history across 70,000 square feet of storage area. There are research materials from Jonas Salk’s time at Michigan developing a flu vaccine, personal papers from…