Then & now at Marquette University's campus. Concept by Josh Arter, Comm '12, inspired by dearphotograph.com. Find historical campus images at http://go.mu.edu/muarchives and share your creations on Twitter with hashtag #DearMarquette

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Throwback Thursday: Marquette’s Alumni Memorial Union Rotunda in 1990 (during the finishing touches of construction) and in 2013. Black-and-white photo source: Marquette University Archives

The origins of @FatherMarquette in the AMU.   7 3 months ago
  2. A conversation at Marquette University’s Lalumiere Language Hall in 1976 and a cell phone call in 2012. 11 7 months ago
  3. Marquette Hall in 1990 — with an admissions tour guide and visiting family — and in 2012. 1990 photo by Scott Morris, 1991 Marquette Hilltop. 12 7 months ago
  4. Picture of Marquette’s 75th Anniversary celebration banners (1956, “the Pursuit of Truth to Make Men Free”) in its modern setting. 4 9 months ago
  5. The view looking south at Wisconsin Avenue and 14th Street before Raynor Library was built. 5 9 months ago
  6. The Joan of Arc Chapel is surrounded by a much more lush and green environment in 2012 than when the original photograph was taken. 9 9 months ago
  7. 4 MU alums at a reunion pondering where the would have been if they didn’t go to Marquette…  2 1 year ago
  8. Cudahy Hall’s first-floor computer lab in 1994 (with Dr. Doug Harris and Michael Cudahy at the building’s grand opening) and in spring 2012. 2 1 year ago
  9. Real Chili at Marquette, then and now. In 1980, a bowl of Real Chili was $1.40. Today the first helping of mild or medium chili is $5.25 but still worth every spoonful. 47 1 year ago
  10. What a difference 24 hours makes.  20 1 year ago
  11. Thanks to Thomas Marek, Assistant Director for Financial Aid, who posted the vintage snowy photo from the 1930s in the Marquette graduate school group on Facebook. Here’s the backstory:
“I received it myself from a family friend who worked at the Milwaukee Public Museum over 30 years ago. They were tossing out old prints—probably extras—and he gave us a bunch.” 3 1 year ago
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  13. 13 inches of snow then, traces of snow now. The blizzard of December 1987 blanketed the campus and led Marquette to cancel some final exams.  9 1 year ago
  14. Todd Wehr Chemistry at 43 degrees today and 30 degrees below zero in January 1977. Photo by Scott Feldstein. 6 1 year ago
  15. From 1983, “Merry Christmas from I.R.C.” at Lalumiere Language Hall. Today, the Inter-Residence Council is known as RHA, the Residence Hall Association. 4 1 year ago