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- Notes:
- Pictures from across campus Pictures of students
- Date Created:
- 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- People. Daily Life. Three elderly men at table with unidentified woman making handicrafts and sanding wood cutouts at the Harold & Grace Upjohn Community Nursing Home. One of the men is seated in an Everest & Jennings Premier wheelchair. Client: Harold & Grace Upjohn Community Nursing Home, Kalamazoo, MI. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 12 photos in event - 9793
- Notes:
- Cadet from Western Michigan Flying Service training school in flight suit and parachute harness standing beside the propeller of a Waco CTO biplane with an Wright J6-7 engine at the Kalamazoo Municipal Airport.
- Date Created:
- 1943-10-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 56 photos in event - 1374
- Notes:
- Bound in an unusual binding, probably contemporary, made from two pieces of brown leather, sewn together horizontally, which is stitched over pasteboards formed from ten leaves from other manuscripts (now partially visible at the top, front, and along the fore edge, back). The leather turn-ins are covered with a paper leaf, now fragmentary, in the front, and by leather in the back. Part of this leather is broken off, and is now laid in, sewn on three leather bands, stitched through the inside of the covers in a “v” pattern. Lighter brown leather (sheepskin?) spine, probably later, with three raised bands with the title in gilt between the first and second in a gold square, “Regl de S. Benoit Manuscr 13 Sciecl [sic].” Remains of leather tie, front cover, with a hole in the back cover, presumably from another tie, now missing, and showing considerable wear, including a second small hole in the back cover near the spine, and with corners and some edges of the leather covers worn away. Middle of each gathering reinforced with parchment strips from another manuscript., Raised band spine and tail of a codex containing the Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict by Bernard Ayglerius (d. 1282), Abbot of Monte Cassino. Spine label in gilt between the first and second band in a gold square, ““Regl de S. Benoit Manuscr 13 Sciecl [sic]”. Leather is worn and sewn together horizontally over a pasteboard., and From dealer description: Written in the later decades of the 15th century, probably ca. 1480-1500, in central or southwestern France, as indicated by the style of the script and the watermark. Popular in 15th century Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries, the text is likely copied for a monastic library. Only one sale of this text is listed in the Schoenberg Database. Medieval shelf-mark, bottom margin, ff. 1 and 83, “B 63,” in both cases preceded by four erased words, “C de C.” Armorial bookplate, front flyleaf for the Bibliothèque de Monseir le Baron de Caix de Saint-Aymour,” with motto, “Fortior in adversis.” the Baron Amédée Caix de Saint Aymour was the mayor of Corbie (1863-1920), educated at the l’Ecole des chartes and at the l’Ecoles des langues orientales. Octagonal paper label on front cover edged in blue from 19th century French book deal, “Manuscript, 13ième siècle.” Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Les Enluminures (TM 432).
- Date Created:
- [1480 TO 1500]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The cover shows a young girl eating fresh strawberries in Berlin. The top article inside, "Das Erzgebirge," shows an army scrap site in enemy territory. The article below, "Ghettos im Generalgouvernement," discusses the situation of the Jews in Poland. Note that this newspaper provides captions in both German and French.
- Date Created:
- 1941-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- NH 43-16, Edition 1; Inset of Delhi on verso, India and Pakistan 1:250,000, and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- Notes:
- Photograph of Karl Hans Van Ditzhuyzen at the time of his appointment as instructor in physics at Western Michigan University. He previously studied on the campus as a Fulbright scholar in 1952-53.
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- This leaf is from an Italian manuscript and was written mid-Seventeenth Century by a lawyer in the Roman Curia named Theodorus Amydenius.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
- Notes:
- From early 18th century Illuminated Persian Manuscript. The leaf's inscription is in double columns, surrounded by gold borders consisting of gold and red flowers. The leaf is tinted in soft colors. The text of the manuscript is comprised of Persian poems and epics. Persia CA. 1680-1720.
- Date Created:
- [1680 TO 1720]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
- Notes:
- Leo Lemmer standing by mixing equipment in the Mixing Room at the Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Upjohn Company was a pharmaceutical manufacturing firm founded in 1886 by Dr. William E. Upjohn. The company was originally formed to make friable pills, which were specifically designed to be easily digested. In 1995, Upjohn merged with Pharmacia AB to form Pharmacia & Upjohn, and was later owned by Pfizer.
- Date Created:
- 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
