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- A British prisoner of war made this cello during his incarceration in a Turkish prison camp. Through the prisoners' ingenuity and skill, craftsmen in the camps could make musical instruments for bands and orchestras and musicians could then offer the POW's entertainment.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A favorite diversion for POW's was the camp theater group. This is a photograph of the cast on the set of a play in the theater at Muenster-Rennbahn.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This Russian choir is singing inside the YMCA Hall of a German prison camp. Choirs were very popular in military prisons; they could be used in theatricals, perform at special events and festivals, and support religious services.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A Muslim prisoner of war from French North Africa sits on a stool, smoking a cigarette, in the prison camp at Zossen-Wuensdorf. The Germans took photographs of various colonial troops that they had captured to show the odds the Germans faced and the reliance of the Entente on colonial subjects to prosecute the war.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This drawing shows the set and two actors performing in the theatrical "Theodore and Company" at the prison camp in Kedos, probably in 1918.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Two clowns act out a comedy routine for a large group of French and Belgian POW's in the prison compound in Stuttgart II. Comedy acts were a welcome diversion for many dispirited Allied prisoners.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Saline Area Historical Photos
- Notes:
- Saline Concert Band. Photo taken in front of old Union School - 1868 school.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Saline Area Historical Photos
- Notes:
- Mr. Schrader and Mr. Glick painted this opera curtain for the Saline Opera House in 1925. Arthur Schrader was a well-known auctioneer here. He played the violin and was a caller for square dancers. He was killed in 1925 by a drunk driver afer fixing a friend's flat tire out N. Ann Arbor Street by the water tower.; The Opera House was on the second floor of the Wallace Block, first block east of Four Corners on east side. The curtain was sold for advertising space.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Saline Area Historical Photos
