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- Exterior of William McCracken Hall at the time of construction in 1949. It was used as a chemistry facility. The first building on West Campus, McCracken Hall was named after well-known faculty member, William McCracken, head of the chemstry department from 1907-1939. A Paper Industries Laboratory was added to McCracken Hall in 1959 to support the nation's second Paper Technology program. One wing was torn down in 2017. The building was demolished in 2019.
- Date Created:
- 1949-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Library Reading room in the Administration Building (East Hall) of Western State Normal School. View looking north through an arched doorway. Photograph appeared in the Kalamazoo Normal Record Vol. 4 No. 9.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Studio portrait of a Kalamazoo fireman taken in the photography studio of W. S. White at 166 Main Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan. The fireman is wearing a shirt with a scarf or cravat and short fitted trousers with stockings. The belt appears to have insignia or badge.
- Date Created:
- [1873 TO 1878]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Group photograph of Library staff from the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Seated: Phoebe Lumaree and James Knauss. Standing: Edith Clark, Francis Allen, Katherine Stokes, Hazel Saye, Hazel DeMeyer, Paul Randall, and Gertrude VanZee. James Knauss, History Department, served as the University Archivist at the time this photograph was taken.
- Date Created:
- 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Group photograph of History Department in 1955-1957. Sitting: Margaret MacMillan, James Knauss, and Edythe Mange seated. Standing: Robert Russell, Willis Dunbar, Russell Seibert, Robert Friedmann, Charles Starring and Howard Mowen.
- Date Created:
- 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Dan Ryan giving the commencement address at WMU graduation ceremony on July 24, 1964. President James Miller, in academic regalia, seated in the background with other WMU faculty. Ryan, a Kalamazoo College graduate, was a member of the Kalamazoo Gazette staff for over 18 year, the last five as editor.
- Date Created:
- 1964-07-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Alice Louise LeFevre teaching seminar style class in the School of Librarianship at Western Michigan University. LeFevre is seated at the head of an oblong table with graduate students. Behind LeFevre is an East Asian hanging scroll. Alice Louise LeFevre came from Brooklyn to head the Department of Library Education in 1945, spending the first semester organizing the department and planning and developing the curriculum. Classes began in February 1946, with two students and three courses. LeFevre passed away in 1963 and in 1967, a seminar room in the enlarged Laboratory Library was named in her honor. The School of Librarianship graduate program was discontinued in the 1980s.
- Date Created:
- 1961-12-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Group photograph of the Walwood Union Residence Hall staff from the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Pictured: John Randall, LeRoy Myers, Leila-Bell Jaqua, John Hungerford, and Don Scott.
- Date Created:
- 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph looking North toward the flag pole in front of the Library building of Western State Normal School, Kalamzoo, Michigan. The Library (later named North Hall) was built in 1924.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of students walking up from the snow covered main entrance of East Campus from Oakland Drive. View looking Southwest toward Oakland Drive. Cars are parked along the street.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Exterior of the Manual Arts Building with car parked in front of the building. It was later renamed the Brink Building in 1921.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Group photograph of Paper Technology Department faculty from the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. From left to right: E. E. Stephanson, Miss Carola P. Trittin, and Dr. R. A. Diehm.
- Date Created:
- 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of Walt Disney with a group of children during his visit to the Kalamazoo Art Center.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Robert Briggs giving commencement speech after receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Western Michigan University in 1966. Briggs was the Executive Vice President of Consumers Power.
- Date Created:
- 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Dr. Maurice Seay at podium giving a commencement speach on July 1966 at Western Michigan University. Photograph taken from among the students seated in front of the raised podium. Dr. Maurice F. Seay was the professor of educational leadership and school services at WMU. Dr. Seay, who joined Western's faculty in 1967, served in various administrative posts in the College of Education as well as being a professor. Prior to joining WMU's faculty, Dr. Seay was a professor at Michigan State University three years, department head and assistant dean and director of MSU's School for Advanced Studies in the College of Education. From 1954-63 he was the director of the education division of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at Battle Creek. He earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago and received previous degrees at Transylvania College.
- Date Created:
- 1966-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- 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
- Notes:
- Interior of the show tent for the Redpath Chautauqua circuit, pitched at Davis & Cedar Streets in Kalmamazoo, MIchigan for a summer session during the World War I period. Photograph views from the back of the tent looking over the crowd to the stage. The Redpath Chautauqua circult was a traveling group who presenting music dramas, usually school sponsored. This was an adult education movement in rural America that brought entertainment and culture to the community with speakers, musicians and showman. Kalamzoo’s first Chautauqua was held in 1909 and later in 1909. Western State Normal School sponsored the Redpath Chautauqua to come over the next fourteen years until its last appearance in 1926.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Aerial photograph of Western State Normal School on Prospect Hill and the surrounding neighborhood in 1915. View features the original Administration building with the classroom and gymnasium addition, the Training School, the Science Building, and the “Horseshoe” sidewalk. Tennis courts in the mid-ground. Designed by Battle Creek architect, Ernest W. Arnold, the Administration Building was completed and occupied in 1905. By 1909 two wings were added: the Training School and the Gymnasium, both featuring columned porticos and lit cupolas. Together these were later renamed East Hall. The photograph appeared in the Brown & Gold 1922 yearbook.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Unidentified woman at the Kalamazoo Art Center during Walt Disney’s visit.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Photograph of the recently finished Science Building on East Campus of Western State Normal School. In the background is the Heating Plant smokestack. Designed by architect E. W. Arnold, the Science Building (later renamed West Hall) was finished in the Spring of 1915. For more than 30 years it housed all the natural and physical sciences.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of Walt Disney kissing a girl on the cheek during his visit to the Kalamazoo Art Center.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Photograph showing the two students walking down a sidewalk to the East campus tree line drive. In the background is Vandercook Hall. Built in 1939, the Men’s Dormitory was later renamed Vandercook Hall after the 'Father of Western', State Representative Henry B. Vandercook of Grand Rapids.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of the interior of the Manual Arts Building lab. The view features machinery.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of Western State Normal School on Prospect Hill. View features the portico and flag on the top of the cupola. Handwritten label on lower edge reads: “Western Michigan Normal School Kalamazoo Mich.”
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- East Hall lounge at Western Michigan State Teachers College. The lounge was formerly the library.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- A man, possibly a student, posing beside a three-piece set of equipment on wheels in the Manual Arts Building. The equipment is possibly related to motor lubrication. The first machine on the left is labeled “gear lub” and includes tools labeled water pump, wheel bearing, universal joint, steering gear, and oil gun. The middle container is labeled “drain oil.” The container on the far right is labeled “spring lub.”
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Studio portrait of a Kalamazoo fireman taken in the photography studio of W. S. White at 166 Main Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan. The fireman is wearing a shirt with a scarf or cravat and short fitted trousers with stockings. The belt appears to have insignia or badge.
- Date Created:
- [1873 TO 1878]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Walt Disney in the gallery of the Kalamazoo Art Center.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Photograph of Walt Disney with a group of children during his visit to the Kalamazoo Art Center.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Group photograph of the Biology Department faculty from the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Seated: Myrtle Powers, Frank Hinds, Harriet Bartoo, Elaine Hurst, and Bette Barnes. Standing: Merrill Wiseman, Lee Baker, Leo VanderBeek, Edward Reynolds, Edwin Steen, Bettina Carter, Daniel Jackson, and A. Verne Fuller.
- Date Created:
- 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- View of the Administration Building with the Gymnasium addition on the top of Prospect Hill. Stairway leads from Davis Street to the front of the Administration Building. The Administration Building was completed in 1905. The Gymnasium was the first of two wings added to the Administration building starting in 1908.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Male and female employees posing by machinery in the Compression Center at Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan. From left to right, employees with year of service are: George Oxley (1916), Marian Wiessner (1943), William Koning (1942), Ann Brower (1942), Douglas Noble (1936), Phyllis Overmeyer (1944), Guy Becker (1927), Doris Commissaris (1943), and Eileen Kellogg (1943). Photo notes that they represent 61 years of service. Employees wear aprons and collard shirts.
- Date Created:
- 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Photograph featuring the porticoes of Administration Building with Gym and Training School additions (East Hall) in winter. The Training School most prominent. The Administration Building was completed in 1905. The Gymnasium and Training School additions were completed in 1908 and 1909 respectively.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Stereograph of an exterior view of the Kalamazoo Ladies' Library Association building in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Wooden fence is visible. Park Street is dirt. A unidentified boy leans against the fence in front of the building. This view was probably taken very soon after construction as evidenced by the size of trees and lack of mature plants near the structure. The spire of the Methodist Episcopal Church is visible in the background. This building is located at 333 S. Park Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Studio portrait of a Kalamazoo fireman taken in the photography studio of W. S. White at 166 Main Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan. The fireman is wearing a shirt with a scarf or cravat and short fitted trousers with stockings. The belt appears to have insignia or badge.
- Date Created:
- [1873 TO 1878]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Gale W. Clark, faculty in general business, teaching a class at Western Michigan University in 1959. In the foreground are male and female students seated at wooden table arm school desks. Gale W. Clark came to the School of Business in 1957. North Hall housed the campus library and classrooms for the College of Busines' finance and commerical law, marketing, academic advising, college administration and psychology department. In 1990, the College of Business was moved to the Haworth College of Business on West Campus.
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of three unknown people standing in a snowy yard on East Campus of Western State Normal School, Kalamazoo, Michigan. View is from the south end of West Hall looking northeast toward East Hall (background).
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Front of Administration Building and Training School featuring porticoes and freestanding iconic columns. View looking South. Designed by Ernest W. Arnold, the Administration Building was completed in 1905. Later the Training School, one of two wings, was added in 1909. Together with the Administration Building and Gym addition, they were known as the Education Building and by 1967 as East Hall.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of Industrial Arts classroom in the Manual Arts Building. View features male students working with tools.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Group photograph of Chemistry Department faculty in a classroom from the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Top row: Don Iffland, Robert Nagler, Esther Woodruff, Elaine Zimmerman, and Paul Holkeboer. Bottom row: Lauri E. Osterberg, Lillian Meyer, Gerald Osborn, James Boynton, and Lawrence Knowlton.
- Date Created:
- 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of Administration Building columns. In the background is the Gymnasium addition portico.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- View of Kalamazoo neighborhood, looking East from Prospect Hill. In the foreground is what is now Davis Street.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Front of Administration Building and Training School featuring porticoes and freestanding iconic columns. View looking South. Designed by Ernest W. Arnold, the Administration Building was WMU's first building, opening in 1905. It was also known as the Education Building and by 1967 as East Hall. In July 2015, it was renamed again as Heritage Hall, the home of the WMU Alumni Center.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of the auditorium and stage of the Kalamazoo Ladies' Library Association. There are cane back chairs are arranged in the assembly area. The stage features a piano and artwork on easel. The walls are decorated with paintings. The auditorium features a large chandelier and patterned carpeting.
- Date Created:
- 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Exterior of McCracken Hall taken September 1970 includes the addition of the paper pilot plant and walkway. Cars are parked in the foreground. It was used as a chemistry facility. The first building on West Campus, McCracken Hall was named after well-known faculty member, William McCracken, head of the chemstry department from 1907-1939. A Paper Industries Laboratory was added to McCracken Hall in 1959 to support the nation's second Paper Technology program. One wing was torn down in 2017. The building was demolished in 2019.
- Date Created:
- 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of the entrance to campus drive off of Oakland Drive, East Campus, Western Michigan University. In the background is the South sides of the Health and Personnel Building and, behind trees, the Training School. Students walk on the side walk and cars are parked along the drive.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Training School portico in winter. View looking south and features a student on sidewalk. The Training Hall was an addition to the original Administration Building completed in 1909.
- Date Created:
- 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of Allen Maybee (standing) and Floyd Haight (seated) cleaning second floor windows of the old Administration Building in summer. Allen Maybe was the son of Harper Maybee, professor. Floyd Haight was the temp supervising janitor.
- Date Created:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Two unidentified men, possibly students, working with machinery in the Manual Arts building.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of the interior view of the library of the Kalamazoo Ladies' Library Association building in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The memorial stained glass windows, including those honor Ruth Webster, are visible in the background. The walls are lined with book shelves. Arts is displayed on the walls and there are three classical busts on pedestals. The circulation desk is visible on the right sand and features a clock. There are two ferns in the room. The room is lit by a chandelier and the floor covering is a patterned carpet. There is a fur rug, possibly a bearskin rug on top of the carpet.
- Date Created:
- 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Photograph of the Administration Building with the classroom and gymnasium addition on the top of Prospect Hill. Designed by Battle Creek architect, Ernest W. Arnold, the Administration Building was completed and occupied in 1905. The Classroom and Gymnasium wing was added in 1908. They were later known as East Hall. Shown are the tennis courts and the Normal Railroad (or Trolley). The Trolley, a two-track cable car system, was built in 1908 and remained in use until 1949.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Men with cameras at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts during Walt Disney’s visit.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Members of the Merry Maids Club of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Eight girls of varying ages stand in front of a woman holding the edge of an American flag. One young woman in front holds a sign, "Merry Maids Club" and wears a headpiece with a star. The Merry Maids Club was an organization for girls and young women affiliated with the First Presbyterian Church in Kalamazoo.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Male faculty and students setting up lights and electrical equipment in the Electronics lab located in the basement of the Garage (previously the Heating Plant) on East Campus of Western Michigan College. Photograph appeared in the April 1956 Western Michigan College Newsletter.
- Date Created:
- 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of the “Bridge of Sighs” on East Campus of Western State Normal School. A student walks down the right stair exist from the Administration Building and a car is parked under the Bridge. The “Bridge of Sighs” (later Training School Annex) was a connector between the Training School and Administration Buildings.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Administration Building portico from Davis Street nearly obscured by trees.
- Date Created:
- [1905 TO 1907]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of Walt Disney with a group of children during his visit to the Kalamazoo Art Center.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Group photograph of Art Department faculty from the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Seated: Elaine Stevenson, Elizabeth Smutz, Lydia Siedschlag, and Hazel Paden. Standing: Keith Bailey, John Kemper, Harry Hefner, Richard Bryant, and Stanley Phillips.
- Date Created:
- 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Interior of art classroom featuring female students and a teacher, possibly Emelia A. Goldsworthy. Students are seated at desks and drawing trees. At front of the room is a chalk landscape drawing. Embossed text on bottom of photograph right reads: "J M Reidsma Kalamazoo." The photograph appeared in Western Normal School Bulletin (1908-1909) Vol. 5, no. 4.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Hand drawn and colored architectural drawing on linen showing the right flank elevation of the Kalamazoo Ladies' Library Association building in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The scale is 4 feet to 1 inch. Drawing stamped "Henry L. Gay Architect 80 La Salle St., Chicago." The building was constructed in 1879 and is the first clubhouse building constructed in the United States by a women's club. It is located at 333 S. Park Street in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1878-07-31T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Photograph of Walt Disney with a group of children during his visit to the Kalamazoo Art Center.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- View of Davis Street neighborhood and Kalamazoo from the top of the Training School on Normal Hill (earlier Prospect Hill). View looking Northeast. Photograph appeared in the 1911 and 1920 Brown & Gold yearbooks.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Porticoes of the Administration Building and Gym addition (East Hall). View looking north. The Administration Building was completed in 1905. The Gymnasium addition was completed in 1908.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Interior of the Campus School basement featuring a boxing ring in dis-repair.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Front entrance of the Western Michigan University School of Business in North Hall. View focuses on building entrance portico with pediment supported by classical columns topped with corinthian capitals. Four male students are entering the building. Built in 1924, North Hall was altered several times, undergoing renovation in 1958. It was demolished in 2014, and only the front entrance remains on Prospect Hill.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- English Department Faculty in 1957 at Western Michigan University. The photograph appeared in the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Pictured, back row: Dr. Ralph Miller, Frank Householder, John Woods, Dr. Arnold Nelson, John McNally, Phil Denenfeld, Dr. Frederick Rogers, David Pugh, Robert A. Palmatier, and Dr. David F. Sadler. Middle row: William Rosegrant, John Orr, Dr. Robert Limpus, Dorothy Osborn, Katherine Rogers, Bernadine Carlson, Georgianna Burge, and Helen Sellers. Seated (left to right): Dr. John Freund, Clayton Holladay, Louise Walker, Lucille Nobbs, Thelma Anton, Jean Malmstrom, and Anne Oas.
- Date Created:
- 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Studio photograph of Carola Trittin, faculty in paper technology. Trittin was a chemist and served as faculty in Paper Technology Department at Western Michigan College of Education from 1955-1959. This photo appears in the Summer 1955 Western Michigan College News Magazine. Prior to joinning the WMU faculty, Carola Trittin was technical director of the Ward Paper Company in Merrill, Wisconsin.
- Date Created:
- 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Construction site west of the Administration Building clearing an area for increased parking possibly at the time the Science Building was erected. View features a crane and dump truck.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- West façade of West Hall on East Campus of Western Michigan University. View from below.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Six unidentified men posing before the store front of Chase H. Dickinson Wholesale & Retail Hardware, at 202-204 N. Burdick, Kalamazoo. Shovels, pitch forks, hoses, and other items are displayed in front of the store. Birdcages are visible in the windows of the store. There is a wooden sidewalk with a cobblestone curb and gravel or dirt street. F. B. Stevens, first man (far left), identified as the secretary and head salesman. Stevens earned seven dollars a week.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Glenn Schoolcraft and Donald Witters working in the Lubricating Center at the Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo. 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
- Notes:
- Photograph of female students in long coats lined up in front of a bus parked on Oakland Drive, East Campus, Western Michigan University. In the background is the front of the Men’s Gym (later Vandercook Hall).
- Date Created:
- 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Porticoes of the Administration Building and Gym addition (East Hall), Western State Teachers College. The Administration Building was completed in 1905. The Gymnasium addition was completed in 1908.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Charles S. Lewis’s hooding ceremony at the June 1965 Commencement at Western Michigan Univeristy. Charles S. Lewis receives Honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Western Michigan University. Lewis served as Principal of Detroit Central High School. Dr. James Miller and Dr. L. Dale Faunce appear in the photo.
- Date Created:
- 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Large group, possibly students and faculty, in formal wear seated in an assembly room at Western State Normal School.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Stereograph of an exterior view of the Kalamazoo Ladies' Library Association building in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Wooden fence is visible. Park Street is dirt. Landscaping includes vine type growth in the front of the building and additional tress. The spire of the Methodist Episcopal Church is visible in the background. Back of stereograph card credits Schuyler C. Baldwin, Photographer, Kalamazoo, Mich." This building is located at 333 S. Park Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Hand drawn and colored architectural drawing on linen showing the rear elevation of the Kalamazoo Ladies' Library Association building in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Drawing stamped "Henry L. Gay Architect 80 La Salle St., Chicago." The scale is drawn 4 feet to 1 inch. The building was constructed in 1879 and is the first clubhouse building in the United States constructed by a women's organization. The building is located at 333 S. Park Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1878-07-31T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Light sepia photograph of the Administration Building on Prospect Hill. View also features stairs down to Davis Street.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Reverse of a hand drawn and colored architectural drawing on linen showing the rear elevation of the Kalamazoo Ladies' Library Association building in Kalamazoo, Michigan, showing shading technique. Drawing stamped on front side: "Henry L. Gay Architect 80 La Salle St., Chicago." The scale is drawn 4 feet to 1 inch. The building was constructed in 1879 and is the first clubhouse building in the United States constructed by a women's organization. The building is located at 333 S. Park Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1878-07-31T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Walt Disney with Kirk Newman and others at the Kalamazoo Art Center.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Group photo of the Industrial Technology Department at Western Michigan University, which appeared in the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Seated: Henry Beukema, Dr. Donald Nantz, Herbert Ellinger, William Weeks, Dr. Andrew Luff, and Dr. Glade Wilcox. Standing: William Schreiber, Donald Black, Robert Hoffman, William Wichers, Clarence Van Deventer, Robert Ring, Elmer Brune, and Frank Scott.
- Date Created:
- 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Carola Trittin, faculty member in paper technology, holding multiple sheets of paper and standing with a piece of equipment in the background. Trittin was a chemist and served as faculty in Paper Technology Department at Western Michigan College of Education from 1955-1959. Prior to joinning the WMU faculty, Carola Trittin was technical director of the Ward Paper Company in Merrill, Wisconsin.
- Date Created:
- 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Walt Disney and three unidentified men standing next to paintings at the Kalamazoo Art Center.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Jannetje Maarsman and Hendrick Vermeulen family in front of their house at 521 Parker Street (now Pioneer Street) in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Hendrick Vermeulen is in the wagon. Minnie Vermeulen, Jacob Vermeulen, Henry Vermeulen, and Jeannette Vermeulen stand on or beside the porch. Two outbuildings or barn type structures in the background. Currently, the house no longer stands.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Dr. Maurice Seay giving commencement speech after receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Western Michigan University on August 12, 1966. Behind him are faculty in academic regalia.
- Date Created:
- 1966-08-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of West Hall on East Campus of Western State Normal School seen from below. View looking northeast.
- Date Created:
- 1924-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- John C. Hoekje, dean, and Leonard Meretta, faculty, at Michigan College of Education, designing a show formation for the Western Marching Band. Meretta was a professor emeritus of music and the founder of the Western Michigan University bands program at WMU in 1945. John C. Hoekje was a professor of education and psychology. He also served as registrar, dean of admissions and director of extension during his 1916-to-1955 tenure at the University.
- Date Created:
- 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Male and female employees posing by machinery in the Compressing Center at the Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan. From left to right, employees with their year of service include: Homer Suter (1929), Florence Chase (1944), Hester Woltersom (1938), Leland Telfer (1933), Gertrude Harris (1939), Albert Vanden Broek (1942), William Kannegieter (1942), Barbara Shaver (1941), and Albert Busick (1930). Representing 59 years of service.
- Date Created:
- 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Man, possibly faculty, demonstrating at table with electric cords and light bulbs in Manual Arts lab. At least four men, possibily students, observe, seated in chairs.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Color photograph of the front portico of the gymnasium attachment on the north side of the Administration Building. The photograph first appeared in the Brown and Gold 1925 yearbook. The Gymnasium, one of two wings to the Administration Building, was added in 1909. Together with the Administration Building, the building was later renamed East Hall and remained in use until 1950s.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- The Training School and High School Classroom on East Campus of Western Michigan University. View looking North. The Training School was built in 1909. The building was also known as the University School until 1969. Together with the Administration Building and Gym addition, they were known as the Education Building and by 1967 as East Hall. The Training School was later demolished in 2014.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Studio portrait of a Kalamazoo fireman taken in the photography studio of W. S. White at 166 Main Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan. The fireman is wearing a shirt with a scarf or cravat and short fitted trousers with stockings. The belt appears to have insignia or badge.
- Date Created:
- [1873 TO 1878]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The front of the Manual Arts Building in winter through the trees.
- Date Created:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Exterior of the Mechanical Trades Building which was constructed in 1940 for the purposes of vocational training. Cars are parked in the front of the building. Ornamentation in the façade featured airplane propellers and one of the early classes taught out of this building was aviation mechanics. North Hall and West Hall are visible in the background.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- 52 foot pool, filed, in the lower level of the Gym addition to the Administration of Western State Normal School. The pool was part of WSN’s expanding Athletics Physical Education program.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oral history interview with Jean Friedel and Margie Miner, conducted by Thomas Coyne on March 21, 1995. Friedel and Miner discuss how they came to teach at WMU, the status of women’s physical education programs, the development of women’s physical education programs, the organizational structure of women’s sports, discrimination in sports, and the role of Title IX in women’s athletics. Jean Friedel coached seven women’s sports, including basketball, field hockey, volleyball, gymnastics and track and field, at WMU during her 29-year tenure, which ran from 1960-1989. Margie J. Miner was a faculty member from 1957 until her retirement in 1986. She began the Women's Recreation Association at the university. She passed away on January 30, 2005 in Kalamazoo. and Tape summaries only. Full transcripts unavailable.
- Date Created:
- 1995-03-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Oral Histories at Western Michigan University, WMU Centennial Oral History Collection, and 1 audiocassettes
- Notes:
- D. Carl Shilling with his collection of political buttons and ribbons. Shilling was a faculty member in the political science department beginning in 1921 and chair for the last seven years of his career at WMU. He retired in 1952. Photograph was printed in the Spring 1952 Western Michigan College News Magazine.
- Date Created:
- 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Walt Disney and others at the Kalamazoo Art Center.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Ralph Willis, head of WMU Maintenance Department, receiving a special citation for 25 years of service to the University from President Miller during the Summer Session commencement on July 24, 1964. Ralph Willis served as the supervisor of custodians since 1947. He was responsible for the physical arrangements for Western's commencement programs for 17 years. In the background sit faculty in academic regalia. The photo appeared in the September 1964 WMU Newsletter.
- Date Created:
- 1964-07-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of the Natural Science Building partially obscured by a tree on the campus of Western Michigan University. Photograph features a 3/4 view of the façade. Students walk along the sidewalk. Completed in 1915, the Science Building was later known as West Hall.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection