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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