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- Notes:
- Walt Disney and a man look at a boy standing on the stairs of an airplane at the Kalamazoo County Airport. Photograph taken during Disney’s departure from west Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Lottery ticket printed by the NSDAP in 1935. The ticket cost 1 Mark and the front has the German eagle and swastika. The back has a list of the terms of the lottery and also the list of available winnings. The lottery ticket is from the city of Munich.
- Date Created:
- 1935-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- NG 43-13, Edition 1 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:
- NC 44-9, Edition 1; Inset of Madura on verso, India and Pakistan 1:250,000, and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- Notes:
- Photograph of Catherine Jean Yocum from the October 1959 Western Michigan University Newsletter at the time she was hired as assistant professor of Women’s Physical Education.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- 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:
- Photograph of Dale Artz, 1950 graduate of Western Michigan College of Education. Artz served as Army Reserve Command and General Staff instructor, obtaining the rank of colonel.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of Lt. Thomas Willoughby, class of 1952. Following graduation, Willoughby completed Naval Officer candidate school at Newport, Rhode Island and was commissioned Ensign in the supply civil engineering and medical services corps.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of Kenneth Beighley at the time he was hired as instructor for mathematics and science in the Campus School at Western Michigan University. Photo appeared in the July 1958 Western Michigan University Newsletter. He taught from 1959-1961.
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- Donald and Genevieve Gilmore talking to a man at the Kalamazoo County Airport. Photograph taken during Walt Disney’s departure from west Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Industrial Products. People Working. Show bus for Hammond Machinery Builders, Inc. demonstrations. Three men next to bus, and Hammond building in background at 1600 Douglas Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Client: Hitchcock Publishing Company, Wheaton, Illinois. (Photographic Negative)
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 4 photos in event - 7627
- Notes:
- Back of 50 Pfennig polychrome German note. A framed image of the silhouette of a man with a dog by his side; in the background, in a lighter ink, is a man driving a horse-drawn cart; on either side of this image is the amount of the bill's worth: "Fünfzig/50 Pfennig"; below the image: "Ein sicherer Führer."
- Date Created:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Back of 10 Marks monochrome German note. Dark green ink on olive green background; woman on right holding paddle in left hand and a palm branch pen decorated with two snakes.
- Date Created:
- 1906-10-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- I-42 B, First Edition, Afghanistan 1:253,440, Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U511, and GSGS (Series) ; 3919
- Date Created:
- 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- Notes:
- I-42 L, First Edition, Afghanistan 1:253,440, Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U511, and GSGS (Series) ; 3919
- Date Created:
- 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- Notes:
- NG 44-5, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- Notes:
- Photograph of Anna Evans, faculty member in the Rural Life and Education Department from 1922 to 1946. This photo appears in the 1945 Brown and Gold Yearbook and the Summer 1962 Western Michigan College of Education News Magazine.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- 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:
- Double portrait of Leslie H. Wood and wife
- 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:
- Photograph of Russell A. Cosper, 1933 graduate of Western State Teachers College. Casper continued his graduate education and eventually served on the faculty in English at Purdue University.
- Date Created:
- 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Industrial Scenes. Interior view of Kalamazoo Paper Company showing papermaking machines. Client: Paper Operations Consultants, Inc., Kalamazoo, MI. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1965-04-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 22 photos in event - 9826; see also 9823
- Notes:
- Residential Scenes. Woman in dress and apron washing dishes at double sink. Client: Dave Morris, Kalamazoo, MI (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1939-06-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 11 photos in event - 117
- Notes:
- Industrial Scenes. Exterior of factory building and parked cars at 150 Blaine Street. Client: Kalamazoo Steel Process Co. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1944-07-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Advertising. Photo of bus with advertising sign, Carling Black Label Beer. Client: Ray Vickerstaff Advertising Co., Toledo, Ohio (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1957-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 3 photos in event - 7479, 7490
- Notes:
- Interior of the city water tank being constructed, 1905 Lake Street, Kalamazoo. View includes workers, scaffolding and lumber materials.
- Date Created:
- 1957-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 1 photo in event - 7587
- Notes:
- Back of 50 Francs polychrome Algerian bill, featuring a small market in El Jem, Tunisia, Roman amphitheater in the background. Inscription at bottom says, "For those who are dishonest, forgiveness comes with a lifetime of hard work."
- Date Created:
- 1939-08-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- NG 44-12, Edition 1; Inset of Banaras on verso, India and Pakistan 1:250,000, and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- Notes:
- Photograph of Ellis J. Walker, Director of Health Services, 1927-1946, at her desk in the Health and Personnel Building.
- 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:
- Donald Gilmore and Walt Disney standing in the Upjohn Company hangar at the Kalamazoo County Airport. Photograph taken during Walt Disney's departure from west Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- People Working. Woman packing paper plates. Client: Sutherland Paper Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1945-04-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 6 photos in event - 2149-D
- Notes:
- Technician in lab coat from a pilot lab at the Upjohn Company standing on a stool in front of a Pfaudler Glass Lined Reactor kettle looking through an optical scope. The photo was published in the May 1939 edition of Overflow, a publication of the Upjohn Company. The pilot lab at Upjohn worked with Bismuth Ethyl Camphorate.
- Date Created:
- 1939-06-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 8 photos in event - 107
- Notes:
- A marquee sign reading "Bert Upjohn Man of the Year" hanging over the entrance to the Hotel Harris on 333 East Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Sign references Kalamazoo Jaycee's Distinguished Service Award part of the Outstanding Young Man of 1958. Winter scene looking northeast toward Pitcher Street intersection.
- Date Created:
- 1958-01-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 1 photo in event - 8017
- Notes:
- NG 43-1, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- Notes:
- NG 46-15, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- 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:
- Studio portrait of James Mandrell, 1954 graduate of Western Michigan College of Education, who served as director of admissions at Kalamazoo College from 1960 to 1974.
- Date Created:
- 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Siblings Ruth and Roy Nichols (or Nickols). Studio portrait taken by John M. Reidsema, 119. South Burdick St., Kalamazoo, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Horizontal catchwords very bottom inner margins, often partially trimmed. Notes for the rubricator very bottom margin. Guide letters alongside many initials., Front cover detached. Early chained binding (possibly contemporary) of brown leather over wooden boards, beveled and cut almost flush with the book block, sewn on double bands that enter the boards at the edge and are fastened on the inside. Head and tail bands also fasten into the boards. Spine with four raised bands and with the remains of a tab at the top. Simply tooled in blind with an outer frame and two single fillets crossing on the diagonal. Five brass bosses on upper and lower boards. Once fastened back to front: stubs of two straps, lower board and holes from two pins center upper board, intact metal hasp and chain ending in a ring middle top edge lower board, remains of parchment label upper board. Strips of parchment from earlier manuscripts used to line the spine visible at the beginning and end. Title copied in a cursive script on bottom fore edge: “Isti(?) sunt liber hystoriales scilicet iosue iudic[um] Ruth paralipomenon Regum. The binding has been tampered with and the first and last leaves are pasted down at the front and back, perhaps when the opening and closing gatherings were removed., Majuscules touched with red, lemmata underlined in red, red rubrics, and two- to three-line red initials. Modern foliation in pencil top outer corner recto. Original foliation in Arabic numerals in ink middle lower margin on ff. 14-264. Text begins on f. 2 (f. 1 recto pasted to the front board). Watermark of a tower with merlons without a window, similar to iccard Online 100480, Wemding, 1455, 100500, no place, 1459, 100531, Kaisheim, 1464. Prickings in the upper and lower margins., An early fifteenth-century manuscript of Nicholas of Lyra’s commentaries on nine Old Testament books, open, with chain binding., 2 columns of 42-46 lines ruled in ink and written in cursive gothic book hand., and Written in Southern Germany, possibly Bavaria, in ca. 1450-1475 as indicated by the evidence of the watermark and script. The chained binding indicates it was in an institutional collection. Purchased by Western Michigan University’s Special Collections from Les Enluminures who procured it from a private North American collection.
- Date Created:
- [1450 TO 1475]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- NF 44-2, Edition 1; Inset of Jubbulpore 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:
- 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:
- People Working. Industrial Scenes. Woman in uniform operating an industrial drill press. Client: Balch Manufacturing Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1944-08-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 20 photos in event - 1738
- Notes:
- Events. Room full of people and children during a radio broadcast for Dutch Treat Bakers. Client: Dutch Treat Bakers (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1949-04-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Business Scenes. Daytime view of building and electric illuminated Christmas sign on the Consumers Power Company building, 153 S. Rose Street, Kalamazoo, MI. Sign says "Greetings" and includes star, holly leaves, bells, and candles. Window display includes Frigidaire refrigerator, automatic gas range, and "Pin it Up" lamps. Also visible are street lamp with frosted globe, bicycle with basket, woman seated inside parked automobile, and non-illuminated electric sign that reads "Consumers Electricity" on facade of building. Client: Consumers Power Company, Kalamazoo, MI. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1940-12-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 6 photos in event - 523
- Notes:
- Rows of tulips at an unknown farm, possibly in Cooper Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. In the background are outbuildings, a barn and a farmhouse.
- Date Created:
- 1945-05-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 2 photos in event – 2136
- Notes:
- This picture was included in the collection, "Deutschland erwacht. Werden, Kampf und Sieg der NSDAP (Germany awakens. Progress, Struggle, and Victory of the NSDAP). The photographs were included inside cigarette packages as a promotion and were collected by patrons. This collector's card shows members of the SA marching in Munich following the repeal of the uniform ban
- Date Created:
- 1933-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Front of 10 Francs polychrome French bill, depicting French miner with pickaxe in front of mines.
- Date Created:
- 1942-11-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Front of 50 Marks polychrome German note. Green and white color scheme; on left side of "50 Mark" is an image of a farmer holding a sickle, on the right side is a man holding a hammer. Behind the man with the hammer are two factory smoke stacks.
- Date Created:
- 1920-07-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Front of 50 Pfennig polychrome German note. Beige background, black text, and red accents; in center image of Friedrich Schiller, German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright, in a circular frame; to the left and right of the center frame "50 Pfenning" is written the "50" is in red, and the "Pfenning" is in black; No 051255 in blue
- Date Created:
- 1921-03-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- H-41 N, First Edition, Afghanistan 1:253,440, Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U511, and GSGS (Series) ; 3919
- Date Created:
- 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- Notes:
- NC 44-1, Edition 2, India and Pakistan 1:250,000, and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- Notes:
- NG 43-3, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- Notes:
- NG 45-1, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- 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:
- Donald Gilmore and others stand in the Upjohn Company hangar watching the airplane carrying Walt Disney and other guests get prepared for departure at Kalamazoo County airport.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-20T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Insurance - Accidents. Country road, 38th street looking North near Galesburg, Michigan, in vicinity of I-94 overpass, with post and wire fence. April 1969. Client: Allen, Worth & Calderone. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1969-04-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 14 photos in event - 10549
- Notes:
- Advertising. Display of women's "Miss Thrifty Lingerie, Made of Pepperell Fabrics" in Power's Department Store, 111 W. Michigan. Client: Martha Maid Manufacturing Company, Mr. Manley Sprague (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1939-10-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 2 photos in event - 181
- Notes:
- Education. Maybee Music Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, shortly after construction. Client: Durako Paint Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1949-09-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Residential Scenes. Home interior includes fireplace and 1940s and 1950s style desk, tables, chairs, and corner display cupboard. Client: Miller Lumber Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1950-08-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 11 photos in event - 4351
- Notes:
- Education. Japanese woman wearing kimono teaching class as part of Kalamazoo-Numazu Sister City program. Client: Mildred Borton, Winchell School, Kalamazoo, MI. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1963-02-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 3 photos in event - 9290
- Notes:
- NF 44-16, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- Notes:
- NI 43-12, Edition 2 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1963-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- Notes:
- NC 43-16, Edition 2; Inset of Trivandrum on verso, India and Pakistan 1:250,000, and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- Notes:
- Photograph taken while Dr. Brown, faculty of the English Department, lectured on Shakespeare.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- 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:
- Advertising. US Plywood Weldwood Epoxy Glue in packaging. Client: US Plywood Corporation. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1969-02-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Education. Facade of East Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, looking north, shows details of columns and Georgian Revival architecture. Client: L. G. Balfour Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1943-02-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 2 photos in event
- Notes:
- Street Scenes - Service Stations. Exterior view of Fenwick & Trowbridge, Sinclair Products, 402 S. Rose. Client: Sinclair Station (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1944-09-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 1 photo in event 1758
- Notes:
- Industrial Scenes. Male employee wearing rubber apron and gloves using Roto-Finish compound at Shakespeare Company, Kalamazoo, MI. Metal drum and bag with Roto-Finish labeling visible in foreground. Client: Sturgis Products Company, Sturgis, MI. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1946-11-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 6 photos in event -0193
- Notes:
- Events. The Fox-Davidson Orchestra in the Ballroom at Western State Teacher's College. Client: President's Ball Committee (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1940-01-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Advertising. Display of "Shakespeare Fine Fishing Tackle" includes product displays of Glass Fiber Wonderod, bait, reels, Wexford Wonder Line, and Shakespeare Rods. Client: Shakespeare Company, Kalamazoo, MI (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1949-03-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Conveyor line holding steel plate covers at the Ingersoll Steel facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1949-08-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 3 photos in event – 3864
- Notes:
- Group portrait of men and women in work clothes from the meat processing company, Peter Eckrich and Sons.
- Date Created:
- 1951-09-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 4 photos in event - 4788
- Notes:
- The cover features the image of a young boy giving up his trumpet for the Führer in order to assist with the on going war effort. The article, "Luftschutz-Alarm im Zoo," explains the complications with so many different and dangerous animals in dealing with air-raid protection in the Leipzig zoo.
- Date Created:
- 1940-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Front of 1 Mark polychrome German note. Title and numbers are partly colored in with red ink; in the face of the bill is an image of a solders on horses in a field; in the distance is a town.
- Date Created:
- 1920-12-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Back of 1 Mark polychrome German note. Top: image of the Wartburg. Bottom: image of Schloss Weissensee. Dividing the two images is a block of text; to the left of the text is an image of a rose and to the right an image of two fish, the Weisensee coat of arms.
- Date Created:
- 1921-08-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Back of 1 thousand Marks polychrome German note. Pale green design background; print of Karl Radeck who participated in the Bolshevik Revolution; text: "Sowjed-Jude Radeck, Eisenbahnräuber, Arbeitermörder, Grösster Kapitalist in Rußland! Arbeiter, soll das Euer Führer sein?" (Soviet-Jew Radeck, train-robber, worker-murderer, Greatest Capitalist in Russia! Worker, should this be your leader?) This propaganda message was printed onto the paper later.
- Date Created:
- 1922-09-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- NG 44-6, Edition 1; Inset of Kanpur and inset of Lucknow 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 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 Helen Spaulding in stewardess uniform. Spaulding graduated from Western Michigan College of Education in 1954 and became a flight attendant for Eastern Airlines, New York, NY.
- 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:
- Front of 75 Pfennig polychrome German note. Gray, orange, red, yellow, and black ink; text reads: "Dieser Schein wird nicht eingelöst! Der für diesen Schein bezahlte Nennwert gilt als einmaliger freiwilliger Beitrag!"
- Date Created:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Front of 50 Pfennig polychrome German note. Gray, orange, red, yellow, and black ink; text reads: "Dieser Schein wird nicht eingelöst! Der für diesen Schein bezahlte Nennwert gilt als einmaliger freiwilliger Beitrag!"
- Date Created:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- NF 46-1, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
