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- A Roman Catholic priest delivers a funeral service for an Italian prisoner of war at a cemetery near an unidentified Austrian prison camp. The POW's comrades attend the service and the casket is decorated with flowers and ribbons.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Close-up photograph of the Roman Catholic chapel in the fortress of Koenigstein. The photo shows the altar, a painting of Christ above the altar, and part of the communion rail.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners stand outside the gaily decorated YMCA building, which is festooned with strings of garland, during the inauguration ceremony in the prison camp at Sopronnyek. Hungarian officers stand in the foreground on the right hand sice and an official delegation, led by His Excellency, M. de Sjilessy, the Privy Councilor of the Emperor-King. The Association hut became the center of social activities in most prison camps during World War I.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Prisoners assemble outside of a YMCA hall in an Austrian prison camp in preparation for their Christmas celebration. Dignitaries are standing on the steps of the building by the front door.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- To celebrate the Christmas season, the French prisoners organized a special concert for December 1917. This program highlights the music performed at Muensingen (the Christmas celebration for Russian and Serbian prisoners would follow in January 1918 due to the Orthodox calendar).
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Thousands of Russian prisoners celebrated Christmas outdoors in the prison compound at Purgstall by a large, decorated Christmas tree. American YMCA Secretary Paul B. Anderson took this photograph during the celebrations.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners of war study in a synagogue in the prison camp at Zwickau. Several sit at a table, reading the Talmud and several men standing in the rear of the synagogue wear prayer shawls. The synagogue is not as ornate as the Catholic chapel in the camp.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A winter view of the monument that French prisoners of war at Rennbahn designed and constructed in memorial to Allied POW's who died at Muenster II. The commandant arranged for free photographs of individual graves to be sent to family members through the camp's British Help Committee.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Description:
- A collection of materials from the Plymouth Congregational Church of Lansing, Mich., donated upon their vacating the facility at 2001 E. Grand River Ave. in the fall of 2017. The collection includes original and later editions of "Under the Mustard Tree" church history (some of which also exist in the cataloged Local History book collection at call no. R 285.877427 Plymouth), the bulletin from the final service at the Grand River location, a souvenir postcard, plate, and tile, and a list of all ministers of the congregation since its forming in 1847. There is also a selection of correspondence and meeting agendas and minutes (2001-2017), various brochures and service programs, and fall meeting and annual report booklets. In addition, early volumes of "The Year Book of the Congregational and Christian Churches" (1920, 1928, 1935, 1944, 1955) and the 2005 Yearbook of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches are included. Susy E. Stebbins' personal inscribed copy (which later belonged to C. Rowland Stebbins) "Congregationalists in America" by Rev. Albert E. Dunning (1894) is also in this collection. Membership directories were placed in Local History's cataloged book collection.
- Date Created:
- [1975 TO 2017]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Plymouth Congregational Church Collection
- Description:
- Photo of Rev. Leroy Warren, Lansing. Photographed by Cassey and Whitney.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
