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- 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
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- Liturgy O.C.S.O. was published by Gethsemani Abbey, Trappist, KY and edited by Father Chrysogonus Waddell from 1966-1999. The journal (at that time a newsletter) began after September 1965 meeting of the Liturgy Commission of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance to report progress in liturgical renewal after Vatican II. The audience and contributors later included secular scholars of the Cistercian liturgy. and Editor's page / Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell -- A local project for the Marian year / Sr. Sheryl Chen -- Viduata suo pastore: A brief note / Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell -- Death notices: Their neglected potential / Fr. Martinus Cawley -- Liturgical texts in the Divine Comedy / Canon Caeymaex -- Marian typology in the Fathers and in the Liturgy / Dom Bernard Capelle
- Date Created:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Liturgy O.C.S.O. Journal of Gethsemani Abbey
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- Transient application card documenting relief requests and authorizations to the destitute by Transient Bureau of Kalamazoo County, under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, May 1933 - June 1943.
- Date Created:
- 1940-02-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection
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- These French prisoners are tending sheep and cows. This herd is probably part of an unidentified prison camp's food supply system.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- French and British prisoners board a train at Cambrai bound for Germany and captivity. Many of these men have lost parts of their uniforms and have adopted civilian clothing. Many carry substantial belongings with them as they head for life in a prison camp.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A group of French prisoners of war carrying their recent purchases march through the streets of Berlin under a German guard. These men probably gave their parole that they would not attempt to escape, which allowed them to shop in the city.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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
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- 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
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- South Asia Maps
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- 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
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- P. 272 "Mar Gabriel is a generous and noble, but still wild young man. His confinement, when he commenced learning English with us, soon proved intolerable to his restless spirit." For this portrait, Mar Gabrial wears a dark aba (Vogelsang-Eastwood, p. 11) over a bright blue caba (Shoberl 1845, p. 45) or qaba (Vogelsang-Eastwood, p. 10) trimmed in red and tied with a patterned girdle. His two toned blue and red headgear is loose, hanging slightly to one side of his head and has a tassel at the tip of the crown.
- Date Created:
- 1843-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Costume History Collection
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- 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
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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
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- 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
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- 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
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- From Dryden's translation, The Works of Virgil, published by Jacob Tonson in 1697 at London. Full page engraving, “To Sr Bartholomew Shower of the Midle Temple. Knt”.
- Date Created:
- 1697-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- Civil War era letter, scanned and transcribed for use in United States Civil War Collection.
- Date Created:
- 1862-03-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- United States Civil War Collection
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- Civil War era letter, scanned and transcribed for use in United States Civil War Collection.
- Date Created:
- 1862-09-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- United States Civil War Collection
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- Transient application card documenting relief requests and authorizations to the destitute by Transient Bureau of Kalamazoo County, under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, May 1933 - June 1943.
- Date Created:
- 1935-05-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection
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- Citing Gregory the Great as his source, Aelfric explicates the parable of the sower, the Gospel reading for the day (Luke 8:4-15), in his homily for the Sunday in Sexagesima (Dominica in Sexagesima) in the Second Series of Catholic
Homilies.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- SS (Early English Text Society) ; 5 and Medieval Manuscript Variants in Aelfric of Eynsham's Catholic Homilies
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- Letter from Herbert Hoover asking Caroline Bartlett Crane to accept the chairmanship of the Better Homes Committee for Kalamazoo for the 1925 campaign.
- Date Created:
- 1924-10-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Caroline Bartlett Crane Collection, 1843-1935, A-92 and Caroline Bartlett Crane Collection, Everyman's House