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- Studio portrait of Daniel Denison Streeter of Kalamazoo, Michigan on a cabinet card. Streeter was a businessman and noted as a breeder and trainer of racing horses, working from his farm and home that is known as the Oaklands on what is now the campus of Western Michigan University. His best known horse was Peter the Great.
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- Photograph of Walt Disney signing his autograph for a group of children during his visit to the Kalamazoo Art Center.
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- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Civil War era letter, scanned and transcribed for use in United States Civil War Collection.
- Date Created:
- 1863-10-29T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- United States Civil War Collection
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- In his homily for Monday in Rogationtide (Feria II Letania Maiore) in the Second Series of Catholic Homilies, Aelfric touches on the themes of brotherly love, societal relations, prayer, and fasting.
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- SS (Early English Text Society) ; 5 and Medieval Manuscript Variants in Aelfric of Eynsham's Catholic Homilies
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- Portraits of the leaders of the German YMCA movement adorned the pages of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Berlin Association commemorative booklet. Friedrich von Schluembach (middle) and Christian Phildius (center lower row) were among the leaders honored in this publication.
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- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Wounded French prisoners lie on straw along the wall of the Roman Catholic church at Florenville. German doctors tend to these wounded men.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- American prisoners carried their sports along with them, even to prison camp. This photograph captures the middle of a football game on the compound at Rastatt, as spectators line the sidelines. The American YMCA provided the equipment and the Y Committee organized the camp's sports program, which included NCO's serving as refugees. Note the large number of spectators and the POWs' quarters in the background.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Aerial view of the prison camp at Ruhleben which housed British and Commonwealth interned civilians during World War I. This drawing shows the race track, grand stands, barracks, casino, tea house, New Town, guard room, gates, and hospital which made up the buildings of the prison camp. The Association constructed a YMCA hall on the open ground between Barracks II and XI.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This general view of the prison barracks and compound at Wasbek is from a guard tower. A labor detachment of Russian prisoners enters the main gate after a day's work outside the facility. A German guard counts the POW's as they enter the camp to detect any escapes.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A group of four Russian prisoners of war talk outside of their barrack in the prison camp at Goettingen.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries