Western Michigan University Libraries
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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:
- 1938-08-25T00:00:00Z
- 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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- Photograph taken at Everyman's House located at 2026 S. Westnedge, Kalamazoo, Mich., winner of the Better Homes in America 1924 Model Home contest, designed by Caroline Bartlett Crane. Interior of Mother's room with baby in small, fold-out crib placed over double-sized bed. Includes chair, bureau with mirror, windows with curtains, and small, wooden, two-paneled screen. Handwritten signature of photographer, "Young," and note on back of photo, "Return to Caroline Bartlett Crane, 1425 Hillcrest Ave., Kalamazoo, Mich., View of Mother's room from kitchen door." Photograph is mounted on decorative gray board, extending approximately 1 3/4" from edge of photograph. (Photographic print)-
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Caroline Bartlett Crane Collection, 1843-1935, A-92 and Caroline Bartlett Crane Collection, Everyman's House
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- German and French wounded lie on mattresses on the floor of a French castle. German doctors and orderlies treat these patients, preparing them for transportation to a field hospital.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Six hundred French hostages lived in the reprisal camp at Milejgany in Lithuania in January 1918. The conditions were harsh since their captors did not allow the internees to start fires despite temperatures below twenty degrees Centigrade.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian cobblers are hard at work repairing shoes and boots for POW's at Muensingen. POW's had limited access to new shoes while in prison and often had to repair the shoes they wore when they were captured. The workshop is well ventilated by the numerous windows and the POW's have access to electrical lights over their work benches.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A Russian Orthodox priest conducts an outdoor service in the prison compound at Crossen-an-der-Oder in front of the YMCA building. The German authorities gave the Russians special permission to pray for the health of the Russian imperial family for this occasion.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This drawing shows the barracks and support buildings in the prison camp at Ostifyasszonyfa. This prison camp was designed in two sections; a rectangular "Barraca Grande" and a U-shaped "La Barraca Picole."
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Societies - Service Clubs. Sutherland Paper Company Baseball team includes men in uniforms and hats. Client: Sutherland Paper Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1946-06-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 1 photo in event - 2742-D
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- Notorial signature attributed to Michel Marquet. A slash over the signature with no loss of text. The parchment is very thin, wrinkled and folded. Tall ascenders along the first line., Receipt for the final payment of the settlement of the Late King Louis XI, written by Michel Marquet, notary and secretary of King Charles VIII of France on 16 July 1486. The receipt addresses the "commis a la distribucion de certaine grant somme de deniers" the moneys to be used for "ensions des seigneurs des anciennes lignes des haultes almaignes et nacion de suysse" the remainder of the settlement made by King Louis XI re "la franche de bourgogne" for the sum of 1309 livres 14 solz and 9 deniers tournois received from the Treasurer General of Languedoc, Bayart. Signed by marget with his notarial symbol followed by a restatement of the sum received., and 1 column of 7 lines unruled written in cursive documentary script.
- Date Created:
- 1486-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Bound in an unusual binding, probably contemporary, made from two pieces of brown leather, sewn together horizontally, which is stitched over pasteboards formed from ten leaves from other manuscripts (now partially visible at the top, front, and along the fore edge, back). The leather turn-ins are covered with a paper leaf, now fragmentary, in the front, and by leather in the back. Part of this leather is broken off, and is now laid in, sewn on three leather bands, stitched through the inside of the covers in a “v” pattern. Lighter brown leather (sheepskin?) spine, probably later, with three raised bands with the title in gilt between the first and second in a gold square, “Regl de S. Benoit Manuscr 13 Sciecl [sic].” Remains of leather tie, front cover, with a hole in the back cover, presumably from another tie, now missing, and showing considerable wear, including a second small hole in the back cover near the spine, and with corners and some edges of the leather covers worn away. Middle of each gathering reinforced with parchment strips from another manuscript., The codex containing the Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict by Bernard Ayglerius (d. 1282), Abbot of Monte Cassino, open to show gothic cursive text on cockled paper. Leather of the cover worn and at the corners, showing the underlying “boards” made of 10 leaves from other manuscripts., and From dealer description: Written in the later decades of the 15th century, probably ca. 1480-1500, in central or southwestern France, as indicated by the style of the script and the watermark. Popular in 15th century Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries, the text is likely copied for a monastic library. Only one sale of this text is listed in the Schoenberg Database. Medieval shelf-mark, bottom margin, ff. 1 and 83, “B 63,” in both cases preceded by four erased words, “C de C.” Armorial bookplate, front flyleaf for the Bibliothèque de Monseir le Baron de Caix de Saint-Aymour,” with motto, “Fortior in adversis.” the Baron Amédée Caix de Saint Aymour was the mayor of Corbie (1863-1920), educated at the l’Ecole des chartes and at the l’Ecoles des langues orientales. Octagonal paper label on front cover edged in blue from 19th century French book deal, “Manuscript, 13ième siècle.” Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Les Enluminures (TM 432).
- Date Created:
- [1480 TO 1500]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
