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Notes:: Seven Polish prisoners of war painted this picture of the Black Madonna of Czestohowe during their incarceration in a German prison camp. Artists could enhance the beauty and symbolism of prison camp churches through their art work.
Date Created:: 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: British actors pose for a photograph in this scene from a play in the theater at Schweidnitz. Theatricals were a very popular form of entertainment for British prisoners of war in prison camps across Germany during the war.
Date Created:: 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: This one-Mark bill, stamped by the XIV Army Corps command, was used by officers imprisoned in the prison camp at Heidelberg. The currency was valid only for purchases inside of the prison camp, a plan designed to limit bribery of the guards, reduce black market trade, and prevent the financing of escape attempts.
Date Created:: 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: This Red Cross Post Card (Germany No. 20) shows a Russian Orthodox priest, in his vestments, and an assistant with a censor holding a religious service for Russian prisoners in the church in the prison camp at Guben. As the church is decorated with palm branches and one of the prisoners is holding palms, the congregants were probably celebrating Palm Sunday. The POW's wear identification bands on their upper left arms. This photograph was posed--note the soldier to the right who is still wearing his hat inside the church.
Date Created:: 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: British prisoners prepare to depart the prison camp at Ouchak, after bidding farewell to the Turkish commandant, who is standing in the center of the photograph. The Ottomans signed an armistice with the Entente Powers in October 1918 and withdrew from the war. While many of the British officers are wearing military uniforms, a considerable number of men are in civilian clothing.
Date Created:: 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: Stripped to the waist, these Italian prisoners at Mauthausen show the wasting effects of tuberculosis on their bodies.
Date Created:: 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: Industrial Products. Band saws manufactured by W. F. Wells & Sons, Inc. Three Rivers, MI. August 1969. Client: Earl Clason. (Photographic Negative)
Date Created:: 1969-08-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: 2 photos in event - 10607

Notes:: Insurance - Accidents. Damage from train accident to southern wall of Triangle Service Station, 315 E. Water Street, corner of Kalamazoo Avenue and Water Street, Kalamazoo, MI. Damage includes partially demolished brick exterior and cracks, leaning railroad crossing signal, and pile of rubble by train tracks. Also visible are wooden beam supporting wall, ladder, partial interior of service station, and flowers next to sidewalk. Part of National Storage Company exterior, 309-311 E. Water Street, with "Allied World's Largest Mover" advertisement visible in background. Client: John Lambert, Kalamazoo, MI. (Photographic Negative)
Date Created:: 1972-10-02T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: 7 photos in event - 11024

Notes:: Now housed in a modern, matted frame (405 x 305 mm) with leaf visible on recto and verso., 2-line decorated initials in red, blue, white, and gold with elaborate marginal extenders; smaller initials within musical text with yellow and red highlights., Thirteenth- to fourteenth- century, French missal leaf including the section of the service for Saints Peter and Paul., early gothic textualis formata, and Uncertain provenance. Probably produced in Beauvais, France in the first half of the thirteenth century. On mat: "1285 A.D. France. Beauvais Missal." Possibly loaned to the WMU library school through Jean Lowrie from the Gethsemani Abbey Library of Kentucky in 1974. Now permanently held by Special Collections, Waldo Library.
Date Created:: [1250 TO 1300]
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