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- Advertising. Product Photo of "Always 29 -- Cream of Re-Youth" produced by Baily, Prihoda & Company. Client: (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1945-09-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Later inscriptions identifying the manuscript., Manuscript leaf was excised form a larger codex, cut in half and used to cover a 16th-century printed text; sewn on four stations with kettle stitches; spine exposed; each cover wraps around the first gathering., Single color, 1- to 2-line red pen-initials., Twelfth-century, German manuscript leaf which serves as a parchment cover for a near-complete 1566 printed text. View of manuscript leaf used as spine and front cover., German protogothic bookhand, and Written in Germany or Switzerland in the first half of the 12th century. 2-line probably 2-word, illegible inscription on upper cover. Used to cover a complete copy (ff. 62) of Boltz, Valentin. Illuminirbüch, künstlich. Frankfurt?: s. n.], 1566. A guide to the preparation of dyes, pigments, inks etc., first published in 1549 (no records for 1549 editions and no records for original copies of 1566 edition exist on WorldCat). Two inscriptions at the bottom of f. 62v: one in contemporary script in ink, one in later script in lead, both illegible. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron Ohio, July, 2009.
- Date Created:
- [1100 TO 1150]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- The seal, now missing, was appended to a cloth strop, a portion of which is still present., Thirteenth-century, French grant to the Abbey of La Garde-Dieu by Haimeric de Gordo [Gourdon], son of Ratier de Castelnau, of "la terra de Castelnau, 1 March 1241, in the reign of Louis IX, and Raymond VII Count of Toulouse, Gérard de Baras, Bishop of Cahors, with the names of seven witnesses including the scribe, in the Quercy dialect of the Provençal language., clear documentary script, and Produced in France at the Cistercian Abbey of La Garde-Dieu (Cottineau 1: 1253) and dated 1 March 1241. La Garde-Dieu in the diocese of Cahors, was founded in 1150 as a daughter-house of Aubazine. The Abbey is a few miles south of Catelnau-Montratier, the new fortified town built by Ratier, the father of the grantor, on the site of a town destroyed by Simon de Montfort. On the reverse side of the document are several different inscriptions in various hands including: a summary of the charter and the date "1241" in an early hand; the number "144" in an early hand; the number "9352" in pencil in a modern hand; two inscriptions in fourteenth- or fifteenth-century scripts; "chapitre chronologique" in a seventeenth- through nineteenth-century script. Purchased by Alan G Thomas in 1970 from the Phillips Collection and acquired by the Mackus Company shortly thereafter; purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn, Ohio on May 8, 1999.
- Date Created:
- 1241-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Housed in a modern, pink mat frame (443 x 323 mm); visible on one side only; remnant of a green wax seal appended to the parchment tag., Twelfth-century, French donation by Georgia, daughter of Henri de Columbirs and former wife of Hugh de Lonchamp, of the rent of ten Tournai sous, to the church and convent of the Holy Trinity in Caen to be used to maintain a perpetually burning lamp before the altar of St. Lawrence on St. Lawrence day., flourishing, protogothic documentary script, and Produced at the Abbey of-aux Dames (Cottineau 1:553) and dated August 1222 in the document. The Benedictine Abbaye-aux Dames of St. Trinité in Caen, Normandy, was founded c. 1066 by Queen Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, who is buried there. An inscription on the plica in a later hand: "1222 donation a la chapelle de St laurent dans l'abbaye de Ste Trïnite," translation: "1222 Gift to the chapel of St. Lawrence in the Abbey of the Holy Trinity." On dorse: inscription in a hybrida hand (fifteenth-sixteenth century) indicates that the family home was later still known as Calumbiers (Coulombiers); possible scribal signature; six-line inscription in French summarizing the document. Acquired from the collection of E. H. Dring and purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Fairlawn, Ohio May 8, 2000. Acquisition record in "Mackus Company" folder.
- Date Created:
- 1222-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Front of 100 Francs polychrome Moroccan bill, with image of Aït Benhaddou, Morocco, and two watermarks of a lion (profile and frontal views).
- Date Created:
- 1941-05-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- NF 43-11, Edition 1, India and Pakistan 1:250,000, and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
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- Photograph, looking north, showing the back of Spindler Hall from the back lawn of VanderCook Hall on the East campus of Western Michigan College of Education. Lavina Spindler Hall for Women, which faced Oliver St., was completed in 1940.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Photograph of a crowd watching military exercises on Western's Athletic field on the East Campus of Michigan College of Education. View looking NE toward campus. In the background is the Heating Plant, built in 1915, with its smoke stack. The Athletic Field was constructed on west side of Michigan Central Railroad tracks and opened for baseball games in the Spring of 1914. It was later used as training field during World War 2 for the the V-12 program.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph 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:
- 1938-12-07T00:00:00Z
- 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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- 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:
- 1939-07-20T00:00:00Z
- 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
