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Notes:: Prisoners at the camp in Braunau-am-Inn used this one-Krone bank note to pay for their purchases in the prison canteen or for services. This currency could be used inside of the prison camp, a procedure designed to reduce corruption and prevent the use of this money to support escape attempts.
Date Created:: 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: This is a group photograph of the War Prisoners' Aid Secretaries who served in Austro-Hungarian prison camps early in 1917. The Senior WPA Secretary in Austria-Hungary, Edgar MacNaughten, sits in the center of the group.
Date Created:: 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: Table of Contents • "Behind the Scenes at Western" Activities • Administration • Dedication • Organizations • Dormitories • Class Section • Athletics • ROTC • Advertising • Index
Date Created:: 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: Street Scenes - Service Stations. Looking East toward Portage Street intersection. View includes neon sign on front of Burdick Hotel on north side of street; facades of Michael J. Leo's, Lew Hubbard, J/R. Jones & Sons, The Kalamazoo Building, First National Bank and Trust, Michigan Theatre, and American National Bank on south side of street. Automobiles line two-way street. Client: (Photographic Negative)
Date Created:: 1950-04-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: 3 photos in event 4192

Notes:: Education. Main circulation desk in lobby of new Dwight B. Waldo Library at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. Includes door to library offices and twin book lifts. Client: Russel Strong, WMU Publicity (Photographic Negative)
Date Created:: 1958-10-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: 2 photos in event - 7937

Notes:: Events. Group of boys standing on the steps of Lake Farm Boys Home at 3921 Oakland Drive. Client: Lake Farm Boys Home, 3921 Oakland Drive, Kalamazoo, MI (Photographic Negative)
Date Created:: 1958-10-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: 10 photos in event - 7938

Notes:: Modern limp vellum binding, with two pairs of fastening vellum ties., Large red and purple initials with blue and red pen florishes, Processional containing music primarliy for chants for the Temporale partially open to ff. 48v-49r., Written in Gothic Textura script, One line red staff with square black notation. Square notation on four line staff. Five staff on last gathering., and Country of production suggested by instructions in Spanish on recto and verso of f. 61; verso of first parchment guard leaf contains ownership inscription “Alfonso Lopez.” Stamp reading “Newberry Library” on f. 1 verso. Joint purchase by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1996.
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Notes:: Document folded six times. An additional parchment sheet (135 x 260 mm) is attached by the tag behind the plica., Text indented along the top line. Four-line intial “T” opens the text. Intial and following opening words bolded and with elaborate, calligraphic pen flourishes., Indenture chirograph document (conveyance) of Penelope Warde of Great Dunmow, Essex, widow to Richard Phillips, who was a wheelwright, for ₤10 15s + ₤8 to be paid to her 10s each quarter day with grants of parcels of land in Great Dunmow towards Chelmsford. Robert Remington also mentioned. Remnants of a red wax seal appended to the parchment tag., Written in late English secretary hand with exagerated loops on ascenders. A 6-line inscription on the dorse in a contemporary hand similar to the main text, “Sealed and... in the presence of...” three signatures follow (illegible except for two “Johns”). A 13-line addendum (codicil?) in a hand contemporary with the main document attached., and Written in England, county of Essex and dated 1 December 1659 in document. Signed, “The mark of Penelope Warde” beside the slits for the parchment tag on the plica. Gift of Western Michigan University Department of History to WMU Special Collections in 1999.
Date Created:: 1659-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: Campaign literature of the Nazi Party that criticizes the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) for the economic failures in Germany. It explains to voters that the future belongs to the NSDAP, and should be against the SPD and Jewish capitalism. Ending the flyer is the slogan, "Long live Adolf Hitler."
Date Created:: 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: World War II Propaganda Collections

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