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- 16th century gilt-tooled arabesque binding or pasteboard, with small marks on edges of boards where clasps were once attached. Binding damaged., Head and fore edge of a Book of Hours containing a calendar, gospel readings and litany., and “1542” on last main text leaf perhaps indicating the precise date of the binding.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Early-modern and modern inscriptions identifying the document., Stored in a modern, archival diploma holder. Archiepiscopal seal still attached to plica: made of green wax (80 x 55 mm), pendant on green silk threads, bearing the standing portrait of William Archbishop of Reims and partly-legible legend around; counterseal on reverse, badly damaged and barely legible. Seal much repaired with neutral colored wax in the 19th century., 2-line initial "W" with slight flourishes opens the text., Twelfth-century, Flemish document sealed by William, Archbishop of Reims, issued by his Chancellor Lambinus and dated 1182, concerning the donation of lands--Hulsendam, Nova Ecclesia and Balliol--by Philip of Flanders to the Abbey of Messines (Cottineau 2: 1832). See acquisition file, dealer's prospectus, for detailed description of William of Reims and Philip of Flanders., protogothic documentary script, and Produced probably in Flanders, and dated 1182 within the document. The identifying inscriptions on the dorse of the document: along the top, possibly a thirteenth-century hand, "confirmatio Willelmi archiepiscopi remorum supra terra de hulsendam et de nova ecclesia et balliola."; below fold line, an early-modern script: "Confirmation de la donation de hulsendam de L'archevesque de Reims faict par Philippe Comte de Flandre aux Dames de Messines. Carte B 1 l'an 1180 [sic]"; inscription in pencil of "1182" immediately below; along the bottom, possibly the same hand as the inscription along the top: "Per Willelmi archiepiscopi Remorum supra terra de hulsendam." Abbey of Messines was destroyed in WWI and restored in 1931 as the crypt of a new church. The Abbey held the document in 1876. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn Ohio in May of 2004.
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- 1182-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Election leaflet supporting Adolf Hitler for election in the 1932 Reichspresident election. It attacks the SPD and the KPD for accusing Hitler of being the political whip of social reaction, and blames the problems of the Weimar Republic on their leadership. It includes Hitler's motto, "For freedom, work and bread." A large portion of Hitler's speech from April 7, 1932 is included.
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- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Campaign election leaflet in support of the NSDAP during the 1932 Reichstag election. It calls out to all public servants that now more than ever it is time to man the entrenchments. It tells them that they are standing at a crossroads and they must decide whether they want to go back or forward. It demands that all officials act and think only about the people for their own sake.
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- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- The cover features the image of a young boy giving up his trumpet for the Führer in order to assist with the on going war effort. The article, "Luftschutz-Alarm im Zoo," explains the complications with so many different and dangerous animals in dealing with air-raid protection in the Leipzig zoo.
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- 1940-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Front of 1 Mark polychrome German note. Title and numbers are partly colored in with red ink; in the face of the bill is an image of a solders on horses in a field; in the distance is a town.
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- 1920-12-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Back of 1 Mark polychrome German note. Top: image of the Wartburg. Bottom: image of Schloss Weissensee. Dividing the two images is a block of text; to the left of the text is an image of a rose and to the right an image of two fish, the Weisensee coat of arms.
- Date Created:
- 1921-08-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Back of 1 thousand Marks polychrome German note. Pale green design background; print of Karl Radeck who participated in the Bolshevik Revolution; text: "Sowjed-Jude Radeck, Eisenbahnräuber, Arbeitermörder, Grösster Kapitalist in Rußland! Arbeiter, soll das Euer Führer sein?" (Soviet-Jew Radeck, train-robber, worker-murderer, Greatest Capitalist in Russia! Worker, should this be your leader?) This propaganda message was printed onto the paper later.
- Date Created:
- 1922-09-15T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- NG 44-6, Edition 1; Inset of Kanpur and inset of Lucknow on verso, India and Pakistan 1:250,000, and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- South Asia Maps
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- Photograph of the recently finished Science Building on East Campus of Western State Normal School. In the background is the Heating Plant smokestack. Designed by architect E. W. Arnold, the Science Building (later renamed West Hall) was finished in the Spring of 1915. For more than 30 years it housed all the natural and physical sciences.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
