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- Young prisoners of war in an unidentified Austrian prison attend a math class, organized by the YMCA. The teacher is also a POW, probably a former teacher before the war began. There is an abacus on the front of the table and the students diligently figure out their computations on small chalkboards. Discipline is probably not a problem, given the switch hanging from the teacher's side. The photograph caption is interesting: these young men are in class to gain an education to become productive future subjects in the Austro-Hungarian Empire; most of the boys in these prison camps were Russians or Serbians.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- An unidentified YMCA secretary meets with a group of sick and wounded Russian prisoners of war in an unknown Austrian prison camp. These men are in the process of recovery; they are out of their beds in the hospital ward, but are not yet ready for assignment to their barracks.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Insurance - Accidents. Overturned semi truck on I-94 west of US 131 intersection. Kalamazoo County, MI. May 6, 1969. Client: Michigan Claim Service. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1969-05-06T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 6 photos in event - 10569
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- Residential Scenes. Two women seated on an upholstered Duncan Phyfe style couch. One is wearing a hat, and one is smoking a cigarette. Client: Dave Morris, Kalamazoo, MI (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1939-06-23T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 11 photos in event - 117
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- Street Scenes - Service Stations. Exterior view of Neil and Marve's Service Station, 653 West Michigan Avenue. Station is constructed of painted brick with tile roof. Phillips 66 pumps and products visible. Two men possible owners Cornelius J. Brand and Marvin J. Stump, are standing near pumps. Client: Marv Stump (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1951-02-28T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Business Products. Man and woman in kitchen standing by counter using a Mica Saver Kit. Kitchen cabinets and linoleum floor visible. Client: 21st E.R.A., Paul Curry (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1957-12-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 4 photos in event - 7618
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- Document folded six times., Front of a seal attached to an indenture (mortgage) between John and Elizabeth Raymond, Essex and Dorothy Collard of Barnstone, Essex for ₤350 to John and Elizabeth Raymond for conveyance of capital massuage, Chelmshoes house and barns, stables, dove house [etc.] and lands in great Maplest[de?] and Deetingthorp [sp?], Essex. Containing 66 acres. Name of John Richardson mentioned. Two red-wax, impressed seals (design not visible), each stamped on tags., and Written in England, county of Essex and dated 25 August 2 James II. At middle center in the near-contemporary hand, “15/18 [?] | Mr and Mrs Raymond | to | Mrs Collard} Release” and three illgible words in a near contemporary hand followed by “1686.” Also at the middle center of dorse in a later hand: “9.” Gift of the Western Michigan University Department of History to Special Collections in 1999.
- Date Created:
- 1686-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- NE 44-14, Edition 1, India and Pakistan 1:250,000, and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- South Asia Maps
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- Photograph of Catherine Irene Bauner, faculty member in the Campus School and Nursery School, 1953-1954.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Photograph of Philip Mason, instructor in music at Western Michigan College of Education, 1955-1956. Mason also received a B.M. from Western Michigan College of Education in 1955.
- Date Created:
- 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection