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- Two women in formal dress from the U.S.O. Kalamazoo Committee handing hats to two men in uniform.
- Date Created:
- 1944-04-08T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 3 photos in event - 1585
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- Traces of earlier sewing slits appear in the middle margin, along the fold of the bifolium, possibily from the original binding. “Framed sometime before 1979, removed from frame 5-21-2010.” --from dealer description., On f. 1v, 5 line illuminated inital “B” on a field of gold, enclosing white floral pattern on a field of blue. Illumintated three-quarter border with sprays of light brown ivy and bezants on hairline stems and with fruit and flowers forms. Gold flaking from initial and bezants. Single line initials in gold and blue throughout text. Rubricated in red. On f. 1r and f. 2v, 2 line initial in blue., One bifolum from a Book of Hours in Dutch featuring illuminated marginal decoration and initial., 1 column of 18 lines ruled in drypoint and written in gothic texutalis libraria. Pricking in outer margins., and Produced in Flanders in the 15th century. Sticker on the back of frame readers “The Bonfoey Co... Clevelend, O.” Loaned to WMU Library School through Jean Lowrie from the Gethsemani Abbey Library of Kentucky in 1974, and now permanently held by Special Collections.
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- Photograph of the Industrial Education “Annex” on East Campus, Western Michigan College of Education. The temporary Annex was converted for program use, located next to the Industrial Education Building. The Annex was built in 1918 as the Barracks for housing for Student Army Training Corps. The building was razed in 1948.
- Date Created:
- 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Man in suit demonstrating how to use industrial equipment while two or more men observe.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- This leaf is from “A Guide to Tongues” by John Minsheu, and is said to be the first Comparative Linguistic Dictionary, brought out in England and apparently the first book ever sold by subscription in advance. This dictionary is compiled of eleven languages. It was printed at the charges of the author for John Browne, "Bibliopola", a bookseller, London, 1617. The recto side of this leaf is page 21; the verso side is page 22.
- Date Created:
- 1617-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- Liturgy O.C.S.O. was published by Gethsemani Abbey, Trappist, KY and edited by Father Chrysogonus Waddell from 1966-1999. The journal (at that time a newsletter) began after September 1965 meeting of the Liturgy Commission of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance to report progress in liturgical renewal after Vatican II. The audience and contributors later included secular scholars of the Cistercian liturgy. and Editor's page / Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell -- The theological principles of the Liturgy restored by the Second Vatican Council. Liturgical reform as a permanent task / Fr. Alberich Altermatt -- Conference notes by Thomas Merton: The Cistercian Fathers and their monastic theology ‑ Part one: St. Bernard II. St. Bernard and Cluny - The Apologia - 1123 / Fr. Thomas Merton -- St. Bernard and the sung word ‑ A reading of St. Bernard's letter to the Abbot of Montieramey / Br. Xavier Frisque -- Blessed Hermann and the alma redemptoris Mater / Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell
- Date Created:
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Liturgy O.C.S.O. Journal of Gethsemani Abbey
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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:
- 1936-04-24T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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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- Aelfric's homily for the common of Several Apostles (In Natale Plurimorum Apostolorum) in the Second Series of Catholic Homilies explicates Christ's instructions concerning preaching (Luke 10: 1-7) as applying to the clergy's pastoral role.
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- SS (Early English Text Society) ; 5 and Medieval Manuscript Variants in Aelfric of Eynsham's Catholic Homilies
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- Aelfric cites Gregory the Great as one of the authorities for his homily for Ascension (In Ascensione Domini) in the First Series of Catholic Homilies. The homily treats the epistle reading for the day (Acts 1 :3-15), the Bible's fullest account of the ascension, as well as Luke 24:50-53 and Mark 16:14-20 (the Gospel reading for the day).
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- SS (Early English Text Society) ; 17 and Medieval Manuscript Variants in Aelfric of Eynsham's Catholic Homilies
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- Russian prisoners wash their hands and faces at troughs in an open air shed at a German prison camp, probably at Hahnoefersand. Daily cleaning was important to prevent the outbreak of disease in crowded prison facilities.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
