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- View of the Allied patients in a hospital ward in an unidentified Austrian prison. Red Triangle secretaries visited these unfortunates to bring them spiritual and mental relief during their recovery process. Association workers provided Bibles and spiritual tracts, stationery, books, and gramophones for entertainment.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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 open book with binding fragment visible, side 1., 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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- Allied propaganda leaflet that was dropped on German troops. It provides factual information about the on going fighting in Italy near Rome. It supplies the troop information, for both the Allies and the Axis, as well as the numerical figures of soldiers in captivity.
- Date Created:
- 1944-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Front of 75 Pfennig polychrome German note. Gray, orange, red, yellow, and black ink; text reads: "Dieser Schein wird nicht eingelöst! Der für diesen Schein bezahlte Nennwert gilt als einmaliger freiwilliger Beitrag!"
- Date Created:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Front of 50 Pfennig polychrome German note. Gray, orange, red, yellow, and black ink; text reads: "Dieser Schein wird nicht eingelöst! Der für diesen Schein bezahlte Nennwert gilt als einmaliger freiwilliger Beitrag!"
- Date Created:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- NF 46-1, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
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- NG 46-1, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
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- NH 42-12, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
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- Photograph showing the two students walking down a sidewalk to the East campus tree line drive. In the background is Vandercook Hall. Built in 1939, the Men’s Dormitory was later renamed Vandercook Hall after the 'Father of Western', State Representative Henry B. Vandercook of Grand Rapids.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Photograph of Abdul B. Naeem. Naeem enrolled as an international student from Pakistan at Western Michigan College of Education in 1948. He was the author of Travel East Africa Guide in 1962. He was a writer and publisher and supportive of the Nation of Islam.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection