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- Three Russian prisoners of war with shovels unload a narrow gauge railway car full of potatoes in a German prison camp. A Landsturm guard supervises their work. Railways were critical for transporting supplies to prison facilities for daily operations.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Two wounded French prisoners play chess in the ward of a German hospital. Their moves are closely watched by another French patient and a German soldier in a Pickelhaube. The ward is full of recovering patients.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- View of the front of the recently constructed monastery in Werl, where the Germans imprisoned Allied officers and interned Polish officers of the Polish Legion.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- With German troops in the foreground and sentries ringing the prisoners, several hundred Russian POW's assemble for a photograph in the prison compound at Guben. The Germans often divided up prisons into several compounds for security purposes.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Prisoners of war are busy washing their laundry outdoors on the Hauptstrasse (Main Street) of the prison camp at Goettingen. This "street" was the main thoroughfare in the camp and was bordered by the barracks. A garden is in the foreground of the photograph which included both flowers and vegetables. These crops helped to diversify the prisoners' diets during the summer.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- General view of the city of Kut-al-Amara where 8,070 British and Indian troops on the verge of starvation surrendered to Turkish forces in April 1916. The loss of this Anglo-Indian force was a major Allied defeat in Mesopotamia and provided the Turks with a large influx of prisoners.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- People - Daily Life. Member of U.S. Coast Guard in uniform and cap, drinking from paper cup with handle manufactured by Sutherland Paper Company. Client: Sutherland Paper Company, Kalamazoo, MI (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1943-03-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 3 photos in event - 1145-D
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- People Working. Watchmaker and tools at Paul E. Morrison Jewelers, Kalamazoo, MI. Client: Paul Morrison (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1940-01-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 4 photos in event - 270
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- Business Products. Seven paper quart size milk containers for various dairies and products including, Lowebrook (Downington, Pennsylvania), Pioneer, Ta-Ma-Awk Dairy (Tomahawk, Wisconsin), Moose Lake Creamery Company (Moose Lake, Minnesota), Western Cream Company, Chocolate Milk, and Goat Milk.Client: Sutherland Paper Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1941-03-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 9 photos in event - 591-D
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- People Working. Photos of "old timers" includes two older men, one identified as Cliff Stuart, presenting a check to a younger man. Client: St. Regis Paper Company, Kalamazoo, MI. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1947-12-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 5 photos in event - 3189-A
