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- Leda Jones Bair in dress and hat speaking at podium as representative of Shakespeare Products Company on stage of Chenery Auditorium during Army Navy E Award Ceremony. The Shakespeare Company received a E Award for Excellence in Performance War Production.
- Date Created:
- 1943-05-19T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 26 photos in event 1224-G
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- Makeshift stage at the Ingersoll Steel industrial site where a man in a suit stands at a microphone. Behind him sits men in suits and military uniforms. Sign above the group reads: "Your war job is your battle station stay on the job and produce for you navy."
- Date Created:
- 1943-08-24T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Exterior view of Sturges-Young Civic Center and Auditorium on 201 North Nottawa Street, Sturgis, Michigan. The event center was designed in 1955 by a Fort Wayne architect Alvin M. Strauss. The event center is named after Clara and Stella Sturges and Emma Young.
- Date Created:
- 1957-08-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 14 photos in event - 7520
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- Street Scenes - Service Stations. View of 300 block of East Kalamazoo Avenue includes facades of Triangle Service, 315 E. Water, National Storage Company, 309-311 E. Water, and Little Brothers Grain, Feed, Fuel, 313 E. Kalamazoo Avenue. Client: Pennsylvania Railroad, Mr. Hall (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1963-07-11T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 9 photos and 1 note in event - 9416
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- Bound in contemporary blind-tooled reddish brown calf over wooden boards. Leather stamped with a central panel of ogival lozenges, each enclosing a central botanical stamp, the whole framed by multiple blind rules and by a broad border of vines and flowers. Original brass bosses and clasps on corner and center of both covers. Two pairs of claps on fore edge catching on upper cover. Tooling includes central panel and rosette and vine-like patterns. Both boards damaged by worms., The fore edge of a Missal Abreviatum, in latin with contemporary blindpressed calf over wooden boards, and with original corner and center bosses. Major divisions of text are marked by leather tabs., and Internal evidence, in particular the commemoration of St. Rasso, a local count (d. 954) of Diessen-Andechs, suggests the manuscripts was produced in the monastery of the Augustinian canons regular at Diessen (Cottineau 1: 964) at the southern end of Ammersee. Dated “1491” in contemporary hand on f. 1v. Sold to Phillip J. Pirages by a dealer in German sometime before 1993. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books in 1993.
- Date Created:
- 1491-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Two young men in a scat cat boat. Image was featured with a construction plan printed in the Science and Mechanics Magazine.
- Date Created:
- 1957-04-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 2 photos in event - 7592
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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., 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]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Later inscriptions identifying the manuscript., Housed in a modern document holder with a mat frame (320 x 420 mm) and sealed behind plastic; one side visible only., Eleventh-century Catalonian legal document for the sale of a parcel of land with notarial signatures and name of the scribe., caroline miniscule of a low grade, and Produced in Catalonia, probably 1011; date based on later inscription just below the main text in lead: "Any [sp?] 1011 rei Robert [..?]." Name of scribe written in the same hand as the main text: "Mirone qui hoc scripsit." Related to MS 122; Mirone is mentioned in both 121 and 122. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Fairlawn, Ohio, May 2004.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Folded five times. Additional parchment sheet attached by parchment tag, missing seal., Back of a will, folded, of Richard Lake of Theydon Garnon, Essex, yeoman and probate grown. Signed and delievered in the presence of the clerk Nicholas Wright, Thomas Lake, and John Windfrey. The probate, dated 1634, in Latin, attached as an additional sheet and signed by notary Williams Whetston., and Written in Essex, England, and dated 30 December 1 Charles I (1626) and 1634. Inscriptions in an near-contemporary hand on lower middle portion of dorse: “30 Dec 1625 Richard Leaks Will Essex___5”. Gift of Western Michigan University Department of History to Special Collections in 1999.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Election campaign leaflet in support of the SPD in the 1932 Reichstag elections. It challenges the words of Hitler, "In 1918 the SPD took over a super Reich," by explaining the massive debt that the Treaty of Versailles had left Germany. Therefore, the SPD inherited a suffering Germany, crippled by the reparations they owed to the Allied powers. It was in no way their fault that the Weimar Republic had suffered to a great extent.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections