Western Michigan University Libraries
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- NE 43-1, Edition 1; Inset of Bombay on verso, India and Pakistan 1:250,000, and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1963-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
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- Ray Pallett, Dean of Men at Western Michigan College of Education, seated at desk and meeting with two students. A recruiting poster for the Army Air Crews is visible in the background. The male student is holding a booklet about Naval careers. Pellett served as Dean of Men from 1923 to 1953.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- A leaf from "Vocabularius Praedicantium Sire Variloguus" printed in 1488 in Strassburg by Georg Husner. This early printed "dictionary" written by Johannes Melber could also be considered a thesaurus as well.
- Date Created:
- 1488-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
- Notes:
- 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 burial of a missionary in the Yoabou region of North Dahomey / Patient Redois, Bishop of Natitingou -- A Pigmy funeral chant -- Meeting of the Cistercian Liturgy for Canada -- Report on the Francophone Liturgy Commission, Notre Dame des Gardes, October 1969 -- Returns from the Office questionnaire of the Francophone Liturgy Commission for Europe, October 1969 -- Towards a specific opening formula for the Prayer of the Hours / Fr. Placide Vernet -- Introductory Monitions for the Lord's Prayer / Fr. Jean-Eudes David -- A conference by Sister Christiane Becker: Praying in the here and now / Sister Christiane Becker -- The Office is a celebration / Sister M.A. Verheecke -- Entrance into the novitiate: The experimental rite at New Melleray -- Concelebration in cowl? / Eoin de Bhaldraithe -- A second century ode about the Word of God
- Date Created:
- 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Liturgy O.C.S.O. Journal of Gethsemani Abbey
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners administer the book collection in this library in an unidentified German prison in 1915. The YMCA provided a large number of these books for the benefit of the POW population, including hard to find Russian language books and journals.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Russian prisoners stand in front of earthen barracks in the prison camp at Hammerstein. Winter weather in eastern Germany was severe and the Germans constructed barracks in the ground in an attempt to keep the quarters warmer. The Allies protested against the incarceration of POW's in these types of barracks on health concerns due to the lack of ventilation in these quarters.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Outside view of the bathing facility at Grafenwoehr where prisoners could take hot baths and showers. Cleanliness was an important part of the sanitation program in German prison camps to combat the outbreak of infectious diseases.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A British prisoner of war is buried in the cemetery at Limburg with full military honors, which included a German band and a Landsturm honor guard. While his comrades lower the casket into the grave, German officers stand at attention to the right. Civilians from Limburg, to the left, also attended the burial service.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Serbian prisoners, including boys in the front row, practice their new reading skills in the elementary school at Boldogasszonyfa. Numbers and some of the letters of the alphabet in script and print are on the wall in the back of the room. The Association sought to make the time POW's spent in prison profitable in terms of teaching illiterates how to read and write.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Prisoners of war at Kleinmuenchen used these 1915 notes to pay for purchases inside of the prison camp. This script could not be used outside of the prison facility to prevent the funding of escapes. POW's received these notes in payment for their work or for money sent from home.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries