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Notes:: I-41 T, First Edition, Afghanistan 1:253,440, Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U511, and GSGS (Series) ; 3919
Date Created:: 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: South Asia Maps

Notes:: Column details of the Administration Building with Training School and Woman’s Gymnasium additions (East Hall). View looking north from the front of the Training School. View includes a tall fence between Training School and Administration Building. The Administration Building was completed in 1905. The additions were completed in 1908 and 1909 respectively.
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Collection:: Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection

Notes:: Typed essay by Russell A. Strong referred to as the “Ode to East Hall”. The essay describes the Victorian-styled cupola on the top of East Hall and reflectes on its significance to the campus. Russell A. Strong was a 1959 MA graduate at WMU. He was also the editor for the Western Michigan College News letter and the Western Michigan University Magazine.
Date Created:: 1986-03-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection

Notes:: Hand drawn and colored architectural drawing on linen showing the front elevation of the Kalamazoo Ladies' Library Association building in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The scale is 4 feet to 1 inch. The building was constructed in 1879 and is the first clubhouse building constructed in the United States by a women's organization. It is located at 333 S. Park Street in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The drawing has some discoloration resulting from bleedthrough from a backing that has since been removed.
Date Created:: 1878-07-31T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: A Kalamazoo fireman holding a ceremonial presentation horn taken in the photography studio of W. S. White at 166 Main Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan. The fireman wears a shirt with a scarf or cravat and short fitted trousers with stockings. The belt appears to have insignia or badge. Presentation horns were awarded to firefighters in honor of their service, or between fire companies during visits, competitions, and musters. Working fire horns (or speaking trumpets) were used by engineers and officers to amplify their voices at a fire scene to direct the company in effectively fighting the blaze.
Date Created:: [1873 TO 1878]
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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 -- Communion and reconciliation/ Fr. Ephrem Yon -- The treatise On The Common Life, by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury and Quandam Abbot of Ford / Introduction and translation by Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell -- Psallite Sapienter / Sr. Etienne, of Pradines -- Thoughts on Psalm 42, excerpted from St. Augustine's Ennarationes in Psalmos / Texts chosen by Nivard Stanton -- Death in the dynamism of the Eucharist / Fr. Marie de la Chapelle
Date Created:: 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Liturgy O.C.S.O. Journal of Gethsemani Abbey

Notes:: 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:: 1938-10-11T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection

Notes:: French prisoners work in a carpentry shop under a German non-commissioned officer in an unidentified prison camp. Some of the prisoners' work stand on the shelves or hang from the ceiling including a guitar, violin, and picture frame. The German coat of arms is featured at the top right and the British coat of arms is at the top left.
Date Created:: 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: A thriving commercial district emerged on the infield of the race track at Ruhleben. This drawing shows Bond Street, which featured Ye Olde Pond Shops--the canteen, outfitters, and the police station.
Date Created:: 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: This view of the hospital ward at Czersk shows a room full of sick and wounded prisoners. At the back of the room with the white armband is William Lawall, an American YMCA secretary visiting the camp. He is talking to a prisoner of war in the presence of a German interpreter.
Date Created:: 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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