Western Michigan University Libraries
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- Prisoner librarians manage the circulating library for French and Belgian POW's at Ohrdruf. Although the book collection is small, the vast majority of books are in circulation among the prison's population since books offered one of the few mental diversions available in prison camps.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- British internees at Ruhleben relax in deck chairs next to "La Boheme," a social-gathering place. Two German non-commissioned officers join the photograph to the right.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- The French orchestra performs an afternoon concert for recuperating sick and wounded prisoners of war in a garden outside of the hospital ward at Goettingen. The civilian standing to the extreme left, talking to the wounded Russian soldier is probably Archibald C. Harte.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Volume 40 of the Western Michigan College Yearbook.
- Date Created:
- 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- People Working. Woman wearing kerchief and pants, loading AN-M26 parachute flare into outer casing during WWII. Two women co-workers visible in background. Client: Kalamazoo Stove Company, Kalamazoo, MI. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1945-06-04T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 3 photos in event - 2196-M; see also 1512-M
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- Crowd surrounding an automobile that crashed into a west bound freight train at the Michigan Central Railroad tracks on North Rose Street. Three boys sit in the open train car. Policeman stands with a man between the train car and the damaged automobile. Accident resulted in the death of Rose Mary Martin and Gladys Wilkins.
- Date Created:
- 1939-06-24T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 11 total photos in event 116
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- Exterior of the Draper and Siedschlag Halls, built in 1950, on the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1957-10-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 9 photos in event - 7559
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- Housed in a modern wooden frame (406 x 457 mm); charter visible on one side only, with dealer's prospectus on back. The seal of Nicholas Basset is still attached; made of green wax (ca. 5 cm diameter) in near fine condition, pendant on blue-green cords; bearing the device of a knight in armor galloping on horseback with the legend “SIGILL NICHOLLI BASSAT”; covered by a little textile seal bag threaded over the cords., First initial “O” is slightly enlarged and embellished., Fourteenth-century English grant by Nicholas Basset, Lord of Tretone, to the monks of the Cistercian abbey of Garendon, of a place in “Brueria Treton” to build a monastery and to serve God and St. Mary there and to live according to the Rule of St. Benedict, together with a mill and various named lands, for the salvation of his soul and those of his parents and of all the faithful people, with the names of 12 witnesses. Includes medieval endorsements: “Nichs. Basset de fundacione.”, English cursive documentary script, and Produced at Bruern Abbey within Oxfordshire, England around 1300. This foundation charter was issued after the actual foundation of the abbey. The Cistercian Abbey of Bruern (Cottineau 1:517) was founded by Nicholas Basset on 10 July 1147, originally as a cell of Garendon Abbey (Cottineau 1:1254) in Leicestershire. By the end of the thirteenth century circumstances at the abbey -- presumably financial -- required the creation of another charter. The present charter would have been viewed as a posthumous grant by the late founder. The wording of the text reads like a twelfth-century document but the script is late thirteenth or early fourteenth. The monks have accorded themselves more generous land provisions than the founder had actually done. The seal appears authentic and either was unthreaded and reattached from a twelfth-century original or the monks still had the matrix. Even if it was known to be 150 years too recent to be genuine, it would have been acknowledged as the actual foundation charter. Bruern Abbey was suppressed in 1536. Purchased by Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn Ohio, on May 2003.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Later marks in colored pencil and a blue 5-pointed star stamp., Housed behind glass in a modern, wooden frame (125 x 280 mm) visible on one side only; dealer's prospectus on back., Fifteenth-century, French receipt by Charles, Duke of Orleans' valet for money received from the Duke's treasury. The Duke, who had run into financial difficulties several years earlier during his 25-year captivity in England, took a book of ballads from the valet and gave it to a money lender, presumably as collateral security. The money lender appears to have absconded with the book. See bibliographic file for complete transaction and translation., French secretary script (cursiva libraria), and Written in Blois, France and dated 14 July 1462 in the document. Signed by Bertrand in lower right corner. Several marks: a number in the left margin including, "339990" in ink of a later hand, "14 Juillet 1462" in pencil just below main text, "2913" in red colored pencil, "T474" in red ink, a "+" symbol in orange colored pencil, and a blue 5-pointed star stamp all towards the center below the main text. Owned by Sir Thomas Philipps (d. 1792-1872). Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn Ohio, in July of 2005.
- Date Created:
- 1462-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Allied propaganda leaflet that was dropped on German troops. The front shows two different images, German crosses in a battle cemetery and German POW's marching. The back informs German soldiers that the reconstruction of Germany is already taking place in the POW camps where they are teaching all sorts of subjects to prepare them for the war's end.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
