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- Russian prisoners and the cast of a play pose for a photograph in the theater at Purgstall. The performance was part of the camp's Christmas festivities.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A number of Austro-Hungarian troops relax and read newspapers and magazines in the reading room of an unidentified Soldatenheim. The soldier on the left holds a copy of the "Kriegsruf," a wartime newspaper, while a child in a sailor's uniform can be seen in the extreme right of the photo. Soldiers could visit the YMCA and relax in friendly surroundings.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- People - Daily Life. Aid helps elderly women work on craft projects at Harold and Grace Upjohn Community Nursing Home. Client: Senior Citizens Home (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 5 photos in event - 10523
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- Advertising. Wooden letters spelling "BAKERIES." Advertising for Awrey Bakeries, Livonia, Michigan. Client: Awrey Bakeries (Photographic negative)
- Date Created:
- 1939-02-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 15 photos in event - 15
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- Industrial Scenes. Woman operating unidentified paper equipment. Client: Sutherland Paper Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1945-04-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 6 photos in event - 2149-D
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- Business Scenes. Storefront, Liberty Market, 321-325 N. Burdick, includes advertisements and prices for grocery items. Client: Mr. Jones (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1939-12-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- People Working. Photos of "old timers" includes employee in cap drawing chemicals from a vat. 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
- Notes:
- Numerous marginal notes in red and black and possibly written in different hands., Housed in a mat frame (415 x 315 mm), one side visible only., Extensive vocalization marks through text. Text in black ink with red notes and accents, and written in wide spacing, and enclosed in colored frame., A manuscript leaf from Arabian Koran which serves as a Mohammedian text. Text is attributed to Persian calligraphers Abū ‘Alī Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn Muqlah al-Shirazī and Ibn al-Bawwab, and emphasizes legibility by making use of horizontal lines and even spaces between letters. The Naskhi script was written with a cava pen and allowed for the faster copying of texts. Its chief purpose was to copy Korans, but the Naskhi script became a widely popular style., 1 column of 11 lines written in Naskhī calligraphy., and Based on evidence in the text: the Naskhi script succeeded the Kufic script and has its origins in the 10th century.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Back of 25 Pfennig polychrome German note. Some text, numbers, and borders are in green ink; text: "Gültig bis einen Monat nach Aufruf." Between two columns of text is an image of three stone statues; creating a border around the image of the statues is text: "Die Drei vom Ehemaligen Odertor stammenden heiligen Figuren und die Franziskaner Klosterkirche mit der Herbersteinschen Kapelle."
- Date Created:
- 1920-12-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- I-41 P, 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
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
