Western Michigan University Libraries
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- Interior of the show tent for the Redpath Chautauqua circuit, pitched at Davis & Cedar Streets in Kalmamazoo, MIchigan for a summer session during the World War I period. Photograph views from the back of the tent looking over the crowd to the stage. The Redpath Chautauqua circult was a traveling group who presenting music dramas, usually school sponsored. This was an adult education movement in rural America that brought entertainment and culture to the community with speakers, musicians and showman. Kalamzoo’s first Chautauqua was held in 1909 and later in 1909. Western State Normal School sponsored the Redpath Chautauqua to come over the next fourteen years until its last appearance in 1926.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Aerial photograph of Western State Normal School on Prospect Hill and the surrounding neighborhood in 1915. View features the original Administration building with the classroom and gymnasium addition, the Training School, the Science Building, and the “Horseshoe” sidewalk. Tennis courts in the mid-ground. Designed by Battle Creek architect, Ernest W. Arnold, the Administration Building was completed and occupied in 1905. By 1909 two wings were added: the Training School and the Gymnasium, both featuring columned porticos and lit cupolas. Together these were later renamed East Hall. The photograph appeared in the Brown & Gold 1922 yearbook.
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- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- A leaf from the Complete Works of Aurelius Clemens Prudentius. It has the imprint, Ex Regio Typographeo, Parma, 1788. The Recto side of the leaf is marked 343; the verso side of the leaf is marked 344.
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- 1788-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- Unidentified woman at the Kalamazoo Art Center during Walt Disney’s visit.
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- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- In his homily for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost (Dominica IX post Pentecosten) in the Second Series of Catholic Homilies, Aelfric explicates Christ's warning against false prophets, described in the Gospel reading for the day (Matthew 7:15-21). He continues with a discussion of the parable of the fruitless tree and a denunciation of avarice before returning to the topic of the Gospel reading.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- SS (Early English Text Society) ; 5 and Medieval Manuscript Variants in Aelfric of Eynsham's Catholic Homilies
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- In his homily for the feast of Saint Paul (Natale Sancti Pauli, June 30) in the First Series of Catholic Homilies, Aelfric describes Paul's conversion (based on the epistle reading for the day, Acts 9·1-19) and offers an exegesis of the day's Gospel reading (Matthew 19:27-29) with a focus on the merits of the monastic life.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- SS (Early English Text Society) ; 17 and Medieval Manuscript Variants in Aelfric of Eynsham's Catholic Homilies
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- In his homily for the common of Holy Martyrs (In Natale Sanctorum Martirum) in the Second Series of Catholic Homilies, Aelfric explicates Christ's warning to the disciples of persecutions and tribulations (Luke 21 :9-19) in terms of the sufferings of the early Roman martyrs and contemporary life.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- SS (Early English Text Society) ; 5 and Medieval Manuscript Variants in Aelfric of Eynsham's Catholic Homilies
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- The YMCA encouraged wounded prisoners to participate in physical therapy (including playing volleyball) or to use prosthetics to rehabilitate paralyzed limbs. The prisoner has lost the use of his left arm and is wearing a prosthetic.
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- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Far from home, a group of Russian prisoners representing nationalities in the Far East pose for this shot. Note the identification number on the right breast of several of the POW's.
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- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A group of Allied civilian internees return to the prison at Traunstein from their Sunday morning service at a local church. The civilians are under guard by German soldiers and Landsturm. While some prison camps had chapels or churches within the facilities for war prisoners, some camps allowed prisoners, who gave their parole not to escape, to visit local churches.
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- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Two German doctors and a nurse pose with two wounded prisoners in the operating room at Darmstadt. The Germans maintained a state-of-the-art operating facility in the hospital of this camp. Six Catholic Sisters served the Allied prisoners during their period of recuperation from wounds or illness.
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- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A German sentry stands guard next to one of the artillery pieces in the prison compound at Guestrow. The Germans designed prison camps with security in mind. By establishing artillery emplacements, the Germans could concentrate superior fire power throughout the camp in the event of a mass rebellion by the prisoners.
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- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Advertising. US Plywood Weldwood Epoxy Glue in packaging. Client: US Plywood Corporation. (Photographic Negative)
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- 1969-02-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Education. Facade of East Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, looking north, shows details of columns and Georgian Revival architecture. Client: L. G. Balfour Company (Photographic Negative)
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- 1943-02-02T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 2 photos in event
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- Street Scenes - Service Stations. Exterior view of Fenwick & Trowbridge, Sinclair Products, 402 S. Rose. Client: Sinclair Station (Photographic Negative)
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- 1944-09-07T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 1 photo in event 1758
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- Industrial Scenes. Male employee wearing rubber apron and gloves using Roto-Finish compound at Shakespeare Company, Kalamazoo, MI. Metal drum and bag with Roto-Finish labeling visible in foreground. Client: Sturgis Products Company, Sturgis, MI. (Photographic Negative)
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- 1946-11-05T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 6 photos in event -0193
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- Events. The Fox-Davidson Orchestra in the Ballroom at Western State Teacher's College. Client: President's Ball Committee (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1940-01-06T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Advertising. Display of "Shakespeare Fine Fishing Tackle" includes product displays of Glass Fiber Wonderod, bait, reels, Wexford Wonder Line, and Shakespeare Rods. Client: Shakespeare Company, Kalamazoo, MI (Photographic Negative)
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- 1949-03-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Conveyor line holding steel plate covers at the Ingersoll Steel facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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- 1949-08-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 3 photos in event – 3864
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- Group portrait of men and women in work clothes from the meat processing company, Peter Eckrich and Sons.
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- 1951-09-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 4 photos in event - 4788
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- 16th century gilt-tooled arabesque binding or pasteboard, with small marks on edges of boards where clasps were once attached. Binding damaged., Head and fore edge of a Book of Hours containing a calendar, gospel readings and litany., and “1542” on last main text leaf perhaps indicating the precise date of the binding.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Early-modern and modern inscriptions identifying the document., Stored in a modern, archival diploma holder. Archiepiscopal seal still attached to plica: made of green wax (80 x 55 mm), pendant on green silk threads, bearing the standing portrait of William Archbishop of Reims and partly-legible legend around; counterseal on reverse, badly damaged and barely legible. Seal much repaired with neutral colored wax in the 19th century., 2-line initial "W" with slight flourishes opens the text., Twelfth-century, Flemish document sealed by William, Archbishop of Reims, issued by his Chancellor Lambinus and dated 1182, concerning the donation of lands--Hulsendam, Nova Ecclesia and Balliol--by Philip of Flanders to the Abbey of Messines (Cottineau 2: 1832). See acquisition file, dealer's prospectus, for detailed description of William of Reims and Philip of Flanders., protogothic documentary script, and Produced probably in Flanders, and dated 1182 within the document. The identifying inscriptions on the dorse of the document: along the top, possibly a thirteenth-century hand, "confirmatio Willelmi archiepiscopi remorum supra terra de hulsendam et de nova ecclesia et balliola."; below fold line, an early-modern script: "Confirmation de la donation de hulsendam de L'archevesque de Reims faict par Philippe Comte de Flandre aux Dames de Messines. Carte B 1 l'an 1180 [sic]"; inscription in pencil of "1182" immediately below; along the bottom, possibly the same hand as the inscription along the top: "Per Willelmi archiepiscopi Remorum supra terra de hulsendam." Abbey of Messines was destroyed in WWI and restored in 1931 as the crypt of a new church. The Abbey held the document in 1876. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn Ohio in May of 2004.
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- 1182-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Election leaflet supporting Adolf Hitler for election in the 1932 Reichspresident election. It attacks the SPD and the KPD for accusing Hitler of being the political whip of social reaction, and blames the problems of the Weimar Republic on their leadership. It includes Hitler's motto, "For freedom, work and bread." A large portion of Hitler's speech from April 7, 1932 is included.
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- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Campaign election leaflet in support of the NSDAP during the 1932 Reichstag election. It calls out to all public servants that now more than ever it is time to man the entrenchments. It tells them that they are standing at a crossroads and they must decide whether they want to go back or forward. It demands that all officials act and think only about the people for their own sake.
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- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- The cover features the image of a young boy giving up his trumpet for the Führer in order to assist with the on going war effort. The article, "Luftschutz-Alarm im Zoo," explains the complications with so many different and dangerous animals in dealing with air-raid protection in the Leipzig zoo.
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- 1940-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Front of 1 Mark polychrome German note. Title and numbers are partly colored in with red ink; in the face of the bill is an image of a solders on horses in a field; in the distance is a town.
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- 1920-12-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Back of 1 Mark polychrome German note. Top: image of the Wartburg. Bottom: image of Schloss Weissensee. Dividing the two images is a block of text; to the left of the text is an image of a rose and to the right an image of two fish, the Weisensee coat of arms.
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- 1921-08-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Back of 1 thousand Marks polychrome German note. Pale green design background; print of Karl Radeck who participated in the Bolshevik Revolution; text: "Sowjed-Jude Radeck, Eisenbahnräuber, Arbeitermörder, Grösster Kapitalist in Rußland! Arbeiter, soll das Euer Führer sein?" (Soviet-Jew Radeck, train-robber, worker-murderer, Greatest Capitalist in Russia! Worker, should this be your leader?) This propaganda message was printed onto the paper later.
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- 1922-09-15T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- NG 44-6, Edition 1; Inset of Kanpur and inset of Lucknow on verso, India and Pakistan 1:250,000, and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
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- 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- South Asia Maps
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- Photograph of the recently finished Science Building on East Campus of Western State Normal School. In the background is the Heating Plant smokestack. Designed by architect E. W. Arnold, the Science Building (later renamed West Hall) was finished in the Spring of 1915. For more than 30 years it housed all the natural and physical sciences.
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- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Photograph of Helen Spaulding in stewardess uniform. Spaulding graduated from Western Michigan College of Education in 1954 and became a flight attendant for Eastern Airlines, New York, NY.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Photograph of Walt Disney kissing a girl on the cheek during his visit to the Kalamazoo Art Center.
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- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- German staff officers interrogate a recently captured French prisoner for military intelligence.
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- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- In this water color painting, prisoners walk along one of the camp's tree-lined streets (Allied Boulevard) in Muensingen. Several of the POWs are returning from mail call and are reading their letters on the steps of their barracks or as they walk in the street.
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- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Three German soldiers wait by the railroad tracks next to the prison camp at Wahn for the mail to arrive. One can see the prison compound and barracks across the tracks, behind the barbed-wire fence. The train that brings supplies to the camp also carries the facility's mail and parcels.
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- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Muslim volunteers practice drilling in marching exercises under the direction of German NCO's in the prison compound at Zossen-Wuensdorf beside the mosque. These men volunteered to fight for the Sultan with the Turkish armies in the East against the British and the Russians.
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- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- The British prisoners produced this Easter card in 1916 which shows the Doeberitz sailor breaking out of an Easter egg sitting on a nest of made of barbed-wire. The British prisoners in this camp constantly demonstrated an ability to find humor in their situation.
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- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- French and Belgian dry out their recently washed bed linen outside their barrack at Hammelburg. Two prisoners wring out their linen before hanging the clothing to dry on a wash line. Clean linen eliminated vermin and the threat of an epidemic in the packed barracks.
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- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Women wash their clothing in tubs outside of their barracks at Holzminden. They are accompanied by their children and a man stands on a ladder, to the right, repairing a window.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This is a sample of the weekly menu for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for British prisoners of war at Giessen. The menu not only identifies the food served at each meal, it also includes the weight of each portion in grams. The Germans took a scientific approach to feeding POW's and publicized food allotments to counter Allied propaganda that they were starving Entente prisoners.
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- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- View of the Allied patients in a hospital ward in an unidentified Austrian prison. Red Triangle secretaries visited these unfortunates to bring them spiritual and mental relief during their recovery process. Association workers provided Bibles and spiritual tracts, stationery, books, and gramophones for entertainment.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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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. View of open book with binding fragment visible, side 1., 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.
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- [1100 TO 1150]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Allied propaganda leaflet that was dropped on German troops. It provides factual information about the on going fighting in Italy near Rome. It supplies the troop information, for both the Allies and the Axis, as well as the numerical figures of soldiers in captivity.
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- 1944-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Front of 75 Pfennig polychrome German note. Gray, orange, red, yellow, and black ink; text reads: "Dieser Schein wird nicht eingelöst! Der für diesen Schein bezahlte Nennwert gilt als einmaliger freiwilliger Beitrag!"
- Date Created:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Front of 50 Pfennig polychrome German note. Gray, orange, red, yellow, and black ink; text reads: "Dieser Schein wird nicht eingelöst! Der für diesen Schein bezahlte Nennwert gilt als einmaliger freiwilliger Beitrag!"
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- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- NF 46-1, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
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- 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- South Asia Maps
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- NG 46-1, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
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- NH 42-12, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
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- Photograph showing the two students walking down a sidewalk to the East campus tree line drive. In the background is Vandercook Hall. Built in 1939, the Men’s Dormitory was later renamed Vandercook Hall after the 'Father of Western', State Representative Henry B. Vandercook of Grand Rapids.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Photograph of Abdul B. Naeem. Naeem enrolled as an international student from Pakistan at Western Michigan College of Education in 1948. He was the author of Travel East Africa Guide in 1962. He was a writer and publisher and supportive of the Nation of Islam.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Photograph of the interior of the Manual Arts Building lab. The view features machinery.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Photograph of an unidentified man exiting Disney's plane at the Kalamazoo Municipal Airport.
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- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Photograph of an unidentified man and woman wearing a hat with buttons, one which says Laurie Cummins, talking at the Kalamazoo Municipal Airport.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Photograph of an unidentified man getting off the Disney plane at the Kalamazoo Municipal Airport.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Two men at the Kalamazoo County Airport. Photograph taken at the Kalamazoo County Airport during Walt Disney’s departure from west Michigan.
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- 1964-09-20T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- People board a plane to leave the Kalamazoo County airport. The group was traveling with Walt Disney to visit Donald and Genevieve Gilmore and western Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-20T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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:
- 1935-07-24T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection
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- Aelfric devotes his homily for the First Sunday in Lent (Dominica I in Quadragessima) in the First Series of Catholic Homilies to an explication of the temptation of Christ, described in the usual Gospel reading for the day (Matthew 4:1-11).
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- SS (Early English Text Society) ; 17 and Medieval Manuscript Variants in Aelfric of Eynsham's Catholic Homilies
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- A Romanian prisoner Arbeitskommando (labor detachment) loads a barge with lumber and boxes on the Danube river under the supervision of German troops.
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- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- The prisoners stand on the starting line of a foot race awaiting the command to begin the competition at Rastatt. Three judges stand by the starting post while another prisoner in the background holds a large chalkboard on a stick to inform the spectators of the event.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- 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
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Volume 40 of the Western Michigan College Yearbook.
- Date Created:
- 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- 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
- Data Provider:
- 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
- Data Provider:
- 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
- Data Provider:
- 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
- Notes:
- 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
- Notes:
- The article "Paris 1871, Paris 1940" compares the victory and occupation of Paris during the Franco-Prussian war and then during World War II. Major landmarks of Paris in the photos include, Place de la Concorde, Arc de Triomphe, and the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles.
- Date Created:
- 1940-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- This article, "Der ewige Verrat," identified throughout history, moments where the Jews played the role of a traitor. Different countries, time periods, and events are covered, concluding in the assumption that the Jew is a parasite
- Date Created:
- 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Front of 500 Marks polychrome German note. Light brown background; dark brown text. Only valid when embossed. This bill is embossed in the lower right-hand corner.
- Date Created:
- 1922-09-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- NH 44-15, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- Notes:
- Photograph of Richard Marcus, 1938 graduate of Western State Teachers College, featured in the Summer 1954 Western Michigan College News Magazine at the time of his appointment as head of the Department of Special Courses and Conferences for the Continuing Education Service at Michigan State College.
- Date Created:
- 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of Western State Normal School on Prospect Hill. View features the portico and flag on the top of the cupola. Handwritten label on lower edge reads: “Western Michigan Normal School Kalamazoo Mich.”
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- From the Extant Works of Clement of Alexandria, issued by Johann Meyer and Jeremiah Schrey at Cologne, 1688. The volume contains a recession of the Latin translation by Daniel Heinsius and textual emendations by Friedrich Sylburge. The recto side is marked 99 and the verso side is marked 100.
- Date Created:
- 1688-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
- Notes:
- Photographic postcard of John J. and Jennie Kellogg sitting on the porch in Richland, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- 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 middle Advent and devotion at the Psalmody: The third sermon for Advent of Bl. Guerric of Igny / Br. Francis Kline -- The Desert Fathers and Lectio Divina / Fr. Louis Leloir -- The “Cursing” Psalms ‑ Psalms I really like! / Sr. Christine Barbeau -- The hymn and its function in the Office / Fr. Maurice Coste -- Celebrating Christmas / Sr. Marie-Pierre Faure
- Date Created:
- 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Liturgy O.C.S.O. Journal of Gethsemani Abbey
- 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 Vidi Aquam and the Easter morning procession: Pages from the prayerbook of a fifteenth century Cistercian nun / Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell -- Reflections of an exegete about Lectio Divina in the life of the monk / Fr. Jacques Dupont -- On the monastic Office from Cassian to Columbanus, installment III / Fr. Odilo Heiming -- Book review: The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West by Robert Taft, sj / David Koppana -- A few aspects of the reading of Scripture in the writings of St. Gregory the Great, Hans von Balthasar and Adrienne von Speyr / Fr. Patrick Catry
- Date Created:
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- 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:
- 1938-06-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- 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 compete in a soccer game in the compound of a German prison camp. Prisoners enjoyed playing soccer and it helped keep them in shape. A German non-commissioned officer serves as the referee.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners of war line up in the compound of a German prison camp in preparation for their weekly baths. The Russians referred to this activity as "Blue Monday." The Russians had a reputation for attempting to avoid baths, since this was a custom alien to many of them (Russian baths were significantly different). The Germans, however, required prisoners to bathe regularly to eliminate potential sources of disease.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- These are samples of some of the correspondence Archibald Harte received from the relatives and friends of German and Hungarian prisoners seeking information about their loved ones in captivity. Many families lost contact with their fathers and sons on the Eastern Front and Harte's trips to Russia sparked some hope that these families could find out some information.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The ball is on its way to the plate as American prisoners of war play a game of baseball in the compound of Rastatt, for the entertainment of Ukrainian spectators. Sports were an important element in maintaining POW morale during their incarceration.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- American POW's with fresh American Red Cross food parcels on their shoulders walk back to their barracks in the prison camp at Rastatt. German prison camps were divided into separate compounds, divided by barbed-wire, to enhance security.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Fire was an ever present danger in the cramped quarters of POW barracks, despite official German prohibitions against smoking and cooking inside the prisoners' quarters. French prisoners man water pumps while another practices working with the hose on a ladder during a fire drill at Regensburg.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Muslim POW's learn to read and write in this YMCA school in the prison camp at Boldogasszonyfa in Hungary. Dual Monarchy officials encouraged the instruction of native languages among POW's, not only for the personal benefit of the prisoners, but also to weaken traditional political bonds in Eastern Europe. The Association, on the other hand, focused on the future welfare of these men and their families through educational programs.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Polish General Glorecki Roman sits in his cell at Marmosa-Sziget reading at a table next to his bed. He had access to stationery and pens and a map hangs on the wall of his cell. Polish officers who refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Regency Council in Warsaw in October 1916 ended up in this prison.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- NF 43-16, Edition 1, India and Pakistan 1:250,000, and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- Notes:
- NG 46-7, Edition 2 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1963-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- Notes:
- NJ 43-15, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- Notes:
- No 126; Le Conseiller des Grâces
- Date Created:
- 1828-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Costume History Collection
- Notes:
- No 18; Le Conseiller des Grâces; Rue du Curé, près de la Chapálle; pin hole in top corners
- Date Created:
- 1832-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Costume History Collection
- Notes:
- East Hall lounge at Western Michigan State Teachers College. The lounge was formerly the library.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- A man, possibly a student, posing beside a three-piece set of equipment on wheels in the Manual Arts Building. The equipment is possibly related to motor lubrication. The first machine on the left is labeled “gear lub” and includes tools labeled water pump, wheel bearing, universal joint, steering gear, and oil gun. The middle container is labeled “drain oil.” The container on the far right is labeled “spring lub.”
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Studio portrait of a Kalamazoo fireman taken in the photography studio of W. S. White at 166 Main Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan. The fireman is wearing a shirt with a scarf or cravat and short fitted trousers with stockings. The belt appears to have insignia or badge.
- Date Created:
- [1873 TO 1878]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Walt Disney in the gallery of the Kalamazoo Art Center.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- 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 -- What a bishop expects from our monastic liturgy / Cardinal Daneels -- Can we really pray the Psalms? / Br. Henri Delhougne -- Conference notes by Thomas Merton: The Cistercian Fathers and their monastic theology ‑ Part one: St. Bernard. V: The mystical doctrine of St. Bernard's sermons on the Canticle of Canticles / Fr. Thomas Merton -- Manifestation of the Holy Trinity and the inner self / Fr. Joseph H. Wong -- Psalm versets for Easter and Ascension / Fr. André Rose
- Date Created:
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Liturgy O.C.S.O. Journal of Gethsemani Abbey
- Notes:
- This cartoon depicts a Belgian work kissing his baby goodbye as German soldiers seize him for employment in Germany. The workers' wife, mother, and child are powerless to prevent his deportation.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries