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- An unidentified YMCA secretary, on the right, stands outside a lazaret in a German prison camp with a Russian doctor and an unknown civilian (in the center). A French orderly and several patients pose by the door of the lazarette.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This is the front page of the first edition of "The Barbed Wireless," a newspaper for American POW's at Rastatt, a German propaganda camp for Ukrainian prisoners of war (note that the price of the newspaper is in kopeks, the prison camp's currency). The newspaper focused on humor, as reflected on the two headline stories, and cartoons (the newspaper was mimeographed). The editors included sports scores and camp announcements, featuring YMCA activities.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Russian sergeants and corporals enjoyed a higher standard of living in relation to the rank and file depicted in this drawing of a Russian non-commissioned officer's room in Muensingen. Not only does the non-commissioned officer have a single bed, wall cabinet, and desk, he has a number of musical instruments (a mandolin, balalaika, and accordion) and fans decorate the walls.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- An international orchestra composed of Allied prisoners performs under the direction of a German director in the prison camp at Wahn. The orchestra includes stringed, reed, and percussion instruments and the music stands appear to have been made in the camp. Musical performances helped improve camp morale and many musicians were internationally-renowned before the war.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A view of prisoners in a washroom in the enlisted men's prison at Wuerzburg. This photograph was taken from the door way of the washroom and shows the window. Morning washing was important from a hygienic perspective to keep POW's clean.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Two prisoners of war walk along a path outside of the hospital ward at Goettingen. The lazaret was located on the periphery of most camps and separated by fences so that in the event of the outbreak of a communicable disease, the ward could be more easily isolated from the general camp population.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- English prisoners of war assemble in front of the new YMCA Hall at Goettingen for a group photograph. The new hall is decorated with evergreens for the inauguration ceremony.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- E.C.W. Sandes, a British officer incarcerated in the prison camp at Yozgad, posed for this photograph as "Don Sandesco," the Bandmaster of the POW band.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Prisoners enjoyed their meals in the hotel dining room in Bezau (Kreuzstein), which was vastly different from the mes halls that enlisted men used in Austrian captivity. The Orthodox cross on the back table suggests that the officers' mess might have served double duty as a chapel on Sunday mornings.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Industrial Products. People Working. Show bus for Hammond Machinery Builders, Inc. demonstrations. Three men next to bus, and Hammond building in background at 1600 Douglas Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Client: Hitchcock Publishing Company, Wheaton, Illinois. (Photographic Negative)
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 4 photos in event - 7627
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- Allied propaganda leaflet dropped on German soldiers that tells them how close the war is to being over, providing the latest intelligence reports that state, American soldiers are occupying Luxembourg and that British troops are in Belgium. It warns the German soldiers that the only safe place for them is in captivity.
- Date Created:
- 1944-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Back of 50 Pfennig polychrome German note. A framed image of the silhouette of a man with a dog by his side; in the background, in a lighter ink, is a man driving a horse-drawn cart; on either side of this image is the amount of the bill's worth: "Fünfzig/50 Pfennig"; below the image: "Ein sicherer Führer."
- Date Created:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Back of 10 Marks monochrome German note. Dark green ink on olive green background; woman on right holding paddle in left hand and a palm branch pen decorated with two snakes.
- Date Created:
- 1906-10-06T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- I-42 B, 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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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- South Asia Maps
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- I-42 L, 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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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- South Asia Maps
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- NG 44-5, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
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- No 67; Le Conseiller des Grâces; Rue du Curé, près de la Chapálle; pin hole in top corners
- Date Created:
- 1830-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Costume History Collection
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- Photograph of Anna Evans, faculty member in the Rural Life and Education Department from 1922 to 1946. This photo appears in the 1945 Brown and Gold Yearbook and the Summer 1962 Western Michigan College of Education News Magazine.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Group photograph of Library staff from the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Seated: Phoebe Lumaree and James Knauss. Standing: Edith Clark, Francis Allen, Katherine Stokes, Hazel Saye, Hazel DeMeyer, Paul Randall, and Gertrude VanZee. James Knauss, History Department, served as the University Archivist at the time this photograph was taken.
- Date Created:
- 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Double portrait of Leslie H. Wood and wife
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection