Western Michigan University Libraries
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- Technician in lab coat from a pilot lab at the Upjohn Company standing on a stool in front of a Pfaudler Glass Lined Reactor kettle looking through an optical scope. The photo was published in the May 1939 edition of Overflow, a publication of the Upjohn Company. The pilot lab at Upjohn worked with Bismuth Ethyl Camphorate.
- Date Created:
- 1939-06-12T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 8 photos in event - 107
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- A marquee sign reading "Bert Upjohn Man of the Year" hanging over the entrance to the Hotel Harris on 333 East Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Sign references Kalamazoo Jaycee's Distinguished Service Award part of the Outstanding Young Man of 1958. Winter scene looking northeast toward Pitcher Street intersection.
- Date Created:
- 1958-01-24T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 1 photo in event - 8017
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- Modern red, wooden frame (375 x 285 mm), 2-line blue-and-red pen flourished initials., Fifteenth-century, possibly Italian portion of a Gradual; the Kyrie followed by the Gloria of the Ordinary Mass., southern textualis formata (rotunda), 4-line red staves with square musical notation, and Unknown provenance, paleographic evidence suggests the leaf comes from a manuscript that was probably written in the first half of the fifteenth century in Italy. Possibly loaned to the WMU library school through Jean Lowrie from the Gethsemani Abbey Library of Kentucky in 1974. Now permanently held by Special Collections, Waldo Library.
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- [1400 TO 1450]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Bound in limp vellum wrapper formed from a 12th- or early 13th century noted breviary, possibly from Spain, with two wide laced leather strips around spine; folded vertically for travel., Spine of two wrapped gatherings from a fifteenth-century portable antiphonary from Spain, containing text and musical score for chants for the Catholic liturgy for Palm Sunday folded vertically. Shown are two wide laced leather strips around the spine., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1998.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Date Created:
- 1944-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- NG 43-1, 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
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- South Asia Maps
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- NG 46-15, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- South Asia Maps
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- No 118; Le Conseiller des Grâces; 4e Année; Rue du Curé, Sw 2 No 629, près de la Chapálle
- Date Created:
- 1827-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Costume History Collection
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- Group photograph of the Walwood Union Residence Hall staff from the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Pictured: John Randall, LeRoy Myers, Leila-Bell Jaqua, John Hungerford, and Don Scott.
- Date Created:
- 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Photograph looking North toward the flag pole in front of the Library building of Western State Normal School, Kalamzoo, Michigan. The Library (later named North Hall) was built in 1924.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Photograph of students walking up from the snow covered main entrance of East Campus from Oakland Drive. View looking Southwest toward Oakland Drive. Cars are parked along the street.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Studio portrait of James Mandrell, 1954 graduate of Western Michigan College of Education, who served as director of admissions at Kalamazoo College from 1960 to 1974.
- Date Created:
- 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- From Sebastian Munster's "Cosmographia Universalis". The edition of the book from which this leaf was taken was printed in 1559 by Heinrich Petri at Basle. The woodcuts of this piece are important because they have the initials of the engraver- a rare thing to see in early illustrated books. The recto side of the leaf is page 559 and the verso side is page 560.
- Date Created:
- 1559-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- Siblings Ruth and Roy Nichols (or Nickols). Studio portrait taken by John M. Reidsema, 119. South Burdick St., Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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 Desert Fathers and the Mass and Eucharist / Fr. Guy Oury -- The Eucharist and the Liturgy of the Hours / Fr. Marie-Gérard Dubois -- The Liturgy of the Bouquet / Jacqueline Vuillet -- A celebration of the Pentecost Vigil / Fr. Paul Houix -- Prayer and community in the Rule of Saint Benedict / Fr. Philippe Rouillard -- The Christian Sacrament and symbolism / Fr. Celsus Kelly -- An example of liturgical adaptation from Zaire / L'appel de L'Afrique -- Notes on the liturgical-Patristic resonances of two fragments from the Exordium parvum / Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell
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- 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Liturgy O.C.S.O. Journal of Gethsemani Abbey
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- 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 -- Liturgy of Heaven / Fr. Theodor Bolger -- Music in the Liturgy: A language, a food for sustenance / Jean-Louis Gand -- The literary genre of the Troparion / Fr. Didier Rimaud -- Two conferences by the Father Abbot of le Bec Hellouin: I. On the specific nature of the monastic liturgy II. The “after-liturgy” / Dom Paul Grammont -- February: Canton, NY / Stephen Jon Cribari -- Three liturgical projects from the Abbey of the Genesee: I. Easter Sunday Vespers at the Genesee / Br. Patrick Ryan - II. The celebration of Memorials at the Genesee / Br. Patrick Ryan - III. A one-week Psalm schema at the Genesee / Br. Justin Sheehan -- The Rogation days in the modern world / Fr. Edmond Fradin -- The Ascension Day procession at the Abbey of Igny / Igny Liturgy Commission
- Date Created:
- 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Liturgy O.C.S.O. Journal of Gethsemani Abbey
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- 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 -- Some reflections on the new lectionary / Patrick Reardon -- Word and Sacrament in Vatican II / John Zay -- St. Bernard on composing liturgical offices / Basil Pennington -- The need to express ad patrem in the Pascal Vigil / John Zay -- The Good Friday Psalter: Gethsemani 1969 / Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell -- A footnote to an article about the rite of Penance: The Stole / Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell -- The Glenstal liturgy course / Fr. Cyril of Mount St. Bernard -- A letter to Mother Laetitia about the funeral of Father Louis / Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell -- Liturgical renewal and lay-out of churches -- Cardinal Pellegrino -- An American hymn project for Cistercian monasteries / Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell -- Texts: Antiphons and collects for the time of Lent / Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell
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- 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- An Office of prayer for our brother among those who sleep in Christ: Father Louis, Vespers funeral Mass and burial service for our brother among those who sleep in Christ: Father Louis, and Liturgy O.C.S.O. Journal of Gethsemani Abbey
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- Aelfric's homily for Passion Sunday (Dominica V in Quadragesima) in the Second Series of Catholic Homilies is an explication of the Gospel reading for the day (John 8:46-59), which relates Jesus's disputation with the Jews concerning his divinity. Aelfric cites Augustine and Gregory the Great as his sources.
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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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- A French barber provides a shave to another prisoner reading a newspaper in an unidentified prison camp. This scene was repeated in hundreds of prison camps around the world during World War I.
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- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- One of the most unusual internees at Ruhleben was this South African giant, who towered over the other men in the camp. As a South African subject, the Germans interned him with the other Commonwealth prisoners.
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- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Russian prisoners stand in front of the central watch tower at Crossen-an-der-Oder. The Germans set up a defensive position at the base of the watch tower which included a number of field guns designed to allow the guards to maintain control of the camp in the event of a general rebellion. German officers stand in the defensive position while German NCO's organize the Russian prisoners. The central guard tower provided a commanding view of the entire facility.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- French prisoners of war and German non-commissioned officers pose in front of a wagon filled with recently arrived parcels outside of the Post Office at Erfurt. A pile of parcels stands to the left behind the prisoners. German censors will inspect all of these packets before they are distributed to the prisoners. The photograph shows a number of buildings in the prison compound as well as the wagon that transported the postal materials.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- French and Russian prisoners made this statue of a suffering man with a drawn sword in memorial to their fallen comrades at Grafenwoehr. The memorial has a Latin inscription, "For the Fatherland," and was dedicated at the prison cemetery.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This is the interior of the prison camp kitchen at Goettingen where French and British prisoners of war smoke pipes and receive instructions on that day's meal. The cooks prepare the soup in the large stoves and vats of potatoes stand along the walls. Mass production of prepared food was essential for the daily maintenance of a prison camp.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Horizontal catchwords very bottom inner margins, often partially trimmed. Notes for the rubricator very bottom margin. Guide letters alongside many initials., Front cover detached. Early chained binding (possibly contemporary) of brown leather over wooden boards, beveled and cut almost flush with the book block, sewn on double bands that enter the boards at the edge and are fastened on the inside. Head and tail bands also fasten into the boards. Spine with four raised bands and with the remains of a tab at the top. Simply tooled in blind with an outer frame and two single fillets crossing on the diagonal. Five brass bosses on upper and lower boards. Once fastened back to front: stubs of two straps, lower board and holes from two pins center upper board, intact metal hasp and chain ending in a ring middle top edge lower board, remains of parchment label upper board. Strips of parchment from earlier manuscripts used to line the spine visible at the beginning and end. Title copied in a cursive script on bottom fore edge: “Isti(?) sunt liber hystoriales scilicet iosue iudic[um] Ruth paralipomenon Regum. The binding has been tampered with and the first and last leaves are pasted down at the front and back, perhaps when the opening and closing gatherings were removed., Majuscules touched with red, lemmata underlined in red, red rubrics, and two- to three-line red initials. Modern foliation in pencil top outer corner recto. Original foliation in Arabic numerals in ink middle lower margin on ff. 14-264. Text begins on f. 2 (f. 1 recto pasted to the front board). Watermark of a tower with merlons without a window, similar to iccard Online 100480, Wemding, 1455, 100500, no place, 1459, 100531, Kaisheim, 1464. Prickings in the upper and lower margins., An early fifteenth-century manuscript of Nicholas of Lyra’s commentaries on nine Old Testament books, open, with chain binding., 2 columns of 42-46 lines ruled in ink and written in cursive gothic book hand., and Written in Southern Germany, possibly Bavaria, in ca. 1450-1475 as indicated by the evidence of the watermark and script. The chained binding indicates it was in an institutional collection. Purchased by Western Michigan University’s Special Collections from Les Enluminures who procured it from a private North American collection.
- Date Created:
- [1450 TO 1475]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Form provided to German citizens by the German police to fill out in order to register to display a signal light. These lights would then signify that the homes would accept evacuated or injured Germans who lost their homes during an air raid. The form itself asks for basic information from the host family, including number of children, religion, and also whether they are Aryan, mixed, or non-Aryan.
- Date Created:
- 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- NF 44-2, Edition 1; Inset of Jubbulpore on verso, India and Pakistan 1:250,000, and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
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- Exterior of the Manual Arts Building with car parked in front of the building. It was later renamed the Brink Building in 1921.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Group photograph of Paper Technology Department faculty from the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. From left to right: E. E. Stephanson, Miss Carola P. Trittin, and Dr. R. A. Diehm.
- Date Created:
- 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Photograph of Walt Disney with a group of children during his visit to the Kalamazoo Art Center.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- In his homily for the First Sunday in September (Dominica I inmense Septembri) in the Second Series of Catholic Homilies, Aelfric treats Job, his patience, and his afflictions.
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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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- Russian prisoners exercise en masse in the compound of an unidentified German prison camp. Callisthenics helped keep the prisoners in shape and improved camp morale.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- German troops search a house after capturing a sniper, a situation which occurred frequently in Belgium and northern France. The combatant status of snipers was open to interpretation by the Germans and insurgents out of military uniform often received summary judgments.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- These two Romanian prisoners of war are typical examples of captured soldiers on the Romanian front. They arrived in German prison camps in coats missing buttons and wearing rags to keep warm.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Interned civilians pass their afternoon watching a game of chess between two prisoners on lounge chairs in the prison camp at Ruhleben. The camp fence is behind the spectators and a German guard watches from a stand between the wires in the background.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A British sailor hands a loaf of bread to a French prisoner under the supervision of a German NCO in the bread warehouse in Zossen. Russian prisoners look on from the right as a British POW loads some bread into a hand truck which will be used to distribute the bread in the camp. Note the stacks of loaves of bread behind the prisoners. Bread was a major component of POW rations in all German prison camps.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Thousands of Russian prisoners line up for their dinner rations in the prison compound at Hammerstein. Their soup will be ladled from the large wooden barrels at the front of each line. This system ensured that all of the POW's received the same rations and worked well during nice weather.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- French and Belgian prisoners of war and interned civilians gather around the news board in the prison compound at Goettingen to read the latest news and announcements. Note the identification badges on the upper left sleeves of most of the POW uniforms.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- British prisoners practice a scene from a play on stage in the theater at Limburg. Prisoners often organized quality productions to entertain the other POW's in the camp.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Twelve Polish officers smoke, read, and converse around a table, decorated with a single flower, in cell number 10 at Marmosa-Sziget at night.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Russian prisoners march out of the fortress at Przemsyl after Central Power forces recaptured the stronghold in June 1915. Przemsyl, a strategic pre-war Austrian fortress in the Carpathians, changed hands several times during the war.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western State Normal School 1907 Yearbook.
- Date Created:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Contents • The Campus • Activities • The People • Dormitories • Organizations • Greeks • Athletics • Advertising and Index
- Date Created:
- 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- People Working. Industrial Scenes. Woman in uniform operating an industrial drill press. Client: Balch Manufacturing Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1944-08-21T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 20 photos in event - 1738
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- Events. Room full of people and children during a radio broadcast for Dutch Treat Bakers. Client: Dutch Treat Bakers (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1949-04-25T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Business Scenes. Daytime view of building and electric illuminated Christmas sign on the Consumers Power Company building, 153 S. Rose Street, Kalamazoo, MI. Sign says "Greetings" and includes star, holly leaves, bells, and candles. Window display includes Frigidaire refrigerator, automatic gas range, and "Pin it Up" lamps. Also visible are street lamp with frosted globe, bicycle with basket, woman seated inside parked automobile, and non-illuminated electric sign that reads "Consumers Electricity" on facade of building. Client: Consumers Power Company, Kalamazoo, MI. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1940-12-30T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 6 photos in event - 523
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- Rows of tulips at an unknown farm, possibly in Cooper Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. In the background are outbuildings, a barn and a farmhouse.
- Date Created:
- 1945-05-07T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 2 photos in event – 2136
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- Fourteenth-century, unpublished legal opinion in a long-running dispute between the Cistercian abbey of Cambron (Cottineau 1:572) and the college of canons regular of St. Vincent in Soignies (Cottineau 2:3049), in the County of Hainaut. The canons had accused the Cisterican monks of illegally occupying the land in Sars Moullet and elsewhere., Written in a dark brown in a semi-cursive documentary script., and Produced in present-day Belgium or northern France either at the abbey of Cambron or at Soignies in the County of Hainaut. On dorse: the letter "j" in a contemporary hand and the number "188" in black ink in a later hand, now scratched out. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron, Ohio in 2006 (D5391).
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Campaign election leaflet for the NSDAP during the November 6, 1932 Reichstag election. It claims that Lords and Marxists were united together against the Nazis, spreading lies about them to the voters. It includes many proposals to the Prussian State Parliament, the Reichstag, and the City Council.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- This picture was included in the collection, "Deutschland erwacht. Werden, Kampf und Sieg der NSDAP (Germany awakens. Progress, Struggle, and Victory of the NSDAP). The photographs were included inside cigarette packages as a promotion and were collected by patrons. This collector's card shows members of the SA marching in Munich following the repeal of the uniform ban
- Date Created:
- 1933-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections