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2991. Directors' Room, Ladies' Library Association Building, Kalamazoo, Michigan

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Photograph of the directors' room in the Kalamazoo Ladies' Library Association building in Kalamazoo. The interior view shows artwork and a bust. A portrait of Ruth Webster is located above the fireplace. The floor is covered with a patterned carpet and an animal fur rug, possibly a bearskin rug. The library is visible on the left of the photograph and features books in shelves and a circulation desk. There are plants in both rooms.
Date Created:
1879-01-01T00:00:00Z
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2992. Men exiting Walt Disney's airplane

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Photograph of an unidentified man exiting Disney's plane at the Kalamazoo Municipal Airport.
Date Created:
1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
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2993. Liturgy O.C.S.O., 1987, vol. 21, no. 2

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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 -- Traditional methods of Biblical interpretation / Rodney M. Damico -- The Cadouin Office of the Holy Shroud / Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell -- About monastery shops and bookstores / Fr. Robert Gantoy -- The five grains of incense / Dom Bernard Capelle -- Communion Liturgy in a community of nuns / Benedictine Sisters of St. Thierry -- Marian titles in the sermons of Blessed Guerric / excerpted by Fr. Robert Thomas
Date Created:
1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Liturgy O.C.S.O. Journal of Gethsemani Abbey

2994. Carter, Harry J.

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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:
1935-03-19T00:00:00Z
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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

2995. Harris, Fred

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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:
1934-10-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:
Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection

2996. Text analysis, Godden, Catholic Homilies, Homily II.07

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Aelfric offers a sermon on Lenten themes concentrating on almsgiving in his homily for the First Sunday in Lent (Dominica I in Quadragesima) in the Second Series of Catholic Homilies.
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SS (Early English Text Society) ; 5 and Medieval Manuscript Variants in Aelfric of Eynsham's Catholic Homilies

2997. Map of POW Labor Camps in Saxony

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This is a section of a map showing the locations of Arbeitskommandos (Allied labor detachments) in the Kingdom of Saxony. The map is coded to identify agricultural labor, industrial labor, work for the state, and . public interest projects. The map is further delineated identifying the Stammlagern (parent camps) where the prisoners were assigned; in this case, the prison camps at Golzern, Koenigsbrueck, and Chemnitz provided the man power for this labor.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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2998. Patrol on the Romanian Border

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A German patrol surprises a Romanian squad on the border early in the Central Power invasion of Romania in September 1916.
Date Created:
1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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2999. German Army Disinfection Machine

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Drawing of German soldiers placing prisoner of war clothing into a mobile disinfection machine. By cleaning uniforms, the Germans sought to kill vermin which would spread diseases inside prison camps. Due to the large number of Allied prisoners captured early in the war, prison camps had to use mobile disinfection machines employed by the German Army for their own troops. Once a camp was established, the installation of permanent disinfection chambers was a high priority.
Date Created:
1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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3000. Recently Captured Russian Soldiers before Delousing

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These four Russian prisoners of war just arrived in a German prison camp and are about to undergo the delousing process. German medical officers sought to prevent the outbreak of epidemics in prison camps and the hygiene of arriving prisoners was the first order of business in the facility.
Date Created:
1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
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