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- Exterior of Holy Angels Catholic Church, 402 S. Nottawa, Sturgis, Michigan, with a gothic tracery windows designed and built by the Miller-Davis Company.
- Date Created:
- 1957-08-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 14 photos in event - 7520
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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., Fore edge 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., Faded gothic text on the wrapper in two columns with twelve large decorated initials in red and green, and eleven lines of non-diastematic neumes in Catalan notation., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1998.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Fourteenth-century, unpublished legal opinion in a long-running dispute between the Cistercian abbey of Cambron (Cottineau 1:572) and the college of canons regular of St. Vincent in Soignies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
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Muleteers have a distinct look to their costume. The goatskin cape with hair still in place serves as a practical garment no only for warmth but also for the repelling of rain. He wears the short shalwar (Shoberl 1845, p. 118) or shalvar (Vogelsang-Eastwood p. 8) and knee high, laced boots with a curled toe. Like the other men he is wearing the kolah namadi (Vogelsang-Eastwood, p. 12).
- Date Created:
- 1843-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Costume History Collection
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- Harry P. Greenwall, seated, with displays of floral and decorative table centerpieces. Greenwall taught at Western State Teachers College (later Western Michigan University) from 1916 to 1951 in the areas of penmanship, German and Spanish.
- Date Created:
- 1939-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Photograph of Administration Building columns and Gymnasium addition portico. View from the front of the Administration Building looking Northeast toward the Gymnasium addition. The Administration Building was occupied in 1905. Later, the Gymnasium was one of two wing additions completed in 1909. Together, the buildings were later known as Education Building, East Hall, and Heritage Hall.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Studio portrait of John Maurice Goodwin on a real photo postcard, undivided back. According to Census and City Directory records, Goodwin worked as a truck driver and a chauffeur for the Sutherland Paper Company.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Walt Disney and Alfred Maurice at the Kalamazoo Art Center
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Photograph of Donald and Genevieve Gilmore talking to someone at the Kalamazoo Municipal Airport.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries