Western Michigan University Libraries
4783 items
- Notes:
-
The YMCA and other Christian organizations printed and distributed a wide range of religious tracts to provide solace to prisoners of war caught behind barbed-wire. The German War Prisoners' Aid (WPA) printed this prayer book, "Thus Saith the Lord," to comfort Russian POW's.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners of war accompany their captured artillery in the Lithuanian town of Seiny.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- An unidentified Association secretary stands between two severely wounded Russian prisoners outside of a barrack in the compound of a German prison camp.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- German authorities often provided prisoners with recognized talent special treatment so they could pursue their vocations. In this photograph, a French POW, Morales, who worked as an artist for the magazine "Illustration," had his own studio at Muenster III to continue practicing his art.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This drawing shows an internee, clad in bathrobe and sandals, holding a pot of hot cocoa in the prison camp compound at Ruhleben. Incarceration oftehn encouraged the development of interesting characters inside prison camps. Behind him is a long line of prisoners, waiting to receive hot water from the camp canteen. There were two large boilers inside the building, which provided the prisoners with hot water to make tea or cocoa.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French orderlies provide care for the sick and wounded Allied prisoners in a hospital ward at Giessen. The beds are full of recovering soldiers and the ward is well heated by the large stoves in the center aisle of the building. While many of the patients can sit up for the photo, one of the African prisoners appears quite ill. Four prisoners are playing a card game in the center of the ward.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Winter scene of the city of Yozgad, where the Turks incarcerated British POW's captured at Kut-al-Amara. In the mountains of Anatolia, prisoners faced hard winters.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners sit on in one of the classrooms of the YMCA building at Wieselburg with an unidentified YMCA secretary (in civilian clothing) standing in the middle of the room. The photo was taken from the back of the room, which was decorated with garland in the rafters, probably for Christmas celebrations. The classroom is equipped with a large chalkboard and maps. In the insert, another Association secretary stands next to two boys in the prison camp with small chalkboards in their hands. The YMCA took a special interest in protecting and educating these young prisoners.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- People Working. Pilot in plane looking at map. Instrument panel visible. Client: Bigsby Accessories, Inc., Theodore McCarty (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1969-02-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 3 photos in event - 10504
- Notes:
- Street Scenes - Service Stations. Exterior of Kalamazoo County Courthouse, 227 W. Michigan Avenue, as seen from side facing Bronson Park, corner of Academy Street and Church Street. Street lamps, fire hydrant, and parked automobiles in foreground. Facade displays engraved words "KALAMAZOO COUNTY BUILDING" along top. Portion of West Michigan Avenue is visible in background to left, including signs for "Barber Shop," "Arch-Supporting Footwear," and "Mail Pouch Tobacco." Photograph taken for mural of courthouse. Client: Fidelity Savings & Loan Association, Kalamazoo, MI. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1943-10-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries