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- Six employees seated at office desks in Building 21 at the Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Employees identfied as Doris Donnelly, Leighton Saltzman, Dorothy Swartz, Frances Wiessner, Stanley Goodrich, and Grace Sportel. The women employee in the foreground labels and fills medication bottles. In the background, two of the employees are on the telephone.
- Date Created:
- 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- In his homily for the Assumption of the Virgin (Assumptio Sanctae Mariae Virginis; August 15) in the Second Series of Catholic Homilies, Aelfric explicates the Gospel reading for the day (Luke. 10:38-43), which tells the story of Christ's encounter with Mary and Martha.
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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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- American troops at Coblenz have their picture taken in front of a city hall in the Rhineland. These occupation troops took over the Rhine bridgehead at Coblenz under the terms of the Armistice of November 1918, which ended the fighting on the Western Front.
- Date Created:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Serbian prisoners of war clean the streets of a German town with shovels and brooms under the gaze of a large German guard.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A column of Italian troops marches past captured artillery at Karst to the German rear for assembly and transportation to prison camps in Germany.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Two Arab prisoners of war, incarcerated in a German POW camp, pose for a photograph for a WPA Secretary.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Members of a French gymnastics club at Erfurt exercise on the high bar in the compound of the camp. One prisoner is swinging on the bar and another is landing in a dismount to the right. Two German soldiers and the club members observe the performance. Some of the camp's two-story buildings stand in the background.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- General view of the prison camp at Hameln, highlighting the commandant's office (the first building on the right) and the prison school house (the building on the left). There is a decorative garden in front of the commandant's office and the wooden barracks of the camp can be seen in the background.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- The English prisoners of war produced a number of theatrical performances in the theater at Goettingen. In this photograph, four "couples," which include four "young ladies," promenade outdoors.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- American YMCA Secretary Bryant Ryall distributes bags of presents, bread, and a Christmas tree to Serbian boy prisoners at Braunau-am-Inn. Russian and Serbian prisoners observe this activity. The YMCA focused a great deal of attention on these boys and sought to make the Christmas season a joyous occasion.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries