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- Photograph of Wayne Terwilliger receiving the annual Alumni Association Baseball Award, October 9, 1966. Image was featured in the Western Michigan University Newsletter, November, 1966.
- Date Created:
- 1966-10-09T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- A leaf from The Lessons of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The volume from which this leaf was taken was published in 1798 in New Brunswick, New Jersey by Blauvelt. It was put together by Andrew Fowler. The recto side of the leaf is page 27; the verso side is page 28.
- Date Created:
- 1798-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- Male and female office employees posing with Upjohn publications behind a desk in Building 21 at Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan. From left to right, employees with year of service are: J. F. Staley (1904), Stanley Goodrich (1935), Neill Currie (1931), Elmer Shumar (1927), Grace Sportel (1940), Doris Donnelly (1938), Frances Wiessner (1942), and Mary Eleanor Stoddard (1943). Photo notes that Leighton Saltzman (1935) and Marie Beattie (1922) are not in the photo. The years of service of the employees represented 124 years of service. A Marchant Calculator sits on the desk.
- Date Created:
- 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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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:
- 1938-08-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection
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- Photograph taken at Everyman's House located at 2026 S. Westnedge, Kalamazoo, Mich., winner of the Better Homes in America 1924 Model Home contest, designed by Caroline Bartlett Crane. Two young boys in jackets and knickers reading by window in bedroom. Includes table with lamp and books, two beds, floor lamp, and closet. Handwritten signature of photographer, "Young," on back. Photograph is mounted on decorative gray board, extending approximately 1 3/4" from edge of photograph. (Photographic print)
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Caroline Bartlett Crane Collection, 1843-1935, A-92 and Caroline Bartlett Crane Collection, Everyman's House
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- The ball is in play high above the net as American POW's enjoy a game of volleyball in the compound at Rastatt. The American YMCA "invented" basketball and volleyball to make better use of their gymnasiums in Association buildings. WPA Secretaries provided war prisoners with balls and nets to play volleyball in prison camps.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- French privates lived in very crowded conditions as depicted in this drawing of the interior of a barrack in Muensingen. Prisoners slept in two-tiered bunk beds and while most of their limited belongings fit inside lockers or wall cabinets, some possessions were stacked on the rafter braces.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- French prisoners work in the prison kitchen at Muensingen stirring soup in a large oven in this wood block print. By using large ovens, the Germans could feed large numbers of POW's efficiently.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- The commandant of the prison camp at Bohmte sits astride his horse in the camp compound in this winter photograph. The Germans assigned British prisoners to this camp in Hannover.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- The Commite d'Initiative et de Bienfaisance at Friedrichsfeld sponsored this four-part comedy play, "Le Gendre de M. Poirer," on 29 August 1915. The play was performed by the Theatre de I'Exil to help entertain the prisoners in the camp. The lithographed program was produced by prisoners in the camp.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries