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- French prisoners of war in wooden shoes wait to receive their dinner as they stand on a side street in the prison camp at Goettingen. Some POW's have their wash hanging out to dry. You can see the Bismarck Tower on top of the hill behind the barracks.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This photograph shows the front entrance of a former POW barrack in Sofia, circa 1933. The Sofia YMCA obtained this building after World War I and used the facilty as a lecture hall, classes, religious meetings, and a boy's game and club room.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- The town of Kedos suffered from a great fire during the Great War which destroyed most of the community. This is a drawing by a POW shows the town nestled in the hills before the conflagration.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- People - Daily Life. Two unidentified women and a man, possibly Brian Donn, posing with wine glasses for the opening of Don Neal's Mr. T-Bone. Client: Don Neal (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 11 photos in event - 10536
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- Street Scenes - Service Stations. Night view of new Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association building, 315 S. Burdick. Kingscott & Associates, Architects. Client: Fidelity Federal (Photographic negative)
- Date Created:
- 1951-08-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 2 photos in event - 4791
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- Advertising. People - Daily Life. Two boys modeling sport coats and pants by Ivy League Sportswear. Photo taken in front of Woodward Elementary School, 606 Stuart Avenue. Client: Kalamazoo Pant Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1957-08-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 6 photos in event - 7503
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- Display booth of "Wilking's Sportsman's Center" featuring a fishing and hunting equipment. Two employees stand behind a glass case of fishing reels, knives and binoculars.
- Date Created:
- 1949-04-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 3 photos in event - 3751
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- Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, worn and repaired with spine gilt on all edges., Fifty hand-colored full-figure drawings of male and female members of religious orders in their habits. Drawings on rectos only. Each image is captioned with the name of the order in a banderole in French., This iconography of the Roman Catholic Church presents the traditional garbs of eight ecclesiastic posts and thirty-three monastic orders (ten with both female and male members). They include Benedictines, Capuchins, Jesuits, Victorines, and a few distinctly Belgian--a monk from Tongerlo Abby near Antwerp, another from Ansewyck near Mechelen. An earlier owner, Cornelia Alstede of Amsterdam, indexed the whole codex (in French) on the recto and verso of the first leaf. She also composed prayers in Dutch on five of the blank versos, facing the male and female Augustinians, the male and female Carmelites, and a Mallade nun., French cursive on versos and large capitals under each drawing on rectos., and Based on evidence of in text, the iconography includes a monk from Tongerlo Abby near Antwerp, another from Ansewyck near Mechelen, which suggests Beligium as the place of composition. An earlier owner, Cornelia Alstede of Amsterdam, signed her name and address (in Dutch) on the verso of the front free flyleaf and indexed the whole (in French) on the recto and verso of the first leaf. A later owner identififed a handful of the images in blue ink on the black versos. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Inc.
- Date Created:
- [1700 TO 1799]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Manuscript is a legal opinion in the dispute between the Cistercian abbey of Cambron and the college of canons regular of Collégiale Saint-Vincent de Soignies. The canons had accused the Cistercian monks of illegally occupying land in Sars Moullet. 1 scroll (two membranes stitched end to end) written in charter hand, dark brown ink.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Campaign election leaflet in support of the SPD during the November 6, 1932 Reichstag election. It highlight all the service that the SPD has already done for German citizens, starting with Ebert serving as the first president of the Weimar Republic and the party's effort in writing the Weimar Constitution. It criticizes the NSDAP by saying that it has no official leadership and it isn't trustworthy.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections