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3731. Christmas Celebration at Wieselburg

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Russian prisoners gather around the prison compound at Wieselburg in the snow for Christmas celebrations in January 1918. An Austrian officer stands in the center of the compound with a decorated Christmas tree in the background.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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3732. Unifab Corporation, worker at Wiedemann sheet metal machine

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Industrial Scenes. Unidentified man working at Wiedemann sheet metal punch press machine. Client: Unifab Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI. (Photographic Negative)
Date Created:
1965-02-08T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries
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2 photos in event - 9804

3733. Harold and Grace Upjohn Community Nursing Home, resident woman with crocheted doilies

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People - Daily Life. Elderly woman with crocheted doilies at Harold and Grace Upjohn Community Nursing Home. Client: Senior Citizens Home (Photographic Negative)
Date Created:
1969-03-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries
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5 photos in event - 10523

3734. Domestic interior, kitchen design demonstrating pass through china cupboard

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Residential Scenes. People - Daily Life. Woman and children near pass through china cupboard, includes dishes. Note: There is a texture on parts of the negative that were not part of the original photograph. This does not minimize the value of the imagery. Client: Trade Development Corp. (Photographic negative)
Date Created:
1939-08-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries
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21 photos in event - 134

3735. Rats at the soda fountain

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Advertising.Two rats drinking from a soda fountain spigot. Unidentified location. Client: A & B Exterminators (Photographic Negative)
Date Created:
1945-04-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries
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3 photos in event - 2102

3736. Iconography of fifty hand colored full-figure drawings of male and female members of religious orders in their habits, cover

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Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, worn and repaired with spine gilt on all edges., Upper board of an iconography of the Roman Catholic Church presenting the traditional garbs of eight ecclesiastic posts and thirty-three monastic orders (ten with both female and male members)., and Based on evidence in the 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]
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

3737. Parisian Pocket Bible Leaf, recto

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Very thin parchment., Two, 2-line blue-and-red pen-flourished initials; flourishing extends up and down the margins., Thirteenth-century, French leaf from a Parisian pocket bible including a portion of the Latin Vulgate: Deuteronomy 7:8-9:15. This bible leaf of small format is a typical example of a 13th century Parisian manuscript production. In addition to large-scale deluxe manuscripts, books of a hand-held variety were produced from the beginning of the 13th century onwards; owing to the use of extremely thin parchment and a tiny script measuring only a few millimeters (called 'pearl script') they could include the entire Scriptures in a single codex., small, gothic textualis ('pearl script'), and Produced in France, probably in Paris between 1200 and 1250 or possibly later; very early example of a hand-held Bible. "M3452" in the lower right corner on the recto in pencil. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company , Akron Ohio, ca. 2006 (M3452).
Date Created:
[1200 TO 1299]
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

3738. Banque de L'Algérie, Cinq Francs [side two]

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Back of 5 Francs polychrome Algerian bill, showing a veiled woman with fruit at Port d'Algers. Inscription at the bottom, "In the name of Allah, most gracious, most merciful, and woe to the defrauders." (Quran 83.1)
Date Created:
1941-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries
Collection:
World War II Propaganda Collections

3739. Die Deutsche Arbeitsfront Mitgliedsbuch

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Membership Booklet for the German Labor Front from 1936. It belongs to a man named Rardhel, K. born in 1898. The front of the book has many pages filled with stamps to indicate that the laborer had paid their dues. It instructs the members that everyone was responsible for reading, "Der Angriff," "Völkischer Beobachter," "Arbeitertum," and "Der Aufbau." Item viewed as a LUNA BookReader object. and Mitgliedsbuch -- Zur besonderen Beachtung -- An = und Abmeldungen -- Erwerbslosen = und Krankenuntersstützung -- Notfallunterstützing, Sterbegeld und Heiratsbeihilfe -- Bescheinigungen über Ruhen der Beitragspflicht -- Jedes Mitglied der Deutschen Arbeitsfront liest folgende Zeitungen
Date Created:
[1935 TO 1936]
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Western Michigan University. Libraries
Collection:
World War II Propaganda Collections

3740. Leaf from the Vulgate Edition of the Bible

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From the Vulgate Edition of the Bible, printed at the Platin Press in 1628 in Antwerp. The recto side of the page is marked 23 and the verso side is marked as 24.
Date Created:
1628-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:
Pages from the Past