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3881. Rice Home in Parchment, interior, family in living room, 323 Parchmount

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Interior of the Rice home living room featuring a child with parents sitting next to an radio stereo record player console.
Date Created:
1940-04-18T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries
Collection:
7 photos in event - 352

3882. Orrin B. Hayes Oldsmobile dealership, exterior, at night, neon sign

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Exterior of Orrin B. Hayes Oldsmobile service center and dealership in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Address of business is 543 W. Michigan Avenue. Oldsmobile cars featured including one parked in front of the garage door and other on the street. Two GMC service trucks are parked in front of the service center. House at 559 W. Michigan Avenue, just west, is also visible.
Date Created:
1950-05-02T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries
Collection:
2 photos in event – 3647

3883. Postilla litteralis in vetus testamentum, f. 7v watermark detail

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Watermark on f. 7v, cropped and enlarged, from an early fifteenth-century manuscript of Nicholas of Lyra’s commentaries on nine Old Testament books, made for institutional use., 2 columns of 42-46 lines ruled in ink and written in cursive gothic book hand., and Written in Southern Germany, possibly Bavaria, in ca. 1450-1475 as indicated by the evidence of the watermark and script. The chained binding indicates it was in an institutional collection. Purchased by Western Michigan University’s Special Collections from Les Enluminures who procured it from a private North American collection.
Date Created:
[1450 TO 1475]
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

3884. Come back home alive, Daddy! [page 2]

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Nazi propaganda leaflet dropped on American troops. It uses the image of a young girl on the front to encourage fathers to come home. The back warns soldiers that they may never make it home to their wives, sweethearts, mothers, children and all that they will be able to give them will be unbearable grief.
Data Provider:
Western Michigan University. Libraries
Collection:
World War II Propaganda Collections

3885. Ei ssörrender [page 2]

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Allied propaganda leaflet dropped on Italian soldiers in order to inform them of how to say "I surrender" in English to the invading Allied troops. Also, included on the flyer is German directions to inform the German soldiers amongst the ranks of Italians.
Date Created:
[1944 TO 1945]
Data Provider:
Western Michigan University. Libraries
Collection:
World War II Propaganda Collections

3886. Reichsbanknote, Eine Million Mark [side one]

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Front of 1 million Marks polychrome German note. Black text; green on right side with oak leaf (symbolizing Weimar Republic) watermark; red fibers on green side of paper. Number: U 03121708. Warning against falsification (punishment: no less than 2 years imprisonment)
Date Created:
1923-08-09T00:00:00Z
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Western Michigan University. Libraries
Collection:
World War II Propaganda Collections

3887. A Moollah, or Persian Priest

Notes:
P. 268 "The dress of the Molláh, here introduced, imparts a fair idea of the gracefulness of Persian costume." The molláh is wearing the full length white cloak or aba (Vogelsang-Eastwood, p. 11) his green tunic is decorated with red bands. His turban is large made of patterned and plain white fabric, with some of the white fabric trailing behind. He wears the full beard and mustache typical to men of this region.
Date Created:
1843-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Western Michigan University. Libraries
Collection:
Costume History Collection

3888. Western State Normal School from Davis Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan

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View of Western State Normal School on Prospect Hill from Davis Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Designed by Battle Creek architect, Ernest W. Arnold, the Administration Building was completed and occupied in 1905. Two wings the Training School and the Gymnasium, were added in 1909 and later were renamed East Hall.
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Western Michigan University. Libraries
Collection:
Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection

3889. T.B. (tuberculosis) ward, Kalamazoo State Hospital, Michigan

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Male tuberculosis ward and expansion behind Burns Cottage at the Kalamazoo State Hospital, Michigan.
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Western Michigan University. Libraries

3890. Studio portrait of a standing fireman, Kalamazoo, Michigan

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Studio portrait of a Kalamazoo fireman taken in the photography studio of W. S. White at 166 Main Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan. The fireman is wearing a shirt with a scarf or cravat and short fitted trousers with stockings. The belt appears to have insignia or badge.
Date Created:
[1873 TO 1878]
Data Provider:
Western Michigan University. Libraries