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3951. Man displaying antique patent medicine bottles, broadside

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Advertising. Employee displaying patent medicine bottles, 1854 Illustrated Family Medical Almanac and broadside for Richardson's Magneto-galvanic Batteries. Client: Hercules Powder Company, Parchment, Michigan. (Photographic Negative)
Date Created:
1957-10-01T00:00:00Z
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2 photos in event - 7568

3952. Fidelity Federal Savings, exterior, front view

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Business Scenes. Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association building exterior, 315 S. Burdick. Client: Miller-Davis Company (Photographic Negative)
Date Created:
1957-11-01T00:00:00Z
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21 photos in event - 7596

3953. Liturgy O.C.S.O., 1980, vol. 14, no. 1 (February)

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Liturgy O.C.S.O. was published by Gethsemani Abbey, Trappist, KY and edited by Father Chrysogonus Waddell from 1966-1999. The journal (at that time a newsletter) began after September 1965 meeting of the Liturgy Commission of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance to report progress in liturgical renewal after Vatican II. The audience and contributors later included secular scholars of the Cistercian liturgy. and Editor's page / Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell -- The altar: The evolution of its forms and its various theological meanings / Fr. Paul Houix -- Simplicity in the Liturgy / Sr. Marie-Pierre Faure -- An Ascension Day sermon by Saint Ælred: On the Rapture of Elijah / Presentation and translation by Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell -- Six hymns from the Ceremonial de Religieuses de la Congregation de Sainct Bernard, Orde de Cisteaux / Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell -- Refectory prayers and antiphons / Fr. Jean-Marie and Fr. Didier of Tamié
Date Created:
1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Liturgy O.C.S.O. Journal of Gethsemani Abbey

3954. Pretzer, Harold H.

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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:
1934-09-13T00:00:00Z
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Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection

3955. New York Headquarters of the American YMCA

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This is a drawing of the YMCA building, located at 347 Madison Avenue in New York City. It served as the headquarters of the International Committee of the North American YMCA and the War Work Council. These organizations supervised the funding and operation of the War Prisoners' Aid servivces in Europe during World War I.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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3956. American Occupation Troops Enter Hetzerath, Germany

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Four American soldiers, astride horses and carrying the American and regimental colors, led a column of U.S. troops through Hetzerath in the Rhineland. These troops are the lead elements of the American Army of Occupation which would set up operations at the Colblenz bridgehead under the terms of the Armistice of November 1918.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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3957. Private Hess with One of His Cartoons at Rastatt

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Private Hess was a popular American cartoonist at the prison camp at Rastatt. He poses with his pipe with a cartoon of a German guard and the caption, "The War Is Over." The American POW's published a camp newspaper entitled "The Barbed-Wireless."
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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3958. British Soccer Players at Schneidemuehl

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British prisoners pose with a soccer ball before a match in the prison compound at Schneidemuehl. The British POW's enjoyed playing soccer and organized leagues to help stay in shape during their long captivity.
Date Created:
1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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3959. Russian POWs at Sprottau

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A large assembly of Russian prisoners from the four corners of the Tsarist Empire pose outdoors for a photograph in the compound at Sprottau near the perimeter fence. German victories in the Battle of Tannenberg and the offensive in Russian Poland resulted in a large influx of Russian POW's into Sprottau. Many of these men would remain behind barbed-wire for years after the end of the war as a result of the Russian Civil War.
Date Created:
1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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3960. Russian Carpenters at Work at Koeln (Cologne)

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Skilled Russian carpenters work in a wood shop in the prison camp at Wahn bei Koeln. They are producing ornate chairs, including a three-legged chair to the right. Note that some of the prisoners wear red arm bands on their upper arms for identification purposes.
Date Created:
1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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