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Notes:: Document folded six times. An additional parchment sheet (135 x 260 mm) is attached by the tag behind the plica., Back of a folded indenture chirograph document (conveyance) of Penelope Warde of Great Dunmow, Essex, widow to Richard Phillips, who was a wheelwright, for ₤10 15s + ₤8 to be paid to her 10s each quarter day with grants of parcels of land in Great Dunmow towards Chelmsford., and Written in England, county of Essex and dated 1 December 1659 in document. Signed, “The mark of Penelope Warde” beside the slits for the parchment tag on the plica. Gift of Western Michigan University Department of History to WMU Special Collections in 1999.
Date Created:: 1659-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: Lighthouse keeper logs for the South Pierhead Light, South Haven, Michigan, from 1872 to 1880, recorded by the first keeper William P. Bryan and the second keeper James S. Donahue. Bryan has one entry in 1872, with remaining entries completed by Donahue from 1874-1880. The entries are detailed and include information about the temperature, weather conditions, names and owner's names of some of the incoming vessels, and maintenance of the lighthouse. The journal records commerce and pleasure crafts passing in and out of the harbor. Donahue provided descriptions about shipwrecks, including the name of the ship and the fate of the crew. The journal measures 13-3/4 x 8-1/2 x 1-1/4, with marbled boards and edges, stamped "Light Station Journal" on spine, produced by the US Government Bindery.
Date Created:: [1872 TO 1880]
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Collection:: South Haven Michigan Lighthouse Logs

Notes:: Photograph of Kenneth Beighley at the time he was hired as instructor for mathematics and science in the Campus School at Western Michigan University. Photo appeared in the July 1958 Western Michigan University Newsletter. He taught from 1959-1961.
Date Created:: 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection

Notes:: Library Reading room in the Administration Building (East Hall) of Western State Normal School. View looking north through an arched doorway. Photograph appeared in the Kalamazoo Normal Record Vol. 4 No. 9.
Date Created:: 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection

Notes:: From Sebastian "Munster's Cosmographia Universalis". The edition of the book from which this leaf was taken was printed in 1559 by Heinrich Petri at Basle. The woodcuts of this piece are important because they have the initials of the engraver- a rare thing to see in early illustrated books. The recto side of the leaf is page 671 and the verso side is page 672.
Date Created:: 1559-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Pages from the Past

Notes:: 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]
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Notes:: Donald and Genevieve Gilmore talking to a man at the Kalamazoo County Airport. Photograph taken during Walt Disney’s departure from west Michigan.
Date Created:: 1964-09-20T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: 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:: 1938-03-02T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection

Notes:: 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:: 1939-06-12T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection

Notes:: 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:: 1935-02-11T00:00:00Z
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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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