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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:: 1939-03-03T00:00:00Z
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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:: The Germans destroyed the Russian 10th Army at the Second Battle of the Mazurian Lakes in February 1915, which finally ended the Russian threat to East Prussia.
Date Created:: 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: Russian prisoners had the opportunity to continue their educations in the prison camp school at Muensingen. This weekly lesson plan outlines the courses POW's attended and the curriculum included topics such as arithmetic, reading, geography, history, natural science, and agriculture. The goal was to improve the individual soldier during his incarceration during the war.
Date Created:: 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: The German medical staff supervises the application of new dressings on wounded prisoners of war in the dispensary at Regensburg. Many of the POW's at this camp had received wounds or were recovering from illnesses. Note that the prisoner with the shoulder wound has lost his left hand and forearm.
Date Created:: 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: French prisoners of war participate in some "spring cleaning" at Giessen. They are cleaning their tables and chairs in the prison compound to maintain strict sanitary codes.
Date Created:: 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: Some prisoners of war sit on benches in the prison compound at Goettingen while others appear to be washing their clothing in front of their barracks. A German non-commissioned officer walks across the compound lost in thought. The POW's have planted a garden in the center of the compound. The town of Goettingen can be seen in the background.
Date Created:: 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: Irish prisoners at Limburg receive communion during an outdoor Roman Catholic service. The altar stands behind the priests as they administer the sacrament. The German established a propaganda camp at Limburg for Irish Catholics in an effort to recruit volunteers for the Irish Legion, a force that would invade Ireland to free the island from British rule. Irish POW's received special privileges as an enticement to fight for their freedom.
Date Created:: 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: British prisoners bid their farewell to the Turkish commandant at the prison camp at Ouchak. Turkish officers stand to the extreme left and to the right in the photograph. The Ottomans signed an armistice with the Allies in October 1918 and began to send Entente POW's home. The Ottomans signed an armistice with the Allies in October 1918 and Allied POW's began their trips home.
Date Created:: 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: People Working. Man in overalls leaning on front door of Mack delivery truck with "The Upjohn Company No. 3" painted on the side. Truck bed is filled with boxes that are covered with rope netting. Also visible in background are rows of metal oil drums. Client: Ditto Company, Jim Cosgrove (Photographic Negative)
Date Created:: 1939-08-10T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: 13 photos in event - 141

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