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- A group of Allied tuberculosis patients stand outside the hospital ward in the quarantine camp at Giessen. A German sentry stands on guard duty to the left along the camp fence. War prisoners detected of communicable diseases were isolated from the general prison camp population to prevent the outbreak of epidemics.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- British prisoners scrub down the camp laundry at Limburg under the command of German guards. The stoves connected to the chimney heat water which is usually used by the POW's to wash their clothing inside this facility.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Industrial Products. Unidentified sand blasted part from the George Olcott Company, Allegan, MI. Client: Earl Clason for George Olcott Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1969-05-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 2 photos in event - 10579
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- Residential Scenes. Unidentified farm includes barn, outbuilding, and other structure. Client: Sutherland Paper Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1940-06-25T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 6 photos in event - 406-D
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- Industrial Scenes. Man wearing hardhat, coat, and gloves, outdoors examining steel mill reel components. Client: Aero-Motive Manufacturing Company, Kalamazoo, MI. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1964-01-29T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 4 photos in event - 9549
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- Five men from the Peter Eckrich and Sons Inc. dressed in work clothes and a lab coat receiving work awards from a manager. A portrait of Peter Eckrich hangs on the wall.
- Date Created:
- 1954-11-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 4 photos in event - 6406
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- Leaf excised from a larger manuscript., 5-line decorated initial in blue on red, enclosing foliage and strawberry, with gold pen florishes. Three-quarter border of acanthus motif in gold, blue, green and red, partially cropped. Rubric in red., Text begins with a prepartory prayer before the Sacramental Confession, from the Paradisus Animae. Text at the enlarged inital begins the Obsecro te (I beseech Thee) prayer, a prayer to the Virgin., 1 column of 25 lines ruled in red ink and written in Cursiva Formata (bastarda) script., and "acq. Ex gold S.L. '65" --from dealership description. Accompanying documentation notes the leaf was purchased by Tom Krol from David Grath in early 1980s. The inclusion of the latter prayer, Obsecro te, helps date this manuscript fragment to the late 15th century.
- Date Created:
- [1400 TO 1499]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, worn and repaired with spine gilt on all edges., Spine and 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
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- Document folded five times. Five parchment tags, all seals missing., Indenture document (lease) between Sir William Compton, Sir Thomas Compton brother of Lord Compton, Augustine Nicolls of Kent, Walter Pye of the Meend, Herets, esquire, Robert Pye of Middle Temple, Thomas Warde of Great Abington, Combs gentlemen, servant to Lord Compton recites lease by Lord Compton. Parcels of meadow arable and pasture pertaining to capital messuage of mansion dwelling house of Lord Compton at Great Abington and all buildings of said house. To hold from the Annunciation of the Virgin for six years at 36 pounds 3 shillings and 3 pence. Document later canceled as evidence by the slashes in the body of text., Written in English secretary script. Opening words and later, emphasized in larger bastard anglicana script. Text opens with an 11 line, flourished initial “T.” Pricking in both margins., and Written in England and dated 7 November (?) James I. Dated of “1625” on the dorse in a near contemporary hand. Signatures of William Compton, Thomas Compton, Robert Pye and two others on the plica alongside parchment tags. Signature of Richard occurs twice; one post-contemporary, two line inscription on the dorse, towards the center (possibily in the hand of Phillipps). Formerly Phillipps no. 30177; the number “30177” located on the center of dorse. Gift of Western Michigan University Department of History to WMU Special Collections in 1999.
- Date Created:
- 1625-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Leaf was excised from a larger manuscript; stub of conjugate leaf still visible., 2-line blue and red pen-flourished initials and blue and red paraphs., Thirteenth-century, French glossed bible leaf with the Latin Vulgate, Luke 4:25-31 and a Glossa ordinaria., early gothic textualis formata; the gloss text in littera glossularis, and Produced in France in the early part of the thirteenth century. Markings on the recto: "B8" in lower right corner and "79" in upper right corner, both in pencil. Markings on verso: "hm 66/db11" in upper left corner, "10672a9R10S0/25T" in lower left corner and "$1,250, Bible Paris, c1220-30" in lower middle margin, all in pencil. Purchased from Phillip J. Pirages, McMinnville, Oregon by Special Collections, Waldo Library November in 2006.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries