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Notes:: French and Russian prisoners "air out" their mattresses in the sun outside their barrack in the prison compound at Zwickau. Prisoners had to periodically clean out their bedding and linens to eliminate vermin which could quickly spread diseases in the cramped conditions in the enlisted men's barracks.
Date Created:: 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: This is an example of a two-Mark bill utilized by POW's in the prison camp at Chemnitz. It is stamped with a Saxon Ministry of War cancel.
Date Created:: 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: Russian prisoners play mandolins and violins while two POW's dance in the compound in Czersk. German non-commissioned officers watch the entertainment. These performances provided a great deal of entertainment for war prisoners.
Date Created:: 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: French officers participate in a class in their dining hall in the prison camp at Halle-am-Saal. Courses provided prisoners with mental diversions and the opportunity to improve themselves for better employment opportunities after the war.
Date Created:: 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: This POW sketch provides a general view of the town of Kedos and several of the prison camp buildings after the great fire. The prison barracks where many of the British prisoners lived is in the center to the left; the Gurkha mess is next to the large building to the center rights; and the Indian officers' quarters are next to the minaret at the right.
Date Created:: 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: Business Products. Woman placing flowers in a vase on fold-out table set with china coffee cups and saucers, silverware, and cloth napkins inside. Dining/living area of Kozy Coach trailer. Woman is wearing heels, dress, jewelry, and elegant apron. Gas stove is partially visible in kitchen area. Wooden cabinet with drawers and half-open door reveals shelves holding glasses and tableware. Fold-down bench, couch with fur-like trim, wall lamp, overhead storage compartments, wood paneling, and windows with flower-patterned curtains and blinds also visible. Client: Kozy Coach Company, Kalamazoo, MI. (Photographic Negative)
Date Created:: 1949-05-16T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: 22 photos in event - 3786-K; see also 4692-K

Notes:: Group portrait of employees and a manager in meat processing room, 631 Second St., Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Date Created:: 1952-05-11T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: 3 photos in event - 5155

Notes:: Interlinear glossing, marginal annotations, and schemata., Presumably used as a rear pastedown; discoloration from paste visible in upper, outer, and lower margins on the verso., paraphs, schemata, and a maniculum in red; 1-line, blue initial with red pen-flourishes on recto, Twelfth- to thirteenth-century, French portion (chapters 39-54) of Liber sex principiorum, the commentary on the last six classes in the tenfold schema elaborated in Aristotle's Categories--the first of his works on logic. The portion here deals with place and time. CPMA, 1:43.39-54. Popularly attributed to Gilbertus Porreta, Bishop of Poitiers (d. 1154). Extensive interlinear glossing, marginal annotations and schemata. Numerous manicula., compact, slightly rounded, highly abbreviated gothic textualis libraria; marginal annotation in a compact gothic cursiva anquitor, and Produced towards the end of the twelfth century or the first half of the thirteenth century, probably in France. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron Ohio, May, 2010.
Date Created:: [1175 TO 1250]
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Notes:: H-42 D, First Edition, Afghanistan 1:253,440, Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U511, and GSGS (Series) ; 3919
Date Created:: 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: South Asia Maps

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