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- Business Scenes. Pure Food Service, Inc., Cooking School at the Masonic Temple, Kalamazoo, Michigan, includes product demonstration and miscellaneous kitchen and household appliances. Audience of women wearing hats. Client: Pure Food Service Inc. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1939-02-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 3 photos in event
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- Education. Two women and man in a suit looking under the hood of a 1950 Ford Custom driver training car. Courtesy of Howard Pore Inc., Ford Sales and Service, 315 Portage. Client Kalamazoo Safety Council (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1950-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 1 photo
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- Street Scenes - Service Stations. Businesses, street scene, includes Hap & Dick's Sunoco, 572 E. Michigan, and O'Leary's Standard Service, 575 E. Michigan. Client: Jim Stanley (Photographic negative)
- Date Created:
- 1951-04-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 4 photos and 2 notes in event - 4679
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- Education. Nun instructs student cadets in classroom at Barbour Hall Junior Military Academy. Classroom includes desks and piano. Client: James Lee Carpet Co., Wm. Oldham, Bridgeport, Pennsylvania (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 3 photos in event -9550
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- Bound in an unusual binding, probably contemporary, made from two pieces of brown leather, sewn together horizontally, which is stitched over pasteboards formed from ten leaves from other manuscripts (now partially visible at the top, front, and along the fore edge, back). The leather turn-ins are covered with a paper leaf, now fragmentary, in the front, and by leather in the back. Part of this leather is broken off, and is now laid in, sewn on three leather bands, stitched through the inside of the covers in a “v” pattern. Lighter brown leather (sheepskin?) spine, probably later, with three raised bands with the title in gilt between the first and second in a gold square, “Regl de S. Benoit Manuscr 13 Sciecl [sic].” Remains of leather tie, front cover, with a hole in the back cover, presumably from another tie, now missing, and showing considerable wear, including a second small hole in the back cover near the spine, and with corners and some edges of the leather covers worn away. Middle of each gathering reinforced with parchment strips from another manuscript., Tail and fore edge of a codex containing the Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict by Bernard Ayglerius (d. 1282), Abbot of Monte Cassino. Leather is worn at the corners and edges showing the underlying “board” made of 10 leaves from other manuscripts., and From dealer description: Written in the later decades of the 15th century, probably ca. 1480-1500, in central or southwestern France, as indicated by the style of the script and the watermark. Popular in 15th century Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries, the text is likely copied for a monastic library. Only one sale of this text is listed in the Schoenberg Database. Medieval shelf-mark, bottom margin, ff. 1 and 83, “B 63,” in both cases preceded by four erased words, “C de C.” Armorial bookplate, front flyleaf for the Bibliothèque de Monseir le Baron de Caix de Saint-Aymour,” with motto, “Fortior in adversis.” the Baron Amédée Caix de Saint Aymour was the mayor of Corbie (1863-1920), educated at the l’Ecole des chartes and at the l’Ecoles des langues orientales. Octagonal paper label on front cover edged in blue from 19th century French book deal, “Manuscript, 13ième siècle.” Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Les Enluminures (TM 432).
- Date Created:
- [1480 TO 1500]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Two different illegible near-contemporary inscriptions in the left margin., Two parchment ties join the two bifolia., 10 line inscription in near-contemporary hand on verso of folio describing the nature of the document. On recto of the first folio: stamp (possibly of Generalite d’Orleans) in black ink, of a heart with three fleur-de-lis, in the middle of the works “Dix Sols De Roole” and in front of two crossed scepters and surmounted by a crown with rays and two bird heads; stamp of “AVG.3S.4D” in black ink immediately above; “House sale at Orleans” and “$20.00” in pencil along the top; two-word, illegible inscription along the top in ink. A stamp identical to the one on folio one recto is located in the top left margin of folio 3 recto., Legal document concerning a dispute between two parties, possibly relating to a harvest, with notorial signature. Name of Bernard mentioned., Written in a 17th century French legal script., and Produced in France, dated 22 Mars 1694 in top left margin of folio 1 recto “Janvier 1694” below the main test on folio 4 and “1694” below inscription on folio 4 verso. Two stamps in black ink on the first folio: the first possibly of Generalite d’Orleans, and the second “AVG.3S.4D”. Numerous marginal inscriptions in near-contemporary hand. Gift of Western Michigan University Department of History to Special Collections in 2005.
- Date Created:
- 1694-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Housed in a matted frame (325 x 750 mm), Three, 2-line red initials; remains of an incipit in ornamental red letters. Rubric in red on the recto., Twelfth-century Italian portion of the opening folio from a monumental Atlantic Bible in Latin. Recto contains sections of Genesis 1:7-23 and verson sections of Genesis 1:26-2:15 and (only beginning words of each line) 2:24-3:12., Fine Caroline script, and Produced in Italy ca. 1100. Folio is from a monumental Atlantic Bible, a production type originating in Rome and widespread throughout Europe in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. These texts were oversized as "Atlantic" refers to the giant Atlas, and they probably had use as liturgical visual aids (De amel, Chrostpher. "Giant Bibles of the Early Middle Ages." The Book: A History of the Bible (London: Phaidon Press, 2001), 64-91)."XXII" on the verso in pencil. "6007" on the recto in pencil. Purchased by Special Collections, Western Michigan University from the Mackus Company, Akron, Ohio on May 12, 2012.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Election leaflet supporting Adolf Hitler for the 1932 Reichspresident election. The leaflet explains the failures of current Reichspresident Paul von Hindenburg since his election to office seven years earlier in 1925 and promises to fulfill the hopes of these voters with the new election of Hitler. Voting Hitler ensures freedom, bread, and a fighting spirit against all enemies of German nationalism.
- Date Created:
- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
- Notes:
- Front of 50 Pfennig polychrome German note. Brown background with dark blue text; lighter blue borders; watermark; Berliner bear.
- Date Created:
- 1921-09-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- No 65; Le Conseiller des Grâces; 4e Année; Rue du Curé, Sw 2 No 629, près de la Chapálle; pin hole in center top margin
- Date Created:
- 1827-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Costume History Collection