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- Studio portrait of Elizabeth T. Zimmerman, Faculty 1905-1944. Chair - Department of Modern Languages. d. 26 June 1952. Photograph: Bachrach. SEE ALSO: U-1398-0 for 12 x 14 of same
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Group photograph of retiring Western Michigan College faculty. Seated: James Knauss, H. Glen Henderson. Standing: John Plough, Wynand Wichers, and William Brown. James Knauss was a professory of history since 1929. H. Glen Henderson was the associate professor of music since 1913. John H. Plough was the assistant professor of Industrial Arts since 1941. Wynand Wichers was the vice-presendent since 1945. William Brown as a professor of english since 1917.
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- 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Photograph of the Training School from north, Western Michigan College of Education. The Training School was one of two additions to the original Administration Building on Normal Hill (earlier Prospect Hill), completed in 1909.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- 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.
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- 1939-06-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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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- African workers construct a missionary post in German East Africa before World War I as part of the Berlin Association's overseas work. The German YMCA sought to evangelize Africans but lost access to their missionary fields as a consequence of the Versailles Treaty.
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- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- With only the perimeter fence constructed, Allied prisoners of war suffer through the night of a rain storm in September 1914. While German sentries march their rounds, prisoners seek whatever shelter they can find in the prison compound. The Germans were unprepared for the capture of large numbers of Allied prisoners or for the long duration of the conflict, as demonstrated by this sketch of Sennelager. The POWs would soon be at work constructing their new barracks.
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- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- French prisoners inspect each of the parcels received by the prison camp at Stendal under the supervision of a German censor (two stand to the left in the picture). The Germans strove to prevent contraband from the prison population. Once passed by the censors, these parcels would be distributed to their recipients at the camp post office.
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- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A German orderly issues the latest war news from the front as part of the morning sick call for British and French officers at Magdeburg. Note the boots and shoes drying out on top of the ovens inside the dormitory to the left and the tea pots on top of the oven in the center.
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- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- As Austro-German forces mounted a counter-offensive in Galacia in 1915, droves of Russian prisoners arrived at German prisons. Hundreds of recently captured Russian POW's disembark from their railway cars at the train station at Lamsdorf while German guards watch attentively behind a pile of logs. The railroad system provided all the necessities for daily life for a prison camp, ranging from food to supplies to prisoners-of-war.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Armenian Christians that escaped the massacres in Turkey traveled to Port Said in Egypt where they received food and shelter at the refugee stations operated by the Allies.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries