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- A Hungarian sentry stands guard at the entrance to the prison camp at Huszt in 1918. The barbed-wire fence enclosing the prison compound does not appear to be in the best of condition. Some of the camp's barracks and some incarcerated Polish Legionnaires stand in the background.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Industrial Products. People Working. Three men watching a machinery demonstration inside the show bus for Hammond Machinery Builders, Inc., Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Hammond Electrolytic Carbide Tool Grinder is on display. Client: Hitchcock Publishing Company, Wheaton, Illinois. (Photographic Negative)
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 4 photos in event - 7627
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- Business Scenes. Interior Miller Lumber Company sales room, 1919 Factory Street, includes hardware department sign, tools, and pool table display. Client: Miller Lumber Co. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1964-04-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 12 photos in event - 9615
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- Air Scout pilots in uniform standing at attention in the field at the Kalamazoo Municipal Airport in front of a group of men dressed in winter coats and suits. In the background are rows of parked airplanes. The Air Scout Program was a pre-flight training program during World War 2.
- Date Created:
- 1945-11-22T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 8 photos in event - 2458
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- Contemporary binding of tawed leather over beveled wooden boards; marks from a clasp once on edge of front cover; inscription on front cover: Martyrologe de Nangis terres de l’eglise de Nangis; prickings along the outer margin on some leaves, “KL” symbols for each month in large red letters, Register of anniversary days when services are to be performed for the dead open to leaves 38v-39r. Mainly comprised of a calendar which mentions for each day the names of the donors to be honored by a mass, or the names of the relevant saints honored locally. Some of the donors listed have been crossed out, their donation having expired, and other prestigious families such as the Montmorency-Bouchard family, have been respectfully preserved., Written in long lines; ruled in plummet for 24 lines; written in a gothic hand in red and light brown ink with some later entries in black ink by a wide variety of hands; some entries crossed out, and Written in Nangis, France over the period of the late 13th to early 16th centuries. Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 2007.
- Date Created:
- [1200 TO 1625]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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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., Upper cover of a codex containing the Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict by Bernard Ayglerius (d. 1282), Abbot of Monte Cassino. Raised band spine. Binding made from two pieces of leather, sewn together horizontally. Octagonal paper label on front cover edged in blue from 19th century French book deal, “Manuscript, 13ième siècle.” Remains of a leather tie on the front cover. Multiple holes from wear and worms., 1 column of 27-30 lines in blind ruling with full length bounding lines (justification: 110-107 x 80-75 mm) written in a cursive gothic bookhand., 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]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Fragments of a 15th-century Latin printed text of Ecclesiastes with commentary on the back., Housed in a modern, mat frame (360 x 410 mm) with vendor's prospectus on back; visible on one side only., Eschatol portion of a fifteenth-century, French charter (probably a compte) involving Count Olivier Mairousse and the Duchess of Burgundy., cursiva formata or Burgundian bastard script, and Produced in Burgundy, France and dated 31 December 1436 in document (modern date of, 9 January 1437). Acquired from the Ricketts Collection by the Mackus Company, Fairlawn, Ohio; purchased from the Mackus Company by Special Collections, Waldo Library in May of 2002.
- Date Created:
- 1437-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- NH 44-1, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- South Asia Maps
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- NI 43-3, Edition 2 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1963-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
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- ND 44-13, Edition 1; Inset of Bangalore on verso, India and Pakistan 1:250,000, and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
