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- Snapshot of Irving Clark and Emelia Goldsworthy Clark with a car in the background. The following written on the back of the photo, "Under the blooming lantana vine. We stand and enjoy the California sunshine. Our Patio is filled with plants and flowers. And just now calls for winter showers. We can sit in our swing and look upon the Desert or the Ocean Scenes painted on our garage doors. With an artists notion honeysuckles & roses cover our back fence and often gives out a very sweet incense. Your friends with all our health, Irving & Emlia G. Clark 1114 W. 42 St., Los Angeles.” Prior to her 1920 marriage, Emelia Goldsworthy was head of the Art Department at Western State Normal School.
- Date Created:
- 1940-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- A leaf from the Third Edition of Christopher Saur's German Bible. It was printed by Saur in Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1776. Most copies of this edition were destroyed during the Revolution by soldiers who used the paper for cartridges, and in fact only ten known copies exist. The recto side of the page is marked 413 and the verso side is marked 414.
- Date Created:
- 1776-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
- Notes:
- Photograph of Walt Disney with a group of children during his visit to the Kalamazoo Art Center. The Kalamazoo Gazette identifies the girl sitting on Disney's lap as Candice Metler.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Civil War era letter, scanned and transcribed for use in United States Civil War Collection.
- Date Created:
- 1861-07-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- United States Civil War Collection
- Notes:
- Civil War era letter, scanned and transcribed for use in United States Civil War Collection.
- Date Created:
- 1862-03-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- United States Civil War 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.
- Date Created:
- 1935-04-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection
- Notes:
- Russian tailors are busy at work at the back of this workshop while cobblers labor behind the screened-wire wall to the right in the prison camp at Stendal. Skilled laborers supported the operation of prison camps by making and repairing shoes, boots, and clothing for the benefit of POWs. Apprentices also gained the opportunity to learn a trade that would help them find work after the war.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian medics treat wounded Russian prisoners at the dispensary at Ulm under the direction of the German medical staff. Many lightly wounded prisoners arrived in prison camps for treatment in the prison infirmaries and hospital wards. The Germans sent more seriously wounded prisoners to military hospitals for treatment until their conditions improved.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Actors perform a scene from a play in the French theater at Celle. The theater includes a piano to the left and a stage with scenes. The audience is accommodated by a large number of benches. Theater performances were important for the mental health of POW's incarcerated in prison camps since plays provided mental diversions from their captivity.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Exterior view of the prison hospital by the camp entrance in the prison camp at Ebersdorf bei Chemnitz. The Germans housed Allied prisoners in the newly constructed buildings of the casern in 1914 and Russian POW's remained in the camp long after the Armistice of 1918.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries