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- Notes:
- 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:
- 1938-07-08T00:00:00Z
- 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:
- The first French prisoners of war returning from Germany cross the Rhine River at Kehl on 21 November 1918. They were led by a French flag and the former prisoners sang the "Marseillaise" while a French officer saluted the troops to the left.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This is a photograph of several members of the Flying Squadron that the International Committee sent to Europe in the Spring of 1915 to serve as War Prisoners' Aid secretaries. They are posing with European YMCA secretaries who are already providing war relief work in their own countries.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French soldiers throw up their hands in surrender in the face of an overwhelming cavalry charge by the Bavarian 6th Lancers at the Battle of Legarde early in the war during the German offensive in northern France.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- British interned civilians file through the prison camp kitchen and have hot soup ladled into their dinner buckets. Before leaving through the exit on the right hand side, a prisoner smells his bucket to figure out what kind of soup is on the menu that day. Note the bars on the windows to prevent nocturnal visits from hungry or enterprising internees.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A wagon full of parcels stands outside the prison camp parcel post office at Ulm. French prisoners unload the wagon under the watch of a German non-commissioned officer. A German officer watches from the right, standing next to a basket full of goods. The parcels will be inspected by German censors and then distribution to the POW camp population. Note that the wagon is not designed to be pulled by a horse; the prisoners pulled the wagon from the train station to the camp.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The German officer seated at the desk was the camp censor at Doeberitz. He was responsible for inspecting all of the mail that the prisoners sent and received in the camp for contraband information. He was assisted in his duties by the Russian prisoners in this photograph.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Business Scenes. Interior view of offices of William John Upjohn Associates, 111 Portage Street, Kalamazoo, MI. Includes leather chairs, floor vase, and ashtrays with samples of the agency's work on a panel in the background. Client: William John Upjohn Associates (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 4 photos in event - 9790
- Notes:
- People Working. Worker inspecting lathe at Humphrey Plant Company. Client: Atlas Press Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1939-03-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 7 photos in event - 49
- Notes:
- People - Daily Life. Gerrit Vander Meer reading to toddler near Christmas tree. Client: Mr. Vander Meer (Photographic negative)
- Date Created:
- 1940-12-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 3 photos in event - 519
