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- This photograph shows the interior of the Association building at Crossen-an-der-Oder. Russian instructors, from the POW population, teach a class for their fellow countrymen. The YMCA strove to provide educational opportunities to prisoners of war to help them find better jobs and help their families after repatriation.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A group of Scottish and English prisoners of war relax in the compound at Doeberitz smoking their pipes and cigarettes. Note the German non-commissioned officer standing to the extreme right smoking a cigarette.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Actors participate in a scene from a French play in the theater at Koenigsbrueck. Note that the three female parts are played by male actors. The YMCA provided scripts and costumes to help prisoners stage performances and these plays provided the camp population with a source of welcome relief from the monotony of daily prison camp life.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- The stringed orchestra performs during the Christmas service in the YMCA building in Braunau-am-Inn in 1916. Note the extensive decorations in the building which include garland, paper chains, pine boughs, and a large, decorated Christmas tree behind the stage. There are Christmas presents on the floor to the right of the stage, near a phonograph. Association secretaries went to great lengths to provide POW's with Christmas cheer at a time when many prisoners suffered from depression and home sickness.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This is an Example of a ten-heller bank note which the Austrians circulated in the prison camp at Groedig. Prisoners could only use this currency to make purchases within the camp.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Italian prisoners of war carry twenty coffins of dead comrades to the cemetery near an unidentified Austrian prison camp. A POW carrying a cross leads the procession.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Business Scenes. Exterior view of Kalamazoo Water Softening Company, 549 Washington Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Client: Kalamazoo Water Softening Company (Photographic Negative)
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Advertising. Woman wearing raccoon fur hat and coat with flower corsage, holding what appears to be a University of Michigan flag and paper cup featuring figure of hockey player. Client: Staake & Schoonmaker, Kalamazoo, MI. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1942-08-19T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 1 photo in event - 960-C
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- Army Colonel George Strong presents Army and Navy banner to William Shakespeare, Jr., at E Award Ceremony. The Shakespeare Products Company, Kalamazoo, received a E Award for Excellence in Performance War Production.
- Date Created:
- 1943-05-19T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 26 photos in event 1224-G
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- Bound in modern red leather in 1993 by Donald Taylor of Toronto. Spine lettered in gilt, “Fragmentum Breviarii, s. XIII.” Gatherings interleaved by paper stubs, with modern cloth slipcase. Previously used as a “loose wrap” for the four folios containing excerpts from Jacobus de Vorgaine’s Legenda aura and Sermones de tempore, removed by the Bergendal Collection and bound separately as MS 160. First two and last two flyleaves are modern paper., Spine and upper cover of a small personal collection of excerpts unbound until modern times, and which once protected the leaves of MS 160. The original structure is uncertain and missing an unknown number of leaves between f. 2 and f. 3. Spine label in gilt reads “Fragmentum Breviarii, s. XIII.”, and “Based on the evidence of the script, this was written in Germany at the end of the 13th century. The text, although fragmentary, suggests that these leaves were from a monastic rather than secular, breviary (one nocturn with four lessons are provided for the feast of St. Lucy). Possibily waste leaves never used for a manuscript (see the backward two-line red “n” on f. 4). They were used as a wrapper for this copy of extracts from the Golden Legend and sermons by Jacobus de Vorgaine by the fifteenth or early 16th century, when the contents were recorded in the lower margin of f. 1. The writer listed the contents as “Legends” of St. Barbara and St. Lucy, ignoring that these leaves were originally from a breviary, and emphasizing the content that was in keeping with the manuscript these leaves were being used to protect. Belowed to Joseph Pope (1921-2010) of Toronto, investor banker and prominent collector of medieval manuscripts, where it was Bergendal Collection MS 24 (described in Pope, 1999, and online, Bergendal Collection). Purchased by Pope from Sam Fogg, London, October 1993.” --from dealer description. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Les Enluminures (TM 579).
- Date Created:
- [1275 TO 1300]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
