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Notes:: This is a portrait of a Tartar soldier from the steppes in Russian service incarcerated at Hammerstein. The Russians mobilized troops from the breadth of the tsarist empire to fight the Central Powers.
Date Created:: 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: Residential Scenes. People - Daily Life. Woman and two children preparing food using stove. Sliding countertop visible. Note: There is a texture on parts of the negative that were not part of the original photograph. This does not minimize the value of the imagery. Client: Trade Development Corp. (Photographic negative)
Date Created:: 1939-08-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: 21 photos in event - 134

Notes:: Advertising. Exhibit for Sutherland Paper Company features "Space Saver Locker Box" and "Space Saver Locker Kit for Frozen Food." Client: Sutherland Paper Company (Photographic Negative)
Date Created:: 1945-05-21T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: 1 photo in event - 2157-D

Notes:: People - Daily Life. Man and woman at breakfast table eating pancakes and sausage. Coffee pot, cups, creamer and sugar also visible. Client: Sutherland Paper Company (Photographic Negative)
Date Created:: 1940-06-25T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: 6 photos in event - 406-D

Notes:: Contemporary brown leather boards; two concentric double blind-ruled borders, filled with blind-stamped shell and flower ornaments; diapered center panel, lozenges of which contain blind-stamped flower and eagle ornaments; brass and leather strap-and-pin fastener; front and back pastedowns are vellum leaves; engraving of a saint’s deathbed scene removed from another text, and affixed to front pastedown. In a green cloth clamshell box, with green leather spine., Front and tail leather boards and fore-edge of a manual or office book compiled for a Dominican nunnery containing liturgies and prayers. Edge shows a brass and leather strap-and-pin faster and cockled parchment., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1996.
Date Created:: [1450 TO 1469]
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Notes:: Watermark on f. 7v from an early fifteenth-century manuscript of Nicholas of Lyra’s commentaries on nine Old Testament books, made for institutional use., 2 columns of 42-46 lines ruled in ink and written in cursive gothic book hand., and Written in Southern Germany, possibly Bavaria, in ca. 1450-1475 as indicated by the evidence of the watermark and script. The chained binding indicates it was in an institutional collection. Purchased by Western Michigan University’s Special Collections from Les Enluminures who procured it from a private North American collection.
Date Created:: [1450 TO 1475]
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Notes:: Nazi propaganda leaflet dropped on American troops. It brings forward two questions for American fighting troops including, what chance they have to get home alive and what they will be facing when they get home. It tells the soldier that they have little chance to get home facing the German lethal weapons and that once they get home they will face unemployment and an economic crisis. Therefore, what are they fighting for?
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Collection:: World War II Propaganda Collections

Notes:: This article, "Der ewige Verrat," identified throughout history, moments where the Jews played the role of a traitor. Different countries, time periods, and events are covered, concluding in the assumption that the Jew is a parasite
Date Created:: 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: World War II Propaganda Collections

Notes:: Front of 2 Lire Italian monochrome bill, brown in color, featuring Julius Caesar.
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Collection:: World War II Propaganda Collections

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