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- This drawing provides an excellent aerial view of the prison camp at Zerbst and the surrounding countryside. Zerbst was one of the largest prison camps in Germany and normally housed around 15,000 men at a given time. The image illustrates the POW's barracks, camp security, administrative buildings, and hospital facilities. Note the quarantine camp to the right of the prison facility; newly arrived POW's spent their initial time in the camp in isolation to prevent the introduction of infectious diseases into the POW population.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This is a print of the exterior of the Celle Schloss (Palace), where the Germans incarcerated Allied officers during the war.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Official inauguration program of the YMCA hut at the prison camp at Goettingen, in French and English, p. 4.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- British POW's secretly photographed the street outside of their quarters in Yozgad by constructing their own camera. If discovered, the Turks would have confiscated the camera immediately.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A British prisoner of war made this cello during his incarceration in a Turkish prison camp. Through the prisoners' ingenuity and skill, craftsmen in the camps could make musical instruments for bands and orchestras and musicians could then offer the POW's entertainment.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Residential Scenes. Exterior of light colored brick, ranch style home. Location unknown. Interior is shown in 4351-6. Client: Miller Lumber Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1950-08-15T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 11 photos in event - 4351
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- People Working. Librarians walking from 2 buses in front of Borgess Hospital during field trip for Midwest Regional Group of the Medical Library Association meeting. Client: Mr. Marshall. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1950-10-07T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 6 photos in event - 4409
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- Group portrait of men wearing regalia at the Masonic Temple in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Building is located at 309 N. Rose Street. Men sit in front of a Renaissance style arch. In the background are "In Memoriam" panels listing past masons' names and dates of membership.
- Date Created:
- 1949-04-02T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Edges browning and cracked where the cutting was folded. Small scuffs and stains. Text trimmed away on upper, outer and lower edges., 2-line initial in red with faded blue pen florishes extending into the margin. Ink flaking from recto. Remnant of a single red rubric on recto., Small cutting with the remant of Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies, beginning at Liber 2, section 21, on the figures of words and expressions (De figuris verborum et setentiarum). The Etymologies (also called the Origins) is divided into 20 books concerning a subject-area., and 1 column with the remains of 26 lines ruled in dark red ink written in Protogothic script.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Bound in modern red leather in 1993 by Donald Taylor of Toronto, spine lettered in gilt on a black leather label, “Excerpta Legendae Aureae, s. XIII.” Gatherings interleaved by paper stubs, with modern cloth slipcase. Previously “loosely wrapped” in the four folios from a Breviary, removed by the Bergendal Collection and bound separately as MS 161. First and last flyleaves are modern paper., Fore edge and tail of a personal collection of excerpts from the Legenda aurea and seven sermons from the Sermones de tempore, unbound until modern times and protected by a few leaves from another manuscript (MS 161)., and From dealer description: Based on evidence of the script, manuscript was likely copied at the end of the 13th century or beginning of the 14th century. The script of the first scribe may be on the earlier side of the range dates, but uncertain given the informality of both scripts. Both scribes, use the reversed “c” to abbreviate “con” and a quick form of the abbreviation for “est” (Latin for “is”) which suggest an orgin in Germany, possibliy South Germany. The first scribe varies his layout (justification, number of lines, and ruling pattern), which is a characteristic of an informal, perhaps owner-produced manuscript. Fifteenth century(?) notation, bottom margin of f. 1 in bold gothic ink: "S.de3" in a different hand. Purchased by Joseph Pope (1921-2010) of Toronto from Sam Fogg in 1993. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Les Enluminures (TM 579).
- Date Created:
- [1280 TO 1325]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries