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Notes:: Studio portrait of Daniel F. Jackson, assistant professor of biology, 1955-1959.
Date Created:: 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection

Notes:: A leaf from William Camden's "Annalles of Elizabeth", or more accurately from Darcie's translation from a French translation from the Latin of Camden's original work. It was printed for Benjamin Fisher in 1625, in London. The body of the page is roman type, using italics as an accessory. Though it was printed a quarter of a century after Queen Elizabeth's death, the book has an Elizabethan flair to it. This leaf is marked 127 on the recto side and 128 on the verso side.
Date Created:: 1625-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Pages from the Past

Notes:: A leaf from "Anatome Corporis Humani", by Joanne Valverdo (Juan de Hamusco Valverde). It is a translation into Italian from the original in Spanish. This volume first appeared in 1560 in Rome and Venice; the translation into Italian was made under Valverdo's direction. This edition is from the Giunta Press, and was published at Venice in 1586. The recto side of the leaf is marked as page 43 and the verso side is marked as page 44.
Date Created:: 1586-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: From a German translation of Livy, printed by Theodoius Rihel in 1596 at Strassburg. The illustrator Rihel's Livy was an artist named Tobias Stimmer. The recto side of the leaf is marked as 315 and the verso side is marked as 316.
Date Created:: 1596-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Pages from the Past

Notes:: Studio portrait of a Kalamazoo fireman taken in the photography studio of W. S. White at 166 Main Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan. The fireman is wearing a shirt with a scarf or cravat, short fitted trousers with stockings.
Date Created:: [1873 TO 1878]
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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:: 1940-03-28T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection

Notes:: This Russian choir is singing inside the YMCA Hall of a German prison camp. Choirs were very popular in military prisons; they could be used in theatricals, perform at special events and festivals, and support religious services.
Date Created:: 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: French and Russian POW's, comprising the First Company, line up for roll call outside the old fortress at Rastatt. Internees were also incarcerated in this facility during the war.
Date Created:: 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: The library was a critical service for POW's as books allowed prisoners to leave the confines of the camp intellectually and improve their educations. This drawing illustrates the French library at Muensingen showing prisoners reading books and writing letters.
Date Created:: 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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