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- Group photograph of History Department in 1955-1957. Sitting: Margaret MacMillan, James Knauss, and Edythe Mange seated. Standing: Robert Russell, Willis Dunbar, Russell Seibert, Robert Friedmann, Charles Starring and Howard Mowen.
- Date Created:
- 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Photograph of Russell A. Cosper, 1933 graduate of Western State Teachers College. Casper continued his graduate education and eventually served on the faculty in English at Purdue University.
- Date Created:
- 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Liturgy O.C.S.O. was published by Gethsemani Abbey, Trappist, KY and edited by Father Chrysogonus Waddell from 1966-1999. The journal (at that time a newsletter) began after September 1965 meeting of the Liturgy Commission of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance to report progress in liturgical renewal after Vatican II. The audience and contributors later included secular scholars of the Cistercian liturgy. and Editor's page / Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell -- Liturgy Commission project for funerals -- Proposal of the Liturgy Commission: Suffrages for the departed -- Questionnaire on two projects of the Liturgy Commission -- New Melleray: Our Liturgy Commission / New Melleray Liturgy Commission -- The Missal prefaces: A note / Dom Antoine Dumas -- Three permanent aspects of the Divine Office / Sr. Christiane Becker -- The “four” Masses of Christmas / Fr. Nivard Rondeau -- The Christmas Office 1968 / Group “Clairval” -- Psalm 46 (Hebrew 47) / Fr. Benedict Clevenger -- New Testament antiphons for the Psalms / Fr. Jean-Eudes David
- Date Created:
- 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Liturgy O.C.S.O. Journal of Gethsemani Abbey
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- Two British prisoners of war plane the bark off wooden logs as a German guard in a Pickelhaube watches their work.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This storeroom in the Geneva headquarters of the World's Alliance of YMCA's is where secretraries prepared circulating libraries for shipment to labor detachments in the Central Power and Allied nations. The walls of the hallway are covered with stacks of circulating libraries, a testiment to their popularity among prisoners.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This color painting shows a severely wounded French prisoner recovering from a head injury.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Six members of the American Help Committee at Rastatt pose for a photograph at the time of their release. Note the excellent condition of these men despite their incarceration in a German prison camps. They were responsible for distributing relief parcels and support camp conditions for needy American POWs.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Belgian and French prisoners arrive at the Sennelager railway station with their meager belongings early in the war. A German officer prepares them for the march to the prison camp and captivity.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French and Belgian prisoners receive "care packages" outside of the barracks at Minden I. The parcels are distributed by POW Red Cross workers, laboring under the direction of German non-commissioned officers. Great efforts were taken by the Red Cross to ensure that these parcels, sent by Allied governments, were received by the POWs and not lost enroute.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- The regular washing of clothing was an important means of preventing the spread of disease and maintaining military standards in prison camps. Russian prisoners wash their clothing using hot water provided by the boilers in the wash room at Muensingen.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries