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- Notes:
- This photograph shows the main gate of the prison camp at Celle, showing two sentry stands and the prison barracks. While Allied officers enjoyed the luxuries of living in a castle at Celle, Allied enlisted men were assigned to this facility.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Scottish, Irish, and Canadian prisoners were not the only soldiers who carried bagpipes into battle. These two Serbian prisoners of war stand outside of their one-story wooden barracks at Koenigsbrueck with the bagpipes in hand. Note the identification badges on their field caps and the right breasts of their tunics.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Prisoners of war take showers at Limburg; the ever present German guard stands in the center background. The picture is staged; the prisoners do not appear to have any soap and are modestly dressed for the photograph. However, weekly showers were important to maintain healthy conditions inside prison camps and German authorities would close showers and baths as a form of punishment for captives.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This photograph provides a general view of the Bulgarian prison camp for French prisoners on the Struma River. The camp appears to be under construction due to the number of tents raised within the compound. The POW's can be seen on the lower right side working on the barbed-wire security fence while Bulgarian sentries stand guard. Once the security perimeter was completed, the POW's could begin to build their barracks and move out of the tents. The Struma River can be seen in the background.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This pen and ink drawing by a British prisoner shows the Greek school house at Kastamuni where the Turks incarcerated British POW's captured at Kut-al-Amara.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This poster promotes classes at the prison camp at Kedos. Major Saunders, a British officer incarcerated at Kedos, taught prisoners how to build automobiles at the Kchock-ee Kar Konstruction Kademy.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Business Scenes. Cash and Carry Department. Lee & Cady Wholesale Grocers, 702 Portage Road. Client: Lee & Cady (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1944-07-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Business Scenes. Interior view of unidentified lunch counter with male diners, two waitresses, and cook. Also visible are glass pie case, chrome-lined countertop, chrome light fixtures, overhead fluorescent lights, and diner-style dishware. Client: General Gas Light Company, 202 N. Park, Kalamazoo, MI. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1949-05-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 2 photos in event - 3767
- Notes:
- Originally written in German as "Von Medingen nach Michigan" for Der Heidewanderer Colour Supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitung Uelzen 6 July 2013 http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/henrike.laehnemann/medingen/Heidewanderer-2013-07-06.pdf
- Date Created:
- 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Front of 25 Pfennig monochrome German note. Black and gray color scale; "25 Pfenning" in the center; image of Schloss Ritzebüttel on the left, and image of the Alte Liebe on the right; No. 057793
- Date Created:
- 1919-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections