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- Notes:
- From "Liber Sextus" of Pope Boniface VIII. This page is from the edition that was printed at Venice in 1572. The recto side is marked as page 147; the verso side is marked as page 148.
- Date Created:
- 1572-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
- Notes:
- Stereograph of an exterior view of the Kalamazoo Ladies' Library Association building in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Wooden fence is visible. Park Street is dirt. Landscaping includes vine type growth in the front of the building and additional tress. The spire of the Methodist Episcopal Church is visible in the background. Back of stereograph card credits Schuyler C. Baldwin, Photographer, Kalamazoo, Mich." This building is located at 333 S. Park Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Hand drawn and colored architectural drawing on linen showing the rear elevation of the Kalamazoo Ladies' Library Association building in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Drawing stamped "Henry L. Gay Architect 80 La Salle St., Chicago." The scale is drawn 4 feet to 1 inch. The building was constructed in 1879 and is the first clubhouse building in the United States constructed by a women's organization. The building is located at 333 S. Park Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1878-07-31T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- People board a plane to leave the Kalamazoo County airport. The group was traveling with Walt Disney to visit Donald and Genevieve Gilmore and western Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-20T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- 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:
- 1940-02-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection
- 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:
- 1938-03-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection
- Notes:
- French prisoners climb aboard a railway freight car at an unidentified German prison camp to return to France after the declaration of the Armistice in November 1918.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This photograph depicts instruments which prisoners could use in escape attempts from German prisons smuggled via food parcels. The Germans discovered a number of tubes baked into a cake sent by the French Red Cross. The tubes contained materials which could be used to help prisoners escape.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- An overview of Bastion XII at the old fortress at Rastatt for civilian internees. The prisoners were housed in semi-circular barracks surrounded by walls.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- POW's struggled to build any kind of shelter to protect themselves from the elements when the Germans first opened the prison camp at Sennelager. In this sketch, the prisoners have improvised using earth dugouts and pieces of wood to construct crude shelters.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries