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Notes:: This leaf is from an early legal manuscript; dating somewhere around 1280-1320. This original handwritten Folio leaf is of a very early codex of Canon law. The text is in double columns and is in the finest Gothic book hand of the period.
Date Created:: [1280 TO 1320]
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Collection:: Pages from the Past

Notes:: A leaf from the Fourth and last edition of the Mysterious Matthew's Bible, printed at London in 1551 by Nicholas Hyll. The recto side is marked as Fol. xxxix.
Date Created:: 1551-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Pages from the Past

Notes:: Photograph of Donald and Genevieve Gilmore and Walt Disney getting in a car at the Kalamazoo Municipal Airport.
Date Created:: 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
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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:: 1935-05-28T00:00:00Z
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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:: 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:: 1935-07-12T00:00:00Z
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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 train filled with American prisoners is greeted by American and Allied officers at a railroad station in Switzerland.
Date Created:: 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: This is a group photograph of the American WPA secretaries and their families who had just left Germany in February 1917, after the United States broke off diplomatic relations with the German Empire. The group traveled to Lausanne where some continued WPA work with the World's Alliance and others transferred to war work with the Allied armies. The individuals in the photograph included: 1) Lewis Dunn; 2) Mrs. Alfred Lowry; 3) Alfred Lowry; 4) Louis Wolferz; 5) Mrs. Lewis Dunn and Betty Dunn; 6) Joseph Wehner; 7) A. R. Siebens; 8) Mrs. Conrad Hoffman and Louise Hoffman (holding the teddy bear); 9) Spencer Kennard; 10) J. Gustav White; 11) Carl Michel; and 12) Mrs. Gustav White. It is interesting that the WPA secretaries were able to bring their wives and daughters with them to Germany in support of their mission. Of the transfers, Wehner was killed in France in 1918.
Date Created:: 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: General view of the city of Mosul in northern Mesopotamia showing several buildings and mosques inside the city. The Turks incarcerated British and Indian prisoners captured at Kut-al-Amara in Mosul.
Date Created:: 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Notes:: People Working. Computer room at Aero-Motive Manufacturing includes female operator seated at key punch machine, woman operating IBM 2311 disk storage drive, woman operating IBM 2203 printer, man operating unidentified machine. There is an IBM System 360 mainframe computer in background and a punch card sorting machine. June 25, 1969 Client: Aero-Motive Manufacturing. Kalamazoo, Mich. (Photographic Negative)
Date Created:: 1969-06-25T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: 3 photos in event - 10593

Notes:: Events. "Old Timers" banquet, Consumers Power Company, includes musicians and diners. Client: Consumers Power Company (Photographic Negative)
Date Created:: 1940-01-24T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: 3 photos in event - 271

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