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- People - Daily Life. People Working. Female model demonstrating the new in-sink dishwasher. Two-bin stainless steel sink, faucet, flexible hose with dish brush on the end. Client: Ruud Manufacturing Company (Photographic Negative)
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- 1957-12-03T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 10 photos in event - 7625
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- Worker using a portable welder on a M60A1 Patton army tank at Fort Custer Military Base in Michigan.
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- 1979-07-19T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Housed in a modern, mat frame (410 x 510), visible on one side only., Twelfth-century bifolium fragment of Pope Gregory I's (c. 540-604) Homilies on the Gospels. The Homilies were among the most widely read and venerated texts of the Middle Ages. Delivered to the people of Rome during 590 and 591, soon after Gregory's election to the papacy, these sermons on the gospel readings for Sundays and feast days represent his only surviving public liturgical preaching. The Homilies were copied many times during the Middle Ages and survive in more than 400 manuscripts. Portions of them were also taken into the liturgy as readings in the Breviary., Protogothic (praegothica) script, probably continental, and Script indicates that it was likely produced in the twelfth century, possibly on the continent. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from Mackus Company, Fairlawn, Ohio on July 11, 2005.
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- Election leaflet supporting Adolf Hitler for election in the 1932 Reichspresident election. It appeals to various groups of voters including, social democrats, supporters of the Zentrum party, women and mothers, farmers, the middle class, civil servants, victims of the Great War, the unemployed, disabled persons, senior citizens, and any other Germans. It claims that Hitler understands their needs and that they should listen to the call and join the 11 million people army in a march for freedom, food, truth, and justice.
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- 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Allied propaganda leaflet dropped on German soldiers. It informs them of the truth about the Allied advances in Italy in the region between Rome and Napoli, the back of the leaflet provides a map of the region. The front includes statistics of troops and battalions in the region.
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- 1944-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Back of 100 Marks polychrome German note. Dark blue on lighter blue; Athena (with a helmet and hammer at her feet) holding onto the left side of a framed image of Germania (blond hair with oak leaves); Diana (apples, wheat sheaves, and corn at her feet) holding onto the right side of the frame. Large eagle in background. Number: Nr 4633686F.
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- 1908-02-07T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Back of 3 trillion Marks German note. No image or text on this side of the bill. Because money was printed so fast, there was no time to print the back; often blank backs were later used to print propaganda message.
- Date Created:
- 1923-10-23T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Back of 5 Marks polychrome German note. Shades of blue; a dragon with smoke coming from its open mouth guarding a treasure; a bird sitting above the exhausted dragon; warning against falsification (punishment: no less than 2 years imprisonment)
- Date Created:
- 1904-10-31T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- NE 43-13, Edition 1, India and Pakistan 1:250,000, and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
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- 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- South Asia Maps
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- NF 43-13, Edition 1, India and Pakistan 1:250,000, and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
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- 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- South Asia Maps
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- NG 42-8, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
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- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- South Asia Maps
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- P. 5 "This roughness of the country, added to the ferocity of the people, renders portions of it well nigh inaccessible, and, consequently, little known to civilized nations. The accompanying drawing very well represents the common appearance of the Koordish warrior." The warrior on horseback is well armed with a spear, shield, and sword. He wears the traditional shalwar, tunic, caba (Shoberl 1845, p. 34) or qaba (Vogalsang-Eastwoodand p. 10), and gouchpeesh (Shoberl pa. 68) as a turban. He wears a beard and mustache.
- Date Created:
- 1843-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Costume History Collection
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- Group photograph of Chemistry Department faculty in a classroom from the 1957 Brown & Gold yearbook. Top row: Don Iffland, Robert Nagler, Esther Woodruff, Elaine Zimmerman, and Paul Holkeboer. Bottom row: Lauri E. Osterberg, Lillian Meyer, Gerald Osborn, James Boynton, and Lawrence Knowlton.
- Date Created:
- 1957-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Photograph of Administration Building columns. In the background is the Gymnasium addition portico.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- View of Kalamazoo neighborhood, looking East from Prospect Hill. In the foreground is what is now Davis Street.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Photograph of Harold E. Pierce, 1936 graduate of Western State Teachers College, at the time he was named superintendent of the elementary school system at the U.S. Naval Base, China Lake, California.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- From "The New World of Words", a general English dictionary that also has the functions of an encyclopaedia. The title-page says "Collected and published by E.P. and printed by W.R. for Robert Harford," in 1678 at London. E.P. was Edward Philips, John Milton's nephew and pupil.
- Date Created:
- 1678-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- Walt Disney and a man in a black suit talking near the Upjohn Company hangar at the Kalamazoo County Airport. Photograph taken during Disney’s departure from west Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-20T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 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:
- 1935-12-09T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection
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- 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:
- 1935-04-13T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection
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- 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:
- 1935-06-04T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Transient Bureau Case Files, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Collection, 1934-1970, A-285 (RG 56-20A) and Kalamazoo Transient Bureau Case Files Collection
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- Aelfric's homily for the feast of Saint James the Apostle (Natale Sancti Iacobi Apostoli; July 25) in the Second Series of Catholic Homilies recounts the saint's passion. In some manuscripts, the legend of the Seven Sleepers (Sanctorum Septem Dormientium; July 27) is appended.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- SS (Early English Text Society) ; 5 and Medieval Manuscript Variants in Aelfric of Eynsham's Catholic Homilies
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- Members of the World's Committee met in Geneva in May 1910 for a plenary session. This photograph was taken on the steps of the World's Alliance headquarters.
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Captured Romanian troops march past the Transylvanian city of Heltau and into captivity in September 1916.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Russian prisoners, just captured at Novo Geogievski, have just arrived at the prison camp at Stralkowo and receive their first meal in the camp. Russian prisoners ladle out soup from large wooden barrels to the first group of POW's while others patiently await their turn to receive their rations.
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- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- French, Russian, and British officers talk their daily walk for fresh air and exercise along the walls at the prison camp at Marienberg. Some prisoners of war sit on the rampart wall while others are engaged in conversation. Officers who gave their parole to German authorities, promising not to escape, often received permission to visit the local town without a guard.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- The civilian internees at Ruhleben constructed elaborate trellises for their flower gardens which improved the appearance of the camp and gave the internees a hobby to pass their time. Note the clothing in the background handing out to dry on the clothes line.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- POW's from seven countries pose in this photograph taken in the prison compound at Friedrichsfeld. These troops came from Belgium, Britain, France, French West Africa, India, Russia, and Serbia and demonstrated to the German people the global challenge they faced in the war. Such photographs aided the German propaganda campaign; the Germans argued that the Allies had to rely on man power from their subject colonies to support their war effort.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- English officers work in the prison laboratory in Guetersloh where they conduct research and medical tests using modern lab equipment. Prisoners could continue their research while in captivity and contribute to the health of the prisoners assigned to the infirmary.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- The Turkish commandant of the prison camp at Yozgad, Bimbashi Kiazim Bey, and his staff posed with British officers for this photograph.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A group of Russian prisoners, including two boys, line up outside of a barrack in the prison compound at Kaschau.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- The Austrians used this one-Krone bill, featuring a bust of Kaiser Franz Josef, in the prison camp at Freistadt. Prisoners could use this currency only for purchases inside the prison camp. Because bills could not be used outside of the facility's confines, the money would not help POW's in escape attempts.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 1950 edition of the Western Michigan College Yearbook.
- Date Created:
- 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Events. Student ceremony, presentation of flags, features boys and young men in uniforms. Client: Howe Military School (Photographic Negative)
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 12 photos in event - 1840
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- Societies - Service Clubs. Roy Heath and Joe Murray at Masonic Temple, wearing regalia. Client: Kalamazoo Gazette - Plasterer (Photographic negative)
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- 1940-02-14T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 2 photos in event - 286
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- Events. Groundbreaking ceremony for Douglass Community House. William Shakespeare, Jr., breaking ground with shovel. Boy Scouts in background. Client: Douglass Community House (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1940-02-17T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 4 photos in event - 290
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- Business Scenes. Interior view of greenhouse, VanBochove & Bro., Inc., Wholesale and Retail Florists, 2301 Flower Street. Client: National Greenhouse Co., Pana, Illinois (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1963-12-13T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 4 photos in event - 9526
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- Eckrich Meat Products delivery driver handing package to the pilot of a Cessna 140 airplane at the Kalamazoo Municipal airport.
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- 1953-05-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 2 photos in event - 5662
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- Contemporary brown leather boards; two concentric double blind-ruled borders, filled with blind-stamped shell and flower ornaments; diapered center panel, lozenges of which contain blind-stamped flower and eagle ornaments; brass and leather strap-and-pin fastener; front and back pastedowns are vellum leaves; engraving of a saint’s deathbed scene removed from another text, and affixed to front pastedown. In a green cloth clamshell box, with green leather spine., Front leather cover of a manual or office book compiled for a Dominican nunnery containing liturgies and prayers. Cover shows a brass and leather strap-and-pin faster and stamped ornamentation., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1996.
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- [1450 TO 1469]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Photographer Hugo Pfeiffer of Itzehoe, Germany captures a Russian prisoner near Leningrad in September 1941. The caption on the back provided by Pfeiffer states, "Ich bin ein Jüd!! (I am a Jew!!)" Black and white photograph. Handwritten on back of picture: Vor Leningrad Sept. '41, Russ. Gefangener; Ich bin ein Jüd!! Stamped: Hugo Pfeiffer
- Date Created:
- 1941-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- NE 43-9, Edition 1, India and Pakistan 1:250,000, and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- South Asia Maps
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- Photograph of Lt. Robert Chant, 1954 graduate of Western Michigan College of Education and Western Michigan's newly formed ROTC program, at the time of his promotion to Lieutenant.
- Date Created:
- 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Front of Administration Building and Training School featuring porticoes and freestanding iconic columns. View looking South. Designed by Ernest W. Arnold, the Administration Building was WMU's first building, opening in 1905. It was also known as the Education Building and by 1967 as East Hall. In July 2015, it was renamed again as Heritage Hall, the home of the WMU Alumni Center.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- A leaf from a Roman Missal, printed in 1576 by the heirs of Lucantonio di Giunta at Venice and issued in accordance with the decrees of the famous Council of Trent. The recto side is marked as page 179; the verso side has no page markings.
- Date Created:
- 1576-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- Photograph of the auditorium and stage of the Kalamazoo Ladies' Library Association. There are cane back chairs are arranged in the assembly area. The stage features a piano and artwork on easel. The walls are decorated with paintings. The auditorium features a large chandelier and patterned carpeting.
- Date Created:
- 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Aelfric's homily for the feast of the Annunciation (Adnuntiatio Sanctae Mariae; March 25) in the First Series of Catholic Homilies is a translation and explication of the biblical account of the annunciation, described in the Gospel reading for the day (Luke 1 :26-28).
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- SS (Early English Text Society) ; 17 and Medieval Manuscript Variants in Aelfric of Eynsham's Catholic Homilies
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- South and north elevations include exterior views and an interior section of Everyman's House, located at 2026 S. Westnedge Avenue, Kalamazoo, Mich., winner of the Better Homes in America 1924 Model Home contest, designed by Caroline Bartlett Crane. Plans prepared by Gilbert Worden.-
- Date Created:
- 1924-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Caroline Bartlett Crane Collection, 1843-1935, A-92 and Caroline Bartlett Crane Collection, Everyman's House
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- Russian prisoners participate in a game of lawn bowling in the prison compound in Germany. Several prisoners examine the standing pins, while others wait their turn on a bench. The POW's went to considerable pains to construct bowling lanes for these games.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Russian prisoners assemble in the town square at Mlawa in Russian Poland under the gaze of Polish towns people and German troops.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Newly captured British prisoners march through the main gate at Muenster and into captivity for the remainder of the war. German officers supervise the arrival and will soon introduce the new facility to these war prisoners.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries