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- A group of Russian prisoners of war work in their gardens at an unidentified Austrian prison camp. Gardening allowed POW's to spend some time outdoors, improve the appearance of the camp, and, most importantly, helped vary their diet. The prisoners could augment their rations with fresh vegetables. In many camps, prisoners held garden competitions to test their horticultural skills.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Advertising. Empty dog cages. Client: Unifab Corporation. Kalamazoo, MI. June 1969. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1969-06-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 2 photos in event - 10589
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- Business Scenes. Societies-Service Clubs. Fraternal Order of the Eagles, interior view of back bar at Lodge No. 526, 230 E. Kalamazoo Avenue. Client: Eagles Lodge (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1944-09-11T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Industrial Products. Man in work clothes standing inside "Kalamazoo" brand tow tractor displaying "Kalamazoo" logo with lightning bolt. Interior of factory visible in background. Vehicle includes towing hitch on rear. Client: Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company, Kalamazoo, MI. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1958-06-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 2 photos in event - 7814
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- NI 42-12, Edition 1; Inset of Peshawar on verso, India and Pakistan 1:250,000, and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- South Asia Maps
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- This leaf is from "The Fables of Aesop". The designs of wood were by Thomas Bewick. It was printed in Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1823 by E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son. The recto side of the leaf is page 271.
- Date Created:
- 1823-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- Photograph of a woman traveling with Walt Disney exiting the airplane and smiling at Donald Gilmore at the Kalamazoo Municipal Airport. She's wearing a hat with the logo for Smoke Tree Ranch in Palm Springs and a Goofy button.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Donald Gilmore, in hat, and two men stand by an airplane while Genevieve comes down the airplane stairs. Photograph taken at the Kalamazoo County Airport during Walt 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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- 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 -- Lectio Divina and the Desert Fathers / Fr. Louis Leloir -- But what about the wrath of God? / Sr. Christine Barbeau -- Pseudo-Origen's homily on Mary Magdalene at the tomb of Jesus / Presentation and translation by Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell -- Venite adoremus liturgical notebook / Sr. Sheryl Chen -- Marian titles in the homilies of Amedeus of Lausanne / Selected by Fr. Robert Thomas
- Date Created:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Liturgy O.C.S.O. Journal of Gethsemani Abbey
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- This photograph depicts French North African colonial troops sitting on a bench in the prison camp at Muenster-Rennbahn. The Germans used photographs of Allied colonial troops as domestic propaganda to emphasize that the empire was truly fighting a global war.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This is a portrait of a Tartar soldier from the steppes in Russian service incarcerated at Hammerstein. The Russians mobilized troops from the breadth of the tsarist empire to fight the Central Powers.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Residential Scenes. People - Daily Life. Woman and two children preparing food using stove. Sliding countertop visible. Note: There is a texture on parts of the negative that were not part of the original photograph. This does not minimize the value of the imagery. Client: Trade Development Corp. (Photographic negative)
- Date Created:
- 1939-08-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 21 photos in event - 134
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- Advertising. Exhibit for Sutherland Paper Company features "Space Saver Locker Box" and "Space Saver Locker Kit for Frozen Food." Client: Sutherland Paper Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1945-05-21T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 1 photo in event - 2157-D
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- People - Daily Life. Man and woman at breakfast table eating pancakes and sausage. Coffee pot, cups, creamer and sugar also visible. Client: Sutherland Paper Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1940-06-25T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 6 photos in event - 406-D
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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 and tail leather boards and fore-edge of a manual or office book compiled for a Dominican nunnery containing liturgies and prayers. Edge shows a brass and leather strap-and-pin faster and cockled parchment., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1996.
- Date Created:
- [1450 TO 1469]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Watermark on f. 7v from an early fifteenth-century manuscript of Nicholas of Lyra’s commentaries on nine Old Testament books, made for institutional use., 2 columns of 42-46 lines ruled in ink and written in cursive gothic book hand., and Written in Southern Germany, possibly Bavaria, in ca. 1450-1475 as indicated by the evidence of the watermark and script. The chained binding indicates it was in an institutional collection. Purchased by Western Michigan University’s Special Collections from Les Enluminures who procured it from a private North American collection.
- Date Created:
- [1450 TO 1475]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Nazi propaganda leaflet dropped on American troops. It brings forward two questions for American fighting troops including, what chance they have to get home alive and what they will be facing when they get home. It tells the soldier that they have little chance to get home facing the German lethal weapons and that once they get home they will face unemployment and an economic crisis. Therefore, what are they fighting for?
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- This article, "Der ewige Verrat," identified throughout history, moments where the Jews played the role of a traitor. Different countries, time periods, and events are covered, concluding in the assumption that the Jew is a parasite
- Date Created:
- 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Front of 2 Lire Italian monochrome bill, brown in color, featuring Julius Caesar.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- No 74; Le Conseiller des Grâces
- Date Created:
- 1828-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Costume History Collection
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- No 87; Le Conseiller des Grâces; pin hole in center top margin; writing on back "Constantine"
- Date Created:
- 1829-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Costume History Collection
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- Studio portrait of Gifford S. Blyton who taught in the Department of Speech at Western Michigan College of Education from 1942-1948.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- The dictionary contains a selective bibliography of Cistercian authors. and Lettre des Abbés Généraux -- Préface -- Introduction, by Eugène Manning -- Liste des ouvrages généraux qui sont cités sous forme abrégée -- Liste des collaborateurs du premier volume -- Abarca de Bolera-Azorites -- Liste des collaborateurs du premier fascicule.
- Date Created:
- 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- La Documentation cistercienne and Cistercian Reference Works
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- French prisoners, wearing the new steel helmets that offered soldiers far greater protection than the felt caps, enter a French church where they will either spend the night or join other prisoners for transport to Germany.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- The Germans constructed this playground for the children interned in the civilian camp in the city of Rastatt. Children play on the swings and on the merry-go-round while adults look on along the perimeter of the grounds.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This French military post tag was attached to parcels sent by the Prisoner of War Service to French POW's in Germany. This parcel was sent to an interned French civilian incarcerated at the old fortress in Rastatt. Parcels significantly enhanced the quality of life for prisoners by enhancing their dietary options as well as emotional support from home.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- British internees work in the prison camp kitchen at Ruhleben preparing soup under the direction of a German non-commissioned officer. This kitchen served the thousands of British civilians interned in this facility.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This is a view of the altar in the prison chapel at Ruhleben. The altar is well-decorated with an altar cloth, two candelabra, a cross, and a picture of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ child. The altar is decorated with plants and flowers.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- German doctors inspect a prisoner during their rounds in the prison hospital ward at Doeberitz. A German non-commissioned officer sits at a desk with a wide range of chemicals and medications for the treatment of patients in the ward.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A British prisoner of war painted this view of the citadel, which sat on a hill overlooking the town of Kastamuni where the Turks incarcerated British POW's captured at Kut-al-Amara. POW's enjoyed painting as a means to pass time in Turkish prison camps.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Russian prisoners and a visiting delegation official dedicate a monument to fallen comrades in the prison camp cemetery at Wieselburg. Two religious banners stand on both sides of the wreath-covered monument in the center of the cemetery.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A Russian Orthodox priest leads Russian prisoners in the dedication of a new cemetery memorial at the prison camp cemetery at Wieselburg. The monument was a large white stone obelisk with an Orthodox cross; it was decorated for the ceremony with a funeral wreath and ribbon.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- • Academics • Administration • FALL • Features • Fall Sports • Service Organizations • WINTER • Features • Winter Sports • Groups • SPRING • Features • Spring Sports • Seniors • Closing
- Date Created:
- 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Insurance - Accidents. Damage from train accident to southern wall of Triangle Service Station, 315 E. Water Street, corner of Kalamazoo Avenue and Water Street. Damage includes partially demolished brick exterior and cracks, leaning railroad crossing signal, and pile of rubble by train tracks. Also visible are wooden beam supporting wall, ladder, flowers next to sidewalk, train tracks crossing both Water Street and Kalamazoo Avenue, gas pump, and parked automobiles. In background is exterior of Thomas M. Ely, Plumbing & Heating, 345 E. Kalamazoo Avenue. Client: John Lambert, Kalamazoo, MI. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1972-10-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 7 photos in event - 11024
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- Residential Scenes. Brick house, office in residential area. Douglas & Son Paint Store at 231 W. Cedar is partially visible. Kalamazoo, Michigan. Client: Kalamazoo Society for Crippled Children (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1957-11-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Marginal apparatus copied by the scribe in red includes initials of authors and subjects, decoratively boxed in red with touches of yellow, nota marks and the chi-rho symbol., Bound in modern half leather and wooden boards, spine with three raised bands, one clasp and catch fastening, traces of red and black visible on all three edges., One-line red initials with blue and ochre highlights, 1- to-4-line initials, red or black, filled in red and ochre, ochre and blue, or with touches of ochre or green, two 3- to 4-line white initials, f. 1v and 8v, with details in black, with white acanthus infill with red highlights and shading in black on ochre (on f. 8v, with blue dots), on blue notched grounds that follow the shape of the initial., An early twelfth-century, small-format Latin manuscript of the treatise of the Eucharist by Paschasius Radbertus, abbot of Corbie. There is an extensive marginal apparatus. The earliest and most widespread version of this text., Carolingian minuscule, and Produced in southern Europe in the early twelfth century. Purchased from Les Enluminures who procured it from a private European collection.
- Date Created:
- [1120 TO 1140]
- Data Provider:
- 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
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- I-41 Q, First Edition, Afghanistan 1:253,440, Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U511, and GSGS (Series) ; 3919
- Date Created:
- 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- South Asia Maps
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- NF 44-8, Edition 1, India and Pakistan 1:250,000, and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
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- NG 42-11. Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
- Notes:
- NG 44-11, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
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- NJ 43-13, Edition 1 and Series (Standard map series designation system) ; AMS U502
- Date Created:
- 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- South Asia Maps
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- Groups of men, possibly faculty, with lathes in lab at Manual Arts Building possibily during a workshop or conference. In the background, through the windows, are four cars.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Two men in long coats standing in front of the male tuberculosis ward next to Burns Cottage at the Kalamazoo State Hospital. Outside the ward is a laundry bin and broom.
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Photograph of Walt Disney getting in a car while Donald Gilmore holds the door at the Kalamazoo Municipal Airport.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Handwritten Civil War diary, soft cover, pocket sized, scanned and transcribed for use in United States Civil War Collection.
- Date Created:
- 1864-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- United States Civil War 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 -- The revival of Gregorian chant... what does it mean? / Canon G. Nassoy -- The Rule of Saint Benedict and the Divine Office / Fr. Guy-Marie Oury -- The readings at Vigils / Br. John of Christ in the Desert -- A few general notes and reflections on the early Cistercian Night Office readings and reading at table and before Compline / Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell -- Reflections on communication / Br. Thomas Imhoff
- Date Created:
- 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Liturgy O.C.S.O. Journal of Gethsemani Abbey
- Notes:
- 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 -- Report on the use made of the Loi-Cadre in the celebration of the Office / Fr. Gerard Dubois -- Thoughts about the homily / Jacques Julien -- Oxford Conference on Patristic Studies / Eoin de Bhaldraithe -- The test of the monk is the Psalter / Matthew Kelty -- A note about the Saturday evening blessing and sprinkling of holy water / Eugene Manning -- Lessons of bibliography / Eugene Manning -- Liturgy and contemplative community: Random reflections and notes for discussion / Chrysogonus Waddell -- Invitatories: Reflections and suggestions / Claude Bernard, Jean-Eudes David, Marie-Pierre Faure -- Liturgical life and the life of prayer / Clement de Bourmont
- Date Created:
- 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Liturgy O.C.S.O. Journal of Gethsemani Abbey
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- An unidentified YMCA secretary meets with three Russian prisoners of war in the compound of a German prison camp. The three Russians may be members of the camp's YMCA Committee.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Prisoners at Rastatt are stretching out for a high jump competition in a track and field contest. Athletic competitions were an important part of prison camp life because physical activities helped keep POW's in shape.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries