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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:
- 1938-05-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- 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:
- 1938-06-07T00:00:00Z
- 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
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- Aelfric's homily for the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost (Dominica XI post Pentecosten) in the First Series of Catholic Homilies offers historical and allegorical interpretations of the episodes of Christ weeping over the fate of Jerusalem and driving the money-changers from the Temple (Luke 19:41-47), citing Gregory the Great as his source.
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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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- English and Scottish prisoners of war eat their dinners at outdoor tables at an unidentified German prison camp.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- For punishment for breaking camp rules, prison authorities would force prisoners into iron cages which were not large enough for the POW to stand up or to lie down. The prisoners' limbs were always cramped and many thought that this was the most severe form of punishment the Germans employed short of capital punishment.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- With the collapse of the Serbian army in the 1915 Austro-German-Bulgarian offensive, German prison camps began to receive large numbers of Serbian POW's. This is a drawing of a Serbian prisoner at Muensingen.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Plays and theatrical performances allowed prisoners to develop their thespian skills and provided the general camp population with a source of entertainment. This photograph shows a Russian cast, which includes two men dressed in female roles, posing inside the theater at Muensingen.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A Russian prisoner is hard at work ploughing a field behind a team of horses under the walls of Lichtenstein Castle near Muensingen. Allied POW's supplemented local agricultural labor which allowed the Germans to maintain food production despite the mobilization of farmers into the German Army. This prisoner is leading a pair of horses; most farmers used oxen due to the army''s demand for horses at the front.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A view of the memorial to and some of the graves of Allied prisoners of war who died during their captivity at Muenster II. The Germans supported war prisoner efforts to memorialize their fallen comrades.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A labor detachment of French and Belgian prisoners of war pull a wagon full of firewood on their way back to the prison camp at Muenster. Firewood was an important source of fuel to heat the barracks at night and to run the boilers, ovens, and stoves in the prison camp. Due to the wartime demand for horses by the German Army, the prisoners had to draw the wagons that carried many of the necessities for camp operations.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This drawing provides an excellent aerial view of the prison camp at Zerbst and the surrounding countryside. Zerbst was one of the largest prison camps in Germany and normally housed around 15,000 men at a given time. The image illustrates the POW's barracks, camp security, administrative buildings, and hospital facilities. Note the quarantine camp to the right of the prison facility; newly arrived POW's spent their initial time in the camp in isolation to prevent the introduction of infectious diseases into the POW population.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This is a print of the exterior of the Celle Schloss (Palace), where the Germans incarcerated Allied officers during the war.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Official inauguration program of the YMCA hut at the prison camp at Goettingen, in French and English, p. 4.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- British POW's secretly photographed the street outside of their quarters in Yozgad by constructing their own camera. If discovered, the Turks would have confiscated the camera immediately.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A British prisoner of war made this cello during his incarceration in a Turkish prison camp. Through the prisoners' ingenuity and skill, craftsmen in the camps could make musical instruments for bands and orchestras and musicians could then offer the POW's entertainment.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Residential Scenes. Exterior of light colored brick, ranch style home. Location unknown. Interior is shown in 4351-6. Client: Miller Lumber Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1950-08-15T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 11 photos in event - 4351
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- People Working. Librarians walking from 2 buses in front of Borgess Hospital during field trip for Midwest Regional Group of the Medical Library Association meeting. Client: Mr. Marshall. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1950-10-07T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 6 photos in event - 4409
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- Group portrait of men wearing regalia at the Masonic Temple in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Building is located at 309 N. Rose Street. Men sit in front of a Renaissance style arch. In the background are "In Memoriam" panels listing past masons' names and dates of membership.
- Date Created:
- 1949-04-02T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Edges browning and cracked where the cutting was folded. Small scuffs and stains. Text trimmed away on upper, outer and lower edges., 2-line initial in red with faded blue pen florishes extending into the margin. Ink flaking from recto. Remnant of a single red rubric on recto., Small cutting with the remant of Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies, beginning at Liber 2, section 21, on the figures of words and expressions (De figuris verborum et setentiarum). The Etymologies (also called the Origins) is divided into 20 books concerning a subject-area., and 1 column with the remains of 26 lines ruled in dark red ink written in Protogothic script.
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- Bound in modern red leather in 1993 by Donald Taylor of Toronto, spine lettered in gilt on a black leather label, “Excerpta Legendae Aureae, s. XIII.” Gatherings interleaved by paper stubs, with modern cloth slipcase. Previously “loosely wrapped” in the four folios from a Breviary, removed by the Bergendal Collection and bound separately as MS 161. First and last flyleaves are modern paper., Fore edge and tail of a personal collection of excerpts from the Legenda aurea and seven sermons from the Sermones de tempore, unbound until modern times and protected by a few leaves from another manuscript (MS 161)., and From dealer description: Based on evidence of the script, manuscript was likely copied at the end of the 13th century or beginning of the 14th century. The script of the first scribe may be on the earlier side of the range dates, but uncertain given the informality of both scripts. Both scribes, use the reversed “c” to abbreviate “con” and a quick form of the abbreviation for “est” (Latin for “is”) which suggest an orgin in Germany, possibliy South Germany. The first scribe varies his layout (justification, number of lines, and ruling pattern), which is a characteristic of an informal, perhaps owner-produced manuscript. Fifteenth century(?) notation, bottom margin of f. 1 in bold gothic ink: "S.de3" in a different hand. Purchased by Joseph Pope (1921-2010) of Toronto from Sam Fogg in 1993. Purchased by Western Michigan University Special Collections from Les Enluminures (TM 579).
- Date Created:
- [1280 TO 1325]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Men, possibly faculty, demostrating with electronic equipment spread over a table while students observe.
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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 Phaedri Aug. Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V. Most of the engravings were done by J. V. Vianen, and the notes and Dutch translation were by David Hoogstraten. It was printed in Amsterdam, 1701 by Francis Halma. Note the fine copper engravings. The recto side is page 89 and the verso side is page 90.
- Date Created:
- 1701-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
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- From a rare Breviary for the Salisbury Cathedral. Printed by John Kyngston and Henry Sutton in London, 1555.
- Date Created:
- 1555-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
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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:
- 1934-05-28T00:00:00Z
- 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
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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:
- 1938-08-19T00:00:00Z
- 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
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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:
- 1938-06-08T00:00:00Z
- 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
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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:
- 1934-07-16T00:00:00Z
- 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
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- An idealized drawing of a joint German-Turkish-Bulgarian attack on a Romanian village in Dobrudja, an offensive which put Romanian and Russian troops to flight.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A favorite diversion for POW's was the camp theater group. This is a photograph of the cast on the set of a play in the theater at Muenster-Rennbahn.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Recuperating sick and wounded prisoners play skittles (bowling) in the hospital ward's garden at Munsterlager. This recreation provided fresh air and outdoor activity for POW's cooped up in bed in the hospital ward.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- American YMCA secretary Paul B. Anderson took this photograph of the mosque at Zossen-Wuensdorf. The American YMCA made a special effort to provide services to Allied troops in propaganda camps because of the influence of the German authorities used to persuade POW's to change sides.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A group of Russian prisoners, from the prison camp at Brandenburg, take a swim in the Havel River on a hot summer day. They were probably on a labor detachment and got the opportunity to cool off in the river. A German factory stands across the river in the background of the photograph.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- A ten-Pfennig note from the prison camp in Chemnitz. Prisoners could only use this currency to make purchases inside the camp. This policy prevented POW's from using these notes to support escapes or to bribe the guards.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Russian weavers display their handicrafts, which include baskets, wicker furniture, and toys, outside of their workshop at Cottbus. POW's demanded these goods and apprentices could learn a new trade by working in this shop.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- French prisoners work outside their carpentry shop under the direction of a German non-commissioned officer at Darmstadt. They are possibly working on furniture or other projects designed for camp use. POW labor provided services to keep prison camps running.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Bones of Armenians massacred by the Turks are unearthed at Erzingan. These "relics" could be found all over Turkish Armenia as the result of the Ottoman government's policy of genocide.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This pamphet was issued as an address to the Polish Legionnaires interned at Bustyahaza in 1918. The address features the white eagle of the Polish coat of arms.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Industrial Scenes. Drivers standing in front of truck, "Sutherland Paper Co. Kalamazoo, Mich." near plant, 243 E. Paterson. Client: Sutherland Paper Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1943-12-11T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- 2 photos in event - 1455-D
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- This article provides the complete text of Adolf Hitler's speech given before the Reichstag on January 30, 1939. The speech contained many threats against the Jewish populations of Europe and is referred to by many historians as "Hitler's Prophesy."
- Date Created:
- 1939-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- The cover shows soldiers leaving Flanders and heading back home. The article "Der Zussamenbruch," demonstrates the various breakdowns in the British government in dealing with the war in France and Belgium. It also highlights the volatile relationship between the British government and their citizens
- Date Created:
- 1940-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections
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- Studio portrait of Daniel F. Jackson, assistant professor of biology, 1955-1959.
- Date Created:
- 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- A leaf from William Camden's "Annalles of Elizabeth", or more accurately from Darcie's translation from a French translation from the Latin of Camden's original work. It was printed for Benjamin Fisher in 1625, in London. The body of the page is roman type, using italics as an accessory. Though it was printed a quarter of a century after Queen Elizabeth's death, the book has an Elizabethan flair to it. This leaf is marked 127 on the recto side and 128 on the verso side.
- Date Created:
- 1625-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- A leaf from "Anatome Corporis Humani", by Joanne Valverdo (Juan de Hamusco Valverde). It is a translation into Italian from the original in Spanish. This volume first appeared in 1560 in Rome and Venice; the translation into Italian was made under Valverdo's direction. This edition is from the Giunta Press, and was published at Venice in 1586. The recto side of the leaf is marked as page 43 and the verso side is marked as page 44.
- Date Created:
- 1586-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- From a German translation of Livy, printed by Theodoius Rihel in 1596 at Strassburg. The illustrator Rihel's Livy was an artist named Tobias Stimmer. The recto side of the leaf is marked as 315 and the verso side is marked as 316.
- Date Created:
- 1596-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Pages from the Past
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- Studio portrait of a Kalamazoo fireman taken in the photography studio of W. S. White at 166 Main Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan. The fireman is wearing a shirt with a scarf or cravat, short fitted trousers with stockings.
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- [1873 TO 1878]
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Walt Disney in the gallery of the Kalamazoo Art Center.
- Date Created:
- 1964-09-17T00:00:00Z
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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:
- 1940-03-28T00:00:00Z
- 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
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- This Russian choir is singing inside the YMCA Hall of a German prison camp. Choirs were very popular in military prisons; they could be used in theatricals, perform at special events and festivals, and support religious services.
- Date Created:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- French and Russian POW's, comprising the First Company, line up for roll call outside the old fortress at Rastatt. Internees were also incarcerated in this facility during the war.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- The library was a critical service for POW's as books allowed prisoners to leave the confines of the camp intellectually and improve their educations. This drawing illustrates the French library at Muensingen showing prisoners reading books and writing letters.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries