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- Food conditions were harsh for Russian prisoners of war in German prison camps who did not receive food parcels from home. This drawing depicts two Russian POW's scrounging in used ration pots, which contain rejected food, for scraps to supplement their daily rations. These pots contained garbage from the barracks and well supplied British and French prisoners often threw out many of their German rations.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This photograph shows Armenian refugees on board a French ship after escaping the massacre by the Turks in 1915. These survivors are emaciated and look forward to a meal. The Allies sent survivors to refugee camps in Egypt at Port Said.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- This photograph shows a group of Italian prisoners of war slowly starving to death in Siegmundsherberg. It was taken secretly with a small camera and smuggled out of Austria by an Italian POW who was repatriated to Switzerland during the war. This photograph was also used to show the effects of tuberculosis among Italian prisoners in Austrian prison camps. Poor diets in Austrian prison camps was the result of the Allied blockade and the reluctance of the Italian government to spend food parcels to prisoners in Italy, especially after the Caporetto disaster.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Events. Women seated for a banquet at the Columbia Hotel Ballroom. Client: Michigan Bell Telephone Company (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1943-09-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
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- Business Scenes. Exterior of AAA Insurance building, 420 W. Kalamazoo Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Client: Lights Tree Company, Richland, Michigan. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1957-08-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 6 photos in event - 7518
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- People - Daily Life. People Working. Education. Unidentified student in library. Client: Ohio Oil Co., Findlay, Ohio (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1957-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 3 photos in event - 7576
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- Business Scenes. Exterior of Harding's Friendly Market, 3128 Portage Road, includes cars in parking lot, advertisements for Diamond Thrift Green Stamps. Client: Spartan Stores, Inc. (Photographic Negative)
- Date Created:
- 1958-08-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 2 photos in event - 7888
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- Scouts working on the frame of a plane at the Kalamazoo Municipal Airport. Western Michigan Flying Service hangar is visible in the background.
- Date Created:
- 1945-11-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- 8 photos in event - 2458
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- Upper margin of recto of leaf [103] contains a small pen-and-ink drawing in red, blue and brown ink, of two birds atop a pair of acanthus leaves, pecking a berry., Contemporary dyed red calf over wooden boards; blind-stamped rhomboid (diamond-shaped) centerpiece within triple-ruled blind rectangular borders on upper and lower boards; center rhomboids each contain four small blind-stamped cloverleaf medallions within double borders; remnants of two pair of brass clasps and catches; vellum pastedowns; missing spine reveals three double rows of sewing bands in heavy cord. In light tan cloth-covered clamshell box; gold-stamped brown calf box label: “Brevier. Handschrift um 1490.”, Calendar in red and black, with large red and blue capitals at head of each page, most with interlacing pen flourishes in blue; following calendar is a table for computing the date of Easter each year, in red and black, with folded fore-edge; and two diagrams for assigning Dominical Letters and Golden Numbers, also in red and black., German breviary in Latin, for use by the Dominicans, probably produced around 1490 in the Upper Rhine region of Germany, or Northern Switzerland, as indicated by handwriting style, and saints’ days included in calendar. Breviary contains prayers for Mass, and the Office of the Dead (Dominican Rite)., Text in a single hand, in a southwestern German "bastarda" script in black ink; leaves lightly ruled in brown; large red and blue capitals, some pen-flourished, or decorated with flowers, leaves, plumes, or trailing branches; smaller red and blue initials throughout text; captions and section numbers in red., and Date suggested by style of handwriting and capital flourishes, and by calendar arrangement: i.e., ms. includes feasts of St. Dionysius and the Conception of the Virgin as single celebrations, first celebrated as such in 1481 and 1491, respectively; but lacks the observance of the feast of St. Servatius as a single celebration, a practice which dates from 1498, thus suggesting possible range of dates between 1481 and 1498. Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 2003.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Date Created:
- [1941 TO 1945]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- World War II Propaganda Collections