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- Dr. Paul Sangren and honorary degrees recipients L. C. Mohr, Theodore L. Brownyard, Cleo Hartwig, and Earl J. McGrath at Western Michigan College of Education Commencement, June 1951. Commencement speaker Dr. Earl J. McGrath, US commissioner of Education, was awarded a degree of Doctor of Laws. Miss Cleo Hartwig, nationally known sculptress and a graduate of Western Michigan College, received a degree of Master of Fine Arts. L. C. Mohr, superintendent of schools at South Haven, received a degree of Doctor of Education. Theodore L. Brownyard, chemist in the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department receive a Doctor of Science. The photograph appeared in the Summer 1951 Western Michigan College News Magazine Vol. 9 No. 4.
- Date Created:
- 1951-06-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
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- Photograph of Frank "Stub" Overmire wearing a Detroit Tigers uniform. Photo is inscribed to "Juddy" Hyames. Stubby Overmire played for Western State Teachers College from 1938 to 1941. He played for the Detroit Tigers from 1943 to 1949.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Second photograph of two featuring three men, possibly faculty and student, standing at a desk and blackboard looking at an open manual.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- From the First Edition of "Dr. Johnson's Dictionary". The full title is: "Dictionary of the English Language: in which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from Best Writers. To which are prefixed, A History of the Language, and an English Grammar, by Samuel Johnson, A.M. In Two Volumes. Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman, C. Hitch and L. Hawkes; A. Millar; and J. Dodsley. MDCCLV."
- Date Created:
- 1755-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Pages from the Past
- 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:
- 1934-09-20T00:00:00Z
- 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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- A labor detachment of Russian prisoners of war march to work in a Polish village under a German guard.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- The editor and a secretary work in the office of the Commission Romande des Internes in the World's Alliance headquarters in Geneva. The Associaiton produced a monthly newspaper from this office for prisoners repatriated to Switzerland for the duration of the war.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A wounded French medic recuperates in a German hospital in Laon in this color painting. The prisoner is sitting outdoors reading a newspaper.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Once organized into individual boxes, the American Distribution Committee could serve 922 U.S. POW's in thirty-six minutes with ten days' supply of food from the American Red Cross in the prison camp at Rastatt. American POWs received a wide range of canned foods, bread, and toiletries which significantly enhanced their quality of life in the German prison camp.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- This photograph of a boy prisoner looking up at a large German officer became famous for propaganda purposes in the West as it demonstrated mighty Germany subjugating the weak. While the boy is identified as "the smallest Russian" in the prison camp at Puchheim. The Russian army employed young boys as powder monkeys and for other duties. Some boys simply followed their fathers into the ranks when the war began. The boy is carrying a loaf of bread under his arm. He is facing a Bavarian officer, as indicated by the Bavarian coat of arms on his Pickelhaube (spiked helmet), and the sword at his side.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
