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Collection contains three photograph albums and a scrapbook. Two photograph albums belonged to unidentified German soldiers in World War I, and contain images from approximately 1911-1918. Photograph album of Paul Hohendorn, a medical officer on the Eastern Front in World War I, with label naming Albert Borowski and a handwritten note, "Onkel, Paul im Kriegseinsatz Ost 1914/18". Accordion spine scrapbook, "Meine Stationer als Soldat im Weltkrieg 1914-1918." Scrapbook belonged to Paul Pommer,...
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The collection is composed of surveys done between 1936 and 1939 focusing on historical events and documentation in southwest Michigan done by the Works Progress Administration. Counties included are Allegan, Barry, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Saint Joseph, and Van Buren.Historical topics also are included like the plank roads and the Alphadelphia Association. Also included are WPA personnel records, travel vouchers and instructional material....
Nazi-period German serials, photos and ephemera, as well as American and some North African serials, as well as ephemera. This collection also contains books (the books are cataloged individually and searchable through the WMU Libraries catalog: Library Search).
Dates:
1904-1964; bulk 1918-1945; Other: Date acquired: 1986, 1988, 2010
This file is composed of an end of school year program dated 1922, from the Yeckley Schoolhouse in Rutland Township, Michigan which operated from 1868-1955.
This collection contains letters documenting Thomas Zerbe and Walter Boylan’s service in the United States Navy during World War Two. Correspondence between Charlotte Zerbe, previously Charlotte Boylan, and her brother Walter Boylan who served in the US Navy during World War II. Walter Boyland was stationed temporarily at Western Michigan University during 1943 for training. Also includes are five other letters by Boylan.
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Collection contains materials created by the Altar Guild of Zion Lutheran Church of Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1966-2009. Handwritten and typed minutes of Altar Guild meetings along with attendance records, active member rosters, lists of guild officers, committee notes, correspondence, memos, color photographs and slides.Collection includes Parish records, 1881-1889, from Zion Lutheran Church, Kalamazoo, Michigan and Brady Township Lutheran Church, Kalamazoo County, Michigan as well...
