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Title
Library Building during construction, Western State Normal School
Date
ca. 1923-07
Time Period
1920 - 1929
Description
E Campus; Library, during construction; c. pre-1924 completion. Image appeared in the Western State Normal School Bulliten vol. 19, no. 3 Summer 1924, and the 20th Annual Year Book Western State Normal School 1923-1924.
Title
Light fixture in front of North Hall entrance, Western Michigan University
Time Period
1920 - 1929
Title
Library Building, facade, Western State Normal School
Date
ca. 1924-1925
Time Period
1920 - 1929
Description
Fa�ade of the Library Building (North Hall) of Western State Normal School shortly after it was built. View includes the surrounding landscape including wood posts to mark freshly poured sidewalks.
Title
Reading Room of the Library Building, Western State Teachers College
Time Period
[1920 - 1929, 1930 - 1939]
Title
Lobby of Library Building, Western State Teachers College
Date
ca. 1924
Time Period
[1920 - 1929, 1930 - 1939]
Description
View of front lobby of Library Building (North Hall) of Western Michigan University. The view includes the front desk, a display case, doors to Reading Room, and reference stacks.
Title
West wing of Reading Room, Library Building, Western State Normal School
Time Period
[1920 - 1929, 1930 - 1939]
Description
West wing of the Reading Room, Library Building (North Hall) of Western State Normal School. View includes tables and chairs, book shelves and paintings from A. M. Todd Collection, and the ornamental fireplace.
Title
Williams Manufacturing, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Time Period
[1910 - 1919, 1920 - 1929]
Description
Photograph of the Williams Manufacturing Company building on Oakland Dr. in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The building was also known as the Eames Mill. Text on the back of the building reads "Williams Mfg. Co."
Title
Old Eames Mill through the trees, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Date
ca. 1925
Time Period
1920 - 1929
Description
Photograph of the Old Eames Mill through the trees. The Eames Mills was aquired by Western in 1917 and used for Manual Arts classes and auto shop by Western State Normal School in 1920-1921. The building was later demolished in 1942.
Title
Old Eames Mill through the trees, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Date
ca. 1925
Time Period
1920 - 1929
Description
Photograph of the Old Eames Mill through the trees. The Eames Mills was aquired by Western in 1917 and used for Manual Arts classes and auto shop by Western State Normal School in 1920-1921. The building was later demolished in 1942.
Title
Side of Old Eames Mill, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Date
ca. 1925
Time Period
1920 - 1929
Description
Photograph of a side of the Old Eames Mill where Manual Arts classes and auto shop at Western State Normal School were held in 1920-21. Also known as the Western State Normal School Playhouse on Asylum Avenue (vicinity 410 Oakland Drive). Eames Mill was acquired by Western in 1917 and demolished in 1942.
Title
Group portrait of Civil War Veterans at Annual Picnic
Date
1909?
Description
Black-and-white group photograph of twenty-nine older men standing or sitting on chairs outdoors beside home of Ashley Carlisle of Buchanan, Berrien County, Michigan. Left to right seated: Thomas Stevens (Eau Claire), John Curtis (Buchanan), George Hanley (Buchanan), Hoel C. Wright (Buchanan), Henry Keefer (Galien), Raymond Broceus (Buchanan), O. M. Tabor (Buchanan), George L. Blanchard (Buchanan), Eli Helmack (South Bend, Indiana), William Ritter (Buchanan), William Graham (Niles), Edward Havens (Lansing), Sol Wyrick? (Buchanan), John Swanger (Mishawaka, Indiana), Port Lybarker (Edwardsburg), and Charles E. Sabin. Standing left to right: Peter Aldrich (Berrien Springs), Benjamin Wynn (Eau Claire), Steven Scott (Buchanan), John Dick (Buchanan), David Salisbury (Dayton), Ashley Carlisle (Buchanan), John Allen (Galien), Samuel Bunker (Buchanan), Albert Weaver (Buchanan), Sam Jackson (Galien), Marion Huff (Buchanan), and William Conrad (Buchanan). In the background are women in long dresses. Date hand written on the back of photo, nearly unreadable.
Title
Group portrait of Jewish Temple Choir, Temple B'nai Israel, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Date
1920-09
Description
Black-and-white photograph of two women and three men standing outside near a tree; the men are wearing suits, the women dresses; identified as Jewish Temple Choir, Temple B'nai Israel, September, 1920; all are identified although one name is hard to decifer
Title
Group portrait of the 1921 class from Tamarack School, Alamo, Michigan
Date
1921
Description
Black-and-white postcard of students standing outside Tamarac school, located on 6th street and Owen Drive, Alamo, Michigan. Students stand on the stairs with teacher in back row. Girls are wearing dresses and boys wearing overalls, shirts and pants. Handwriting on the left left of the photograph reads "Tamarac School, 1921." All students are identified on the back of the photograph. Back row: Harm Veldt, Thelma Bergstrom, Grace Butler (teacher), Grace Noble. Next row: Gerben? Veldt, Grace DeBoer, Eldridge Noble, Elizabeth Rietkirk [Rietkerk?], Next Row: Annie Veldt, Jack DeWinter, Bernardus Reitkerk, Albert Todd, Wenona Hill, Bob Campbell, Frederich DeBoer. Front Row: Nelson Reitkerk, Alrene Butler, Marian Reitkerk, Johnny Reitkerk, Albert Owens?, Mildred Stranck? [last name nearly unreadable], Joe DeWinter, Tilda [Hilda] Veldt, Florence Bloch.
Title
Two women standing on the porch of a two-story house, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Date
1921
Description
Black-and-white mounted photograph of two women in dresses, Ella Sorenson and Minnie Frakes, standing on front porch of 531 South Rose Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Ella wears a white dress, and Minnie wears a dark coat and hat. In front of Minnie, a small child (possibly Minnie's daughter Blanche), leans against the railing. The child is wearing a dark coat. The house is small Italianate style with decorative front railing and simple columns at front. The porch has decorative skirting at bottom. A sign in the window advertises "rooms."
Title
Interior of PM Atkins Dry Goods Store
Date
1921
Description
Black-and-white photograph of PM Atkins Dry Good Store located at 1322 Portage Street in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The view shows the interior of the store with a long aisle. On both sides are display cases and cabinets containing material for sale including fabric, dolls, books and other items. Two women stand partly behind the display cabinets. On the left is Mrs. D. Bailey and the right, Nellie Gray Atkins. Both are wearing dresses. View also shows tin ceiling and light fixtures.
Title
Harold D. Smith standing on a porch
Date
1923
Description
A black-and-white photograph of Harold D. Smith son of Mary Leach Smith and Charles H. Smith. View features a toddler African American child standing at front porch of unidentified house. He wears snowsuit, mittens and hat.
Title
Group portrait of Cutting Department, Kalamazoo Pant Company
Date
1923-12-28
Description
Group portrait of Cutting Department employees from the Kalamazoo Pant Company. Men, who are wearing long shirts and ties, stand in front of tables and cutting equipment. Top left of photograph has been torn away. Handwriting in the lower right reads: "Cutting Dept Kalamazoo Pant Co Kalamazoo Mich Shepardson Photo 12-28-2." Kalamazoo Pant Company began in 1867 when Samuel Rosenbaum opened a wholesale notions and dry good store. In 1870 he began to manufacture shirts and overalls, changing to just trousers for men and boys.
Title
Washington Square intersection, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Date
1925
Description
Photograph of Washington Square intersection (Portage Street and Washington Avenue). View looking south on Portage Street and features one and two story brick buildings, streetcar tracks and cars parked on street, one with a 1925 license plate. Store signs read from left to right: Kalamazoo City Savings Bank, South Side branch; Drugs; Pipers; Barber Shop; and Vandenberg and Lillie Barber Shop. Image was included in the book Kalamazoo Lost and Found by Lynn S. Houghton.
Title
Mary Leach Smith and Charles Smith sitting in grass in front of brick building
Date
1925
Description
A black-and-white photograph of Charles and Mary Leach Smith. View features a African American man wearing suit and straw hat, and a African American woman wearing dress and hat. The building is identified as Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio.
Title
Essa Leach Byrd, Jemima Hawks Leach, Mary Leach Smith, Harold D. Smith standing in front of brick building
Date
1925
Title
Woman leaning on wood sign directing to Cooper's Glen, a nature park in Kalamazoo County, Michigan
Date
1925-07
Description
Black-and-white photograph of an unidentified young woman standing above a sign which reads: Cooper's Glen A City Park of Natural Beauty 1/2 mile east of here. The woman was identified as Western State Normal School student. The photograph was originally in scrapbook. The accompanying caption (not shown) notes that the photograph was taken in July 1925 by Western State Normal students who hiked from Douglas Avenue to Cooper's Glen in Kalamazoo County, Cooper Township.
Title
Lake at Cooper's Glen, Kalamazoo County, Michigan
Date
1925-07
Description
Black-and-white photograph of a valley, lake and railroad tracks at Cooper's Glen. The accompanying caption (not shown) notes that the photograph was taken in July 1925 by Western State Normal students who hiked from Douglas Avenue to Cooper's Glen in Kalamazoo County, Cooper Township.
Title
Two women seated beside a small waterfall at Cooper's Glen, Kalamazoo County, Michigan
Date
1925-07
Description
Black-and-white photograph of two unidentified women sitting in a wooded area identified as Cooper's Glen, Cooper Township, Kalamazoo County. The women, probably Western State Normal School students, wear skirts and jackets. The photograph was originally in scrapbook. The accompanying caption (not shown) notes that the photograph was taken in July 1925 by Western State Normal students who hiked from Douglas Avenue to Cooper's Glen in Kalamazoo County, Cooper Township.
Title
Two women looking through fence slats at Cooper's Glen, Kalamazoo County, Michigan
Date
1925-07
Description
Black-and-white photograph of two unidentified young women leaning through wood fence slats. The women are Western State Normal students. Text painted on the slats reads: "Beware of the Bull," "Keep Out," "Danger" and "Cooper Glen" with an arrow. The accompanying caption (not shown) notes that the photograph was taken in July 1925 by Western State Normal students who hiked from Douglas Avenue to Cooper's Glen in Kalamazoo County, Cooper Township.
Title
A woman slipping through fence slats at Cooper's Glen, Kalamazoo County, Michigan
Date
1925-07
Description
One unidentified young woman climbing between slats of a wooden fence around a corral located at Cooper's Glen, a park in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Text panted on the fence reads "Cooper Glen" with arrows, "Keep out", and "Beware". The accompanying caption (not shown) notes that the photograph was taken in July 1925 by Western State Normal students who hiked from Douglas Avenue to Cooper's Glen in Kalamazoo County, Cooper Township.
Title
Clyde E. Byrd standing in front of a railroad car
Date
1925-09-03
Description
A black-and-white photograph of Clyde E. Byrd, African American, standing in front of a railroad car, at an unknown location. He is wearing a suit, tie and straw hat. Handwritten date on back: September 3, 1925.
Title
Group portrait of 1926 class from Hackley School, Alamo
Date
1926
Description
Sepia photograph of five children sitting on entrance stair to Hackley School with their teacher. One child is in a wicker wheel chair. The others, seated in on the stairs, wear overalls or coats. One boy has bared feet. Hackley School was located in Alamo Township and located at corner of C Avenue and 2nd St., Michigan. Those pictured are identified on the back of the photograph): Chrystal LaViolette, Mildred LaViolette, Robert Sweet, Ward Kisinger, Frances Kisinger, Hubert Richards (in wheel chair), Hazel Richards (teacher).
Title
Downtown Kalamazoo Buildings at intersection of North Rose Street and Michigan Avenue
Date
1926
Title
Commerce Building under construction, Northwest Corner of Michigan Avenue and North Rose Streets, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Alternative Title
Chase Block, Northwest corner of Rose and Michigan Avenue
Date
1926
Title
Downtown Kalamazoo Buildings, looking from intersection of North Park Street and Michigan Avenue
Date
1926
Title
Henry J., Clarence, Charlie and Byron Vanderbilt
Date
1926
Description
Black-and-white photograph of the four Vanderbilt brothers standing in a yard, location unknown. Pictured: Henry J., Clarence, Charles and Byron Vanderbilt, sons of John H. and Rachel Vanderbilt who lived in Cooper Township, Kalamazoo County. All four wear suits and stand next to each other in front of a vine covered wall or building.
Title
Group portrait of the 1927 class from Tamarack School, Alamo, Michigan
Date
1927
Description
Black-and-white photograph of students standing outside Tamarack School, Alamo Township, located on 6th street and Owen Drive, Alamo, Michigan. Teacher Violet Stiff stands in last row; all others pictured are unidentified.
Title
Group portrait of the Board of Education, Kalamazoo Public Schools
Date
1927
Description
Group photo of the Kalamazoo Public Schools, Board of Education. Seven men and one woman. Men in suits, woman in dress. Photograph published in Supplement to Kalamazoo School News, 1927. Pictured in the back row: Charles A. Krill, Dirk J. Scholten, Harley Anderson. Middle row: Otis Earl, John S. Rockwell. Front: Ellis Drake, Linnie Griffing Gill, and Earl S. Elliot.
Title
Asbestos Row, North Burdick Street, 100 block, East Side, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Date
1927-03-05
Title
Roosevelt Junior High School Soccer 1928 Team
Date
1928
Description
Black-and-white photograph of Roosevelt Junior High School, 1928 Soccer championship team. Pictured is the team sitting and standing with manager and coach and cheer lead in front of entrance to school. Handwritting along the lower edge of the photograph identifies members of the team: student manager W. Survilla, B. Balinski, W. Obreiter, C. Keiser, C. Marks, J. Olmstead, cheer lead H. Jones, J. Czuk, W. Klosterman, A. Packard, E. Wiggins, coach R. DeLong, York, W. Pfau, K. Yeakey, captain T. Chipman, V. Guarisco, D. Doty, and W. Woodworth. Folder also includes sheet with has scores of games played with other junior high schools in the school district.
Title
Roosevelt Junior High School Soccer 1929 Team
Date
1929
Description
Black-and-white photograph of Roosevelt Junior High School, 1929 Soccer championship team. Pictured are fifteen young men along and two adults sitting and standing with trophy and soccer ball. The ball has '1929' written on it. Handwritting along the lower edge of the photograph identifies members of the team (back row): coach R. DeLong, Manager J. Thomas, M. Kendall, A. Poteet, M. Brockway, C. Barrett, C. Marks, E. Deichman, Principal G. Walkotten. Seated: B. Balinski, F. Goodman, A. Kester, C. Keiser, Captain P. York, A. Boguta, F. Gucma, and J. Olmstead.
Title
Studio portrait of young Frederick D. Smith
Date
1929
Description
A black-and-white photograph of Frederick D. Smith as a toddler. View features a young African American boy sitting on a chair wearing a white outfit. He has tight, curly hair. Frederick D. Smith was the son of Charles Smith and Mary Leach Smith.
Title
Two children sitting in a cart pulled by a goat
Date
1929-06
Description
Sepia framed photograph of two young children sitting in a cart pulled by a goat. A young boy and girl sitting in a cart with the words "Kalamazoo 1929" painted on front. The goat wears a full harness. Photograph possibly shows children who participated in the Kalamazoo Centennial which ran from June 19-23, 1929 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Titus Bronson's founding of Kalamazoo.
Title
Group portrait of a class, Lincoln School, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Date
1929-06
Description
Black-and-white photograph of unidentified group of students from Lincoln School, June 1929. The students sit or stand inside the gynasium. The girls wear dresses and boys wear shirts, ties, sweaters and suitcoats. Among the students are several teachers.
Title
Group portrait of a class from Finch School
Date
approximately 1920
Description
Mounted black-and-white photograph of school children standing outside the entrance of a the Finch School in Alamo, Michigan. The children wearing dresses, suits and ties. Finch School was located at Jug Corners in Alamo Township located on B Avenue and 12th Street. All students identified on the back of the photograph. Front row (left to right): Esther Finch, Lee Dutton?, Ione Simmons, Albert James, Mildred Davenport, Dorothy Dutton, Pauline Bigelow, Bud Meyers [Myres?], Flossie Meyers [Myres?]. Second row: Elva Schuyler, Litha [Letha] Newton, Louie Johnson, Irene Simmons, Edwin Dutton, Beatrice Finch, Charles James, Susie Dutton, Ella [Eula] Newton. Back row: Clifford Schuyler, Averill Dettling, Harlan Schuyler, Grace Auckerman, Charly [Charlie] Baldwin, Blanch Wilson (teacher), Marion James, Dollie Auckerman, Mildred Finch.
Title
Genevieve Upjohn Gilmore and Dorothy Upjohn DeLano Dalton
Date
approximately 1920
Description
Dorothy Upjohn DeLano Dalton (1890-1981) sitting in a chair, and her sister Genevieve Upjohn Gilmore (1894-1990) sitting on the arm of the chair with her arm behind her sister. Dorothy is holding is a book. Both are wearing wedding rings (Dorothy married in 1919, Genevieve in 1916). A plant is on the side table. Photograph could have been taken at their father's house at 530 W. South Street.
Title
Streetcar on Oakland Drive, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Date
approximately 1920
Description
Black-and-white postcard of two operators standing outside the Oakland Drive Streetcar facing south from the 2200 block, Kalamazoo, Michigan. In the background is a house at 2239 Oakland Drive. The operator on the right is Perry Holden; the other is unidentified. Text on the front of the streetcar reads Oakland. Image was included in the book Kalamazoo Lost and Found by Lynn S. Houghton.
Title
Studio portrait of Genevieve Upjohn Gilmore
Date
approximately 1920
Description
Black-and-white mounted photograph Genevieve Upjohn Gilmore (1894-1990). View features the head and shoulder studio portrait of a middle aged woman looking over her left shoulder. Her hair is pulled back and wearing a decorative top. Genevieve married Donald S. Gilmore (1895-1979) of the Upjohn Company. They were known for their love of cars, they founded the Gilmore Car Museum in Michigan.
Title
Members of the Merry Maids Club, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Date
approximately 1920
Description
Black-and-white print of members of the Merry Maids Club of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Eight girls of varying ages stand in front of a woman holding the edge of an American flag. One young woman in front holds a sign, "Merry Maids Club" and wears a headpiece with a star. The Merry Maids Club was an organization for girls and young women affiliated with the First Presbyterian Church in Kalamazoo.
Title
Five Kings Band dressed as clowns
Date
approximately 1920
Description
Black-and-white photograph of four men wearing clown outfits playing instruments. The men are members of the Five Kings Band, Kalamazoo. From left to right, the members, identified based on an article in the Gazette, are: Walter Wanderland (piano), Willard Thomas (saxophone) or Emerson Smith (saxophone), Clare Ebmeyer (violin, director), and Bernard Niefert (drums). (The saxophone player could be two different members.) The photograph shows the members in an interior with curtain in the background.
Title
Big Island, Schoolcraft, Michigan
Date
approximately 1920
Description
Black-and-white photograph of a prairie next to Schoolcraft, Michigan, on the other side of Eliza Street. View features a grove of trees known as the "Big Island".
Title
Schoolcraft looking northwest towards West Street showing Smith House at 121 West St.
Date
approximately 1920
Description
Black-and-white photograph of Schoolcraft looking northwest towards West Street. View shows two houses, first one is the Smith house at 121 West Street, as well as several houses in the distance. Included in the photograph are trees without leaves and grass.
Title
Studio portrait of Edward G. Read
Date
approximately 1920
Description
A black-and-white photograph of Edward G. Read. View features an older man wearing suit and bow tie with mustache. and parted hair. Read was elected to the Michigan State House of Representatives from 1918 to 1924. Photographer unknown.
Title
Minnie Frakes working at Shakespeare Manufacturing Company
Date
approximately 1921
Description
Black-and-white photograph of older woman sitting at table assembling fishing rods. The woman pictured is Minnie Frakes (1881-1927) and she wears a dress and apron. She works at Shakespeare Manufacturing Company (also known as Shakespeare Fishing Tackle), a subsidiary of Pure Fishing which manufactures fishing equipment. It was founded by William Shakespeare, Jr. in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1897, and later moved to Columbia, South Carolina in 1970.
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