511 24 26018 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/31af73723d9aaab94fce92d30d4ae0a6.jpg 69f576bb909e313cf4688aa46395104e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Douglas R. Gilbert Photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R., 1942-2023 Description An account of the resource Photographs scanned from negatives and transparencies from the Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183). Douglas R. Gilbert (b. 1942) is an American photographer from Michigan. He was born in Holland, Michigan and is the son of Russell W. and Carmen (Andree) Gilbert. Gilbert earned a B.A. in social sciences and art at Michigan State University in 1964, an M.S. in photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1972, and a M.S.W. from Salem State College in 1993. He is married to Barbara (McDonald) Gilbert, and has three daughters, Robyn, Rachel, and Anne. Gilbert took a serious interest in photography at the age of fourteen. In 1963 he joined the staff of Look magazine in New York as the second youngest photojournalist in the magazine's history. As a Look photographer from 1964 to 1966, he photographed folk musician Bob Dylan, the Newport Folk Festival, Simon and Garfunkel, the New York City Financial District, the children and facilities at the Manhattan School for Seriously Disturbed Children. From 1967 to 1969, Gilbert did several shoots, including that of folk singer Janis Ian for Life magazine. After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1969 to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, Gilbert conducted notable photo shoots of business and political figure Lenore Romney, and pursued more personal and artistic photography, focusing on urban and rural landscapes in Illinois and Michigan. He then joined the faculty of Wheaton College, where he taught from 1972 to 1982. In 1993, Gilbert graduated from Salem State College, Massachusetts, with a Masters in Social Work, and later pursued a second career as a psychotherapist. Douglas Gilbert died in June 2023. Throughout his photography career, he pursued both freelance commercial work as well as artistic work. His art photography is characterized by its classic black-and-white format, and features people, places and objects shot great attention and sensitivity. Gilbert's works are held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and the Grand Valley State University Art Galleries, as well as in numerous private and institutional collections. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960-2011 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="%E2%80%9Dhttps%3A//gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783%E2%80%9D">Douglas R. Gilbert Papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Photographs Photography -- United States Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183_C102-0004 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962-07-01 Title A name given to the resource LMYA Regatta, Holland Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph featuring the Lake Michigan Yachting Association regatta sailing on Lake Michigan near Holland, Michigan, with coastal dunes seen in the background as taken on July 1, 1962. Photograph by Douglas R. Gilbert. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Holland (Mich.) Lake Michigan Yacht racing Regattas Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783">Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/bf7be3d4e4d4dcb8a38f48a75230c85f.jpg 72d88c83946e1aef58d39fdcdf3f6935 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Douglas R. Gilbert Photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R., 1942-2023 Description An account of the resource Photographs scanned from negatives and transparencies from the Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183). Douglas R. Gilbert (b. 1942) is an American photographer from Michigan. He was born in Holland, Michigan and is the son of Russell W. and Carmen (Andree) Gilbert. Gilbert earned a B.A. in social sciences and art at Michigan State University in 1964, an M.S. in photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1972, and a M.S.W. from Salem State College in 1993. He is married to Barbara (McDonald) Gilbert, and has three daughters, Robyn, Rachel, and Anne. Gilbert took a serious interest in photography at the age of fourteen. In 1963 he joined the staff of Look magazine in New York as the second youngest photojournalist in the magazine's history. As a Look photographer from 1964 to 1966, he photographed folk musician Bob Dylan, the Newport Folk Festival, Simon and Garfunkel, the New York City Financial District, the children and facilities at the Manhattan School for Seriously Disturbed Children. From 1967 to 1969, Gilbert did several shoots, including that of folk singer Janis Ian for Life magazine. After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1969 to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, Gilbert conducted notable photo shoots of business and political figure Lenore Romney, and pursued more personal and artistic photography, focusing on urban and rural landscapes in Illinois and Michigan. He then joined the faculty of Wheaton College, where he taught from 1972 to 1982. In 1993, Gilbert graduated from Salem State College, Massachusetts, with a Masters in Social Work, and later pursued a second career as a psychotherapist. Douglas Gilbert died in June 2023. Throughout his photography career, he pursued both freelance commercial work as well as artistic work. His art photography is characterized by its classic black-and-white format, and features people, places and objects shot great attention and sensitivity. Gilbert's works are held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and the Grand Valley State University Art Galleries, as well as in numerous private and institutional collections. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960-2011 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="%E2%80%9Dhttps%3A//gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783%E2%80%9D">Douglas R. Gilbert Papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Photographs Photography -- United States Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183_C102-0012 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1962-07-01 Title A name given to the resource LMYA Regatta, Holland Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph featuring a close-up view of the Lake Michigan Yachting Association regatta sailing on Lake Michigan near Holland, Michigan, on July 1, 1962. Photograph by Douglas R. Gilbert. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Holland (Mich.) Lake Michigan Yacht racing Regattas Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783">Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/01ec4b076f554fb3cd8f8cc0aed417ca.jpg a950dec2f8f2d7a474945db92c0e254f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Merrill_ProcessFilm_P_234 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940-04-11 Title A name given to the resource Loading bananas Puerto Cabezas Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of people carrying bundles of bananas on top of their heads to a boat. Subject The topic of the resource Puerto Cabezas (Nicaragua) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3c78ae277384a36acea1fc63be0b0551.jpg c9f5396d5b0636ec59ab5d17e245c5bd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Merrill_ProcessFilm_P_235 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940-04-11 Title A name given to the resource Loading bananas Puerto Cabezas Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of men placing bundles of bananas onto a conveyor next to a ship. Subject The topic of the resource Puerto Cabezas (Nicaragua) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/0c612bb3beae2ac1cba3caed34e2fbc5.jpg 2d63201c9f9c647c6fdf076c2966e3b5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Merrill_ProcessFilm_P_233 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940-04-11 Title A name given to the resource Loading Gold Puerto Cabezas Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of a line of people on a crowded dock with barrels in the background. The image is taken from above. Subject The topic of the resource Puerto Cabezas (Nicaragua) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/22e173c50fa57a99a6c54f347b4d75b9.mp4 14a98809304e63267fc1136cd2970462 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/393250f6c0e72ddf9bf93271556aeeff.pdf d186cbd673335b06b52708c0410514b2 PDF Text Text Albert Lobbezoo (54:45) (00:15) Background information    Born in Olean, MI and raised on a farm His family moved to another farm in Caledonia; the town was so small that they did not have their own high school Albert was done with school when he was thirteen and then he helped his parents with the farm work (2:30) The Thirties     He remembers news of the war being heard on the radio; they often talked about the bombing of London By October 13, 1940 everyone had to register for the draft who was 21-29 years old The country was not ready for a war and Albert believes that the US had a weak defense system at the time He and his brother registered for the draft together (3:25) Active Duty     Albert was called to active duty in April of 1941 He took a train from Grand Rapids, MI to Kalamazoo and then went to Fort Custer in Battle Creek, MI He spent two weeks at Fort Custer and there was not much to do Albert joined the 32nd Infantry Division and was transported to Louisiana in a train to Camp Livingston (7:20) Training Maneuvers  Albert went through combat training in the Red and Blue Army  They had to sleep outside on the ground for six weeks; they were trained for combat in the jungle  Albert was assigned to the infantry and then was transferred into the signal corps and worked on a switch board at the 32nd division headquarters (12:25) Pearl Harbor  Albert had been on his way home from church when Pearl Harbor was attacked and he listened to the report on the radio  The next day it was announced that the US was in an actual war and the men were all in for the duration of that war; not the one year that they had registered for  They were all divided up and assigned new duties; Albert had to guard infrastructure that the Japanese might bomb � While he was guarding a bridge some girls brought him a bottle of wine; the people in Louisiana were all very friendly (17:00) Massachusetts  Albert’s unit was transferred to Massachusetts in the Spring of 1942  He drove a “carry-all”truck from Louisiana to Massachusetts to help transfer equipment and the trip took three days  He ended up at Fort Devens and then was sent to New York  When he got to New York he found out that the ship he was supposed to board had burned in the harbor  So he then had to take a train to San Francisco because there was news that McArthur needed more troops (21:42) San Francisco  He was put in a hotel near the harbor and the men went all over the city  They did not have any duties; they were just waiting for their ship to arrive and it took 2 weeks  Albert then boarded the USS Anton and they passed by Alcatraz  On the voyage they ran into an awful storm  They traveled in a convoy and had to take a zig zag course across the Pacific to avoid enemy submarines (24:05) The Voyage  Many of the men played poker to keep occupied  Albert found that many of the men were naïve because they believed they would be coming back home very soon  The voyage took 23 days for them to reach southern Australia  In Australia the men continued their training  They traveled North and were allowed to visit Sydney (29:45) New Guinea  They took a liberty ship to New Guinea; it was a very nice ship, but quite small  The Australians were already on the island  Albert went to do his work on switch boards while many of the other men fought in combat  He worked in a small secluded tent and heard much of the news of progress during battles  Most of his outfit left for Port Moresby and Albert later took a plane back to Australia  He had two weeks off to spend relaxing on the beach, then they had to regroup and received reinforcements � They traveled along the coast of New Guinea to make sure that everything was still secure  Then they arrived in the Dutch East Indies and met up with the 33rd division (40:45) The Philippines  There were still about 1,000 [?] Japanese in the Philippines  They stabilized the area and traveled around more islands in the Pacific to make sure that they were secure  Albert noted that many of the areas were almost completely destroyed and so they did not have much contact with the local populations  The few people that they did see were all thankful to see the Americans  Albert set up a communications switch board in a small resort island  The war had ended and he was waiting for his notice of relief  He then traveled to Manila while the rest of his division went to Japan  He was just one of two men from the whole division that got separated and was waiting in manila  They eventually boarded a small ship, which had been captured from the Germans, and they headed for San Francisco (45:30) Back in the US  Albert took a train to Chicago and was greeted very well  He went to work for the city of Grand Rapids, but it was too boring and he only lasted for six weeks  He then worked at GM for a while, but missed farming work  Albert bought a farm across the street from where he grew up  Albert noted that being in the service makes you a more thankful person and allows one to appreciate their freedom � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LobbezooA0515V Title A name given to the resource Lobbezoo, Albert (Interview outline and video), 2007 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lobbezoo, Albert Description An account of the resource Albert Lobbezoo grew up on a small farm in Michigan and was drafted in the Army in April of 1941. Albert worked as a switchboard operator for the 32nd Infantry Division headquarters in New Guinea, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines between 1942 and 1945. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James (Interviewer) Byron Area Historic Museum (Byron Center, Mich.) BCTV Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings United States. Army World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-10-25 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/6a1b605170482a021430529843db8f85.jpg 2e0a7dcf680fec6335cec93b9f9946ee Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ronald Oakes collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Oakes, Ronald Description An account of the resource Collection of photographs by Ronald Oakes, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War, and in the U.S. National Guard in the Iraq War. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968/2005 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/628">Ronald Oakes Vietnam and Iraq war photographs (RHC-80)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Iraq War, 2003-2011 Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Veterans Photographs Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Relation A related resource Veterans History Project interviews, RHC-27 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-80 Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-80_Oakes-Vietnam-1-27CIVILIANSGOINGTHRUBASEGARBAGE Title A name given to the resource Locals going through garbage discarded by the mess hall for 1/27 Marine regiment Subject The topic of the resource Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States--History, Military Marine Corps Military life Soldiers Photographs Description An account of the resource Locals going through garbage discarded by the mess hall for 1/27 Marine regiment. They are pouring leftover milk out of the containers. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Oakes, Ronald Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Ronald Oakes Vietnam and Iraq photographs (RHC-80) Relation A related resource Veterans History Project interviews, RHC-27 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Vietnam War Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/6d231a4697ab12119b0a0c002817f144.jpg cf71b667660d589e08a4ae247ec08272 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Naval Recognition Training Slides Subject The topic of the resource Slides Military education Airplanes, Military--Recognition Warships--Recognition World War, 1939-1945 Description An account of the resource Slides developed during World War II as a training tool, for top-side battle-station personnel on board ship and for all aircraft personnel, by the US Navy. In 1942 a Recognition School was established by the Navy at Ohio State University where the method of identification was developed. In 1943 the school was taken over by the US Navy. The importance of training in visual recognition of ships and aircraft became even more evident during World War II. Mistakes resulting in costly errors and loss of life led to an increased emphasis on recognition as a vital skill. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides (RHC-50)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-04-04 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-50 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1943-1953 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Source <a href="http://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/477">Naval recognition slides, RHC-50</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-50_1358 Title A name given to the resource Loch class British patrol vessel Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource United States. Navy Description An account of the resource Loch class British PF (patrol vessel), October 1, 1947. Subject The topic of the resource United States. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/8bac48fec6a3828f6b7216b4295809c3.jpg 6fd80ccaaea817fc626d8ddaa97f3875 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Douglas R. Gilbert Photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R., 1942-2023 Description An account of the resource Photographs scanned from negatives and transparencies from the Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183). Douglas R. Gilbert (b. 1942) is an American photographer from Michigan. He was born in Holland, Michigan and is the son of Russell W. and Carmen (Andree) Gilbert. Gilbert earned a B.A. in social sciences and art at Michigan State University in 1964, an M.S. in photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1972, and a M.S.W. from Salem State College in 1993. He is married to Barbara (McDonald) Gilbert, and has three daughters, Robyn, Rachel, and Anne. Gilbert took a serious interest in photography at the age of fourteen. In 1963 he joined the staff of Look magazine in New York as the second youngest photojournalist in the magazine's history. As a Look photographer from 1964 to 1966, he photographed folk musician Bob Dylan, the Newport Folk Festival, Simon and Garfunkel, the New York City Financial District, the children and facilities at the Manhattan School for Seriously Disturbed Children. From 1967 to 1969, Gilbert did several shoots, including that of folk singer Janis Ian for Life magazine. After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1969 to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, Gilbert conducted notable photo shoots of business and political figure Lenore Romney, and pursued more personal and artistic photography, focusing on urban and rural landscapes in Illinois and Michigan. He then joined the faculty of Wheaton College, where he taught from 1972 to 1982. In 1993, Gilbert graduated from Salem State College, Massachusetts, with a Masters in Social Work, and later pursued a second career as a psychotherapist. Douglas Gilbert died in June 2023. Throughout his photography career, he pursued both freelance commercial work as well as artistic work. His art photography is characterized by its classic black-and-white format, and features people, places and objects shot great attention and sensitivity. Gilbert's works are held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and the Grand Valley State University Art Galleries, as well as in numerous private and institutional collections. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960-2011 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="%E2%80%9Dhttps%3A//gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783%E2%80%9D">Douglas R. Gilbert Papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Photographs Photography -- United States Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. 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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966-06 Title A name given to the resource Loch Leven in Kinlochleven, Scotland Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of a coastal view of the waters of Loch Leven, as seen from the eastern end at the village of Kinlochleven. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Kinlochleven (Scotland) Leven, Loch (Lochaber, Scotland) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783">Douglas R. 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Lockwood Interviewed on September 14, 1971 Edited and indexed by Don Bryant, 2010 – bryant@wellswooster.com Tapes #5 & #6 (41:37) Biographical Information: Katherine Maria Pantlind was born 25 December 1888 in Grand Rapids. She was the daughter of James Boyd Pantlind and Jessie Louise Aldrich. Katherine married Closson L. Lockwood 10 November 1909 in Grand Rapids. She died 16 March 1976. Closson L. Lockwood was born 22 January 1879 in Grand Rapids. He was the son of Closson L. Lockwood, Sr. and Frances E. Wycoff. He died 10 December 1944. Closson and Katherine Lockwood are both buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. James Boyd Pantlind was born 20 January 1851 in Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio, the son of Ralph Nevius Pantlind and Catherine McGorgon. He came to Grand Rapids with his uncle, Arunius Voorhees Pantlind in 1874. J. Boyd Pantlind married Jessie Louise Aldrich on 14 April 1880 in Grand Rapids. He died 25 December 1925 in Grand Rapids. Jessie Louise Aldrich was born 1 January 1858 in Grand Rapids, the daughter of Moses Vail Aldrich and Euphrasia Jones Ledyard. Jessie died 15 August 1936 in Grand Rapids. Both Jessie and J. Boyd Pantlind are buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. ___________ Interviewer: This interview with Mrs. C. L. Lockwood was recorded September the fourteenth, nineteen seventy-one. Now, why don’t you say a couple of words or something, to see if it’s recording? Mrs. Lockwood: Oh, I see. What do you want me to say, it’s a nice day? Interviewer: Something like that. Mrs. Lockwood: It’s a beautiful day. Interviewer: That’s fine. Mrs. Lockwood: What about what I like and enjoy? Interviewer: Good, that’s fine. Maybe, the question that I’d like to start with is, do you remember a Moses Aldrich? Mrs. Lockwood: Moses Aldrich was my grandfather. �2 Interviewer: Do you remember him? Mrs. Lockwood: No, he died before I was born. Interviewer: Oh. Mrs. Lockwood: He died when my mother was married. He’s been dead many, many years. Interviewer: Oh. Mrs. Lockwood: No, I never knew him. And my grandfather, my great-grandfather was still alive, William B. Ledyard, when I was born, but I don’t remember him. Interviewer: Now, Ledyards and Aldriches did they come here? Mrs. Lockwood: They came from Plymouth, Michigan Interviewer: I see. Mrs. Lockwood: My grandmother was a Ledyard, she was Euphrasia Ledyard, and she married Moses V. Aldrich. Moses Vail Aldrich. Interviewer: And he was the mayor of Grand Rapids? Mrs. Lockwood: Mayor of Grand Rapids many, many years ago. I’m awfully sorry, I don’t remember him, I forgot to get his picture when I was there. Interviewer: When were you born, if I may ask? Mrs. Lockwood: I was born in eighteen eighty-eight. Interviewer: Eighteen eighty-eight? Mrs. Lockwood: I’m eighty-three years old. Back in way, way back in the history of Grand Rapids. Interviewer: What was it like where did you grow up as a child? Mrs. Lockwood: I grew up on College Avenue, one thirty-four College Avenue. It’s now part of the Hillmount [Apartments]. Interviewer: Oh, yes Mrs. Lockwood: One thirty-four is on the south side of the street. �3 Interviewer: What was it like in those days? Mrs. Lockwood: Well, the way early days? Interviewer: Yes Mrs. Lockwood: Well, the early days I had the goats, and I use to drive the goats back and forth, up and down the street, I even drove them downtown. My Father ran the Morton Hotel. I’d tie the goats to a telegraph pole and I’d go in and get a nickel and I’d go in and get a soda at the Church & [Wick?] Drug Store and then I’d come out and drive the goats home. I was only about fifth grade. But there were no streetcars. There were streetcars, but there were no automobiles. And of course, I avoided the streetcars. Interviewer: Why was that? I didn’t like the streetcars and my goats didn’t like them either. And they were very, very stubborn, my goats. They’d go out and sit right down, in the harnesses and wouldn’t move at all. I’d get the old buckboard and I’d drive up and down the street. Interviewer: How many goats did you have pulling your cart? Mrs. Lockwood: I had three at one time, but only two on the cart. When, I was a child, I wanted to ride everything; I rode everything in the neighborhood. I rode all the horses and things that were in the stable. And my father said I was too heavy for one goat so I came around the house riding two goats; one leg over one, and one over the other. He said I don’t know what I’ve done. But I was very, very well behaved when I was riding them. And I was a funny child. I’ve done everything. Interviewer: Were there many houses around your family’s home? Mrs. Lockwood: There were houses; the Bissells lived next door to us, Mrs. M.R. Bissell and Lewis Withey lived beyond … then the Waters. Mary Waters and I were great friends. And we went riding on the streets there. Interviewer: Was there a gazebo on the Waters’ property, do you remember? Mrs. Lockwood: What was that? Interviewer: It’s like, it’s kind of an outdoor building that people spend time in the summertime. Mrs. Lockwood: There was a summer house up on the hill, behind Mr. Waters’ house. I didn’t know what a gazebo was. Interviewer: I never knew either until I saw a movie called The Gazebo and they explained it. �4 Mrs. Lockwood: I’ve never known anything like that for it. A gazebo, I’ll remember that. Interviewer: Were the families very close? Mrs. Lockwood: Oh very, we went back and forth, very friendly with the Bissell boy, we were great friends. And I’d stay there for dinner till I got dessert there, then I’d go home for dessert. I’d stay anyplace where dessert was good because I enjoyed it so much. Interviewer: Do you still like dessert? Mrs. Lockwood: Oh, I still love dessert. And Irving Bissell and I were great friends. We’d ride goats together. We’d ride everywhere. He had a white goat. Interviewer: What color were your goats? Mrs. Lockwood: My goats were brown and white, and black and white. Interviewer: What did families do, for example it seems as if families that today in the neighborhoods are not as closely knit as they were in those days, I mean the families, from what I understand the living was like in those days, the families today don’t have as much interaction. Mrs. Lockwood: We had a great deal of very good, very friendly with our neighbors. I think the automobile is the reason for that, don’t you? Interviewer: The automobile? Mrs. Lockwood: You see we all took street cars, everywhere. We’d meet on the streetcars and we were very friendly with everyone in our neighborhood. Grandmother Aldrich lived on the corner of Cherry and College, Grandmother Aldrich, then my father, and then Mrs. M.R. Bissell, then Mr. Withey, then Mrs. Waters. And Mr. and Mrs. Barnhart lived across the street where Mrs. Edith Putnam lived and then, afterwards Mr. Barnhart bought that house. We knew them all. And the Voigt family lived across the street and the Byrnes family lived across the street from us. Gordon Dudley lived where Mrs. Waer is now living. Then Charles Fox was in the Castle and the Fox family had dogs. I was over there a great deal with Mrs. Fox because she got me to come feed the dogs and help her with the dogs, give them baths and things. Which I enjoyed very much. Interviewer: Why do you think the auto, what effects do you think the automobile had in the neighborhood? Mrs. Lockwood: I think it’s taken the people away from home a great deal, don’t you? It’s a very independent life now. I don’t begin to know my neighbors, the way I used to. When we sat on the front porch, people came and dropped in, people don’t drop in anymore. �5 Interviewer: porch… Were there many people that, in the evening when you’d be sitting on your Mrs. Lockwood: Sitting on the front porch and other people would see you and they’d come across the street and call on you. Stay for half and hour or something like, that. And there’s none of that anymore. People don’t call anymore; don’t you think that’s true? Interviewer: I don’t know because I’ve never lived in an age without the automobile. Mrs. Lockwood: That’s true. Well of course, I was about sixteen when the automobile was invented, the real automobile which means ones that you could buy. And my father had an Olds. The first car, it was an Olds and a very good car. I learned to drive when I was about sixteen. Interviewer: What year was it when your father bought a car? Mrs. Lockwood: Oh I couldn’t tell you. Interviewer: Well, now if you were sixteen… it must have been eighteen ninety-eight? You were born in eighteen eighty-two? Mrs. Lockwood: Eighteen eighty-eight. Interviewer: That would be nineteen four. Mrs. Lockwood: Nineteen four. That sounds right. Interviewer: Was that one of the first automobiles in Grand Rapids? Mrs. Lockwood: Let’s see, I don’t think father had the first automobile. He was, he was not very interested in them at first, but he grew very fond of his automobile. The first car he had was an Olds. Interviewer: Were there any people, friends or acquaintances of your family that refused to buy automobiles? Mrs. Lockwood: Oh no! Everybody bought automobiles. It caught right on everybody enjoyed it. And my father never learned to drive, there was a chauffeur. And then when we grew older, my brother and I drove it all the time. I liked to drive it very much. It had acetylene lights and I would light the lights. It had no starter on the car. You had to have a handle and what do you say? Interviewer: Crank it? �6 Mrs. Lockwood: Crank it. I’d crank it about an hour. Ira Batchhelder and I used to crank his automobile, when I was a child. I had a very happy childhood. Interviewer: What was downtown like when, did you say your father owned the Morton House? Mrs. Lockwood: Owned the Morton House. And afterwards we rented the Pantlind. He never owned the Pantlind, but he owned the Morton House. Interviewer: What was your father’s name? Mrs. Lockwood: Pantlind, J. Boyd Pantlind. James Boyd Pantlind. He was in… he was brought here with A. V. Pantlind [his uncle Arundius Voorhees Pantlind] and was the original partner here in Grand Rapids. They ran the Morton House. They brought Father here as a little boy, about fourteen years old. And he ran the Morton until he died. Of course he was running the Pantlind also. Interviewer: What was the Morton House like in those days? Mrs. Lockwood: Oh very, very attractive really. There was a mezzanine floor where we would sit and watch everything going on there all the time. It was very attractive hotel with the lovely pictures, lots of carpets and many conventions in came there. There was a very attractive grill at the back that was connected with the bar, I suppose that’s what appealed to men, but we used to go there as children and have our supper. It was very well done, very. I guess that’s all I’m talking about is myself. Don’t you want me to say something that I know about Grand Rapids? Interviewer: Alright, tell me something that you know about Grand Rapids. Mrs. Lockwood: I mean something you’d like to know about Grand Rapids? Interviewer: Yes. Mrs. Lockwood: Well, I know that the statue from Lookout Park is now over here on the intersection of Cherry and State street. That statue used to be at Lookout Park. When I was a little child we used to go up there. Do you know where Lookout Park is? Interviewer: I think so. Mrs. Lockwood: Okay. Interviewer: Why’d they move the statue? Mrs. Lockwood: I have no idea. But I knew it very well, I discovered afterwards when here, in our Park and there was a large fountain where the horses would drink because there were only horses, no automobiles. Everybody had horses, my mother drove a horse �7 and my father liked to drive. I rode horse-back, had ponies and things like that, (the Bissell boy did too) and no cars, it was a very different life, a very simple life compared with now. I think the automobile has, changed the entire community, don’t you? Interviewer: Well Mrs. Lockwood: You don’t remember when there were not cars? Interviewer: No, I don’t. Mrs. Lockwood: The automobiles, the movies and the television, I think that changed the world very, very, much. Interviewer: What did, how did family groups spend their time in those days when there weren’t movies, automobiles and televisions? Mrs. Lockwood: Oh we had enormous family parties. There were thirty-five in our family for Christmas dinner. We had Christmas dinner on the third floor at father’s house he’d dress up as a chef with a cap and apron and everything. He’d carve the turkey up there. We had beautiful parties up there. I had a… when I was married we had a supper up there. It was just as attractive as it could be. That’s the way people lived. They all had third floors. They all had dancing parties. They had a billiards table up there where you could play the afternoon and evening but that was a very close family life when I was young. We were very close to our parents. And we were very close to your neighbors. Interviewer: Were during the year, other than the holiday season, were there, would, families give parties and invite friends in? Mrs. Lockwood: Yes, We have them almost every Sunday, [] we went to some member of the family. Interviewer: I see Mrs. Lockwood: I had many relatives here. Mrs. J. H. Wonderly is my aunt, and, Mrs. Richard Smith was my cousin, the doctor’s wife and my Aunt Kate Blake who was Mrs. John Blake, he’s been dead for many, many years was here too and then I went there to school, she had a house.. it’s the old Dix house on Cherry Street. You know where the Dix house? [Horace P. Dix] Interviewer: No Mrs. Lockwood: That’s right across from that Oakwood Manor; it’s that house with the pillars in the front. [540 Cherry St] Interviewer: Oh, that Greek Revival. �8 Mrs. Lockwood: Yes. Interviewer: You went to school there? Mrs. Lockwood: I went to school there. Went to school on the first floor at the back of the house. Interviewer: What kind of school was it? Mrs. Lockwood: A private school. I don’t think it was as good as the public school but we all went there. The whole neighborhood went there. And we enjoyed it very much. Interviewer: Why did your parents send you to the private school? Mrs. Lockwood: It was right here, we were closer to home. And we all went to Mr. Powell’s School up on College Avenue. Then I went in high school, finally, which I enjoyed very, very much. I highly approve of the public school. I think they’re much better for youngsters. Interviewer: Than private schools? Mrs. Lockwood: Than private schools. I think you rub elbows with everybody, you learn to adjust yourself to the world. I think it’s very wise to send a child to public school. Interviewer: What was the public school you attended? Mrs. Lockwood: I went up there to Central High School. Central was on Ransom Street then. I don’t know it’s there now. It’s no longer there. Interviewer: Not on Ransom Street now. Mrs. Lockwood: No, it was called Central High School when I was young. And I went to into grade school then I went right into high school. Interviewer: What kind of, was it basically the same education in the private schools that they had in the public schools? Mrs. Lockwood: Well, I thought much harder then, when I was young, very much harder than now. That isn’t, that’s not true at all. I was a very, very poor student. Isaac Keeler sat right in front of me. I’d never been through arithmetic if it hadn’t been for Isaac Keeler. He helped me with my work all the time. Interviewer: He was a good student? Mrs. Lockwood: Oh he was a wonderful student, wonderful student and I was a very poor student. I was very conscientious. I tried very hard but I was a poor student. �9 Interviewer: Did you go to college after high school? Mrs. Lockwood: No, I went to Dana Hall which is in Wellesley, Massachusetts. It’s a very good school for the wealthy. I didn’t go on to college. Interviewer: Did many of your neighbors, did the children that you grew up with, did they go to college? Mrs. Lockwood: Very few went on to college when I was young. Interviewer: What did they do after they got through with high school? Mrs. Lockwood: They came home and made their debuts and usually married very, very young. I was just twenty when I was married. I was very happily married and I had a perfectly beautiful time but I, I think I was much too young, at twenty years old to marry. Don’t you think that’s very young? Interviewer: I think it depends on the individual. Mrs. Lockwood: I think so too. Well, I had a very happy married life; I had a very devoted, very sweet husband. I wish I could talk of something besides myself. Interviewer: Oh I think that, personal recollections, something you were involved in yourself, and that you saw and experienced are the best recollections. Mrs. Lockwood: Well, I have very happy recollections. My father said, he couldn’t arrange my life for me, adjust my life for me, but he could give me a happy childhood. That was his ambition, and he certainly did. He gave me a perfectly wonderful childhood. Interviewer: That’s a fine memory. Mrs. Lockwood: Um hum, it’s a wonderful memory to have of a person. Of course Grand Rapids was dirt streets and it was very, very different from now. And I could only go from Fountain to Cherry on my pony and with my goats. I wasn’t allowed to go farther than that. Interviewer: Why was that? Mrs. Lockwood: Because I was so little, I was only five years old. Interviewer: Oh. Mrs. Lockwood: When I got older I rode everywhere. And father had a farm when we were older and we used to ride, I used to ride out there almost every day, had a tennis �10 court out there, It’s now the cemetery. It’s the Catholic and Protestant Cemetery it’s called… out on Kalamazoo Avenue. Interviewer: Yes Mrs. Lockwood: You must know that cemetery. Interviewer: Which one? Mrs. Lockwood: Woodlawn. Woodlawn. Interviewer: That was out in the country then? Mrs. Lockwood: It was way in the country. It was miles away. It’s not very far now by automobile but it took a pony a long time to get out there. Interviewer: where the country begins in terms of where you lived on College Avenue? What was considered out in the country? Mrs. Lockwood: Well, you were getting in the country really… you’d go out Kalamazoo Avenue and I would say that at Burton Avenue you were in the country. Interviewer: How about southeast what’s now East Grand Rapids and so on? Was that…? Mrs. Lockwood: East Grand Rapids wasn’t there at all and that was very much in the country, when I was young. Interviewer: Did you ever go out to Reed’s Lake? Mrs. Lockwood: Oh, I went there all the time. And they had the Ramona out there you know when I was a child. And we’d skate out there in the winter and the Ramona in the summer, vaudeville every night. We’d go out in the streetcar and there’d be streetcars that would bring you home. The last streetcar we always had to catch. It was delightful. We’d roller-skate out there in the summer time, ice-skate in the winter. And Mr. Rose was a son of Mr. Rose Senior. I don’t know what the name was, it was Todd Rose’s father, was in charge of the swimming when I was a little girl. I enjoyed it very much. I was more than a little girl; I must have been fifteen or sixteen years old. Interviewer: What was your most memorable experience as not only, what was your memorable experience as a young person not only as a child but, let’s say as a teenager and so on? Mrs. Lockwood: Oh, let me see. I think that would be very hard for me to decide, I had so many memorable experiences. I have no idea. Maybe too many to tell. �11 Interviewer: Well, can you try and tell me a couple? Mrs. Lockwood: Well, one experience I remember very well, Margie Stanton was a friend of mine and we met Teddy Roosevelt, and she told him that she had a raccoon named Teddy. That tickled me almost to death. As a child, that pleased me so. Interviewer: Where did you happen to meet Teddy Roosevelt? Mrs. Lockwood: He was here in Grand Rapids. We met him down at the hotel. Interviewer: At the Morton House? Mrs. Lockwood: At the Morton. Interviewer: What did he come to Grand Rapids for? Mrs. Lockwood: [To] speak. Must be for running for election. I went to see but I was too small to remember. Interviewer: What did he say when the girl told him that her raccoon…. Mrs. Lockwood: Oh, he said, “I’m delighted, I’m just delighted.” He smiled all over and she was so pleased she could hardly stand it. And she said, “I have a cute raccoon and named him Teddy for you.” He was very pleased by it. And very amused by it. Interviewer: Did many politicians come to Grand Rapids, to campaign or one thing or another in those days? Mrs. Lockwood: Well, President Taft came here and Theodore Roosevelt was here. No I don’t remember any others. Oh, Bryan was here, too. Interviewer: William Jennings Bryan? Mrs. Lockwood: William Jennings Bryan. I’m a Republican so I didn’t hear William Jennings Bryan, but I saw him. He was down in the square. Let’s see if any, anything else exciting happened. I don’t believe so, in the way of political life. Alice Roosevelt Longworth was staying here with her husband years ago. And Mrs. Hanchett and her husband took them on the Honolulu [I] remember, the only one I remember. It was his streetcar and they took him out to the Cattery. And they wanted to get Mrs. Longworthy a cat but she didn’t want it. Interviewer: What was it, what’s the Cattery? Mrs. Lockwood: It was on the corner of Carlton and Lake Drive. I can’t tell you the name of the woman, she raised cats. She had hundreds of cats in that house. And she raised �12 them. She wanted to give Mrs. Longworth a cat but Mrs. Longworth couldn’t take care of a cat. Interviewer: (Hanchett) he owned the street car line. Mrs. Lockwood: That’s right and afterwards he was across from my father and mother on College Avenue, and they occupied that house. I was very fond of Mr. and Mrs. Hanchett. Mr. Hanchett was very fond of horses too. Interviewer: Did they, did they ever have races with their horses? Mrs. Lockwood: They used to race down on Jefferson Avenue, every Sunday afternoon. Ride fast horses in the cutter. I used to go there often and they raced their horses, up and down the street. And they had races out here at the fairgrounds out here in the south end. I never went out there. Interviewer: What….excuse me. Mrs. Lockwood: I used to go to the fairgrounds out here. Interviewer: Yes, where are the, where were the fairgrounds? Mrs. Lockwood: The fairgrounds were out… let’s see where that is now? It’s well, it’s out where the, what is there out there now? It was out by Mill Creek out that way. Interviewer: By Middle Creek? Mrs. Lockwood: No, Mill, Mill Creek it was called. Mill Creek. Interviewer: I don’t know where that is. Mrs. Lockwood: It’s in the north side of the city. It’s beyond North Park, across the river from North Park. Interviewer: Oh, I see. Mrs. Lockwood: You know where the Soldier’s home is? Interviewer: Yes Mrs. Lockwood: It was right out that bridge. Right out that road. Interviewer: In these horse races, there down on Jefferson Avenue, would they race like a jockey race or would they (?) �13 Mrs. Lockwood: Oh no, they, just in their cutters. They had cutters. And the men would have fast horses and just race Sunday afternoons. Interviewer: Did your father ever race? Mrs. Lockwood: No, he never raced. He wasn’t fond of anything like that. So I never raced either. I’d like to, but my pony wasn’t fast enough and they were very good looking horses they were racing. I used to drive, ride down there and watch them. When the circus would come to town we’d all go to the circus and had wonderful times like that. Interviewer: Did many people go down to Jefferson Avenue to watch the horse races? Mrs. Lockwood: Yes, they did. Had big crowds there on Sunday afternoon applauding for who had the fastest horse great crowds there, on Sunday afternoon. On pleasant winter days in the cutters, we’d all go bobsledding. We’d take the bobs and the wintertime and ride with the milkman. When he was delivering milk we rode with him. Interviewer: What, what’s a bob? Is that the sled? Mrs. Lockwood: Yes. Bob, that’s the sled. Interviewer: You’d hold on the back of his open cart then? Mrs. Lockwood: Back of his cart, open cart and he had a bobsled on it and he’d drive he had some youngsters on the back of it all the time. And that was a lot fun. It’s very different now. You couldn’t do that now. You couldn’t have a bob sled in Grand Rapids. You’d be killed getting off and getting on. There’s nothing else you’d like to ask me? Interviewer: Yes, there are a lot of things. I’m just thinking and just trying to picture that who would any of the men in your neighborhood or in this area around here race cutters? Mrs. Lockwood: No, I don’t think so. Interviewer: Who were the men that raced the cutters? Mrs. Lockwood: I don’t know the men at all. I’ve no idea. But anybody that had a fast horse, trotting horses and pacing horses, they were all in the race, on Sunday afternoons. And I’d go down on my pony just to watch them go by, but I didn’t know the men. Interviewer: When did you get married? Mrs. Lockwood: In nineteen nine, nineteen-0-nine - that’s a long time ago. Interviewer: Did you spend your married life in this house here? �14 Mrs. Lockwood: No, I’ve been here fifty six years; I was married and first lived on Washington Street. It’s where those double houses are on Washington Street. It was four0-seven Washington. It was right next to George Thompsons. Interviewer: Yes. Mrs. Lockwood: Just north of him, we were there for about a three years and then father bought this house when had some (?) builder built it. (?) He was very amusing person, a very attractive person. But Grand Rapids in those days was a beautiful city, the streets were lovely and the trees were so beautiful on College Avenue. Of course, there was no East Grand Rapids at all. As far as we ever went was Reed’s Lake. We never went any farther east than Reed’s Lake on the streetcar. Interviewer: Did people do much traveling in those days? Mrs. Lockwood: Yes, my grandmother went to California every winter. She had a house in California and a great many people went there. Mrs. Murphy went there every winter. Interviewer: In California? Mrs. Lockwood: In California. And people didn’t go abroad the way they do now, but they went to California. I think California was a very good favorite place in the winter and of course Father knew it too. But they were very, very fond of California. Interviewer: That certainly sounds different. Mrs. Lockwood: It was a different world. Yes, of course there was no, there was no push then there was no, nothing to make you rush. Everybody went to church and they drove to church and drove home from church, the hitching posts for the horses, was a very relaxing age. We’ve come to a very, I can’t quite describe what I mean but it’s, I think there’s such a push we’ve got for everything now. Don’t you have that feeling? Interviewer: Yes, I have that feeling. Mrs. Lockwood: Yes Interviewer: What do you think that ended that age that way of living? Mrs. Lockwood: The automobile. Interviewer: Do you think it was just the introduction of the automobile? �15 Mrs. Lockwood: I think it was the cars. Then everybody could get away so quickly you know. I don’t think it was very good to the young people. Interviewer: Well, if people had such lovely times in the neighborhoods and with their friends and their families, when the automobile was introduced why did they hurry away? Mrs. Lockwood: Well, they finally got out in the country by themselves I guess. I just don’t know. Interviewer: Yes Mrs. Lockwood: But I do think the automobile has done a great deal, had changed people’s lives. Don’t you feel that way? Interviewer: Yes, I think it has sure had a terrific effect on American life. Mrs. Lockwood: And we used to have neighborhood parties, I mean children’s parties. You don’t have anything like that now for children. You’d go to someone’s house and spend the evening and play tap in and tap out, post office and have the best time, they don’t do that anymore. Interviewer: The Aldrich family came from New York is that right? Mrs. Lockwood: No, it was Plymouth, Michigan. Interviewer: Plymouth Michigan? Mrs. Lockwood: Yes, Interviewer: Where did they come from before Plymouth, Michigan? Mrs. Lockwood: Oh, I think you’ve asked me something I can’t answer. Interviewer: Well that’s not that important. Mrs. Lockwood: Yes, they came from different places. I think originally from New York State, from Rochester, New York, but I’m not sure of that. I know they, they were born in Plymouth, Michigan. Interviewer: After, after the Second, or the First World War you’ve been living in this house for fifty-six years, what was the difference in, in the way people lived in society in let’s say the twenties, after the First World War between then and the beginning of the Depression? That span of time compared to the nineteen hundreds to nineteen-fifteen, for example. Mrs. Lockwood: I think people lived at home very much more before the war. �16 Interviewer: Yes Mrs. Lockwood: That and I think the country clubs. Interviewer: Were you and your husband members of the country club? Mrs. Lockwood: Yes, he was very fond of golf and but there was, I think there was, much more family life when we were young. Interviewer: Yes, what effect did the Depression have on the Hill District? Mrs. Lockwood: Oh it was very bad, nobody had any clothes any clothes that were new and pretty and then nobody could have new because it was (?).And of course everybody felt the depression very, very keenly. Interviewer: Did it affect you and your husband? Mrs. Lockwood: Oh yes, he was in the lumber business and it affected him very much. We had to curtail everything but everybody else was curtailed, too. Interviewer: So almost everybody was suffering together? Mrs. Lockwood: Everybody was suffering together. There were no comparisons at all. And I remember Mr. Benjamin Robinson bought a new car and we were all simply appalled that he could afford to buy a new car. He bought a new Packard car and we all wanted to ride in it because it was brand new. And we were so impressed that he bought a new car, of course he had no children. We had children, bringing them up and going off the school and all sorts of things, it was a very hard time. Interviewer: Are your children, still living in Grand Rapids? Mrs. Lockwood: No, my daughter lives, she’s been living in Chicago, now she lives just outside the Castle, Castle Park just below Holland. And my other daughter lives in Parkton, Pennsylvania. I have four grand-children and three great-grandchildren. Interviewer: Three great grand-children? Mrs. Lockwood: I’m very, very fortunate. I have a great grand-child almost thirteen years old. She’s a young lady. Interviewer: That’s amazing. Mrs. Lockwood: Yes Interviewer: You spent your summers down at Ottawa Beach? �17 Mrs. Lockwood: Yes, always. Interviewer: summer? Did you, when you were a child, did your family go anywhere for the Mrs. Lockwood: Every summer. Father ran the hotel down there and [we] went to the hotel for our meals and we had a very, very happy summer. Mother had a good time. She just had to look after us, but no meals to look after. Interviewer: How did you get down to Holland and Ottawa Beach? Mrs. Lockwood: We drove down and for a long time took the train. This train would leave at five-thirty in the afternoon and then we’d come up at eight-thirty in the morning and then do all sorts of things. Interurban across the Lake from Ottawa Beach, stop in Macatawa. We’d come up in the morning and spend the day and we’d go down at night and have a beautiful time. But we hardly wait to get back to the beach. Interviewer: What happened to that hotel? Mrs. Lockwood: It was burned. Interviewer: Was your father still, managing it when it burned? Mrs. Lockwood: No, father was dead and my brother had taken over. It burned in the spring. I don’t think they ever knew what happened to the hotel. It was completely burned. There was no one on the property at all. Interviewer: Was it in the winter when it burned? Mrs. Lockwood: In the springtime. Interviewer: Oh. Mrs. Lockwood: Burned to the ground. It was a lovely hotel, with great big porches and you could walk up on the porches and have dances very night. Everybody came from all the cottages and went to dances and it was a very happy life. They don’t live that way anymore. There’s a motel, nothing like the Ottawa Beach Hotel or Macatawa Hotel anymore. And I like Point West very much, but I had a gay life down there, at Ottawa Beach Hotel. Interviewer: Where did the guests that stayed at the hotel come from? Mrs. Lockwood: Oh, from all different places. There was a great many people from Chicago, a great many people from Cincinnati, and a great many people came from St. �18 Louis. They would spend the entire summer there. A many people from Grand Rapids went down there and stayed. Interviewer: They would spend the entire summer right at the hotel? Mrs. Lockwood: In the summer, two or three weeks. And the season was only about six weeks. We’d open in the latter part of June and close around Labor Day but no business after August. July was a big month down there. Very, very gay and very nice people came there in the summer… came summer after summer. Interviewer: What did people, do in the winter time for their fun, summertime they’d go down to the Ottawa Beach hotel but in the winter time what would they do for… Mrs. Lockwood: I think they froze. .In the winter time, I don’t know. I had a very happy time. We tobogganed or had bobsleds on Washington Street. They’d shut that street off entirely. Nobody could get across it. We’d roll from the hill down to the, what street is it? Interviewer: Lafayette? Mrs. Lockwood: Not Lafayette. Interviewer: State Street? Jefferson? Mrs. Lockwood: Jefferson. We’d go right down to Jefferson. Arthur Vandenberg use to ride the bobsleds_________ and down we’d go. And then we’d have to come up the hill pulling the bobsleds. That wasn’t so much fun. But the going down was great fun. Interviewer: Where did Arthur Vandenberg live? Did he live near-by? Mrs. Lockwood: Just down Washington Street, about the fifth house down, just below Prospect. Interviewer: You grew up with him? Mrs. Lockwood: We grew up there. And he was very good with the youngsters. And of course, when I grew older he was just my age but when I was a child he was about five years older. And he’d help us with our bobsleds and he was very kind to all of us. Mr. Senator Vandenberg and my husband were great friends. But, in the winter time there were, there was no Gay Avenue here at all. This has been added since I was a girl. It was on Mr. Gay’s property. And they cut the street through and then of course, the property was sold off. But this was all closed off and we start right from the head of the street and at Madison to the corner anyway. And they, they’d close off Lafayette and Prospect; we’d go right to the bottom of the hill on these big bobsleds. Interviewer: use it? Who would use the hill, mainly children or would the adults sometimes �19 Mrs. Lockwood: Oh no, no adults. Interviewer: They just did it for the children? Mrs. Lockwood: Just for the youngsters. And we’d slide all day long. Now what my father and mother did in the winter I just don’t know. I think probably they were bored to death. Of course they had horses and they drove in the winter time and when the cars came in they drove, drive an automobile in the ruts and a car would come towards you or they’d have to back up the car to let you through. Interviewer: Who, who had to back up? Mrs. Lockwood: One of the cars would have to back up. Interviewer: Oh, yes. Mrs. Lockwood: Because you’d be in a rut driving in the middle of the street. The streets weren’t cleaned at all in those days. You just took them as they were. Interviewer: Before the car came in did they, how did they travel in the winter time, with horses? Did they have sleighs? Mrs. Lockwood: In sleighs. Yes, they all had sleighs. Father and Mother had a sleigh. And I had a sleigh for my ponies. But they were no trouble because horses went all over the street but in the winter you’d get in a rut and then someone would be in a rut. I was on Madison Avenue one day and a car came towards me and he very kindly backed up to Fulton Avenue, and let me out because I was right in the rut I couldn’t get out. Interviewer: What would happen when a horse drawn sleigh would meet a car? Who would have to move? Mrs. Lockwood: The horses would be terrified. My ponies would stand up. They were just terrified of the automobiles. I’d think they were going to run away but they never did. It wasn’t very long before the automobiles were very popular. Is this all recorded? Interviewer: I hope so. Well, I think that’s all, I think we’ve covered quite a bit. Can you think of anything that, if you were doing the interview you’d ask about? Mrs. Lockwood: I can’t think of anything interesting, anything that would interest you. Interviewer: Well, try me out. Mrs. Lockwood: I had a very happy time, very good time. No, I don’t believe there’s anything else. �20 Interviewer: OK. Fine. Let’s see if we……… INDEX A O Aldrich, Euphrasia Ledyard (Grandmother) · 2, 15 Aldrich, Moses (Grandfather) · 2 Ottawa Beach · 17, 18, 19 B Barnhart, Mr. and Mrs. · 4 Batchhelder, Ira · 6 Bissell Family · 3 Blake, Kate (Aunt) · 8 Bryan, William Jennings · 12 C Central High School · 8, 9 F P Pantlind, James Boyd (Father) · 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19 Pantlind, Jessie Louise Aldrich (Mother) · 2, 7, 12, 19 R Ramona Park · 11 Reed’s Lake · 11, 14 Robinson, Benjamin · 17 Roosevelt, President Theodore (Teddy) · 11, 12 Rose Family · 11 S Fox Family · 4, 5 Smith, Mrs. Richard · 8 Stanton, Margie · 11 H Hanchett, Mrs. · 12 T K Taft, President · 12 The Cattery · 12 Thompson Family · 14 Keeler, Isaac · 9 V L Ledyard, William B. (Great-Grandfather) · 2 Longworth, Mrs. · 12 M Morton House · 6, 11 Vandenberg, Arthur · 19 W Waters Family · 3, 4 Wonderly, Mrs. J.H. (Aunt) · 8 � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/6e567dc0399a707c4465d92e23029b6c.mp3 71df701fb205d20b9365bc1c773dd162 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Rapids Oral Histories Subject The topic of the resource Heritage Hill (Grand Rapids, Mich.) Local histories Memoirs Michigan--History Oral histories (document genre) Description An account of the resource Taped and transcribed interviews conducted in the early 1970s primarily of the children and grandchildren of many of the founders of Grand Rapids, Michigan; many of whom were residents of the Heritage Hill neighborhood. 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Enlistment/Basic Training (02:48)   • • Why he joined (02:56)   o Lofgren mentions that he joined on Nov. 3, 1942 because he felt that it was his patriotic  duty to do so for his country. (02:59)   o He enlisted into the Quartermasters Corps in the Army. (03:01)   Where he went and what company he served with (03:17)   o Was sent to Fort Warren, Wyoming where he went to school first to learn about being a  quartermaster and then the signaling corps. (03:20)   o Was then sent onto to Trussville, Florida where he attended radar school. While there  he learned how to identify planes and handling of the radar equipment. (03:33)  ƒ o Briefly mentions that for a time he served aboard a P‐61 Black Widow and  stationary duty aboard 527s around the U.S. and overseas. While doing so, he  was working for the 50th Air Force. (04:39)   Boarded a Liberty troop transport ship for Europe. (05:40)  �o  At this point of the interview he outlines the places he saw battle. For instance he was  at Salerno, Naples, Anzio, Rome, and the major campaigns in Southern France and  heartland of Germany. (06:08)   Active Duty (08:51)   o o o o Sicily (09:07)   o While preparing for the invasion of the Italian mainland here he recalls that the enemy  would frequently run bombing raids on Sicily while he working as a radar operator  there. (09:43)   o While deployed in Sicily part of his job as a radar operator was to identify enemy planes  and then American bombers would drop something called “Window” which was made  of aluminum tin foil and so that enemy planes would not know where they were  coming. (09:55)  o  Takes a brief moment to mention that his father served in the Spanish American War   o served with the Navy for about 24 years. (11:09)   Italian mainland (12:42)   o Landed at Salerno and pushed on to Naples and Caserta and then to Anzio where he saw  his first action. (13:00)  o Anzio (13:20)   ƒ Stationed along a highway near the beach. (13:24) During one of his experiences  there he mentions seeing an LST being destroyed. (13:30)   ƒ Also briefly describes some of the exploits of Audie Murphy one of the men in  his company [division?]. (14:16)   Battle of the Bulge (15:35)   o While stationed about the mile from the front lines, Lofgren was assigned to the PI‐27  Radar Unit to protect the radar equipment. Describes what sort of equipment his van  was equipped with. In this way he avoided fighting at the Bulge. (16:01)    o While talking to a buddy via the phone his mouthpiece is struck by a bullet at which he  walks away un‐phased. (17:43)  Into Germany (18:35)   o After liberating Munich his unit was going down the Autobahn when they stopped and  liberated Dachau and the concentration camp there. (18:38)   �o He describes how beautiful the area was outside the concentration camp compared to  the filth and awful smell of the camp itself. (19:18)   o Before going into the camp he mentions being deloused. According to him once into the  camp he was shocked to see dead bodies rotting in flatcars and getting ready to be  burned. (19:52)   o Mentions that German farmers used human ashes for fertilizer. (21:10)   o His unit never made it to Berlin but instead was pulled back. On VE Day he was back in  camp enjoying good food and waiting to go home with many others. (21:29)   ƒ o While waiting to go home he mentions the different types of food offered while  surviving on K‐rations for 107 days. (22:45)  Going Home (23:46)   o Briefly mentions that he boarded a liberty ship for home and that it took 11 days to get  back to Norfolk, Virginia, where they had embarked before. (23:55)   o From there, Lofgren mentions being sent on to Camp Sheridan, Illinois where he was  discharged. (25:24)   After the Service (25:39)  o Adjusting to Home (25:46)   o o   After being discharged, Lofgren got married and was married for 26 years. Briefly  discusses his children. (25:55)  Reflection (26:56)   o Lofgren shares his thoughts about the impact that his time in the service had on him if  any. (27:18)   o Interview Ends (29:06)     � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LofgrenJ Title A name given to the resource Lofgren, Jack Allen (Interview outline and video), 2004 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lofgren, Jack Allen Description An account of the resource Jack Lofgren is a World War II veteran who served in the Quartermasters Corps of the U.S. Army from November 1942 to 1945. In this account, Lofgren discusses his pre-enlistment, enlistment and basic training in the U.S. and his service time abroad. What is most interesting is the brief details he gives in regards to the fighting in Italy, S. France, and his acquaintanceship with Audie Murphy. Lofgren concludes by sharing what impact his time in the service had on him. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Collins Sr., Charles E. (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings United States. Army World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2004-06-26 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/9fe04bf19dec886e1d31abaf972a6641.mp4 3e94eeb4f08f6a5ca576ff30fa5f5b48 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/9883646efe8322d4c046c0655ce09db9.pdf 1809f63d3bfb7a28dffb1786673ca2b1 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Interview World War II Robert Loftis Total Time – (39:06) Background · He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan – July 28, 1922 · His mother died when he was six years old (00:29) o His brother was two years old at the time o Moved to his grandparents farm in Marne, Michigan · He went to a one-room school (01:02) · Eventually moved back to Grand Rapids, Michigan o His grandparents lost the farm during the Depression · He graduated from Catholic Central High School in 1941 (01:50) · He did not know much about the events of the war at this time · He was surprised when Pearl Harbor was bombed · A good friend was drafted o He decided that his friend was not going to go without him so he went to East Grand Rapids, Michigan and signed up (02:56) Enlistment/Training – (02:57) · · · · He enlisted in October, 1942 He worked at a bowling alley and other odd jobs during this time Joined the Navy – was able to choose to join this branch (03:41) Went to boot camp at Great Lakes, Illinois (03:57) o Was in boot camp for 4-5 weeks · Was able to go home for 9 days – traveled by train · He was then taken to Treasure Island in San Francisco, California (04:22) · At Great Lakes, soldiers had to run every morning and spend time learning about the Navy (04:47) o Discipline was stressed in boot camp Active Duty – (05:16) · From Treasure Island, he was sent to the destroyer USS Phelps – October, 1943 (05:23) �· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · o The Japanese had missed this ship in Pearl Harbor The USS Phelps was armed with anti-aircraft guns o [5inch 38’s], 40mm, and torpedoes Before he was put on the USS Phelps, he spent 6 months in the Aleutian Islands (07:40) A lot of the men on the ship got sea sick His assignment was Signalman 3rd class (08:12) o He learned how to interpret Morse code (08:52) o He would flick a light on and off to communicate with other ships (09:20) The trip to the Aleutians was rough They immediately went after the Japanese once they got to the islands (10:00) o They got within 1,500 yards of the beach o The destroyer would get close to the beach The Army and the Marines went ahead of them, but were not equipped for the weather There were 8 men in his division o He worked 4 hours on, 8 hours off (11:35) He was stationed in the bridge of the ship (11:38) He reported to a 1st or 2nd class officer Spent 6 months in the Aleutians (12:57) It turned out that the information that they had was wrong and there were no Japanese on the island [Kiska] From the Aleutian Islands, they traveled to Pearl Harbor (13:28) o There were ships all over the side and oil all over the harbor He was able to venture onto the Hawaii mainland every morning (13:58) They did not spend much time in Hawaii and quickly traveled to Makin Island o They bombarded Makin Island (14:34) Returned back to Pearl Harbor after this They never encountered any Japanese ships or aircraft The war was never intense for him (16:00) o He was never worried about dying There was a particular routine to life on the boats o Had to spend a certain amount of time in the bridge of the ship o Men would relieve the others very early Men had their own bunks (17:17) While on watch, the men often had to spray paint or scrape paint Had to constantly flash the lights to communicate (18:10) There was never any kind of entertainment on the ship o The majority of the entertainment was in the ports (18:44) o When they went ashore, they would go to the bars There were black men on the ship o They were segregated from the rest of the crew (19:59) o They were servers �· The food was nothing fancy – corn bread, green beans, potatoes o Never had to eat army rations · California and the Aleutian Islands were the only ports that he stopped in · Once the war progressed, his ship went to the war in the Mariana Islands (21:57) o During this time, he was on patrol duty o The Japanese fired on them two times · The Japanese were firing with similar weapons as the Americans (23:19) · The Americans brought in a battleship to destroy the Japanese fleet (23:46) o He remembers firing star shells all night to see where the Japanese were (24:00) · After the battle, they were sent back to the States (24:17) · They went to Charleston, South Carolina (24:18) o He was here for 3 months o He landed in September, 1944 (24:30) · He was given 3 months of liberty leave o Went home and married his wife (24:42) · He was able to write home fairly regularly o He received mail every time mail was brought in · Once he returned to Charleston, he was on the ship for another year (25:32) · He then ran convoys out to Africa (25:36) · There were not many German U-boats to worry about (25:49) · Landed in North Africa - Algeria o It was a little town with Arabs with donkeys, bathrooms where you tipped ladies for its use, etc · He was in New York City, New York when the announcement came that the war was over (27:00) o The city was going wild · From New York, he traveled back to Charleston · He never saw any Japanese aircraft · He remembers when the Japanese strafed his ship with torpedoes that went underneath their ships (29:35) o The Americans thought the Japanese were Americans because the ships looked similar · He remembers seeing one Japanese man – he was a small man (30:40) · He was promoted to signalman 2nd class when he followed his captain to another ship (31:18) After the Service – (31:20) · · · · He was discharged in September, 1945 (31:42) When he returned home he was already married His wife had become pregnant on their honeymoon, but they lost that child He started a trucking company called “Fleet Delivery Service” (32:35) �· After that, he worked for Ward Plywood and Door Company o From this, he ventured into the wood business · He believes that young people would benefit from the service (33:52) o Many young people today are “babies” – they do not have hard lives · He had received battlefield stars from the war · He was able to stay in touch with fellow Navy men (36:03) o They all knew one another very well because they did not change crews very often � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LoftisR0518V Title A name given to the resource Loftis, Robert (Interview outline and video), 2004 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Loftis, Robert Description An account of the resource Robert Loftis was born July 28, 1922 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He spent the majority of his childhood at his grandparents' farm in Marne, Michigan. Robert enlisted into the Navy in 1942 and was sent to Great Lakes, Illinois for boot camp where he spent nearly five weeks in training. After boot camp, he was sent to board the USS Phelps in Treasure Island near San Francisco, California. From California, he left for six months to fight the Japanese in the Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific Ocean. Robert spent the majority of his time in the Pacific Ocean and was designated as a Signalman 3rd class that used Morse code to communicate with other ships. He was discharged in September of 1945. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sirois, Pierre (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Video recordings United States. Navy World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2004-05-14 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project Collection, (RHC-27)</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf video/mp4 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/85f16a5733514b8b96de13bb21b92ac2.jpg 61ce31d73a3786c9bd184f0554d188d4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection 1980s Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">University photographs, GV012-01</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01_UAPhotos_001268 Title A name given to the resource Logo for the 25th Anniversary of the College Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Description An account of the resource Logo for the 25th Anniversary (Silver Anniversary) Grand Valley, 1985. Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Allendale (Mich.) 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Title A name given to the resource Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History Description An account of the resource Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1910s-2010s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Douglas (Mich.) Michigan, Lake Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Sand dunes Outdoor recreation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Libraries. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-07_SD-Brigham-D_0123 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Brigham, D. Title A name given to the resource Logs on a beach, Douglas Description An account of the resource Photograph of two logs on the beach, with the lake in the background. The sky is covered in cumulus clouds and the day appears bright. Subject The topic of the resource Michigan Saugatuck (Mich.) Allegan County (Mich.) Beaches Michigan, Lake Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Digital file contributed by D. Brigham as part of the Stories of Summer project. Relation A related resource Stories of Summer (project) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/8567b56aa7d5647149d4cf0ebf2867d6.jpg 9b2c20f18a9c87d0f7d78ddd2bdd970d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faces of Grand Valley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource University Communications Description An account of the resource A non-comprehensive collection of photographs of Grand Valley faculty, staff, administrators, board members, friends, and alumni. Photos collected by University Communications for use in promotion and information sharing about Grand Valley with the wider community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960s - 1990s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived GV012-03. University Communications. Vita Files Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copryight Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University College administrators College teachers Colleges and universities -- Faculty Michigan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LoizeauxChristine Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Communications Title A name given to the resource Loizeaux, Christine Description An account of the resource Christine Loizeaux, Artistic Director of Dance Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University – History College teachers Universities and colleges – Faculty Michigan Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2853e1090e1cbd433f8a116b10889849.jpg 5607abc4cf173cda260145a0aa924fe6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fore-Edge Paintings Subject The topic of the resource Fore-edge painting Painting Description An account of the resource A fore-edge painting is a miniature watercolor executed on the fanned edge or edges of a book; when the book is closed the art disappears, now hidden by the edge gilding. This genre of painting dates from the 1500s, flourished in the 1800s, and is still practiced today. Anonymous and undated paintings include landscapes, scenes and characters from literature, and portraits of authors. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Book Collection Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-07-17 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV-02 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV-02_FE_019 Title A name given to the resource London Bridge from the River Thames Description An account of the resource Painting on the fore-edge of vol. 1 of "Osmond: a tale" by Mary Ann Kelty of London Bridge from the River Thames with the dome of St. Paul's in the background. Subject The topic of the resource London (England) London Bridge (London England) St. Paul's Cathedral (London England) River Thames (England) Fore-edge painting Painting Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1822 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seidman Rare Books. ND2370.K45 086 1822 Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/ca627850959300c884832ebfa8ae71d6.jpg a60a47b6a89ce9564c930b78d3f705bc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Douglas R. Gilbert Photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R., 1942-2023 Description An account of the resource Photographs scanned from negatives and transparencies from the Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183). Douglas R. Gilbert (b. 1942) is an American photographer from Michigan. He was born in Holland, Michigan and is the son of Russell W. and Carmen (Andree) Gilbert. Gilbert earned a B.A. in social sciences and art at Michigan State University in 1964, an M.S. in photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1972, and a M.S.W. from Salem State College in 1993. He is married to Barbara (McDonald) Gilbert, and has three daughters, Robyn, Rachel, and Anne. Gilbert took a serious interest in photography at the age of fourteen. In 1963 he joined the staff of Look magazine in New York as the second youngest photojournalist in the magazine's history. As a Look photographer from 1964 to 1966, he photographed folk musician Bob Dylan, the Newport Folk Festival, Simon and Garfunkel, the New York City Financial District, the children and facilities at the Manhattan School for Seriously Disturbed Children. From 1967 to 1969, Gilbert did several shoots, including that of folk singer Janis Ian for Life magazine. After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1969 to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, Gilbert conducted notable photo shoots of business and political figure Lenore Romney, and pursued more personal and artistic photography, focusing on urban and rural landscapes in Illinois and Michigan. He then joined the faculty of Wheaton College, where he taught from 1972 to 1982. In 1993, Gilbert graduated from Salem State College, Massachusetts, with a Masters in Social Work, and later pursued a second career as a psychotherapist. Douglas Gilbert died in June 2023. Throughout his photography career, he pursued both freelance commercial work as well as artistic work. His art photography is characterized by its classic black-and-white format, and features people, places and objects shot great attention and sensitivity. Gilbert's works are held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and the Grand Valley State University Art Galleries, as well as in numerous private and institutional collections. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960-2011 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="%E2%80%9Dhttps%3A//gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783%E2%80%9D">Douglas R. Gilbert Papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Photographs Photography -- United States Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183_G061-0021 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966-06 Title A name given to the resource London Underground Station, Piccadilly Circus Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of the entrance to the Piccadilly Circus station of the London Underground public subway and the surrounding busy city sidewalk. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Piccadilly Circus (London, England) Subway stations--England--London London Underground Limited Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783">Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/02a4a6830bef855c8eb4be7f1d046bc1.pdf d35ab9fc9abc951cbb59199d1a88e154 PDF Text Text Longing for Home “Our Hearts Are Restless Till They Find Their Rest in Thee” Text: Jeremiah 29:11-13; Matthew 1:23 Richard A. Rhem Christ Community Church Spring Lake, Michigan Advent II, December 4, 1994 Transcription of the spoken sermon The Christmas carols are playing. The anticipation of the children is rising. The season of preparation is well under way, and we await the celebration of the King of Glory. It’s such a lovely time of the year. It’s a time of the year that is so filled with memories, filled with all of the great traditions that have surrounded us throughout all of our days. Yet, if you are a pastor or a therapist, you would find that this lovely season is also a season of an increased caseload because, for all of its loveliness and all its joy, it seems also to be a season in which there is an acuteness of sadness and melancholy. So many experience in these holiday days the aching loneliness that overcomes them, perhaps suddenly without warning, and one is deluged in deep feeling. It may be because the season triggers in us memories of home, of childhood. It may be that we recognize that our dreams have been shattered, or that our hopes have been crushed, or maybe in a moment of reflection we simply know that we’ve traveled a long way from home. That’s the experience of exile. The word itself beginning with “ex” from the Latin means “out of,” and it means out of home. If you’ve ever made application for a passport, you’ll know that they want to know your domicile. Domicile is a permanent address, a home address. But in exile, one has no domicile because one has no permanent address. The experience of exile is familiar to us who are traditioned in the biblical story. Just a couple of weeks ago, concluding our trip through Israel’s tradition, we found Judah, the southern kingdom, in exile in Babylon. The southern kingdom had ended in 586 as the Babylonians had come in and torn down the walls, burned down the temple and removed the finest of Jerusalem’s residents. Eight hundred miles to the north and east, there they were in exile. You may remember that the Psalm lesson of the morning was sung for us by Greg Martin, Psalm 137, “By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept. We hung our harps on the willows. For they said to us, “Sing us a song of Zion. © Grand Valley State University   �Longing for Home Richard A. Rhem Page 2   But how could we sing a song of Zion in a foreign land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem. May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.” The deep grief, the awful ache that comes through so poignantly in that Psalm was an expression of a literal exile, which many in our day know as well. Refugees in Rwanda, the terrible tragedy that continues to go on in the former Yugoslavia, the nation seeming paralyzed to do something about that awful situation. So, there are many in our day who do know literal exile, as did Judah. Exile, the experience of it out of the scriptures has become a central metaphor or image for the human condition, because we are all vulnerable. It happens to us all at one time or another. It overtakes us unawares and we seem drowning in melancholy and sadness for which we can really find no immediate cause. It is a longing for home. We are all vulnerable to it, even though we may give our domicile as a very fine address. Because, finally, home is not a matter of geography. Finally, home is a matter of places of the heart. I suppose that it is because home is that place that we come from and that place that we go to that we know in the meantime we are homeless. For we come from God and we go to God. God is our whence and our whither, and in the meantime we are simply not home. St. Augustine’s words are so often quoted because they say it better than any way I can think of saying them: Thou hast created us for Thyself, O God, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in Thee. None of us is home yet because, finally, home is not a matter of geography. Home has to do with the places of the heart, and we will therefore sense that none of us are home yet and will, now and again, have a strange longing for home. © Grand Valley State University � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/36d818ebaeddd9ecc97989d88b809414.mp3 ddcf04da82be7967cb45e5dedc1347a5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard A. Rhem Collection Description An account of the resource Text and sound recordings of the sermons, prayers, services, and articles of Richard Rhem, pastor emeritus of Christ Community Church in Spring Lake, Michigan, where he served for 37 years. Starting in the mid 1980's, Rhem began to question some of the traditional Christian dogma that he had been espousing from the pulpit. That questioning was a first step in a long and interesting spiritual journey, one that he openly shared with his congregation. His journey is important, in part because it is reflective of the questioning, the yearnings, and the gradual revision of beliefs that many persons in this part of the century have experienced and continue to experience. It is important also because of the affirming and inclusive way his questioning was done and his thinking evolved. His sermons and other written and spoken materials together document the steps in his journey as it took a turn in 1985, yet continued to revolve around the framework and liturgies of the Christian calendar. Subject The topic of the resource Clergy--Michigan Reformed Church in America Christ Community Church (Spring Lake, Mich.) Religion Interfaith worship Sermons Sound Recordings Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rhem, Richard A. 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Rhem - An Archive of Sermons, Prayers, Talks and Stories: http://richardrhem.org/ Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Description An account of the resource A sermon given by Richard A. Rhem (Dick) on December 4, 1994 entitled "Longing for Home and Home Away From Home", on the occasion of Advent II, at Christ Community Church, Spring Lake, MI. Scripture references: Jeremiah 29:11-13, Matthew 1:23. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives Advent Exile God Shalom https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/66fff228797d08a5c4f18035898bc2c4.mp3 950275ff7908036b17291963d6174b2e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard A. Rhem Collection Description An account of the resource Text and sound recordings of the sermons, prayers, services, and articles of Richard Rhem, pastor emeritus of Christ Community Church in Spring Lake, Michigan, where he served for 37 years. Starting in the mid 1980's, Rhem began to question some of the traditional Christian dogma that he had been espousing from the pulpit. That questioning was a first step in a long and interesting spiritual journey, one that he openly shared with his congregation. His journey is important, in part because it is reflective of the questioning, the yearnings, and the gradual revision of beliefs that many persons in this part of the century have experienced and continue to experience. It is important also because of the affirming and inclusive way his questioning was done and his thinking evolved. His sermons and other written and spoken materials together document the steps in his journey as it took a turn in 1985, yet continued to revolve around the framework and liturgies of the Christian calendar. Subject The topic of the resource Clergy--Michigan Reformed Church in America Christ Community Church (Spring Lake, Mich.) Religion Interfaith worship Sermons Sound Recordings Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rhem, Richard A. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/514">Richard A. Rhem papers (KII-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. 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Event Midweek Lent Series On Being Human Scripture Text Psalm 40, Mark 14:32-42 Location The location of the interview Christ Community Church, Spring Lake, MI Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context KII-01_RA-0-19950329 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995-03-29 Title A name given to the resource Longing to Learn the Will of God Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Richard A. Rhem Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Clergy--Michigan Reformed Church in America Christ Community Church (Spring Lake, Mich.) Sermons Relation A related resource Richard A. Rhem - An Archive of Sermons, Prayers, Talks and Stories: http://richardrhem.org/ Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 Description An account of the resource A sermon given by Richard A. Rhem (Dick) on March 29, 1995 entitled "Longing to Learn the Will of God", as part of the series "On Being Human", on the occasion of Midweek Lent, at Christ Community Church, Spring Lake, MI. Scripture references: Psalm 40, Mark 14:32-42. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/949c0bd579e94ed74ce79ed8787d60c2.pdf aaff5fabd64b105160f759cef49b3510 PDF Text Text Look At the Faces Around the Table From the series: Faces Around the Cross Text: Luke 5:29 Richard A. Rhem Christ Community Church Spring Lake, Michigan February 16, 1997 Transcription of the spoken sermon Having entered this Lenten season around the table of our Lord, I want to point to the fact that table fellowship was the mark of his ministry. Throughout this season we'll be looking at faces around the cross, but first, this morning, let's look at the faces around the table. In the formalized, ritualized worship of the Christian church, it's not really possible for us to gather around the table. When I was doing my graduate study in The Netherlands, I would, on occasion, go to one of the Dutch churches in the neighborhood. After the Second World War, they had built a lot of churches in The Netherlands and they built them with a lot of space in the front of the nave, and in one of the neighborhood churches that I attended, in the celebration of Communion, the people would literally come forward and gather around tables set in the front of the nave, several pews gathering until all the chairs were filled. They would partake, rise, go back to their pews and the next section would come. They literally took the Communion around the table so that they could look into the faces of one another. Well, that was a cut above what we're able to do, but it still wasn't reflective of the intimacy of table fellowship as we have it in the initiation of this sacrament on the night of Jesus' betrayal. That, of course, was connected with the Passover feast. Israel celebrated annually every spring their deliverance from Egypt, God's liberating act of freedom for them as a people, their founding story. And so, they celebrated annually in the spring the Passover meal, in their respective homes around that roasted lamb. Jesus took his vision and his ministry into the very heart and center of Israel, in Jerusalem to the Temple, and he did it at the time of Passover so that the culmination of his life and his crucifixion happened at that time of the year. In the night before that inevitable morrow when he would give his life, he gathered with his disciples. Some of the Gospels say it was Passover itself. One of the Gospels says that it was a night prior to Passover, but whatever - it certainly was connected with that Passover celebration. But, there was a deeper connection, I believe, for, in gathering his disciples around the table on that last evening, he was doing what had been characteristic of his ministry. © Grand Valley State University   �Faces Around the Table Richard A. Rhem Page 2   New Testament scholarship studies of the Gospel today are more and more recognizing that it was table fellowship that was central to the ministry of Jesus. That it was fellowship around the table that was the hallmark of his ministry and that, at table fellowship, Jesus was enacting his message, that it was there, in the midst of that fellowship, that God's presence was experienced, God's living, gracious presence known in the fellowship of the table. It was around the table, looking into one another's eyes that those people experienced the presence of God according to the proclamation of Jesus. Now, this is quite a radical idea, really. Oh, I've said it many times - that table fellowship marked the ministry of Jesus. You can't read the Gospels without coming again and again to a dinner party. Someone has said that in the whole of Jesus' ministry he is either going to dinner or coming from dinner and at one point, in frustration at some of his critics, he said, "You know, there's no way to satisfy you people. John the Baptist came neither eating nor drinking and you said he has a demon. And I came eating and drinking and you call me a glutton and a wine bibber." Well, I prefer Jesus' style. But, it is true - he was a convivial person. He was always at table, and he would go to anybody's table. He was sort of like Peter. Just invite him to dinner. Because Peter has come to understand that a table finely set with candles, wine, and good bread is a sacrament. Literally, Jesus incarnated the presence of God at table. We read the story of his call to Levi or Matthew to come follow him, and the first thing that Matthew did was to throw a party for his friends, and of course, the Pharisees who were very strict in their religious observance marked by their separation from all sorts and manner of people, condemned his presence at the party. But, the point that Jesus was making was that his presence at the party was the presence of God which said that God's presence is immediately available to all, to all who would come to table, that there are not distinctions, that one is not to withhold oneself from some people under fear of ritual impurity as though one might become unacceptable to God because one rubbed shoulders with whomever. But, it wasn't only Matthew's party with the tax collectors, the IRS people, the rather unsavory sort who were working not for their own government, but for an occupying power, who were unclean according to the strictest religious observance because they associated with all kinds of people and were in collaboration with that foreign power - it wasn't only that kind of people with whom Jesus would dine. He also dined at the house of Simon the Pharisee, for example. Of course, on that occasion a lady of the night came in and anointed his feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. Wherever you go in the Gospels, Jesus is at table, and the radical message of Jesus was that the Kingdom of God is dawned. The Kingdom of God is not "up above," the Kingdom of God is not out ahead in the future; the Kingdom of God is here and now. God's presence is present in our presence together. In our intimate connection of table fellowship, God's presence is experienced. © Grand Valley State University �Faces Around the Table Richard A. Rhem Page 3   The miracle of Christmas that we celebrate is incarnation. It was in our liturgy this morning - the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. And that is the wonder of Christmas. But, as a matter of fact, the incarnation has by the Church been isolated to Jesus, the word become flesh, failing to see that Jesus was called Immanuel, God with us, and that God is not alone in splendid isolation, in some vast beyond. Jesus' very message, the heart of his ministry, the active parable of his life, was that it was at table fellowship where you could look into the eyes of another, that the presence of God was experienced. That is a radical idea. If that is true, then you don't need priests. Now, you might need a pastor, but you don't need a priest in the sense of having someone mediate that grace of God to you. Some have used the phrase, "the unbrokered presence of God." The Stock Market broke a record this week but I can't charge into Wall Street myself and make my investments. (After vacation, that's a ludicrous idea, anyway.) But, I need a broker, an agent. The Church, by and large, cannot live by the radicality of Jesus. The Church has claimed to be a mediating institution and in some parts of Christendom, even the clergy are given a certain indelible stamp, a status that enables them to become the mediators of the grace of God in a degree to which average, garden variety folks like you couldn't do. But, Jesus spoke of the unbrokered presence of God. Jesus said you don't need a priest and you don't need a church and you don't need an institution. Some have said Jesus is a prophet and according to his message and his ministry he was trying to put himself out of business. Now, of course, religion cannot handle that kind of immediacy. Religion tends toward institutionalization and institutionalization tends toward structure, vested interest. The people are more easily managed and controlled, if not manipulated, by a proper religious structure. Don't you see, historically, that it has been the very religious structures that have blurred the clarity of Jesus' message that there was an immediate presence of God for everyone? Everyone who would open oneself, who would experience in that openness of relationship with another, anyone who with mercy and grace would live justly in relating with brothers and sisters - that one knew immediately the presence of the gracious God. That was really Jesus' message. He said as much, but he enacted it time and time again so that, of course, he became very threatening to the religious institution, and thus, in these Lenten weeks we will follow again that story of his passion and his death. We will look at faces around the cross. But before we do that, on this first Sunday in Lent, we look at faces around the table. As I said, we can't come around the table, so in this formal setting you'll have to simply look into the eyes of the one on your right hand and on your left. You'll have to look at each other forwards and backwards. You have to experience the presence of God in the presence of one another, where you are in this © Grand Valley State University �Faces Around the Table Richard A. Rhem Page 4   arrangement, which doesn't lend itself to the kind of communion that Jesus had in mind. And yet maybe we can get a sense of it. At the early service I had the privilege of not serving the Eucharist. I was able to sit on the bench, and as the people streamed down the aisle, I looked face-to-face, with face after face, and it was a rather moving experience for me. It gave me goose-bumps. Some I have known for years; some I know more recently; some I know intimately, some I know not so well, but what I knew in a moment as the people came forward, I was able to look into their faces, that it is here that I experience the reality of God. In our early service, the people kneel and, as a rule, I have the privilege to serve the bread or offer the cup face-to-face. A very, very moving experience which I cherish. But, I had the privilege of looking at people and serving them in the early service on an average week and I see them kneeling in prayer. Good things happen at the rail. Yet, I sense that often that is so personal - between the communicant and God. But, according to Jesus, if you really want a moment with God, look across the table. Look into the eyes of another. Look at the faces around the table. And this is where Jesus was so radical, because there were all sorts of people around the table! There were Pharisees and tax collectors and ladies of the night and lepers and whomever would come. The active miracle or the active parable of Jesus' life was not that people needed to be saved, but that they were saved because from the beginning it was always that way - God's love available to all of those who would open their life to that love and who would experience the love of God in the love of the other. That's quite revolutionary, really quite radical, and I honestly believe quite true to Jesus. The Church cannot long live with that kind of radicality of grace. The Church will soon structure it, package it, protect it, secure it. But, the table fellowship of Jesus was the expression of the unbrokered immediacy of the presence of God and, in the communion of brothers and sisters, was the experience of the gracious God. Look around the table, so to speak, this morning. You will be immediately impressed with one thing - there's not much diversity, is there? Wouldn't it be wonderful if this morning it was true according to that children's chorus - "Red and yellow, black and white, ..." Wouldn't it be great this morning if we look around and we recognize that in this community somehow or other we were able to transcend social and cultural and economic barriers? We're pretty lily-white and affluent. Pretty much proper citizens, all. Are there any sinners? Well, a hand or two. And I suspected that. But, you see, the Kingdom of God is the immediate presence to those whose eyes look into another and say, "I love you," whose voice affirms, "I am for you," whose arms embrace and whose whole body language says we are brothers and sisters. And suddenly that horizontal experience of communion is transformed into the experience of the living God, and then we © Grand Valley State University �Faces Around the Table Richard A. Rhem Page 5   know, don't we? Don't we know then? Are we not then sent out to live justly and to love mercy and to build human community? Look at the faces around the table. If we really got it right, if we really followed Jesus as radically as Jesus followed his vision, which of course, led him to crucifixion, then who would be around the table? Red and yellow, black and white, rich and poor, educated, uneducated alike, men and women, adults and children, straight and Gay, Pro-Lifers and Pro-Choicers - all sorts of people who express their own individuality, the consequence of their own insight and experience, but know that they know nothing of the living God except in the embrace of the other. It is in human community around the table that the reality of God is known. Dear friends, God is not "up there," above us. God is not "out there," in front of us in some unknown future. God is here and now, in you and me. Or, we're only kidding ourselves. So, take a moment. Look at the faces around the table and experience the gracious presence of the living God. © Grand Valley State University � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3b4c12940c50626ba3e739dbcac17674.mp3 149f0c2594f351258c75550fdc625c79 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Richard A. Rhem Collection Description An account of the resource Text and sound recordings of the sermons, prayers, services, and articles of Richard Rhem, pastor emeritus of Christ Community Church in Spring Lake, Michigan, where he served for 37 years. Starting in the mid 1980's, Rhem began to question some of the traditional Christian dogma that he had been espousing from the pulpit. That questioning was a first step in a long and interesting spiritual journey, one that he openly shared with his congregation. His journey is important, in part because it is reflective of the questioning, the yearnings, and the gradual revision of beliefs that many persons in this part of the century have experienced and continue to experience. It is important also because of the affirming and inclusive way his questioning was done and his thinking evolved. His sermons and other written and spoken materials together document the steps in his journey as it took a turn in 1985, yet continued to revolve around the framework and liturgies of the Christian calendar. Subject The topic of the resource Clergy--Michigan Reformed Church in America Christ Community Church (Spring Lake, Mich.) Religion Interfaith worship Sermons Sound Recordings Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rhem, Richard A. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/514">Richard A. Rhem papers (KII-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kaufman Interfaith Institute Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context KII-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1981-2014 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 text/pdf Sound A resource primarily intended to be heard. Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Event Lent I Series Faces Around the Cross Scripture Text Luke 5:29 Location The location of the interview Christ Community Church, Spring Lake, MI Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context KII-01_RA-0-19970216 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1997-02-16 Title A name given to the resource Look at the Faces Around the Table Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Richard A. Rhem Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Clergy--Michigan Reformed Church in America Christ Community Church (Spring Lake, Mich.) Sermons Relation A related resource Richard A. Rhem - An Archive of Sermons, Prayers, Talks and Stories: http://richardrhem.org/ Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Sound Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource audio/mp3 application/pdf Description An account of the resource A sermon given by Richard A. Rhem (Dick) on February 16, 1997 entitled "Look at the Faces Around the Table", as part of the series "Faces Around the Cross", on the occasion of Lent I, at Christ Community Church, Spring Lake, MI. Scripture references: Luke 5:29. Community of Grace Inclusive Love Lent Presence of God https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/102d8822a03ad39cb009eb945994fb29.jpg 1796377bb8c1ca7c3da87eb031189e00 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Douglas R. Gilbert Photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R., 1942-2023 Description An account of the resource Photographs scanned from negatives and transparencies from the Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183). Douglas R. Gilbert (b. 1942) is an American photographer from Michigan. He was born in Holland, Michigan and is the son of Russell W. and Carmen (Andree) Gilbert. Gilbert earned a B.A. in social sciences and art at Michigan State University in 1964, an M.S. in photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1972, and a M.S.W. from Salem State College in 1993. He is married to Barbara (McDonald) Gilbert, and has three daughters, Robyn, Rachel, and Anne. Gilbert took a serious interest in photography at the age of fourteen. In 1963 he joined the staff of Look magazine in New York as the second youngest photojournalist in the magazine's history. As a Look photographer from 1964 to 1966, he photographed folk musician Bob Dylan, the Newport Folk Festival, Simon and Garfunkel, the New York City Financial District, the children and facilities at the Manhattan School for Seriously Disturbed Children. From 1967 to 1969, Gilbert did several shoots, including that of folk singer Janis Ian for Life magazine. After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1969 to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, Gilbert conducted notable photo shoots of business and political figure Lenore Romney, and pursued more personal and artistic photography, focusing on urban and rural landscapes in Illinois and Michigan. He then joined the faculty of Wheaton College, where he taught from 1972 to 1982. In 1993, Gilbert graduated from Salem State College, Massachusetts, with a Masters in Social Work, and later pursued a second career as a psychotherapist. Douglas Gilbert died in June 2023. Throughout his photography career, he pursued both freelance commercial work as well as artistic work. His art photography is characterized by its classic black-and-white format, and features people, places and objects shot great attention and sensitivity. Gilbert's works are held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and the Grand Valley State University Art Galleries, as well as in numerous private and institutional collections. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960-2011 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="%E2%80%9Dhttps%3A//gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783%E2%80%9D">Douglas R. Gilbert Papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Photographs Photography -- United States Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183_D180-0018 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1963-06-27 Title A name given to the resource LOOK Magazine Staff Members Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of two LOOK magazine staff members working in their office studio, taken as a Leica test shot by photographer Douglas Gilbert. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Look magazine Offices Leica camera Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783">Douglas R. 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Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection 1990s Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">University photographs, GV012-01</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01_UAPhotos_001181 Title A name given to the resource Looking at Mastadon "Smitty" Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Description An account of the resource Looking at Mastadon "Smitty," L to R: Jan Brashler, Anthropology, ?, ?, Don Williams, Sociology, ?, 1993. Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities and colleges Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives black and white photo https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2cf08981361bf6f8b082c7e70c318925.jpg b2a9adc94ce3ea7488bfa22ddf2d2ee4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Grand Valley State University Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Aerial photographs Universities and colleges Michigan Grand Rapids (Mich.) Allendale (Mich.) Building Facilities Dormitories Students Events 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Description An account of the resource People, places, and events of Grand Valley State University from its founding in 1960 as a 4-year college in western Michigan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource News & Information Services. University Communications Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">News &amp; Information Services. University Photographs. (GV012-01)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-03-03 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-NC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1960s-2000s Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Local Subject Subject headings specific to a particular image collection 1990s Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/41">University photographs, GV012-01</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-01_UAPhotos_001182 Title A name given to the resource Looking at Mastadon "Smitty" Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Description An account of the resource Looking at Mastadon "Smitty," 1993. Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Michigan Allendale (Mich.) 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