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Book/Printed MaterialBelgium. In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. Belgium is Number 26 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were published after the conclusion…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 242 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialBelgian Congo. "Appendix" (p. [119]-129) contains extracts from treaties and declarations relating to the Belgian Congo. "Authorities": p. [130]-135.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 154 pages
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Photo, Print, DrawingBelgians Flooding Germans. This print showing German troops struggling in an unexpected flood in Belgium is from the collection of World War I lubok posters held at the British Library. The caption explains: "A heroic feat by small Belgium caused admiration from the whole world. Highly cultured Belgium, outraged by Germany's barbarian attacks, decided to take extreme measures to save the country. The whole of northern Belgium…- Date: 1914-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Book/Printed MaterialNeutrality of Belgium. "Authorities" : p. 22.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 38 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialFuturist Painting in Belgium.
La Peinture futuriste en Belgique / La Pittura futurista nel Belgio La Peinture futuriste en Belgique / La Pittura futurista nel Belgio (Futurist painting in Belgium) by the Belgian critic Ray Nyst first appeared in this bilingual version in the magazine La Belgique artistique et littéraire (Artistic and literary Belgium). Nyst expresses a positive assessment of Futurist style, albeit with some reservations. The text is from a collection of Futurist documents held by the University…- Contributor: Nyst, Ray
- Date: 1912-01-01
- Resource: - 4 pages
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe European War. The Belgians Explode their Own Dams and Defeat of German Units near Mechelen. This print showing German troops caught in an unexpected flood in Belgium is from the collection of World War I lubok posters held at the British Library. The caption explains: "As German units were bypassing Antwerp in the direction of Dendermonde near Mechelen, they were caught off guard by a flood caused by the blowing up of the dams by the Belgians. The whole…- Date: 1914-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapBelgian Ath, Called Aeth and Ath in French / F. de Witt.
Athum belgicé Aeth et Ath Gallicé dictum / F. de Witt This map, showing the fortifications surrounding the city of Ath, is the work of Frederik de Wit (1630-1706), the founder of a dynasty of three generations of Dutch map publishers, all named Frederik. The de Wit firm produced many kinds of maps, but specialized in maps of cities and atlases of city maps. Located in present-day Hainaut province in French-speaking Belgium, Ath was conquered…- Contributor: Wit, Frederik De
- Date: 1694-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Book/Printed MaterialBelgian playmates, heroes small--and heroes tall; a story of the great European war, 1914,- Contributor: Pollock, Nellie
- Date: 1914-01-01
- Resource: - 146 pages
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MapThe Dutch Republic, Enlarged and Edited: Produced with the Care and Work of Matthaeus Seutter.
Belgium Foederatum auctius et emendatius / edit cura et studio Matthaei Seutteri This map of the United Provinces of the Netherlands was engraved by Matthaeus Seutter (1678-1757), an engraver and publisher from Augsburg, Germany. Seutter studied printing in Nuremburg and in Augsburg, as an apprentice to Jeremias Wolff, before setting up his own printing house in 1710. Seutter generally enlarged and engraved the work of others but did very little drawing of original maps. This map…- Contributor: Seutter, Matthaeus - Lotter, Tobias Conrad
- Date: 1730-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapBrussels, Important City in the Netherlands, Capital of the Duchy of Brabant.
Bruxelles, ville considerable de Pais Bas, capitale du duche de Brabant This late-18th century French map shows Brussels, at that time an important city in the Spanish Netherlands and the capital of the Duchy of Brabant. The map shows the borders of the city and the Senne River. The location of the city on the river made it an important commercial center for trade between France and the Germanic states. In 1695, Brussels was attacked…- Date: 1700-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Book/Printed MaterialLocarno Treaties: Treaty between Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Italy.
Traités de Locarno: Traité entre l'Allemagne, la Belgique, la France, la Grande-Bretagne, et l'Italie, fait à Locarno, le 16 octobre 1925 The document presented here is the archival copy of the treaty concluded by the governments of Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain, and Italy in the city of Locarno, Switzerland, on October 16, 1925. The final page contains the diplomatic seals and the signatures of the representatives of the five signatory powers, who included Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann of Germany, Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of…- Contributor: Germany - Great Britain - Italy - France - Belgium
- Date: 1925-01-01
- Resource: - 9 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialHours of Notre Dame.
Heures de Notre-Dame Books of hours are collections of prayers used for private devotion. They were the most common illuminated works of the Middle Ages. Heures de Notre-Dame (The book of hours of Notre Dame) was made in Bruges (present-day Belgium) around 1470. The manuscript, written in Latin and on vellum, is most likely the work of William Wyelant or his studio. Wyelant, also known by the…- Contributor: Vrelant, Guillaume, 1481
- Date: 1470-01-01
- Resource: - 277 pages
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MapThe Holy Roman Empires Duchy of Antwerp and the Dominium of Malines: With the Eastern Flemish Areas and the Boundaries of Brabant Following from These.
S[acri] R[omani] I[mperii] sive Antverpiae Marchionatus et Dominium Mechliniae : cum orientalioribus Flandriae et Brabantiae hisce consequentibus terminis / auctore Carolo Allard This late-17th century map shows the Duchy of Brabant, including the cities of Antwerp and Mechelen. The duchy consisted of the modern-day Belgian provinces of Flemish Brabant, Walloon Brabant, Antwerp, and Brussels, as well as the province of North Brabant in the present-day Netherlands. The map was published in Amsterdam by Karel Allard (1648-1706) who, with his brother Abraham, had taken over the business…- Contributor: Allard, Carel
- Date: 1688-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Book/Printed MaterialLorraine and Saar minefields. "Authorities" : p. 29.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 46 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialFlemish Psalter.
Psautier flamand This Flemish Psalter from the library of the Irish College in Paris was made in Bruges (present-day Belgium) around 1500. The manuscript is written in Latin on vellum, and it has a 19th-century binding. Psalters are religious books, especially popular in the Middle Ages, containing the psalms (poems that are sung) from the Bible, often with other devotional texts. Richly decorated, the Psalter includes…- Date: 1500-01-01
- Resource: - 258 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialLuxemburg and Limburg. "Appendix [p. 37-49] : Extracts from treaties, conventions, protocols, &c. [relating to Luxemburg and Linburg] "Authorities": 1 leaf at end.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 64 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialHergé's Signature on La Compagnie Paquet's Guest Book. Shown here is Hergé's signature in La Compagnie Paquet's guest book. Hergé is the pen name of Georges Rémi (1907--83), the Belgian cartoonist who created the character Tintin and was the author of Les Aventures de Tintin (The adventures of Tintin) series of comic books. Founded in 1850 by Zéphirin Paquet, La Compagnie Paquet was one of Quebec's most successful retail businesses of the…- Contributor: Hergé
- Date: 1965-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Photo, Print, DrawingMerovingian Bees. The tomb of Childéric, king of the Salian Franks from 457 to 481 and the father of Clovis, was discovered by chance in 1653 by construction workers near the church of Saint-Brice in Tournai, in present-day Belgium. The treasure found was given to Archduke Leopold William of Habsburg (1614-62), governor of the southern Netherlands (at that time under Spanish rule). The archduke asked medical…- Contributor: Childéric I, King of the Franks, Died 481
- Date: 0481-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Book/Printed MaterialThe War. Documents from the Photographic Division of the Army, Fascicle XII: From the Yser to the North Sea.
La guerre : Documents de la Section photographique de l'Armée, fascicule XII In 1916, the Photographic Division of the Army in the French Ministry of War published collections of photographs documenting all aspects of French involvement in World War I. The collections were grouped by theme and published in 20 separate installments, or fascicles. These fascicles in turn were published in two larger volumes. Each fascicle opens with a brief introduction in French. The photographs are…- Contributor: France. Ministry of War. Photographic Section of the Army - Ardouin-Dumazet, Victor-Eugène
- Date: 1916-01-01
- Resource: - 30 pages
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PeriodicalThe Chechia : A Screamingly Funny Journal by the First Zouave Regiment.
Chéchia : journal boyautant du 1er Zouaves relié avec tout le front par fils barbelés La Chéchia is the trench journal published by the First Zouave Regiment of the French army during World War I. Trench journals were produced by and for soldiers and were known for their black humor, portrayal of life on the front lines, poems, drawings, and other features. The Zouaves were an elite military unit first formed in Algeria in 1830, and the journal took…- Contributor: Fiori, Henri - Frippier, Raoul - Clozier, René - Popinot, Léon Louis - Cabanne, Henri - Graffin, Marcel
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialGratian's "Decretum".
Decretum Gratiani This deluxe version of Gratian's Decretum was created circa 1280-90, most likely in Hainaut (in present-day Belgium). The lively decoration of the manuscript indicates a marked taste for narrative, and there are 37 historiated initials. The gloss work was completed by Bartholomew of Brescia. At first examination, Paris would seem to be the most likely place of origin, given that it was the leading…- Contributor: Gratian, Active 12th Century - Bartolomeo, Da Brescia, 1258
- Date: 1280-01-01
- Resource: - 700 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialConstitution de la République Rwandaise This document is the first Constitution of the Republic of Rwanda, proclaimed in November 1962. From 1890 to 1916, Rwanda was part of German East Africa. In 1916, during World War I, it was occupied by Belgian troops from the neighboring Belgian Congo. After the war, it was joined with Burundi to become a Belgian League of Nations mandate, under the name Ruanda-Urundi. On…- Contributor: Rwanda
- Date: 1962
- Resource: - 43 pages
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MapAccurately Delineated Ichnographic Plans of All the Cities and Towns in the 17 Provinces of the Netherlands.
Theatrum ichnographicum omnium urbium et præcipuorum oppidorum Belgicarum XVII Theatrum ichnographicum omnium urbium et præcipuorum oppidorum Belgicarum XVII Provinciarum peraccurate delineatarum (Accurately delineated ichnographic plans of all the cities and towns in the seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands), commonly known as the De Wit Atlas, is a city atlas containing maps and prints of key monuments in Dutch cities. The name comes from its creator, Frederick de Wit (1630-1706), an influential cartographer, engraver,…- Contributor: Wit, Frederik De
- Date: 1699-01-01
- Resource: - 136 pages
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MapMap of the Theater of Operations (Western Front) with Alphabetical Directory.
Carte du théâtre des opérations (front occidental) avec répertoire alphabétique Carte du théâtre des opérations: (front occidental) avec répertoire alphabétique (Map of the theater of operations [Western Front] with alphabetical directory) is a set of 15 detailed military maps produced in 1915 by the Geographical Service of the French army. The maps are preceded by a comprehensive, 73-page index of places, with each place keyed to a specific quadrant on one of the maps.…- Contributor: France. Armée. Service Géographique
- Date: 1915-01-01
- Resource: - 93 pages
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MapBritish Battles During 1918 (8th August to 11th November 1918).
British Battles During 1918 (8th Aug. to 11th Nov. 1918) This colorful map was produced by the Geographical Section of the General Staff of the UK War Office, printed by Waterlow & Sons, and made available for public sale shortly after the end of World War I. It provides a summary of the Hundred Days offensive by British, American, and British Empire troops that led to the German surrender on November 11, 1918. It…- Contributor: Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section
- Date: 1918-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page