A man marks off sections on the parade assembly ground. The parade assembly ground was marked off into 53 squares, each 40' by 40'. Each square was numbered by using lime and tennis marker.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Black and white photograph of Mark Wigglesworth. Signed: "To the wonderful Minnesota orchestra whose ability and attitude is a constant inspiration. With gratitude, Mark Wigglesworth"
Creator:
Schrickel, William
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Performing Arts Archives.
Born a Jew, Edith Stein converted to Catholicism and became a nun before Hitler assumed power in Germany. She lived as a Catholic, yet she died in 1942 in an Auschwitz gas chamber as Jew number 44074, during the time of the Concordat. Edith Stein, a Carmelite nun was recognized by the Vatican as Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, upon her can...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
This film traces the history of the computer, beginning with its earliest known origin and continuing to the present day. Two Minnesota television personalities, a man and a woman, narrate this film which was produced by Control Data Educational Institutes.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Charles Babbage Institute.
Mashru means "permitted" and is a fabric created to allow Muslim men to wear silk since the surface of the cloth which touches the body is cotton and thus fulfills the Koranic injunction against silk touching the body, while the other side, which is seen, is silk.
Mashru means "permitted" and is a fabric created to allow Muslim men to wear silk since the surface of the cloth which touches the body is cotton and thus fulfills the Koranic injunction against silk touching the body, while the other side, which is seen, is silk.
Such cloth is for temporary shrines and village festivals produced by untouchables. Workers often can be seen on sidewalks in Ahmedabad painting the cloth. There is always a representation of Ganesh in the cloth as well as the Mother Goddess. Cotton
Traditionally made with block printing and hand painting thanks to shortage of water these untouchable produced religious works are now done with stencils.
