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Houses

Michigan Modern

The following Kalamazoo area houses and buildings have been recognized by the Michigan Modern Project as significant contributions to modernist…

Recreation

Peter the Great

“If Kalamazoo had never held a horse race, had there never been a trotting track here, the name of Kalamazoo…

Transportation

Downtown Parking

One might ask why a mundane issue such as parking warrants examination. Yet parking in cities across the United States…

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Let's Get Digital!

Digital Services @KPL If you are limiting your exposure to COVID-19 by staying home but still wish to use library…

KPL TV: Kalamazoo History

The KPL Story (1998)

The KPL Story

A 1998 mini-documentary about the library’s renovation project, featuring architect David Milling, artist Michael Hayden, and others. Includes two television…

KPL TV: Kalamazoo History

Kalamazoo '76 - Digitally Restored 2016 Edition

Kalamazoo '76

In 1976, the “showcase” of Kalamazoo’s commemoration of the nation’s Bicentennial was a 3-screen multi-image slide show. This 53-minute program…

Databases

Small Business Reference Center

Small Business Reference Center offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools…

Newspapers.com

Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 493 million+ pages of historical newspapers from 11,800+ newspapers from around…

Literature Criticism Online

For students, researchers, history buffs and literature lovers, there’s no better source than Literature Criticism Online to discover commentary on…

Literary Reference Center

This rich full-text database provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines…

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