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Ziegenhagen Family Letters
Franz (Frank) Ziegenhagen and Dorothea (Dora) Schmidt, his second wife, emigrated from Steinborn, Kreis Schlochau, West Prussia (now Słupia, Gmina Debrzno, Poland), a small farming community. Franz and...
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Conz Family Letters
This collection of letters, largely dating from 1882 to 1902, centers on immigrant Christian Conz and his siblings. Christian Conz emigrated from Güglingen, Württemberg, and eventually settled in Reading,...
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Grupe Family Letters
The Grupe Family Letters is a collection of 22 letters mostly sent to immigrant Marie Franziska Elisabeth Grupe (1825–1923) between 1898 and 1919. Marie Grupe was born in 1825 in Hamburg, Germany, and...
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Dreyer Family Papers
The Dreyer Family Papers is a collection of 30 letters between 1860 and 1872. This collection of letters, from the Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley, is apparently associated with...
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Rustemeyer Papers
This collection of letters is drawn from the Rustemeyer Family Papers, held by the State Historical Society of Missouri, and includes letters sent to Bernard Rustemeyer in the years after World War I,...
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George A. Zimmerman Family Letters
This group of letters is drawn from the Clarence A. Moore Papers, held by the Joint Archives of Holland at Hope College Library (Holland, Mich.).
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Nuss Family Letters
Wilhelmina “Minnie” Vieting Nuss and her husband (Wilhelm) Gustav Nuss arrived in Philadelphia on June 21, 1883 with their four children: Clara Dora, Heinrich, Frederick and Pauline. They came from...
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Mehler-Flechtker Correspondence
Hugo Eugen Mehler was born in Langerfeld, in the Rhineland, in 1885; Martha Flechtker was born in Barmen in 1889. The couple were married in Germany, and Hugo immigrated to the United States in Philadelphia...
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Hinrichs Family Letters
This collection of letters centers on the Hinrichs family, originally from the Aurich region of Hannover, who immigrated to Missouri in the 1850s. The collection is drawn from the Oliver Latimer Papers,...
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Wuellner Family Letters
The Wuellner Family Letters represent correspondence sent to John Joseph Wuellner, who emigrated from Schwaney (near Paderborn) to the Alton, Illinois area in 1881, at the age of 19. Having apprenticed...
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Engelmann Family Letters
This collection consists of letters sent by three siblings, Charlotte, Sophie, and Theodor Engelmann, to their sister Margarethe. The three Engelmann siblings emigrated to Illinois with their parents,...
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Peter Jöns Letters
This group of letters was written by Peter Jöns to his family in Schleswig-Holstein between approximately 1887 and 1895.
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Eversmann Family Letters
Letters sent to Lewis (Ludwig) Eversmann, who immigrated to Missouri in the 1820s, by his family, including his brother Julius, who lived in both Germany and Mexico (where he served as consul in Tampico).
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Blumenberg Family Letters
Letters sent to the Blumenberg family from relatives in Hannover.
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Raster Family Letters
This collection contains family letters of the Chicago journalist Hermann Raster, who emigrated from Germany in the wake of the upheaval of 1848 and was an active supporter of the United States during...
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Eugen Klee Papers (HSP)
This collection of letters, drawn from the Eugen Klee Papers held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, includes correspondence sent between 1893 and 1911 to the choral conductor Eugen Klee, who immigrated...
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Benedix Letters
Letters sent by Christian Benedix, an immigrant from Germany who eventually settled in California, to relatives in Germany.
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