Johann Georg (George) Holl was born in 1850 in the small farming village of Oberpreuschwitz, now incorporated into the city of Bayreuth, Bavaria. He was the third son of farmer Johann Holl (1818-1886)...

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...

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...