This collection of letters is taken from the Höfeln Family Papers, held by the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois. Almost all of the letters were sent to Charlotte Fischer (later von Höfeln), who...

This collection of letters is drawn from the Eugen and Emma Klee Papers, held by the Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library of the German Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The bulk of the letters presented...

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,...

This collection of letters centers on Isaac Schweitzer, a merchant from the community of Mühringen who immigrated to the United States in the 1860s. He remained in the United States for almost twenty...

This selection of letters drawn from the Mary L. Geschwind Papers, held by the Library of Virginia, focuses on business and personal correspondence of the Haase family of Richmond, Virginia, from the late...

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This collection of letters, dating from between 1866 and 1901, was sent to [Johann] Bernard Husam, who immigrated to the United States in 1855 and settled in Adams County, Illinois. The letters were sent...

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.).

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).

This collection centers on Dorothea Handel Schuhmacher, who was originally from Bretten in Baden-Württemberg and immigrated to the United States in 1855 with her husband Peter Schuhmacher; the couple...

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...

A collection of letters sent to George Neubert, an immigrant who lived in Missouri in the 1890s, contributed by a descendant. The letters were largely sent by Neubert's sister Marie Hirtes and his nephew...

Carl Hermann Crede immigrated to Missouri from Cassel, Hesse, in 1853 with his brother Wilhelm. He joined the household of his maternal grandmother, Margarete Versen Schroeder Classen, who had immigrated...

The Benecke Family Papers, held by the State Historical Society of Missouri, contains several thousand items reflecting the lives of immigrants Louis Benecke (1843-1919) and his wife Josephine Amerlan...

Letters received by and sent from Marie Hansen Taylor. Born in Gotha in 1829, she married American author Bayard Taylor in 1857. The couple traveled throughout Europe for the first decade of their marriage...

Correspondence sent to journalist and entrepreneur Henry Villard from his German relatives. Villard, born Heinrich Hilgard in 1835, in Speyer, was born into a wealthy family and first traveled to the United...

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,...

This collection contains letters sent to Karl Emmel of Green Bay, Wisconsin, the bulk of which were written by his parents Caroline and Wilhelm Emmel, with additional letters written by Karl Emmel's sister...