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Fraktur art -- Maryland -- Specimens.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Frakturschriften Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 029
Summary

A component of the larger German-American Imprint Collection, this collection contains fine examples of hand-executed and printed Geburt und taufscheins (birth and baptismal certificates), trauscheins (marriage certificates), vorschrifts (writing examples), haus segens (house blessings), bucherzeichen (bookplates), and drawings created by Pennsylvania Germans in the Eastern Pennsylvania, New York, and Maryland region dating from the late -18th to late-19th centuries.

Dates: 1762-1891; Majority of material found within c.1820-1878