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Historian A.K. Pertilla: Researching financial history, the history of migration, and the history of knowledge at GHI Washington. All thoughts expressed are my own. | he/him
After it has been processed by the Horner Library we anticipate it will be an incredible collection for shedding light on German & German-American life in the interwar years…
July 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
After it has been processed by the Horner Library we anticipate it will be an incredible collection for shedding light on German & German-American life in the interwar years…
The collection includes at least 200 letters, both those she sent to her parents and letters received from them in turn, from the 1920s and into the 1930s. The collection also included diaries she kept as a young woman between 1917 and 1921 and several hundred photographs…
July 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The collection includes at least 200 letters, both those she sent to her parents and letters received from them in turn, from the 1920s and into the 1930s. The collection also included diaries she kept as a young woman between 1917 and 1921 and several hundred photographs…
From info we had already received we had learned that the collection represented the papers of a woman from the Münster area who immigrated to the United States in the 1920s…
July 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
From info we had already received we had learned that the collection represented the papers of a woman from the Münster area who immigrated to the United States in the 1920s…
Last week I had the pleasure of collaborating with the Horner Library at the German Society of Pennsylvania to pick up the collection, bring it to Philadelphia, and take part in some really preliminary processing…
July 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Last week I had the pleasure of collaborating with the Horner Library at the German Society of Pennsylvania to pick up the collection, bring it to Philadelphia, and take part in some really preliminary processing…