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Collection: David B. Landis Collection

Title: David B. Landis Collection

Object ID: MG0158

Date Range: 1812-1954

moved to Lancaster in 1888 and started Pluck Art Printery. He started out in Lancaster by publishing Pluck, a magazine dedicated to the fields of printing and photography, but soon devoted his business to commercial and society printing. The name was changed in 1914 to Landis Art Print. Printing

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Collection: David B. Landis Collection

Title: David B. Landis Collection

Description: The David B. Landis Collection consists primarily of his personal and business correspondence, as well as his poetry and writings. Of special interest are a booklet with a synopsis autobiography of his life and his picture. There are also family papers, genealogy, membership cards, and obituaries.

Admin/Biographical History: David Bachman Landis was born in Landisville, Pennsylvania on 12 February 1862, the son of Israel C. and Mary M. Landis. As a school boy, he worked in his father's dry goods store and published a paper for boys titled Keystone Amateur. He began his printing career by apprenticing at the Inquirer Printing and Publishing Company in Lancaster in 1878, and in 1883 he opened his own job printing office in Landisville where he published the Village Vigil.; Mr. Landis moved to Lancaster in 1888 and started Pluck Art Printery. He started out in Lancaster by publishing Pluck, a magazine dedicated to the fields of printing and photography, but soon devoted his business to commercial and society printing. The name was changed in 1914 to Landis Art Print.; Printing, however, was not his only passion. He was an avid bicyclist and belonged to the Lancaster Cycling Club and the League of American Wheelmen. Through these organizations, he helped to improve the condition of roads in Pennsylvania. He was active in the Lancaster County Historical Society, the Pennsylvania German Society, the Ben Franklin Club, and Grace Lutheran Church. He wrote poetry and essays, and dedicated many pieces to friends and family.; David B. Landis married Nora K. Baker of Landisville in 1885. They had four children. Nora passed away in 1910. David married his second wife, Bertha L. Cochran, in 1914.

Date Range: 1812-1954

Year Range From: 1812

Year Range To: 1954

Date of Accumulation: 1812-1954

Creator: Landis, David Bachman, 1862-1940

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 04

People: Baer, Frank; Baker, Catherine; Baker, Emma W.; Baker, P. W.; Barrett, W. W.; Benner, Henry; Brown G. W.; Camp, Edward N.; Carr, George M.; Chamberlain, Frank N.; Cochran, Ada; Cole, Will T.; Conyngham, Redmond; Denlinger, D.; Diehl, H.; Diffenderffer, Frank Ried; Diller, S.; Donaldson, W. M.; Dunbar, William H.; Ely, Alfred; Forshey, E. L.; Frederick, George W.; Garretson, G. R.; Gay, Ed. C.; Grout, J. W.; Gould, J. J.; Greider, Mary Carolyn; Greider, Joseph Landis; Griest, William Walton; Hains, Wilson R.; Haldeman, Victor Macholski; Haldy Gertrude Hensel; Hardy, E. W.; Heister, A. V.; Hershey, Harvey S.; Hershey, J. B.; Hess, Barbara K.; Holbach, George H.; Hood, Jesse A.; Hostetter A. K.; Hostetter Albert K.; Jackson, A. C., Jr.; Johnston, R. A.; Kramer, Donald; Keen, Robert H.; Kreider, A. B.; Krick, William T.; Landis, Benjamin; Landis, Bertha L. Cochran; Landis, Christian; Landis, D. M., Dr.; Landis, David Bachman; Landis, Elvin G.; Landis, Felix; Landis, Florence D.; Landis, Frances; Landis, Henry G.; Landis, Irene Janet; Landis, Israel Christian; Landis, James B.; Landis, Johannes; Landis, John; Landis, John C.; Landis, Mary M. Musselman; Landis, Michael Bachman; Landis, Nora K.; Landis, Priscilla R.; Lehman, Eliza Ann; Lehman, Emma Bachman; Lincoln, Abraham; Marrow, Paul Harding; McBride, Sarah C.; McClain, Frank B.; McGinnis, J.; Merrill, W. J.; Missemer, J. R.; Morrison, Neale; Moyer, Albert,; Moxley, C. A.; Musselman, David; Musselman, Edward M.; Musselman, Sarah; Myrtle, M.; Neale, Fred; Neale, John C.; Nissley, H. L.; Reynolds, Howard; Rial, Abram S.; Rial, S.; Rial, Susan Ann; Shields, R. I.; Shirk, John Kohr; Simon, Daniel B.; Smith, Edwin Hadley; Stein, George; Stephen, Samuel; Taft, William Howard; Thompson, C.; Trout, J. H.; Wager, D. Y.; Walsh, M.; Walsh, Thomas; Washington, George; Weber, Otto E.; Weidel, Melba Landis; Weidman, Joel; Wenaugh, W. L.; Wickersham, J. Harold; Wolf, B.; Wolf, D. Dorsey; Wolf, Edna Kempton

Other Creators: Landis, Bertha L. Cochran, d. 1959

Subjects: Genealogy; Letters; Poetry

Search Terms: Advertising; Ben Franklin Club; Correspondence; Family reunions; Finding aids; Franklin Institute; Genealogy; Invitations; Invoices; Lancaster Board of Trade; Lancaster Chamber of Commerce; Lancaster County Agricultural Society; Lancaster County Historical Society; Lancaster Cycling Club; Landis Art Press; League of American Wheelmen; Letters; Manuscript groups; Pageant of Liberty; Pennsylvania German Society; Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society; Pluck Art Printery; Poetry; Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology; Sonnets; Street and Road Committee, Lancaster Cycling Club; Unitarian Laymen's League; Village Vigil; Wickersham Printing Company; YMCA; Young Men's Christian Association

Extent: 1 box, 26 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0158

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: David B. Landis Collection (MG0158), Folder #, Insert #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Please use photocopies when available.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 1957.MG0158

Other Numbers: MG-158

Classification: MG0158

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Cataloged by DT, JM, and HST, 1998-2008. Added to database 29 July 2021.

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Broadside

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Collection: Broadsides Collection

Title: Advertisement for the public sale of 8 tracts of land in Starsburg Township and Bart Township

Object ID: MG0357_Ovrszd_F022

Date Range: 1829/12/25

Collection: Broadsides Collection

Title: Advertisement for the public sale of 8 tracts of land in Starsburg Township and Bart Township

Description: Advertisement for the public sale of 8 tracts of land.; Tract 1, 146 acres adjoining lands of John Brackbill, Jacob Neff, and others in Starsburg Twp.; Tract 2, 163 acres adjoining tract 2 in Strasburg Twp.; Tract 3, 76 acres adjoining Henry Brenneman in Strasburg Twp. Tract 4, 71 acres adjoining lands of John Rhoads, Henry Rohrer, in Strasburg Township along the road leading to Peach Bottom. Tract 5, 40 acres of woodland in Strasburg Township adjoining the land of Henry Brenneman and William Tweed.; Tract 6, 47 acres of woodland situated in Strasburg Township and Bart Township adjoining lands of Martin Pfoutz and Henry Brenneman Jr.; Tract 7, 77 acres of timberland situated in Bart Township adjoining lands of Abraham Leaman, Jacob Hartman and Jacob Neff.; Tract 8, on acre of land in Strasburg Township south of the borough of Strasburg. All tracts lands late of John Neff Sr. Christian Herr and Edward Coleman, assignees of John Neff Sr. 25 December 1829. Printed by Fenn & Fenton, Lancaster.

Date Range: 1829/12/25

Creation Date: 25 December 1829

Year Range From: 1829

Year Range To: 1829

Creator: Fenn & Fenton

Storage Location: LancasterHistory

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 09

People: Brackbill, John; Neff, Jacob; Brenneman, Henry; Rhoads, John; Rohrer, Henry; Tweed, William; Pfoutz, Martin; Neff, John; Herr, Christian; Coleman, Edward

Subcategory: Art

Subjects: Broadsides; Advertisements

Search Terms: Broadsides; Public sales; Advertisements

Extent: 17.25 x 19 in.

Object Name: Broadside

Condition: Poor

Object ID: MG0357_Ovrszd_F022

Other Numbers: 2003.253

Classification: MG0357

Drawing

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Collection: Print Collection

Object ID: 1959.001

Date Range: 1825-1845

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Collection: Print Collection

Description: Ink drawing of "an arch erected by the patriotic citizens of W. King S. Lanc. in honor of the arrival of General G. M. Lafayette who visited this town July 27th 1825." G. B. xxxx

Date Range: 1825-1845

Year Range From: 1825

Year Range To: 1845

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Cabinet: Cabinet 2

Storage Shelf: Shelf 1

Storage Container: Box 0008

People: Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de

Subcategory: Art

Search Terms: Arches; Celebrations; Drawings

Object Name: Drawing

Material: Paper

Height (in): 8

Width (in): 9.75

Condition: Fair

Condition Notes: For conservation

Object ID: 1959.001

Accession Number: 1959.001

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Fraktur

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Object ID: P.77.12

Date Range: c. 1811

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Description: Fraktur birth certificate for Lydia Glasz / Glass, daughter of Leonard Glass and wife Christina, nee German. Hand drawn and colored on paper. Unusual confronting women with yellow dresses and red parasols flank central textblock within border. Tree of life above textblock; undulating plant w/ flowers sit on shelf at sides. Triple-line outside border.; German text translates to "Lydia Glasz daughter of Leonard Glasz and his wife Christina a born German. Was born 25th day of Jan. in the year of our Lord 1811.; See Notes.; Northern Lancaster Co.

Provenance: Collection of Sarah B. Musselman

Date Range: c. 1811

Year Range From: 1811

Year Range To: 1820

Made By: Bentz, Samuel, 1792-1850

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: Island 5

Storage Cabinet: Unit 43

Storage Shelf: Bin 2-F

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subject: Fraktur art; Frakturs (Documents)

Search Terms: Fraktur; Birth records

Object Name: Fraktur

Oither Names: Birth Certificate

Material: Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Height (in): 7.5

Width (in): 9.5

Dimension Details: Frame is 16.25" x 19.25".

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2015-07-27

Condition Notes: Some buckling of paper overall. Some bleeding of ink, causing brown marks around letters; also in entire upper left corner. Small 1.4" brown streak below the word "Christina" in center panel.; Condition report of 1986 by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts in Phila. in file. No documented treatment. Matted and framed in 1996 by conservator Brian Howard.

Object ID: P.77.12

Notes: Similar to designs of Plate #61 in Weiser & Heaney, Penna. German Fraktur of The Free Library of Phila., v.1.; Research: Ancestry.com gives the marriage of fraktur recipient Lydia Glass to John Kempfer on 20 Nov. 1828 in Ephrata at the Bethany United Church of Christ. Husband John was born 19 Feb. 1809, died 4 April 1865. Lydia died 24 June 1853. Their daughter Elizabeth Kempfer (1836-1909) married David Rudy Buch (1834-1925) and lived in Lititz.; Ancestry also gives the 1810 Census in Earl, Lancaster Co. that lists Leonard Glase with 4 household members under 16 yrs., 1 at 16-25 yrs., and 2 over 25 yrs. Total of seven in home. Lydia was born the following year in 1811.

Place of Origin: Lancaster County

Credit: Gift of the James Hale Steinman Foundation, Heritage Center Collection

Accession Number: P.77.12

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Fraktur

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection: Fine Arts: Fraktur

Title: Bookplate for Henrich Scherch

Object ID: P.04.51.3

Date Range: 1823

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection: Fine Arts: Fraktur

Title: Bookplate for Henrich Scherch

Description: Bookplate is done on wove paper that is adhered to the detached front cover of a leatherbound New Testament and framed in a modern red and black frame. Unusual borders, motifs and strong primary colors of red, blue and yellow. Borders are bands of red and blue-painted rectangles at sides and red hears on a band of yellow at top and bottom. Additional red hearts flank side borders at top. Top 1/3 of bookplate has a compass-drawn motif of overlapping circles. The middle 1/3 of page is the text in German "Dieses Neue Testament/ Gerhort/ Henrich Scherch/ Ihm zur Lehr and Gott zur/ Ehr, Geshrieben im Yahr, 1823." Bottom of page has a large design of red and yellow fruit hanging from blue leaves dotted with red. (Written by Wendell Zercher); (More detail and information in file.)

Date Range: 1823

Creator: Samuel E. Weaver

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: Island 5

Storage Cabinet: Unit 43

Storage Shelf: Shelf 2

Storage Drawer: Bin 2-I

People: Weaver, Samuel E.; Scherch, Heinrich

Subject: Fraktur art; Bookplates

Search Terms: Fraktur art; Bookplates

Object Name: Fraktur

Oither Names: Bookplate

Height (cm): 18.415

Height (ft): 0.6041666667

Height (in): 7.25

Width (cm): 10.4775

Width (ft): 0.34375

Width (in): 4.125

Dimension Details: Frame: 10.125 x 7.125

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2004-12-08

Condition Notes: Paper is generally good; colors have been smeared. lifted and muddled, esp. along top edge and bottom 1/3 of bookplate, probably due to moisture damage. Tear of 1 1/2" extends from left edged ( 1 1/2" up from bottom) into center of page. BP is adhered to detached front cover of NT that is deteriorated brown leather with metal hooks for clasps still intact; residue to glue at four corners.

Object ID: P.04.51.3

Role: Artist

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Fraktur

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Collection: Fraktur Collection

Object ID: 2002.159

Date Range: December 1824

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Collection: Fraktur Collection

Description: Fraktur presentation piece on wove paper, horizontal orientation. Green and brown designs and lettering. Has a foliate border w/ flowers at top center and corners. Large heart dominates design with 5 lines of religious text, and signed at the bottom stating fraktur was made for Anna Funck on 15 Dec 1824 by J. Eberman, schoolmaster. Acanthus like leaves surround heart with several flowers. Five baskets with flowers complete design.; Text: "Jesus ist der schonste nam / Aller, die von himmel kommen, / Huldereich, prachtig, tugendsam, den Gott / Selber angenommen, seiner grossen / lieblichkeit, gleicht kein name weit und breit. / Gemacht von Anna Funck, den 15ten December 1824. J. Eberman / Schul Meister".; Translation: "Jesus is the most beautiful name of all who which came from heaven full of protection, glittering, virtuous, whom God himself, except; His great loveliness is equalled by no name far and wide. Made for Anna Funck 15 December, 1824 (J. Eberman, Schoolmaster)"

Date Range: December 1824

Year Range From: 1824

Year Range To: 1824

Creator: Eberman, John

Last Owner: Funck, Anna

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Cabinet: Cabinet 2

Storage Shelf: Shelf 5

Storage Container: Box 0537

People: Funck, Anna; Eberman, John

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subject: Fraktur art; Frakturs (Documents)

Search Terms: Fraktur

Object Name: Fraktur

Oither Names: Presentation Piece

Material: Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Height (in): 8

Width (in): 12

Dimension Details: Mount: H: 11" W: 14"

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2017-08-22

Condition Notes: Very light age coloring. Two large brown stains / burns at lower left corner. Smaller stains elsewhere. Dog-eared corners. Mounted in a white window mat hinged at top.

Object ID: 2002.159

Notes: Appraised by Fred Weiser in 1988; listed as #35

Place of Origin: Lancaster County

Role: Artist

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Fraktur

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Object ID: G.77.50.1

Date Range: c. 1789

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Description: Birth & baptismal certificate on laid paper. Printed form with central textblock in German within a multiple line border. Infilled and decorated around textblock by Speyer; cross-legged angel at top, pelicans feeding young at sides and flowers at sides and bottom. Watercolors are red, blue, yellow, green and brown.; Infilled for Johannes, son of Valiendein (Valentine) and Eliesabetha (Elisabetha) Bohmer of Brecknock Township in Lancaster Co., born Dec. 13, 1788.; Georg Friederich Speyer (active 1774-1801) used this printed form produced c. 1789 by Barton & Johnson of Reading. See Notes.

Date Range: c. 1789

Year Range From: 1789

Year Range To: 1895

Creator: Speyer, Georg Friederich

Made By: Barton & Johnson

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: Island 5

Storage Cabinet: Unit 43

Storage Shelf: Bin 2-F

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subject: Fraktur art; Frakturs (Documents); Baptismal records

Search Terms: Fraktur; Baptismal records

Object Name: Fraktur

Oither Names: Taufschein

Material: Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Height (in): 16.5

Width (in): 13

Dimension Details: Frame is 19.75 x 16'.

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2015-07-27

Condition Notes: General wear with numerous creases and wrinkles; one pronounced vertical centerline crease. Repaired tears, esp at left edge. All edges are ragged and uneven, esp. at right.; Conserved by CCAHA in 1989 (see report in file). Hinged into window mat & back mat. Relaced in its original frame using UF-3 Plexiglas and acid-free cardboard on reverse with a taped mylar dust shield.

Object ID: G.77.50.1

Notes: Printed form by Reading printers Thomas Barton and Benjamin Johnson, circa 1789 (see Klaus Stopp, The Printed Birth & Baptismal Certificates of the Pa. Germans, v. 4, p. 84). Speyer used this printed form for Johannes Bohmer who was born the previous year in1788.

Place of Origin: Lancaster County

Role: Artist

Credit: Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Richard Flanders Smith, Heritage Center Collection

Accession Number: G.77.50

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Fraktur

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Object ID: P.06.15.1

Date Range: 1820s

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Description: Birth & Baptismal Certificate for Maria "Temi" (Demmy) printed in German language by "Johann Ritter und Comp." of Reading. Darkened golden oak frame.; Central text within boilerplate border; a putto above, angels standing on clouds at top sides and birds on branches at lower sides. Text infilled by unknown hand states Maria was born Oct. 26, 1806 in Manheim Twp. to Christoph Temi and his wife Catarina, nee Etienne. Maria was baptized May 10, 1807 by Rev. August Miehlenberg and the witnesses were Mathis Wolff and his wife Maria. Infill in printed fraktur hand includes interesting line extensions drawn to fill in gaps; Heavily watercolored with dense reds, blue and green on all images and borders. This version of Ritter's print is one of many variations printed in the early 1820s (see Klaus Stopp, pp. 182-186).; Inscribed "Mary" twice at top of reverse side; once in pencil and once in brown ink with decorative scrolling line surrounding name.; Note: See hand towel (P.04.26.1) done by "Maria Macdallna Damy" in 1836 (Younger sister of Maria). Another nearly identical towel (Plate 14 in This is the Way I Pass My Time) was done by sister Elizabeth Damy in the same year. Both sisters married the following year in 1837, Maria to Henry Fenstermacher, whose initials are on her towel in a central heart. Also included on towel are parents' names "Christopher and Catharine Damy."; Printed by Johann Ritter in Reading, PA; Lancaster County infill by unknown scrivener.

Date Range: 1820s

Made By: Ritter, Johannes

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: Island 5

Storage Cabinet: Unit 44

Storage Shelf: Shelf 2

Storage Drawer: Bin 2-R

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subject: Fraktur art; Frakturs (Documents); Baptismal records

Search Terms: Fraktur; Birth records; Baptismal records

Object Name: Fraktur

Oither Names: Birth and Baptismal Certificate

Material: Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Height (in): 19.25

Width (in): 15.75

Dimension Details: Frame dimensions

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2016-03-01

Condition Notes: Age darkening & soil overall w/ darkest staining/soiling in upper area. Several small breaks; holes caused by green paint (branch at lower right, upper cornucopia and stalks opposite cornucopia).

Object ID: P.06.15.1

Credit: Heritage Center Collection

Accession Number: P.06.15

Fraktur

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection: Fine Arts: Fraktur

Title: Anna Hirsch Fraktur

Object ID: P.04.48.02

Date Range: c. 1829-1832

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection: Fine Arts: Fraktur

Title: Anna Hirsch Fraktur

Description: Printed taufschein (B&BC) on wove paper by Herman William Villee of North Queen St. in Lancaster, infilled by unknown hand for the Hirsch family and carefully hand-colored. It is one of two German-language editions printed by Villee.; Taufschein has outer border of a stylized floral motif except at bottom which is an entwined, spiraling leaf and flower design. Large text block at center within a border with heading, "Geburts und-Tauf-Schein." Two smaller text blocks at upper corners have religious verse. Two very small blocks with verse are at bottom center. The three Virtues are personified by classically robed females arranged at sides and top of central block. At top is Love holding a heart; at left side is Faith adorned with a cross; at right is Hope leaning on a large anchor. (These 3 images were used by other printers in Reading, Orwigsburg and Pottsville -- see p. 133 in Vol. III of Klaus Stopp). Immediately below central text block is an image of 2 babies reading a book.; At bottom is: "Gedruckt und zu haben bey/ H. W. VILLEE,/ In der Nordlichen Quien Strasse in Lancaster, (Pa.) Allwo alle Arten/ von Dructer Arbeit verfertigt werden." Mounted in a molded softwood frame with an outside bead and slanting face. Painted black with green-painted face.; Certificate made for birth of Anna Hirsch, daughter of Joseph and Magdalena Metz Hirsch, born Dec. 14, 1821 in Rapho Twp. Reverse has two lines of 19th c. script in black ink: "Amey Hersh Died March the 10/ In the year of our Lord 1844."; Printed by Herman William Villee (b. 1789 in France, d. 1842 in Northumberland Co.), North Queen St. Likely the infill by unknown scrivener in Rapho Twp.

Provenance: See this file and P04.48.1(Adam & Eve broadside) for info about Villee. Additional broadside is P01.60.1.; See Klaus Stopp, "The Printed B & BC of the German Americans", Vol. III, pp. 133-134.

Date Range: c. 1829-1832

Year Range From: 1829

Year Range To: 1832

Made By: Villee, Herman William, 1789-1842

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: Island 5

Storage Cabinet: Unit 43

Storage Shelf: Bin 2-A

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subject: Fraktur art; Frakturs (Documents); Baptismal records

Search Terms: Fraktur; Birth records; Baptismal records

Object Name: Fraktur

Oither Names: Birth Certificate

Material: Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Height (in): 16

Width (in): 11.5

Dimension Details: Frame: H: 18.25" W: 14"

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2016-04-25

Condition Notes: Strong horizontal fold line at center with additional creases. Two 1/2 inch tears at top extending downwards. Top edge very ragged and folded back.; Some overall yellowing, small area of foxing at top right, small liquid stains along top. Corrugated cardboard backing replaced with acid-free matboard back within an old molded wood frame, painted green on face and dark brown at sides. Paint has moderate wear.

Object ID: P.04.48.02

Credit: Acquired through the generosity of Irene N. Walsh, Heritage Center Collection

Accession Number: P.04.48

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Broadside

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Fraktur

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Fraktur

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