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Bromme, Traugott. Traugott Bromme’s Hand- und Reisebuch für Auswanderer und Reisende nach Nord-, Mittel- und Süd Amerika (den gesammten Vereinigten Staaten, Texas, Canada, Brasilien, Mejiko, u.s.w.). Mit einem Rathgeber in Amerikanischen Rechtsangelegenheiten und einer Spezial-Karte der Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika in Stahlstich. Achte, sehr vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage von Gustav Struve. Bamberg: Buchner; New York: B. Westermann u. Co., 1866. xii, 740 pp.
Verlag der Buchner’schen Buchhandlung. (New-York bei W. Westermann u. Co. 440 Broadway).
Advice for those wishing to emigrate from Germany.
MKI copy lacks map of the United States published with edition.
Das Deutsch-Amerikanische Kochbuch. Ein Handbuch für die Küche und Speisesaal. Nebst pracktischen Rath beim Einkaufen, Einmachen von Früchten und Kräutern, Preserven, u. d. g. Illustrirt. Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., n.d. [1890-1899?]. 387 pp., ill.
Vorwort has illustration of Frau Katharina Hoffstetter, Hauptköchin am K. K. Deutschem Hofe; contains handwritten recipes in pencil in English and German.
Donated by the Mayville Historical Society, 2005.
Gugler, Julius. Wie’s die Stunde gab. Gedichte. Milwaukee, Wis.: Selbstverlag, 1910. 157 pp., frontispiece port.
German-American author; inscribed “Frau Ida Angelroth zur Erinnerung an alte Zeiten u mit dem Grus der Verfasser, 14 Sept. 1911.”
Includes a section of poems titled “Am Elkhart-See” [likely referring to Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin]; the poem “Zeitbild” begins: “Mein Schätzlein wohnt in der Zweiten Ward, Ganz dicht beim ‘Milwaukee-Garten'”; “Winke für Einwanderer” includes English words; “Stammlied” is subtitled “Zu Ehren des ‘Künstlerheims’ zu Milwaukee”; three poems reference Stone Lake (“Stone Lake heisst ein See im Herzen des Urwaldes von Ober-Wisconsin”); poems dedicated to people 
include: “Meinem Freunde Dr. Edw. F. Schwedler,” “Meinem Freunde Julius Goldschmidt,” “Nachruf an Julius Richard,” “Nachruf an A. Heinrich Bielfeld” [see: Gedichte, Milwauke: Freidenker, 1889],”An Konrad Krez,” and “An Anton Thormaehlen”; “Stolz aufs Sternenbanner schaue” is a poem about the American flag; the poem “Schiller” was written as “Prolog zur Schiller-Feier der Universität Wisconsin”; poems titled “Chicago,” “Amerikas Tochter” (“Geschrieben zu Hamburg, am Schlusse meiner ersten Europa-Reise, 1901”); a section of poems title “Ein Rückblick. Vortrag beim Kommers des Journalistentages zu Milwaukee am 15. September 1904”; a section titled “Prolog. Zur Eröffnung des Pabst-Theaters in Milwaukee am 16. Oktober 1895”; and a section of “Übertragungen aus dem Englischen.”
This third copy donated 2005 by Virginia Sipp Flett.
Schmid, Christoph von. Das Blumenkörbchen, eine Erzählung, dem blühenden Alter gewidmet. Philadelphia, Pa.: Schaefer & Koradi, 1870. [124] pp.
Cover missing; last pages missing, p. 123-124 damaged. On title page: Verlag von Schaefer & Koradi, Südwest-Ecke der Vierten und Wood Strasse. Title page verso: Gesetzt, stereotypirt und gedruckt bei Hoffman & Morwitz, 612 und 614 Chestnut Strasse, Philadelphia.
Stempfel, Theodor. Fünfzig Jahre unermüdlichen Deutschen Strebens in Indianapolis. (Fifty years of unrelenting German aspirations in Indianapolis). Indianapolis: Pitts & Smith, 1898. unpaginated [144] pp., ill.
On half-title page: Festschrift zur Feier der Vollendung des Deutschen Hauses in Indianapolis, am 15., 16. und 18. Juni, 1898; inscribed “Mit Turnergruss, Theo. Stempfel, Indianapolis, Ind.” One page torn out and missing [23-24], one page torn but all pieces remain [139-140], one page torn with a section missing [141-142].
Festschrift celebrating the completion of Das Deutsche Haus in Indianapolis.
Donated by Mayville Historical Society, 2005.
Stinde, Julius, and F. Brentano. Humoresken und Gedichte von Julius Stinde, F. Brentano, und Anderen. Schick’s Humoristische Bibliothek, No. 2. Chicago, Ill.: Schick, ©1886. various pagings [99, 19, 18] pp., ill.
Inhalt: Die Familie Buchholz. (Erste Abtheilung.) Von Julius Stinde — Der Sekretär und sein Sägbock, von F. Brentano — [Humoristische Gedichte]: Das kranke Landmädchen, J. F. Castelli — Aus der Schlacht bei Dresden — Liebchen, R. Baumbach — Der Unentbehrliche, W. Busch — Der liebenswürdige Jüngling, H. Heine — Onkel Kaspers rothe Nase, W. Busch — Der alte Fritz, Karl Fröhlich — Ziethen, Friedrich v. Sallet — Endlich, W. Busch — Spatz und Spätzin, Carl August Mayer — Das gute Herz, W. Busch — Selbst-Erkenntniss, W. Busch.
Donated by Virginia Sipp Flett, 2005.
Stinde, Julius, Karl Emil Franzos, Edwin Bormann, and Max Barack. Humoresken und Gedichte von Julius Stinde, Karl Emil Franzos, und Anderen. Schick’s Humoristische Bibliothek, No. 4. Chicago, Ill.: Schick, ©1886. various pagings [40, 36, 64, 18] pp., ill.
Paperback; Verlag von L. [Louis] Schick; on cover: Preis 25 Cents per Nummer. Mit Illustrationen. Sticker on cover: C. N. Caspar’s Book Store, 437 East Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Inhalt: Die Familie Buchholz. (Dritte Abtheilung). Von Julius Stinde — Wladislaw und Wladislawa. Von Karl Emil Franzos — Herr Engemann (Ein Leipziger Geschichte.) Nach mündlicher Ueberlieferung erzählt von Edwin Bormann — Warum der alde Drumbeder Panfraz Seiler uf keen Studendecummers mehr geht. Humoreske in Pfälzer Mundart. Von Max Barack — [Humoristische in Poesie und Prosa]: Soldatenlied, Wolrad Kreusler — Der piffige Maurermeeschter, K. G. Nadler — Wendewein, J. Sturm — Ein Schul-Examen, Ludwig Menzel — Der pensionirte Amor, Max v. Schlägel — Besuch, Franz v. Gaudy — Der Schwadroneur, W. Busch — Eugen und Lucinde, W. Busch — Romanze, L. Kalisch — Die Schweden in Rippoldsau, J. B. Scheffel — Das Lied von Vergolder und Lackirer — Der Wildling (Oberbayerisch) — Eine Seeäubergeschichte. Erzählung des alten Steuermanns. Von Emanuel Geibel — Der Geck, W. Busch — Marie, W. Busch — In Pommern — Der nächste Weg — Kalte Füsse — In einer occupirten Stadt — In der Christenlehre — Gute Nacht, Herr Superintendente! Aus Thüringen — Fester Wille — Zerstreutheit — Genaue Auskunft — Billige Beförderung — Berliner Blau (In der Schweiz) — Merkwürdige Geschichte — Lakonisch — Wachtparade — Die Kommunisten — Künstlerbewusstsein — Karl Moor — Mittel gegen den Meineid — Sächsischer Speisezettel — Verwandtschaft — Täuschung — Bauer mit Frau in einer Kunsthandlung vor der Photographie einer “Venus” — Illustrationen zu deutschen Classikern — Die Kokette — Der Troppe Wasser (Pfälzisch) — Der Zeitphilosoph — Verwarnung vor Meineid — Der Empfang des Grossherzogs — Grosse Belohnung — Missverständniss — Aus dem Militärleben — Kunst, Fasanen zu fangen — Wasserhöhe im April 1817 (Strich an der Mauer).
Donated by Virginia Sipp Flett, 2005.
Stinde, Julius, and Paul Heyse. Ausgewählte Humoresken von Julius Stinde und Paul Heyse. Schick’s Humoristische Bibliothek, No. 7. Chicago, Ill.: Schick, ©1886. various pagings [78, 38] pp.
Paperback; Verlag von L. [Louis] Schick; on cover: Preis 25 Cents per Nummer. Mit Illustrationen [no illustrations in this issue]. Sticker on cover: C. N. Caspar’s Book Store, 437 East Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Inhalt: Frau Wilhelmine. (Der Familie Buchholz letzter Theil. Erste Abtheilung.) Von Julius Stinde — Die Wittwe von Pisa. Von Paul Heyse.
Donated by Virginia Sipp Flett, 2005.
Stinde, Julius, Dr. Märzorth, and Georg Bötticher. Ausgewählte Humoresken von Julius Stinde, Dr. Märzroth und Georg Bötticher. Schick’s Humoristische Bibliothek, No. 6. Chicago, Ill.: Schick, ©1886. various pagings [180, 15, 13] pp.
Paperback; Verlag von L. [Louis] Schick.; on cover: Preis 25 Cents per Nummer. Mit Illustrationen [no illustrations in this issue]. Sticker on cover: C. N. Caspar’s Book Store, 437 East Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.
Inhalt: Die Familie Buchholz. (Fünfte Abtheilung und Schluss.) Von Julius Stinde — Eine lustige Dorfgeschichte. Von Dr. Märzroth — Aus den Erzählungen des ehemaligen Bäckermeisters, jetzigen Rentiers Dietchen in Oschatz. [Humorsken in sächsischer Mundart.] Von Georg Bötticher.
Donated by Virginia Sipp Flett, 2005
Stinde, Julius, and Arnold Wellmer. Humoresken und Gedichte von Julius Stinde, Arnold Wellmer, und Anderen. Schick’s Humoristische Bibliothek, No. 3. Chicago, Ill.: Schick, ©1886. various pagings [203, 35, 36] pp., ill.
Inhalt: Die Familie Buchholz. (Zweite Abtheilung.) Von Julius Stinde — Dornröslein. Von Arnold Wellmer — [Humoristische Gedichte, starts with p. 19]: Die Belagerung, E. Langbein — Mamsell Schmöle, W. Busch — Am Geburtstage der Kirchenrätin Griesbach, Schiller — Der Verblüsste, E. A. Tiedge — Der Böse Näscher, W. Busch — Worscht gege Worscht, K. G. Nadler — Thomas Haase, Castelli — Die alte Jungfer (Pfälzisch), Ernst Eckstein — Minnedank, R. Baumbach — Hans ist an Allem Schuld, Castelli — Die Deputation, K. G. Nadler — Pandoffel oddr Korb, K. G. Nadler — Wärst due ein Bächlein! W. Busch — Tugend und Laster, W. Busch — Kuriose Geschichte, Robert Reinick — Das gute Frauenzimmer, W. Busch — Krieg ohne Mittel, W. Busch.
Donated by Virginia Sipp Flett, 2005.
Auswanderung aus Hessen: Ausstellung der Hessischen Staatsarchive zum Hessentag 1984 in Lampertheim. Edited by Inge Auerbach, Jürgen Rainer Wolf, and Winfried Schüler. Marburg/Lahn: Das Staatsarchiv, 1984. 52 pp., ill.
Exhibition catalog. Contents: Soziale und rechtliche Voraussetzungen. Das Wandern der Handwerksgesellen. Saisonarbeit und Wanderarbeit. Überregionale Übereinkünfte — Einwanderungsziele (Ungarn, Russland, Amerika, Australien) — Auswanderung aus Hessen (Hanau, Fulda, Hessen-Kassel, Hessen-Darmstadt, Nassau) — Der Texasverein — Auswanderung aus Preussen (ab 1866).
Donated by Inge Auerbach, 2005.
Baron, Frank, and G. Scott Seeger. “Moritz Harttmann (1817-1900) in Kansas: A Forgotten German Pioneer of Lawrence and Humboldt.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 1-22, ill.
Includes bibliographical references.
Harttmann “was intensely involved in a significant phase of United State history. In Kansas, where he resided for thirty years, he, along with many other German settlers who had survived the failed 1848 revolution, advocated a state free of slavery. . . . A close examination of Harttmann’s life reveals more about historical events than do the lives of many famous personalities of his day.” Includes information on the Emigrant Aid Company, which “recognized that recent Germans of the revolutionary generation would be ideal allies for keeping the state of Kansas free of slavery. . . . The Germans formed a significant block of settlers and voters who helped to turn the tide against the established proslavery forces.”
Baroni, Werner. “Lincoln Avenue, Chicagos deutsche Strasse.” German-American Journal, vol. 54, no. 5, Nov./Dec. 2005, pp. 6, 14.
Blong, Clair K., Jeanette Hlubek Dietzenbach, Lorraine Bodensteiner Kuennen, Carl Most, and Rosemary Kuennen Most. “The German-American Village of St. Lucas, Iowa.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 37-60, ill.
Includes bibliographical references.
“This paper tells the story of how St. Lucas came to be, and it surveys this German-American community over the past 150 years. . . . Topics include: the German Town and its Families, the Spiritual Center, Key Clergy and Community Benefactor, Land and Livelihood, and the Importance of Education. It concludes with short essays by three of the authors, each with a unique perspective on Preserving the German Language and Heritage.”
Bonebrake, Veronica. “A Sociolinguistic and Phonological Survey of Low German Spoken in Kansas.” University of Texas at Austin, 1969. 62 pp.
Thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
From the introduction: The Low-German settlement of northern Washington and Marshall Counties in the state of Kansas is a source which provides information concerning the introduction of English as a trade language and the subsequent less frequency with which the immigrant German language was used. The transition to English usage is determined historically and socially. . . . The actual stage in the transistion to English reached in various communities was determined by compiling and correlating information elicited by means of a sociolgical questionnaire. . . . In addition to the primary purpose of describing the factors and stages of this process as exemplified in these communities, a description of the phonology of their Low-German dialect is presented.
Donated by Mark Louden, 2005.
“Book Reviews. Edited by Timothy J. Holian.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 163-84.
Includes reviews of ‘Arthur Preuss: Journalist and Voice of German and Conservative Catholics in America, 1871-1934,’ by Rory T. Conley (reviewed by Heiko Muehr); ‘Out of the Ashes: Berlin 1930 to 1950,’ by Annemarie Reuter Schomaker (reviewed by Randall P. Donaldson); ‘Unsere Leute: The Volga Germans of West Central Kansas–Aspects of Their History, Politics, Culture and Language,’ ed. by William D. Keel with James L. Forsythe, Francis Schippers and Helmut J. Schmeller (reviewed by Randall P. Donaldson); ‘”Auf denn, Ihr Schwestern!” Deutschamerikanische Frauenvereine in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1844-1914,’ by Anke Ortlepp (reviewed by Katja Rampelmann); ‘A Milwaukee Woman’s Life on the Left: The Autobiography of Meta Berger,’ ed. by Kimberly Swanson (reviewed by Katja Rampelmann); ‘Wooden Shoe Hollow: Charlotte Pieper’s Cincinnati German Novel,’ ed. by Don Heinrich Tolzmann (reviewed by Timothy J. Holian); ‘The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life,’ by Julia Kasdorf (reviewed by William Roba); ‘The German Pioneer Legacy: The Life and Work of Heinrich A. Rattermann,’ 2nd ed., by Sister Mary Edmund Spanheimer (reviewed by Franziska C. Ott); ‘Missouri’s German Heritage,’ ed. by Don Heinrich Tolzmann (reviewed by William D. Keel); ‘Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German-American Identity,’ by Russell A. Kazal (reviewed by William D. Keel); ‘Germans of Louisiana,’ by Ellen C. Merrill (reviewed by William D. Keel); ‘Deutsch in Texas,’ by Marcus Nicolini (reviewed by William D. Keel); ‘German Language Varieties Worldwide: Internal and External Perspectives / Deutsche Sprachinseln weltweit: Interne und externe Perspektiven,’ edited by William D. Keel and Klaus J. Mattheier (reviewed by William Roba).
Buhle, Paul. “German Socialists and the Roots of American Working-Class Radicalism.” German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, pp. 224-35, ill.
Includes bibliographical references.
“In addressing the nature of radical German-American culture here, we are describing . . . the subjectivity of the social movement–not the formal, essentially ideological expression of Marxism as the belief in scientific social analysis but rather the means available when ordinary Socialists expressed their own perceived position in society and their hopes for the future. . . . [W]e are describing [a group] in dynamic and swift-changing relation to the dominant society and culture at historical points where those entities might literally go one way or the other. . . . [and] we are considering a form of mass culture, a mass aesthetic, which has never been properly appreciated. . . . Immigrant workers provided the audience for and the participants in sports, theater, music halls, moving pictures, and the commercial press.”
Donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
Carney, Ellen. “From Here to There: Memoirs of a Swiss Childhood.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 41, no. 3, Nov. 2005, pp. 7-34, ill.
Describes first of August festivities (Ruetlischwur, the oath on the meadow Ruetli), Sunntigsjass (Sunday’s card game), Milchma (the milkman), spring in Zurich, Santa Claus, Woesch (laundry), Schuelsylveschter (last day of school prior to the Christmas break), school in the ’30s, buying shoes before World War II, Fahrt ins Gruene (overland excursion), winter and winter activities, and Wienacht (Christmas celebration starting December 24). About the author: Ellen Carney was born in Zurich to an Aargauer mother and a Zurich-reared German father. She finished Gymnasium, arrived in the United States after World War II, married and spent 30 years in an intentional (utopian) community started by Quaker pacifists. . . . She now lives near the tip of Long Island, New York.
Cherney, Edna. “Immigrants from Kreis Regenwalde, Pomerania — Continued.” Pommerscher Verein Freistadt Rundschreiben (Germantown, WI), Dec. 2005, pp. 4.
Listing of names (surnames from Schimmelpfenig to Zimdars) of individuals who left Kreis Regenwalde to go to America, compiled from various databases. Includes date of birth, village of origin, and location of death.
DeWitt, Petra. “Searching for the Meaning of Loyalty: A Study of the German-American Experience During World War I in Osage County, Missouri.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 77-92.
Includes bibliographical references.
Examines an episode that occurred on July 7, 1918, in which “several young men in Chamois, Osage County, Missouri, forced Erwin Walz, the son of a German preacher, to salute and kiss the American flag. Walz received this public punishment for having made derogatory remarks about the local home guard unit and for having [cursed the American flag.]”
Dobert, Eitel Wolf. Deutsche Demokraten in Amerika. Die Achtundvierziger und ihre Schriften. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1958. 233 pp.
Biographical sketches of: Fritz Anneke, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, Ludwig von Baumbach, Karl Theodor Bayrhoffer, August Becker, Hans Hermann Behr, Carl Beyschlag, Heinrich Börnstein, Friedrich Brendel, Otto Brethauer, Isidor Bush, Caspar Butz, Theodor Canisius, Otto von Corvin-Wiersbitzki, Erich Dietzsch, Bernhard Domschke, Carl Adolf Douai, Rudolf Dulon, Anton Eickhoff, David Einhorn, Gustav Eisenlohr, Christian Esselen, Ernst Faehtz, Julius Fröbel, Amandus Goegg, Theodor Hagen, Friedrich Hassaurek, Friedrich Hecker, Wilhelm Heine, Karl Heinzen, Daniel Hertle, Friedrich Kapp, Hermann Kiefer, Gottfried Kinkel, Herman Kriege, Jacob Kröger, Hans Kudlich, Friedrich Lexow, Oscar Montgomery Lieber, Charles Theodor Mohr, Jacob Müller, Wilhelm Müller, Theodor Olshausen, Elias Peissner, Eduard Pelz, Theodor Poesche, Wilhelm Rapp, Johann Rittig, Otto Rupius, Carl Heinrich Schnauffer, Carl Schurz, Franz Sigel, Reinhold Solger, Gustav von Struve, and Wilhelm Weitling.
Donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
Durnbaugh, Donald F. “Holy Cow! The Unlikely Development of a Highly-Recognized Voluntary Agency—Heifer International.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 93-103.
Includes bibliographical references.
“The originator of the project was Dan West (1893-1971), a farm-based peace activist and staff worker for the Church of the Brethren, known as one of the three Historic Peace Churches along with the Mennonites and the Friends (Quakers). The Brethren originate in Central Germany in 1708, migrating within a few decades to North America, where they became known as one of the groups of “plain people,” similar in many ways to the better-known Amish and Mennonites. They maintained their largely German ethnic identity until well into the twentieth century.”
Ensslen, Klaus, and Heinz Ickstadt. “German Working-Class Culture in Chicago: Continuity and Change in the Decade from 1900-1910.” German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, pp. 236-52, ill.
Includes bibliographical references.
Essay seeks to “provide some empirical material on German Workers’ culture in Chicago for a specific time span,” with culture being understood as that which “requires some measure of creative activity, i.e., of self-directed coping by the working class with the conditions which define it.”
Donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
Faires, Nora. “Occupational Patterns of German-Americans in Nineteenth-Century Cities.” German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, pp. 37-51, ill.
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes tables showing the percentage of Germans and Irish in occupational groups in selected U.S. cities, 1850, 1855, 1860; and the percentage of Germans and Irish in occupational groups in selected U.S. cities, 1870, 1880, 1890.
Donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
“Fred Kessler, a Great German-American.” German-American Journal, vol. 54, no. 5, Nov./Dec. 2005, pp. 4, ill.
Profile of Fred Kessler, the son of German immigrants. In 1961, at the age of 21, Kessler was sworn in as the youngest person then ever elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly. He served four additional terms in the Assembly, went on to become a Wisconsin Circuit Judge and later a labor arbitrator, and in 2005 was sworn in for his sixth term in the legislature.
Grams, Grant W. “Wilhelm Dibelius and His Influence on German-Canadian Studies.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 123-33.
Includes bibliographical references.
“This essay will focus on Wilhelm Dibelius and how he influenced Heinz Lehmann and Verein fuer das Deutschtum im Ausland (Society for Germandom Abroad: VDA) through his observations and research in Canada. Dibelius was professor of English studies at the University of Berlin.” He traveled throughout Canada in 1928, observing how German nationals were absorbed into society. He took a “personal interest in the progress, struggles and accomplishments of all German speakers. Once in Canada, he was surprised to find so many German speakers and evidence of their influences.”
Gruling, Bob. “Famous Pommern Series—August H. Stange.” Dat Pommersche Blatt (Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin), no. 47, Jan. 2006, pp. 16, ill.
Biographical profile of August H. Stange, who was born near Stettin, Pomerania, in 1853, and was brought to America when he was one and half years old. By 1881 he came to Merrill, Lincoln County, Wisconsin, and became a prominent citizen. Among his many accomplishments were the building of sawmills and “one of the largest sash and door manufacturing plants n the world.” In 1907 he opened the Badger Opera House, followed closely by the Badger Hotel. He also donated land for parks and for the building of the German Lutheran Church.
Hanley, Daniel P. Jr. “Germans Build Oldest Lutheran Church in State: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church—Freistadt.” Perspektiven (Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.), vol. 5, no. 1, Winter 2005-2006, pp. 13-14, ill.
The first church built by Pomeranians in Freistadt, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, was a small log cabin. The present stone church was built in 1884.
———. “Unveil Statue to Two German Poets: Splendid Bronze Brings Message of Liberty and Dignity of Manhood.” Perspektiven (Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.), vol. 5, no. 1, Winter 2005-2006, pp. 7-8, ill.
Monument to Schiller and Goethe erected by “the German Citizens of Wisconsin” in Washington Park, Milwaukee, and dedicated on June 14, 1908.
Harzig, Christiane. ” Chicago’s German North Side, 1880-1900: The Structure of a Gilded Age Ethnic Neighborhood.” German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, pp. 127-44, ill.
Includes bibliographical references.
Sections include: The physical setting and industrial development of the North Side; Analysis of a microneighborhood; Occupations of boarders, sons, daughters, and wives; and The neighborhood trades. Tables show: Ethnic composition of heads of households in the microneighborhood; Household structure of the microneighborhood; Occupations of males, other than heads of household, living in the microneighborhood, 1880 and 1900; and Occupations of females, other than heads of household, living in the microneighborhood, 1880 and 1900.
Donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
Heckert, Charles W. “Diary of Captain Wiederholdt: Defeat and Captivity at Trenton = Tagebuch des Captain Andreas Wiedersholdt vom 1776-1780. Translated Excerpts from a German Hessian Officer’s Diary in the American Revolutionary War.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 30, no. 1, Dec. 2005, pp. 30-36.
“Continued next issue.”
Heiss, Christine. “German Radicals in Industrial America: The Lehr- und Wehr-Verein in Gilded Age Chicago.” German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, pp. 206-23, ill.
Includes bibliographical references.
“The Lehr- und Wehr-Verein of Chicago, an armed workers’ association for self-defense, was founded in 1875, well before anarchist ideas became prevalent in the Chicago labor movement. . . . A purely German organization, it nonetheless made an effort to attract workers of all nationalities by not putting any ethnic restrictions in its requirements for admission.” Sections include: Traditions and antecedents; The 1870s: Founding, success, and controversy; Analysis of membership and ideology; and Socialists, anarchists, and the 1880s.
Donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
Hoyt, Dolores, and Giles R. Hoyt. “Annual Bibliography of German-Americana: Articles, Books, Selected Media, and Dissertations.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 185-305.
Includes topical index; in collaboration with the Bibliographic Committee of the Society for German-American Studies.
Jentz, John B. “Skilled Workers and Industrialization: Chicago’s German Cabinetmakers and Machinists, 1880-1900.” German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, pp. 73-85.
Includes bibliographical references.
Tables show: Selected statistics for German cabinetmakers and all German workers employed in the furniture industry: Chicago, 1880 and 1900; Age structure of German cabinetmakers and all German workers employed in the furniture industry: Chicago, 1880 and 1900; Selected statistics for German machinists, cabinetmakers, and blacksmiths: Chicago, 1880 and 1900; Age structure of German machinists and cabinetmakers: Chicago, 1880 and 1900.
Donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
Keil, Hartmut. “Chicago’s German Working Class in 1900.” German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, pp. 19-36, ill.
Includes bibliographical references.
Examines population development (includes table showing the German population of Chicago, 1850-1900); occupational change (includes tables showing occupational status of German heads of household, 1850, 1880, and 1900 and the distribution of the German working class in the Chicago economy in 1880 and 1900 by first and second generation); and geographic distribution (includes table showing geographic distribution of white-collar and working-class German households in 1880 and 1900).
Donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
Keil, Hartmut, and John B. Jentz, eds. German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1983. viii, 252 pp., ill.
Based on papers given at a 1981 conference in Chicago organized by the Chicago Project based at the America Institute of the University of Munich.
“Chicago’s German workers were part of the more typical development of America’s industrial working class, with its occupational diversity by national group; transition from the old to the new immigration; and ethnic, political, and union conflicts. It was in Chicago, after all, one of the most unionized cities in the country, where some of the fundamental issues in the American labor movement were fought out. Chicago is therefore not a parochial example, and its development invites comparisons such as those made in this volume with other American cities with similar work forces.” Sections include: German Immigrant Workers and Their Place in American Urban Society; Industrialization and the Transformation of Work; Neighborhood and Everyday Life; and Politics and Culture.
Donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
Konnak, Sally. The Farmsteads of New Glarus: A Description of Ten Watercolor Paintings by New Glarus Artist Sally Konnak Exhibited at the Chalet Landhaus, New Glarus, Wisconsin, October, 1998 and Auto/Bike Tour of Scenic Roads around the Village of New Glarus. [S.l.: s.n., 1998]. 14 pp.
Provides history and stories about the following farms in Green County, Wisconsin: The Hefty [Hefti]-Blum farmstead (other surnames mentioned include:Kundert, Freitag and Vogli); “Two Silos” and the Meadow Valley School (surnames metioned include: Babler, Durst, Ott, and Rudd); the Elmer Dairy; the old Streiff barn; the Dean and Doris Streiff homestead; the John B. Ott homestead; and the Hustad farmstead.
Krause, Bonnie J. “The German Saxon Community in the Illinois Mississippi River Bottoms.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 23-36, ill.
Includes bibliographical references.
“During the early nineteenth century, thousands of Germans immigrated, enticed by [Gottfried] Duden’s Report [ on a Journey to the Western States of North America ]. One of those inspired to lead others to immigrate from Saxony, the Saxon Duchies and Saxon Province of Prussia was Martin Stephan, an ultra conservative clergyman. . . . By 1837 he formed an Emigration Association with plans to move from Dresden to Hamburg . . . from Hamburg . . . to New Orleans, then to St. Louis by steamboat. In St. Louis the group would choose a site for their colony. . . . Between 3 and 18 November 1838, 665 people departed from Bremen on five ships. One ship, the Amalia with fifty-eight people on board, was lost at sea. The remaining voyagers arrived in St. Louis during January and February 1839. Four-fifths of the immigrants were farmers and craftsmen. In May 1839, they purchased 4,475 acres of private and government land for $9,234.25 in Perry County, Missouri.” The Missouri colonists later separated into six major settlements: Altenburg, Nieder Frohna, Dresden, Seelitz, Johannisberg, and Wittenberg. The Missouri colonies continued to grow and eventually crossed the Mississippi River to create a new colony in Fountain Bluff, Jackson County, Illinois.
Levine, Bruce Carlan. “Free Soil, Free Labor, and Freimänner: German Chicago in the Civil War Era.” German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, pp. 163-82, ill.
Includes bibliographical references.
Examines the role of Chicago’s German Americans in the history of antislavery, the development of the Republican Party, and the issues of the Civil War, suggesting ways in which developing social conditions and class relations shaped the outlooks and conduct of this immigrant group.
Donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
Muehl, Siegmar. Friedrich Muench: Man of Letters on the Missouri Frontier, Reader and Source Book, 1990s (C0952). 3 pp.
Finding aid lists the contents of three folders that are part of the German Heritage Archives at the State Historical Society of Missouri. From the introduction: “Siegmar Muehl translated and edited the writings of Friedrich Muench, scattered in various libraries throughout the U.S. Muench immigrated to the U.S. with the Giessen Emigration Society in 1834 and was a liberal thinker. He settled in Missouri, farmed, and wrote extensively. These papers contain translations as well as photocopies of Muench’s work.”
Putnam, Michael T., and Bradley G. Weiss. “An Investigation of Consonant Inventory Development in East Frisian Low German Utilizing Optimality Theory.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 135-49, tables.
Includes bibliographical references.
“The purpose of this study is to provide an analysis of specific elements of the phonological inventory of East Frisian Low German (EFLG) currently spoken in Grundy County, Iowa, within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT).”
Rampelmann, Katja. “Infidels, Ethnicity, and Womanhood: Women in the German-American Freethinker-Movement.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 61-76.
Includes bibliographical references.
“The German-American Free Congregations, later known as Freethinker-Soceities, were gateways for women on their way to equality. In contrast to most other German-American societies of the time, Free Congregations felt the necessity for female participation and granted women equal access to all their resources. . . . This article explores the role of women in the German-American Free-thinker movement, demonstrating the principles of equality with regard to membership and examines why and how this was implemented.” Sections include: Roots of the Freethinker-Movement in Germany, Principles of the Free Congregations, Women in Free Congregations and Freethinker Societies, and The Concept of Female Nourishment.
Rippley, LaVern J. Waumandee, Wisconsin 1860-1960: An Affectionate Portrait. Northfield, Minn.: St. Olaf College Press, [2003]. ii, 194 pp., ill. (some col.), maps.
Contents: Waumandee’s business past [including the Harmonie Gesellschaft] — Businesses left [west] side — Businesses right [east] side — Waumandee churches — Upper Waumandee — Lower Waumandee — Incidental businesses — Noted Waumandee families — Sports and recreation — Montana’s [i.e., Montana Township’s] Danuser Valley Swiss house — Baptisms, marriages and deaths at St. Boniface, 1867-1900 — Color site photographs.
Donated by Sally Konnak, 2006.
Schüppen, Franz. “‘Amerika’ im Königlichen Schauspielhaus Berlin: Rudolf Genees Charakterbild Stephy Girard nach Charles Sealsfields Morton und Theodor Fontanes Kritik in der Vossischen Zeitung zum 12. October 1978.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 105-21.
Includes English summary and bibliographical references.
From the summary: In October 1878 the Royal Theatre of Berlin performed a one-act play by Rudolf Geneé about Stephen Girard, an important nineteenth-century banker and wholesaler in Philadelphia. Charles Sealsfield had written a two-volume novel in which he described how John A. Morton, having become bankrupt, becomes Girard’s London agent in the banking industry, forsaking his life as a farmer on the Susquehanna. While Sealsfield’s work contains a “certain demonization of banking establishments,” novelist Theodor Fontane favorable review of Geneé’s play finds the character of Girard to represent the “typical American” as “a representative of a new world and a new age.” Geneé and Fontane’s writings “indicate a certain rapprochement of Prussia to the United States in those years.” The “American” qualities of such businessmen, in contrast to those of slave-holding planters, are held to be leading to “a better world.”
Schield, Emilie Dummann. “Pomeranian Emigration as Remembered by a Seven Year Old.” Dat Pommersche Blatt (Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin), no. 47, Jan. 2006, pp. 4-5, 12, 15, ill.
Part one of an emigration story written by Emilie Schield in 1931 and translated by her niece Lillie Radtke-Goetsch. Emilie’s father, Carl Friederich August Dummann, was born in 1832 in the village of Stramehl in the district of Regenwalde. Her mother, Auguste Henrietta Louise (neé Luedtke) was born in 1834 in the village of Sellin. In 1865 a letter arrived from Ferd Boernke, a relative by marriage who was living in the Town of Maine, near Taegesville, Wisconsin. The letter asked them “to also come to America as they could soon acquire property of their own here and become independent. This they could never expect to do in Germany.” Several families, including the Dummanns and their seven-year-old daughter Emilie, left in 1866 to make the journey to America. The journey and its hardships are described. After landing in Quebec, they came eventually to Milwaukee, where some of the family stayed while others continued on to Wausau, and from there to Taegesville. Part two will tell about purchasing land in the Town of Maine and establishing a homestead.
Schneider, Dorothee. “‘For Whom Are All the Good Things in Life?’ German-American Housewives Discuss Their Budgets.” German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, pp. 145-60.
Includes bibliographical references.
Tables show: Average weekly pay of German immigrants in New York City for selected occupations; and Six family budgets from the New Yorker Volks-Zeitung.
Donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
Smalley, Eugene V. “The German Element in the United States.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 26, no. 4, Dec. 2005, pp. 25-27, 30-32.
Reprinted from Lippincott’s Magazine, vol. 31, 1883, pp. 255-363.
From the editor’s notes: “Here once again are Yankee views about the German element in the United States . . . . Of keen interest to the editor are Smalley’s thoughts about geographic distribution of the Germans, his keen analysis of their political affiliation and his accurate observations about the Puritanical Sunday, the role of Yankee vs. German women, and his affection for their food. . . Smalley lauds the consumption of German lager beer over the old Yankee preference for whiskey. He is nowhere more eloquent than in eulogizing the contributions to America of German music. Compliments for the German bakers, butchers, watchmakers, tailors and toymakers abound. He equates the German press to that of American tongue. . . ”
Strohschänk, Johannes, and William G. Thiel. The Wisconsin Office of Emigration, 1852-1855, and Its Impact on German Immigration to the State. Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies. Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005. 155 pp., ill.
In 1852 Wisconsin established the Office of Emigration to attract European—mainly German-speaking—settlers to the state. This work draws upon contemporary newspaper articles and privately published emigrant guides, as well as official publications of the emigration office, to document the office’s influence on the settlement history of early Wisconsin and assess that influence against the backdrop of mid-19th-century state politics.
Contents: Why an office for emigrants to Wisconsin ? — Legal history and political background — The function of the Office of Commissioner of Emigration. Advice on Wisconsin; Advice on travel to Wisconsin; Protecting the emigrant against fraud and deception; Means used by the commissioners to fulfill their responsibilities; Recommendations for improving the effectiveness of the Office — The German emigrant literature compared with the information of the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Emigration. Private publications; Contemporaneous newspaper articles; The emigrant press — How effective was the Wisconsin Office of Commissioner of Emigration?
Strupp, Christoph, Birgit Zischke, and Kai Dreisbach. German Americana, 1800-1955: A Comprehensive Bibliography of German, Austrian, and Swiss Books and Dissertations on the United States. Reference Guides of the German Historical Institute, No. 18. Washington, DC: German Historical Institute, 2005. 552 pp.
Of special interest are the sections devoted to Emigration to the United States, German Americans, Travel Accounts, Travel Guides, and European Images of America.
Suhrbur, Thomas J. “Ethnicity in the Formation of the Chicago Carpenters Union: 1855-1890.” German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, pp. 86-103, ill.
Includes bibliographical references.
Tables show: Proportions of native- and foreign-born among Chicago’s population, work force, and carpenters, 1870 and 1890; and Nativity among Chicago’s carpenters compared to the total employed, 1870 and 1890.
Donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
Vallaster-Dona, Elfe, and Gert Niers. “German-American Literary Reviews.” Yearbook of German-American Studies, vol. 39, 2004, pp. 151-61.
Reviews of Von Partituren, Lesezeichen, und so weiter: 60 Bilder mit 12 Collagen und Umschlagbild von Annegret Heinl by Margot Scharpenberg; StadtFluchten, CityEscapes: Selected Poems by Claudia Becker; Wooden Shoe Hollow: Charlotte Pieper’s Cincinnati German Novel edited by Don Heinrich Tolzmann; New Occassions of Sin by Stuart Friebert; and The Country I Come From: Poems by Norbert Krapf.
Wellauer-Lenius, Maralyn A. “Christmastime in German-speaking Switzerland: Ae raecht schoeni Wiehnacht.” Perspektiven (Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.), vol. 5, no. 1, Winter 2005-2006, pp. 1, 4-6, ill.
Wittman, Marie Gionet Arnold. “My Hessian Ancestors.” German-American Genealogy (Immigrant Genealogical Society, Burbank, CA), Fall 2005, pp. 1-2, ill.
Family history. “I would like to introduce you to Christian Adolf Schumpf who was born on 18 January 1753 in Enkirch, near the Moselle River in Germany. Christian died in Quebec City [Canada] on the 24th of December 1815.” He was a Hessian soldier, and very likely a tailor, serving under General Burgoyne.
Wuerffel, Stella. City by the Sea. Lima, Ohio: Fairway Press, 1988. 262 pp., ill.
An anecdotal history of the early years of First St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Chicago. From the back cover: “For Leonhard Wuer, son of a successful businessman in early nineteenth-century Germany, America—and Chicago, its great and promising city by the sea—is a distant and exciting dream. But when Leonhard finally reaches the New World, he finds that it offers more than just a dream. For Leonhard, the New World means struggle, hardship, and—finally—a new home for himself and his legacy. Based in part on the life of the author’s grandfather, City by the Sea is firmly rooted in historical fact, and chronicles the real-life struggles of German Lutherans as they strove to establish their faith n Chicago and throughout the New World.”
Donated by Bob Meier, 2006.
Evert, Jeanne E. The Hunn Family History. Cottage Grove, WI: [the author], 2006. [93] pp., ill. (some col.).
Contains the Hunn, Zink, Sonnemann, Zirbel, and Wussow family stories. Johann August Emanuel and Katharina (Haaf) Hunn left Bensheim, Hesse-Darmstadt for America in 1852 and settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Adam Zink (also spelled Zinke, Sink, or Zinck) married Anna Marie Neumann (or Niemann) in Hesse-Darmstadt; they arrived in Milwaukee sometime after September 1846. August Sonnemann came to America in 1867 from Hanover, settling first in Youngstown, Ohio. He married his second wife, Louisa Eliza Zirbel in 1868, and they moved to Milwaukee sometime between 1870 and 1877. Louisa’s mother, Christina (Heuer) Zirbel (sometimes spelled Zerbel) came to Milwaukee with her children in 1839, having left from the port of Stettin, Prussia. Carl and Frederika (Gruetzmacher) came with their children from Prussia by way of Liverpool, and settled in Milwaukee sometime after arriving in New York in September 1839. Their family name was sometimes misspelled Wosso. Includes several maps, a short history of Hesse-Darmstadt, family group sheets, and images and reproductions.
Donated by Jeanne E. (Hunn) Evert, Cottage Grove, WI, 2006.
Petrie, Michael. The Migration of the Adam and Barbara Drechsler Sippel Family and of Martin Baus and His Cousins, Benedict and Pius Kohlman, from the Farming Villages North of Fulda, Hesse-Kassel via the Town Nassau, Rensselaer County New York to Townships Marshfield and Forest, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. [2006]. 4 pp.
Donated by Michael Petrie, 2006.
Rippley, La Vern J. Noble Women, Restless Men: The Rippley (Rieple, Ripley, Ripli, Rippli) Family in Wisconsin, North Dakota, Minnesota and Montana. Northfield, Minn.: St. Olaf College Press, 1996. 235 pp., ill., maps.
Contents: Introduction — Ancestral Background: Unadingen [Baden] Germany — Gregor Rieple Family — Mathias Rieple, Ripli, Rippli Family — Agatha Matchey Rippley Family — Fate of Mathias Ripli, Rippley, Disposition of his Estate — Agatha Moves to North Dakota — First Born of Mathias Rippley — Joseph Rippley, Mary Monek — Stanislaus [Stanley, Stack] Rippley, Bernadette, Claudia — Offspring of Joseph Rippley — Neidecken Interlude — Stanley, Stack Ripley Line — Stack and Josephine Spokesfield Offspring — More Mathias Rippley Offspring: Mathew, John, George [Katie] — Anna Rippley Guzinski — Elizabeth, Lizzie Rippley Tompkins — Martin Stephan Rippley and Offspring — Clara Rippley Vernlund — Charles Mathias Rippley [Mathias Rippley Offspring continued] — His wife, Mary Clara Prokop and First Born, Clarence — The Louis G. Rippley Family — Charles Louis Rippley — La Vern John RippleyII — Mary Helen Rippley — Elsie Ann Rippley Brommer — Phyllis Marie Rippley Sonsalla — The Adolph Frank Rippley Family — Rita Ann Rippley — Ruth Ann Rippley — Therese Rippley — George Rippley — Barbara Jean Rippley — The Sarah Stella Rippley Pronschinske Family — Jane Pronschinske Sendelbach — Maxine Pronschinske Sendelbach — Ruth Pronschinske Tritz — Elsie Mary Rippley [Sister Zoerita O. S. F.] — The Albert Charles Rippley Family — Judith Rippley Boehm — Gerald Mathias Rippley — The Rochester, Minnesota Ripley Family — Conclusion.
Donated by La Vern Rippley, 2006.
Rüedi, Ernst. The Ammann Family of Schaffhausen, Switzerland, 1450-1950. Translated from the German by Margot Ammann Durrer. Rockport, ME: Picton Press, 2005. xi, 173 ill.
Study of the family of Othmar H. Ammann (1879-1965), a civil engineer and expert on long span bridges. Othmar Ammann was the designer and chief engineer of six of the major bridges of New York City as well as consultant for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. FH Ammann
Donated by Margot Ammann Durrer and the Swiss American Historical Society, 2006.
Sudermann, Hermann. Frau Sorge. Roman. With introduction and notes by Gustav Gruener. New York: Holt, 1900. xvii, 268 pp., frontispiece.
Donated by the Mayville Historical Society, 2005.
