Archive Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Papers, Personal |
Title |
Mary Jane Lederach Hershey Fraktur Research Collection |
Scope & Content |
From 1979 to 2005, historian Mary Jane Lederach Hershey visited many libraries, museums and private fraktur collections in the eastern United States, gathering data and photographs of fraktur produced by or related to the Mennonite community of eastern Pennsylvania. She collected data on over 1,000 items. Some were featured in her book "This Teaching I Present: Fraktur from the Skippack and Salford Mennonite Meetinghouse Schools, 1747-1836" (Good Books, 2003). Finding aid: Click Here A full inventory of the data/photo sheets is available in PDF: Click Here or as an Excel spreadsheet (for sorting): Click Here |
Object ID # |
2005.13.48 |
Year Range from |
1979 |
Year Range to |
2005 |
Manuscript Collection # |
Hist. Mss. 407 |
Source |
Gift of Mary Jane Lederach Hershey & Hiram Hershey |
People |
Dock, Christopher, d. 1771 Eyer, John Adam, 1755-1837 Godshall, Samuel K., 1808-1898 Hershey, Mary Jane Lederach, 1930- Hunsicker, Isaac Z., 1803-1870 Johnson, Henry G., 1806-1879 Kolb, Andreas, 1749-1811 Kulp, David, 1777-1834 Souder, John D., 1865-1942 |