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FormatJournal Article
Author, AnalyticSchmelz, Lisa M.
Title, AnalyticIn Her Own Words: an Heir to Black Point Estate Pens her Thoughts While Traveling in Europe at the Onset of WWI
Journal TitleAt The Lake: Geneva Lakes Area Magazine
Date of PublicationWinter 2018
Location in Work28-40
Address/AvailabilityNei-Turner Media Group, Inc., 400 Broad St., Unit D, Lake Geneva, WI 53147
View Onlinehttps://atthelakemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/LR_ATL_WT18.pdf
AbstractArticle highlighting letters by Alma Schmidt Petersen, granddaughter of the German immigrant and leading Chicago beer brewer, Conrad Seipp. Alma wrote home as a 20-year old who was visiting and traveling in Europe, accompanied by her grandmother, Conrad's second wife, Catherine Seipp, in the summer of 1914. She also befriended a German soldier, Fritz Hirschberger, his letters to her are also preserved.
NotesIncludes illustrations. Original documents featured in the article are at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Black Point Estate, Fontana, WI has copies in its archives. Donated by Black Point Estate, Wisconsin Historical Society, September 2018.
Call NumberMKI P2018-06
MKI TermsPetersen, Alma Schmidt/ Hirschberger, Fritz/ German Americans -- Wisconsin/ Travel/ Letters/ World War, 1914-1918