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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Ostoyich, Kevin |
| Title, Monographic | The German Society of Pennsylvania: A Guide to Its Book and Manuscript Collections |
| Place of Publication | Washington, DC |
| Publisher | German Historical Institute |
| Date of Publication | 2006 |
| Extent of Work | 130 |
| Series Title | Reference Guide |
| Series Vol. ID | No. 20 |
| View Online | http://www.ghi-dc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=207&Itemid=101 |
| Abstract | The library currently consists of six collections: The Main Collection, the German American Collection, the Manuscripts Collection, the Newspaper Collection, the Carl Schurz Pamphlet Collection, and the Carl Schurz Periodicals Collection. . . . The Main Collection is a model of nineteenth-century German Bildung. . . . A reading of the catalog reveals that all of the traditional arts and sciences are covered. . . . [T]he holdings reflect more the interests of the common man than of the scholar. Although scholarly titles are well represented, titles in such non-scholarly genres as popular novels, cookbooks, travel literature, biographies, devotional literature, and children's books abound. Thus, the library serves as a window to German-American culture during the nineteenth century. . . . The German American Collection was founded in 1867 by Oswald Seidensticker (1825-1894). . . . Seidensticker's goal was 'to publish the first bibliography of German printing in America. . . [which he published in] 1893 under the title The First Century of German Printing in America, 1728-1830.' As a result of Seidensticker's efforts, the German American Collection is a mine of German-American printing (containing books from the press of the celebrated Sauer family, as well as Benjamin Franklin. . . . In addition to books, he gathered journals, magazines, and newspapers. . . . The Pamphlet Collection consists of thousands of entries on all types of German-American associational life (mostly within the Philadelphia area). The Manuscripts Collection contains materials pertaining to the German Society of Pennsylvania, dating from the society's founding (1764) through the twentieth century, as well as other manuscripts related to German-American life and culture. The Carl Schurz collections of pamphlets and periodicals came to the German Society after the dissolution of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation (organized in 1930). |
| Notes | German Historical Institute Reference Guides; donated by Prof. Frank Trommler, 2008. |
| Call Number | MKI P2008-14 |
| MKI Terms | United States/ Archives/ German Americans -- Pennsylvania/ German Americans -- Research -- Directories/ German Society of Pennsylvania/ Philadelphia (Pa.)/ German-American press/ 16th century/ 17th century/ 18th century/ 19th century/ 20th century/ Bibliographies |