Mennonite Heritage Center
Mary Jane Lederach Hershey Fraktur Research Collection
MHEP.Hist.Mss.407
Table of Contents
- Summary Information
- Administrative Information
- Controlled Access Headings
- Collection Inventory
- Series 1. Data/photo sheets for items featured in This Teaching I Present
- Series 2. Data/photo sheets arranged by artist
- Series 3. Data/photo sheets arranged by type
- Series 4. Miscellaneous this and that
- Series 5. Slides
Summary Information
- Repository
- Mennonite Heritage Center
- Creator
- Hershey, Mary Jane Lederach, 1930-
- Title
- Mary Jane Lederach Hershey fraktur research collection
- ID
- MHEP.Hist.Mss.407
- Date [inclusive]
- 1979-2005
- Extent
- 4.0 Linear feet (18 flat boxes)
- Language
- English
- Abstract
- 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). A full inventory of the data/photo sheets is available in PDF: http://mhep.org/files/inventories/HM407inventory.pdf or as an Excel spreadsheet (for sorting): http://mhep.org/files/inventories/HM407inventory.xlsx. Search either of these by pressing Ctrl+f.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Mennonite Heritage Center 2014
565 Yoder RoadHarleysville, PA
215.256.3020
library@mhep.org
Controlled Access Headings
Family Name(s)
- Cassel
- Godshall
Genre(s)
- Illuminated manuscripts
- Manuscripts
- Photographs
- Research notes
Personal Name(s)
- Dock, Christopher, d. 1771
- Eyer, John Adam, 1755-1837
- Gottschall, Samuel K., 1808-1898
- Hunsicker, Isaac Z., 1803-1870
- Johnson, Henry G., 1806-1879
- Kolb, Andreas, 1749-1811
- Kulp, David, 1777-1834
- Souder, John D., 1865-1942
Subject(s)
- Education
- Fraktur art
- Music
- Singing
Collection Inventory
Series 1. Data/photo sheets for items featured in This Teaching I Present |
Box 1 |
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Series 2. Data/photo sheets arranged by artist |
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Christopher Dock related |
2 | 1 | ||
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Salford 1815-1818 group |
2 | 2 | ||
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Salford/Skippack related |
2 | 3-4 | ||
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Cassel family related |
3 | |||
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John Adam Eyer related |
4 | 1-2 | ||
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David Kulp related |
4 | 3 | ||
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Andreas Kolb related |
5 | |||
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Godshall family related Scope and Contents noteIncluding Isaac Clarence Kulp's translation of the Jacob Gottschall (1769-1845) dowry record book. |
6-7 | |||
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Henry G. Johnson related |
8 | 1-2 | ||
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Isaac Z. Hunsicker related |
8 | 3 | ||
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John D. Souder related |
8 | 4 | ||
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Sundry artists and motifs Scope and Contents noteFiles on: Fraktur before 1770; Herman Ache; Andreas Bauer; Henry Bauer; John Adam Beyscher; Henry Brachtheiser; Engraver Artist; Flying Angels motif; John Gehman; Isaac Gross; Susanna Heebner; Hereford Artist; Jacob Hummel; Kommt Liebe Kinder Artist; Jacob Landes; Rudolph Landes; John Moyer; Joseph Moyer; Samuel Moyer; Samuel Musselman; Jacob Overholt; Rockhill Artist; Durs Rudie; Side Floral Bookplate Artist; Star motif. |
9-10 | |||
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Series 3. Data/photo sheets arranged by type |
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Vorschriften (penmanship models) |
11 | 1 | ||
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Birth certificates |
11 | 2 | ||
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Cutwork |
11 | 3 | ||
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Family registers |
11 | 4 | ||
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Singing related |
11 | 5 | ||
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Teaching pieces |
11 | 6-8 | ||
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School rewards and pictures |
12 | 1-2 | ||
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Schoolwork |
12 | 3 | ||
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Notenbüchlein (manuscript tune booklets) |
13 | |||
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Bookplates |
14 | |||
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Non-local/non-Mennonite Scope and Contents noteFiles on: European fraktur; Christian Alsdorf; Amish fraktur; Matthew Fuchs; Lancaster fraktur; Schwenkfelder fraktur; Christian Strenge; John Van Minian; other non-local. |
15 | |||
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Series 4. Miscellaneous this and thatScope and Contents noteIncludes record of fraktur owners; files on: fakes, fraktur in the Library of Congress, and the Donald Shelley auction; and numerous articles on fraktur. |
Box 16 |
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Series 5. Slides |
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Slides of fraktur, with numbers corresponding to data sheets, #1-1011 |
17 | |||
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Slides of local and Mennonite history, with additional unnumbered fraktur slides |
18 | |||
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