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Title Item #

Bilder un Gedanke, Book of Pennsylvania German Verse 196

- Gilbert, Russell W; Lyric poetry written by Russell W. Gilbert in Pennsylvania German. In 1943 he wrote his first $14.00

dialect poem. After the poems comes a literal translation, or summary, or glossary of words and expressions with

the English translation.; 1975; 119 pp; HCB

Care & ID of 19th Century Photographic Prints 483

- Reilly, James M.; Nineteenth-century print processes needs to be subjected to scientific investigation, from $29.95

which specific preservations recommendations can be derived. The impetus for this book was provided by just

such an intensive investigation of the albumen print. Also an attempt was made to summarize the available

preservation information for other important 19th-century print materials.; 1986; 188 pp; HCB

Folk & Decorative Art of the Shenandoah Valley 513

- Shenandoah Valley Folklore Society; Includes Limners and artists, Fraktur and Calligraphy, wood, textiles, $29.95

colored plates and photos.; 1993; 127 pp; SCB

Fraktur Writings & Folk Art Drawings; Schwenkfelder Library 781

- Moyer, Dennis K.; This book looks at original examples of Pennsylvania German folk art in an area of $70.00

southeastern Pennsylvania where a small religious denomination known as Schwenkfelders settled. It is an

introduction to the art, the area, the people and friends and relatives who received it.; 1997; 301 pp; HCB

Heraldry in America 713

- Zieber, Eugene; An aid for the understanding of Heraldry. A collection of material gathered from the use of royal $36.50

and other seals upon Colonial documents and individual coats of armor upon tombstones, wills, deeds, tablets, etc.

showing an early practice of heraldry in the United States. It includes insignia of orders and societies.; 1997; 427

Hex Signs & other Barn Decorations 537

- Smith, Elmer; Printer 1965; fifteenth printing 1993. Photographs taken in counties of Pennsylvania, Virginia and $3.50

West Virginia of various Hex Signs along with explanations and "How to Make Your Own Hex Sign.; 1993; 42 pp;

Pennsylvania German Fraktur of Free Library of Philadelphia. (2 vol. set) 837

- Weiser, Frederick; Illustrated catalogues along with text. One of the first forms of Pennsylvania German folk art $60.00

to be recognized and studied was the paper work the world has come to call Fraktur. Volume I is colored Fraktur

and Volume II is black and white Fraktur.; 1976; 200 pp; HCB

 

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