Download or read book The Landis Family A Pennsylvania German Family Album written by Irwin Richman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Landis family of Landis Valley was ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. Its members were typical Pennsylvania Germans of their era, focused on farming and family, yet they also traveled, edited magazines, and became the founders of the Landis Valley Museum. The Landis family settled in Lancaster County in the 18th century, where Henry Harrison Landis and his wife, Emma Caroline Landis, raised their children, Henry Kinzer, George Diller, and Nettie Mae, in a cross-cultural environment. Descended from Mennonite and Reformed Church families, the Landis family formed an appreciation for both cultures, and recognizing the valuable contributions of Pennsylvania Germans to American culture, they collected images and objects to chronicle their unique way of life. Using historic photographs, many never before published, The Landis Family: A Pennsylvania German Family Album provides insights into the family life, customs, and agricultural traditions of this unique region.
Download or read book Landis Family A Pennsylvania German Family Album written by Irwin Richman and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Landis family of Landis Valley was ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. Its members were typical Pennsylvania Germans of their era, focused on farming and family, yet they also traveled, edited magazines, and became the founders of the Landis Valley Museum. The Landis family settled in Lancaster County in the 18th century, where Henry Harrison Landis and his wife, Emma Caroline Landis, raised their children, Henry Kinzer, George Diller, and Nettie Mae, in a cross-cultural environment. Descended from Mennonite and Reformed Church families, the Landis family formed an appreciation for both cultures, and recognizing the valuable contributions of Pennsylvania Germans to American culture, they collected images and objects to chronicle their unique way of life. Using historic photographs, many never before published, The Landis Family: A Pennsylvania German Family Album provides insights into the family life, customs, and agricultural traditions of this unique region.
Download or read book The Photography of Henry K Landis written by Oscar Beisert and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographs documenting a diverse array of lifestyles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Pennsylvania and New York by amateur photographer Henry K. Landis (1865-1955).
Download or read book The Writers Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mennonite Family History July 2018 Back Issues written by Lemar and Lois Ann Mast and published by Masthof Press & Bookstore. This book was released on with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MFH Back Issue Index written by Lemar and Lois Ann Mast and published by Masthof Press & Bookstore. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Index to the articles published by Mennonite Family History
Download or read book Architecture and Landscape of the Pennsylvania Germans 1720 1920 written by Sally McMurry and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase "Pennsylvania German architecture" likely conjures images of either the "continental" three-room house with its huge hearth and five-plate stoves, or the huge Pennsylvania bank barn with its projecting overshoot. These and other trademarks of Pennsylvania German architecture have prompted great interest among a wide audience, from tourists and genealogists to architectural historians, antiquarians, and folklorists. Since the nineteenth century, scholars have engaged in field measurement and drawing, photographic documentation, and careful observation, resulting in a scholarly conversation about Pennsylvania German building traditions. What cultural patterns were being expressed in these buildings? How did shifting social, technological, and economic forces shape architectural changes? Since those early forays, our understanding has moved well beyond the three-room house and the forebay barn. In Architecture and Landscape of the Pennsylvania Germans, 1720-1920, eight essays by leading scholars and preservation professionals not only describe important architectural sites but also offer original interpretive insights that will help advance understanding of Pennsylvania German culture and history. Pennsylvania Germans' lives are traced through their houses, barns, outbuildings, commercial buildings, churches, and landscapes. The essays bring to bear years of field observation as well as engagement with current scholarly perspectives on issues such as the nature of "ethnicity," the social construction of landscape, and recent historiography about the Pennsylvania Germans. Dozens of original measured drawings, appearing here for the first time in print, document important works of Pennsylvania German architecture, including the iconic Bertolet barns in Berks County, the Martin Brandt farm complex in Cumberland County, a nineteenth-century Pennsylvania German housemill, and urban houses in Lancaster.
Download or read book The Word in the Wilderness written by Alexander Lawrence Ames and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a vibrant part of religious life for many Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Fraktur manuscripts today are primarily studied for their decorative qualities. The Word in the Wilderness takes a different view, probing these documents for what they tell us about the lived religious experiences of the Protestant communities that made and used them and opening avenues for reinterpretation of this well-known, if little understood, set of cultural artifacts. The resplendent illuminated religious manuscripts commonly known as Fraktur have captivated collectors and scholars for generations. Yet fundamental questions about their cultural origins, purpose, and historical significance remain. Alexander Lawrence Ames addresses these by placing Fraktur manuscripts within a “Pietist paradigm,” grounded in an understanding of how their makers viewed “the Word,” or scripture. His analysis combines a sweeping overview of Protestant Christian religious movements in Europe and early America with close analysis of key Pennsylvania devotional manuscripts, revealing novel insights into the religious utility of calligraphy, manuscript illumination, and devotional reading as Protestant spiritual enterprises. Situating the manuscripts in the context of transatlantic religious history, early American spirituality, material culture studies, and the history of book and manuscript production, Ames challenges long-held approaches to Pennsylvania German studies and urges scholars to engage with these texts and with their makers and users on their own terms. Featuring dozens of illustrations, this lively, engaging book will appeal to Fraktur scholars and enthusiasts, historians of early America, and anyone interested in the material culture and spiritual practices of the German-speaking residents of Pennsylvania.
Download or read book Mennonite Family History October 2019 written by Lois Ann Mast and published by Masthof Press & Bookstore. This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mennonite Family History is a quarterly periodical covering Mennonite, Amish, and Brethren genealogy and family history. Check out the free sample articles on our website for a taste of what can be found inside each issue. The MFH has been published since January 1982. The magazine has an international advisory council, as well as writers. The editors are J. Lemar and Lois Ann Zook Mast.
Download or read book To the Latest Posterity written by Corinne P. Earnest and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To the Latest Posterity is filled with examples of family registers from museum and private collections, many of them never before published, including early handmade work as well as printed registers that were filled in by hand in the nineteenth century. Bringing the art into the twentieth century and beyond, the Earnests discuss the adoption of the art by the Amish, who continue the practice of illuminated family record keeping today."--Jacket.
Download or read book The Pennsylvania German written by Philip Columbus Croll and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pennsylvania German written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants.
Download or read book The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record written by Richard Henry Greene and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Portrait and Biographical Record of Lancaster County Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Lehigh County Pennsylvania and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Its Families written by Charles Rhoads Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strassburger Family and Allied Families of Pennsylvania written by Ralph Beaver Strassburger and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mennonite Family History October 2015 written by Lois Ann Mast and published by Masthof Press & Bookstore. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue contains the following articles and [surnames]: Christian Egle and Marie Rediger Family—1874 Immigrants, Part I—Family and Faith Links in Europe [Egle, Egli, Reidiger, Rediger, Ehresmann]; Revised Article on Jacob Beiler—1737 Immigrant [Beiler, Beyeler]; Elizabeth Frantz (b. 1729), Daughter of Christian Frantz (b. 1685), Wife of John Nicholas Garst (b. 1727), Mother of the Frantz-Garst Brethren [Frantz, Garst]; Margaret "Maggie" Ziegler (1844-1924)—Heritage of Hope, Legacy of Love, Part II: Married 1) Henry R. Boyer (1840-1865), 2) Jacob Lawrence Lind (1849-1929) [Ziegler, Musselman, Hiestand, Wenger, Allebach, Landis, Shrager]; Work and Hope: Mennonite Life in Eastern Pennsylvania; The Ehresmanns of Dorrmoschel, Part VIII: Forget-Me-Nots, Tears, and Love [Ehresmann, Iutzi]; Truths Emerging From the Mists of the Past: A Virtual Visit to a Hallowed Site, Landes Mennonite Cemetery [Landes, Hochstaettler, Birky, Augsburger]; Growing Up Gottshall [Gottshall]; Mennonite World Conference in 2015—Walk More Closely With God and Each Other.
