To the latest posterity
Pennsylvania-German family registers in the Fraktur tradition
by Corinne P. Earnest
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"The family register holds a distinctive place in American visual culture. Used to record marriages and offspring within a family through several generations, the family register also incorporates hand-illuminated decorative art. To the Latest Posterity is the first major study to explore the world of Pennsylvania-German family registers and their place in American social, religious, and cultural traditions." "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Church records and registers, Genealogy, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch, Pennsylvania Dutch, Pennsylvania Dutch Illumination of books and manuscripts, Registers of births, Registers of births, etc., Church statistics, Illumination of books and manuscriptsPlaces
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To the latest posterity: Pennsylvania-German family registers in the Fraktur tradition
2004, Pennsylvania State University Press
in English
0271023686 9780271023687
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