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To the latest posterity : Pennsylvania-German family registers in the Fraktur tradition / Corinne and Russell Earnest.

Title
To the latest posterity : Pennsylvania-German family registers in the Fraktur tradition / Corinne and Russell Earnest.
Author
Earnest, Corinne P.
Publication
University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors
Earnest, Russell D.
Description
xxi, 153 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm.
Summary
"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.
Series Statement
Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ; v. 37. Pennsylvania German history and culture series ; no. 4
Uniform Title
  • Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society (2001) ; v. 37.
  • Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society (2001). Pennsylvania German history and culture series ; no. 4.
Subject
  • Church records and registers > Pennsylvania
  • Illumination of books and manuscripts, Pennsylvania Dutch
  • Pennsylvania Dutch > Genealogy
  • Registers of births, etc. > Pennsylvania
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Perspectives on family registers -- 2. Pennsylvania-German family registers and the Fraktur tradition -- 3. Comparisons of Pennsylvania-German and New England family registers -- 4. Texts on Pennsylvania-German family registers -- 5. Forms of Pennsylvania-German family registers.
ISBN
0271023686 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2003022849
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries