Pennsylvania German Fraktur and Manuscripts

Fraktur are colorful documents made by Pennsylvania Germans who lived in rural parts of southeastern Pennsylvania and the surrounding region during the 1700s and 1800s. Most fraktur are personal records, such as birth and baptismal certificates. Learn more about this collection. For advanced searching filters for this collection, please use the link "Advanced."

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Peter Leisy Weaving Pattern Book
Birth and Baptismal Certificate for Catherine Wehr (b. 1816).
Illustration proof for Borneman Collection bookplate (Two Birds)
Simon Gratz Fund Bookplate
Illustration proof for Borneman Collection bookplate (Bird with Red and Blue Wings)
Illustration proof for Borneman Collection bookplate (Bird with Red wings)
Birth and Baptismal Certificate for Caroline Matilda Transu (b. 1821).
Lunula Hypocritis
Ein schöner Christlicher Haussegen
Das Büchlein Gehert Willhelm Schittinger Merz 12 1856
Kurtze summarische Antwort und gründlicher Gegenberichte der Wohlgebohrnen Frauen Barbaren von Freyberg
Sophia Kriebel bin ich genannt...1801
Tägliches Gesang Büchlein
Christliche Tages-Zeit in auferbaulichen schönen Morgen, Messe Reise Abend, Beicht und Comunion nebst dreÿen Tag=Zeiten Kreuzweg der vier Evangelien wie man sie am Antlaß haltet
Dieses Noten Büchlein Gehöret dem William Gott Schall Zu, Geschr den 27ten February 1795
Account Book, 1853-1876
Handwritten Copy of the Anonymous English Translation of Johann G. Hohmann’s Der lang Verborgene Freund...[or] The Long Lost Friend…
The Jacob Anthony Grist Mill Ledger, 1842-1868
Fraktur Illustrated Psalms
Paradiesisches Wunder-Spiel