The Engelmann-Hilgard family circle includes members of the Engelmann and Hilgard families who migrated to the United States beginning in the 1830s and their relatives who remained behind in the German...

Correspondence sent to journalist and entrepreneur Henry Villard from his German relatives. Villard, born Heinrich Hilgard in 1835, in Speyer, was born into a wealthy family and first traveled to the United...

This collection consists of letters sent by three siblings, Charlotte, Sophie, and Theodor Engelmann, to their sister Margarethe. The three Engelmann siblings emigrated to Illinois with their parents,...

Carl Hermann Crede immigrated to Missouri from Cassel, Hesse, in 1853 with his brother Wilhelm. He joined the household of his maternal grandmother, Margarete Versen Schroeder Classen, who had immigrated...

The Grupe Family Letters is a collection of 22 letters mostly sent to immigrant Marie Franziska Elisabeth Grupe (1825–1923) between 1898 and 1919. Marie Grupe was born in 1825 in Hamburg, Germany, and...

The group of letters shared here is a small portion of the Dobberpuhl-Krueger Family Collection, a rich archive held by the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies documenting five generations...

The group of letters shared here is a small portion of the Dobberpuhl-Krueger Family Collection, a rich archive held by the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies documenting five generations of...