This collection centers on Dorothea Handel Schuhmacher, who was originally from Bretten in Baden-Württemberg and immigrated to the United States in 1855 with her husband Peter Schuhmacher; the couple...

This group of letters was written by Peter Jöns to his family in Schleswig-Holstein between approximately 1887 and 1895.

Individuals mentioned in the Dorothea Handel Schuhmacher Family Letters

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...

Letters received by and sent from Marie Hansen Taylor. Born in Gotha in 1829, she married American author Bayard Taylor in 1857. The couple traveled throughout Europe for the first decade of their marriage...

Items relating to the Guggenheimer-Schweitzer collection, largely collected by Peter Schweitzer.