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"A Thousand Years of Erlaheim"/"Tausend Jahre Erlaheim"

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS E128

Overview

This collection consists of the manuscript volume "Tausend Jahre Erlaheim" written by William Zirkel, and its English translation completed by Lisbeth Sass, with a forward by Vansel S. Johnson dated from 1960. The volumes include mounted illustrations, facsimiles, maps, photographs, and text regarding the history of Erlaheim in Ravensburg, Germany. Johnson's ancestors, the Johannes family, came to Valley Falls, Kansas in the 1860s from Erlaheim.

Dates

  • Creation: 1956, 1960

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

No access restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.

Extent

2 Volumes

Language of Materials

English

German

Physical Location

RH MS E128

Physical Location

RH MS D181

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift, Vansel S. Johnson, October 1961.

Processing Information

Volumes transferred from FKB H2 St82zt2 1956 and FKB St82ztZ 1960.

Source

Subject

Title
Guide to the Wilhelm Zirkel Collection
Subtitle
"A Thousand Years of Erlaheim"/"Tausend Jahre Erlaheim"
Author
Finding aid prepared by chh, 13 September 1977. Finding aid encoded by mg, 2005. Finding aid revised by mwh, 2020.
Date
2005
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Finding aid written in English.
Finding aid permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/10407/2286689442
Preferred citation
Wilhelm Zirkel Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS E128, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas

Revision Statements

  • 2020-09-24: Consolidated 2 EADs, mwh

Repository Details

Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository

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