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German Society of Pennsylvania – German Society Agentur
Institutions: German Society of Pennsylvania
Time Periods: 1816-1860 Antebellum Period, 1861-1865 Civil War Era, 1866-1877 Reconstruction Era, 1878-1900 Industrial Revolution, 1901-1928 Progressive Era, 1929-1945 Great Depression and World War II, 1946-1991 Cold War
The Agentur Records Collection consists of 72 volumes of handwritten ledgers, indexes, logs, reports, and letter books spanning the years 1847 to 1947, recording the efforts of the German Society of Pennsylvania’s Agency to help needy German immigrants and Philadelphia residents of German origin. The collection contains valuable biographical information for local history, social history, labor history, immigration research, and genealogy.