PA Photos and Documents

The Deutsche Ansiedlungs-Gesellschaft zu Philadelphia (German Settlement Society of Philadelphia) was founded in 1836 by a group of German Philadelphians whose goal was to found a German colony somewhere in …

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 …

Johann Heinrich Keppele was born in 1716 in the village of Treschklingen, in what is today’s German state of Baden-Württemberg. In 1738, at the age of 22, Keppele emigrated to …

Miscellaneous papers of Lutheran clergyman Henry Melchior Muhlenberg from his later years, including two versions of a memorandum in his hand concerning St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Barren Hill, Pa. …

This Civil War Journal of General John F. Ballier records the battlefield activity of the 98th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, which Ballier led between May 4-July 2, 1864.

This collection consists of the daily German language newspaper “Der Demokrat”. Variant titles are: Philadelphia Demokrat, Philadelphia Demokrat und Anzeiger der Deutschen, and Philadelphier Demokrat. It merged with the Morgen …

This newspaper was edited & published by Hermann Burckhardt & Georg Rottenstein, May 1838-?, then by Georg Rottenstein alone. Not to be confused with Der Demokrat, 1839-1918.

This collection contains items from the German Society of Pennsylvania’s archival holdings related to Philadelphia-based German-American singing societies of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Items include: souvenir programs, recordings, …

Since its founding in 1764, the German Society provided charitable assistance to German-speaking immigrants in the community. The Women’s Auxiliary of the German Society of Pennsylvania was founded in 1900 …