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Starck's Tagliches Handbuch (Philadelphia, 1834), Bound with Tagliches Gebet-Buchlein (1834), and Family Records by Martin Wetzler

Leather-bound Pennsylvania German daily prayer book, published in Philadelphia by Mentz und Sohn in 1834. Includes a fraktur bookplate and four pages of family records in the hand of Martin Wetzler, a Jewish fraktur scrivener, dated June 1859. Additional birth records in another hand are present, dated in the 1860s. The book also contains a letter written in Hebrew characters.

Associated People/Businesses

WETZLER, MARTIN

Geography

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Subjects

Fraktur art
Prayer books

Physical Location

Archives Room, BV4811 .S73 1834