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Accession Number
PAG1998.187
Creation Date
1855
Description
Printed blank Taufschein with red, yellow, and blue scroll and foliage border, scenes of marriage, birth, baptism, and death at sides clockwise beginning at left.
Dimensions in Inches
15 1/4 x 10 3/8
Dimensions in Centimeters
39 x 26
Materials
Ink on paper
Technique
Drawn
Print Shop Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Associated Places
Philadelphia
Category
Birth and baptismal certificate (Geburts-und-Taufschein)
Motifs
angels, flowers, religious
Rights
Please contact the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College for permissions which fall outside of educational fair use.
Source
Ursinus College Library Special Collections and the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art
Provenance
Pennsylvania Folklife Society
Script/Text
Fraktur lettering, English script
Language
English
Transcription
Certificate of Birth & Baptism. To these two Parents, as and his Wife, a daughter of was born a on the day of in the year/of our Lord 18. This child was born in County, in the State of in North America; was baptized on the day of 18 . by the Rev. and received/the name of Witnesses present at the Act of Baptism:
[Lower right]
H. SEBALD, sc.
For sale by IG Kohler, No. 104 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia./Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by IG KOHLER,/in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Condition
Good
Bibliographical Reference
Stopp #524, Variant
Published
Stopp, Klaus. The Printed Birth and Baptismal Certificates of the German Americans. 6 vols. Mainz, Germany, and East Berlin, Pa.: privately published, 1997–99. vol. 3, p. 235.
File Format
.jpeg
Type
image
Keywords
fraktur, Pennsylvania German, Pennsylvania Dutch, folk art, illuminated manuscript, taufschein
Image Location
Rights Statement
No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only. URI: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
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