MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01998cam a2200385 a 4500
001 97207808
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082 00 $a305.83/1073$221
245 00 $aAuswandererbriefe$h[microform].
246 1 $iTitle on finding aid:$aBochumer Auswandererbriefsammlung (BABS)
246 1 $iParallel title on finding aid:$aBochum emigrant letter collection
260 $a[Dortmund, Germany] :$bMC,$c1997.
300 $a40 microfilm reels :$bill. ;$c35 mm.
506 0 $aOpen to research.
546 $aGerman and English.
520 $aReproduces about 6700 German emigrant letters from the United States written between 1820 and 1930, collected by Wolfgang Helbich. About 85% are in the form of Xerox copies of the originals, 10% are in transcription form only (the originals have been lost), and 5% are the original letters. Biographical research and background studies on the letter writers is reproduced along with the letters, including parish registers, emigration lists, judicial records, passenger lists, manuscript census, city directories, county histories, platbooks, etc.
500 $aFilmed from the originals in the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
500 $aIncludes indexes.
500 $aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.
650 0 $aGerman Americans$xCorrespondence.
650 0 $aGerman Americans$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory.
651 0 $aGermany$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory.
650 0 $aGerman Americans$vGenealogy.
700 1 $aHelbich, Wolfgang Johannes,$d1935-
710 2 $aRuhr-Universität Bochum.
852 $aLibrary of Congress$bManuscript Division$eWashington, D.C. 20540 USA$ndcu$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home