Lili Wronker Family Collection 1843-2002 bulk1917-1984

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Lili Wronker Family Collection 1843-2002 bulk1917-1984

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This collection houses the papers of members of the Wronker family,including Max and Irma Wronker, Hermann and Alice (née Wronker) Engel, and Erich and Lili Cassel-Wronker. In addition, it holds a few items onthe Warenhaus Hermann Wronker AG of Frankfurt am Main. Included in the collection are official papers, correspondence, postcards, guestbooksand other albums, photographs, offprints, and objects.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6345388

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Wronker, Max

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Engel, Hermann

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Engel, Alice

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Wronker, Irma

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Warenhaus Hermann Wronker AG

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Cassel-Wronker, Lili, 1924-

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Lili Cassel-Wronker was born May 5, 1924 in Berlin, Germany. She and her family fled the Nazis in 1938, and came to the United States in 1940. She attended the Art Students League in New York City and the Brooklyn Museum Art School. Early in her career, Lili Cassel-Wronker worked for Time, Incorporated's art department, as a book jacket designer for World Publishing, and taught calligraphy. She illustrated her first children's book, The Rainbow Mother Goose, in 1947. Throughout her long and prol...