Harmony Society collection, 1838-1935.

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Harmony Society collection, 1838-1935.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/126881760

The collection includes letters, photographs, and newspaper (the society's Bulletin Index) and magazine clippings, mainly about this utopian society after its move to Economy, Pennsylvania. Subjects include members and leaders John Duss, Jacob Henrici, and Jonathan Lenz. Correspondents include founder George Rapp, and his granddaughter, Gertrude Rapp, and recipient Maria Wilson, Washington, Pa.

0.48 cubic feet + 42 items.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6817953

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Henrici, Jacob

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Rapp, George, 1757-1847

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Duss, John Samuel, 1860-1951

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Rapp, Gertrude

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Wilson, Maria, active 1847

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Harmony Society

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The original German, utopian community, Harmonie Society, arrived in Pennsylvania in the 1780s, relocated to New Harmony, Indiana, in 1814. It established a final home, Economy, near Ambridge, in western Pennsylvania, in 1825. The Society prospered through 1868, dissolving itself in 1905 after membership declined. From the description of Harmony Society collection, 1838-1935. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 126881760 The Harmony Society was a G...

Lenz, Jonathan

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