Alma Schmidt Petersen papers, 1909-1970, bulk 1911-1930.

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Alma Schmidt Petersen papers, 1909-1970, bulk 1911-1930.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/656291610

Letters from Alma Schmidt Petersen to her parents, letters and photographs to Petersen from an admirer in the German army, letters from Seipp relatives in Germany to the Schmidts, and one letter from Lea Demarest Taylor to Alma Schmidt Petersen.

0.4 linear feet (1 box)

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Newberry Library

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Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Petersen, William F., 1887-1966.

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Hirschberger, Fritz, Lieutenant.

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Petersen, Alma Schmidt, 1894-1989.

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Chicago woman graduate of Mt. Vernon Seminary and traveler. Alma Schmidt was the daughter of Dr. Otto L. Schmidt and Emma (Seipp) Schmidt. She wrote to her parents while on tours of American and European spas with her grandmother (Catherine Orb Seipp), and assorted aunts and uncles, and include her descriptions of social life in Germany in the autumn of 1914. Alma attended Mt. Vernon Seminary (now Mt. Vernon Campus of George Washington University) in Washington, D.C.; be...

Schmidt, Otto L., 1863-

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Schmidt, Emma Seipp.

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