{"id":10800,"date":"2011-10-14T11:19:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=10800"},"modified":"2011-10-14T12:02:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T16:02:53","slug":"celebrate-german-american-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2011\/10\/celebrate-german-american-heritage-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate German-American Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"German-American<\/a>October is German-American Heritage Month, and there could not be a better time to explore ARB\u2019s German-Americana collection.\u00a0 The German-Americana Collection is one of the nation’s largest collections pertaining to German-American history, literature and culture, and is located in the Archives and Rare Books Library in Blegen Library.\u00a0 In 1935, the University of Cincinnati acquired the seed collection for what is today\u2019s German-Americana collection with the library of H.H. Fick<\/a>.\u00a0 Fick, a German immigrant and a former teacher with the Cincinnati Public Schools, spent his final years collecting books and pamphlets on German-American history and culture.\u00a0 The donation also contained Fick\u2019s own writings and autobiography.<\/p>\n

The original collection has grown to include archival and manuscript material, newspapers, journals, photographs, almanacs, and even cookbooks, and provides \"Practical<\/a>information on Germans in both Cincinnati and throughout the Americas.\u00a0 A recent large addition to the collection was the library and papers of Robert E. Cazden<\/a>, an expert in the German-American book trade and a former professor at the University of Kentucky.<\/p>\n

The German-Americana collection is useful for research in German-American literature, history, and even genealogy.\u00a0 The collection includes the records of Cincinnati churches including the Third German Protestant Church, St. John\u2019s Unitarian Church, and St. Paul\u2019s German Evangelical Church.\u00a0 In addition, the publications of the Der Deutsche Pionier-Verein are heavily used by both genealogists and scholars.\u00a0 The Deutsche Pionier-Verein von Cincinnati was founded in 1868 with the goal of preserving and promoting the history of the German pioneers of Cincinnati.\u00a0 The society published Der<\/em> Deutsche Pionier<\/em> from 1869 until 1887 which contains information on local history, church history, biographies of local German-Americans, essays on German culture, and poetry.<\/p>\n

\"Der<\/a>If you are interested in seeing if the German-American collection contains something related to your topic of research, the published material (books, journals, newspapers) are cataloged in UC\u2019s online catalog UCLID<\/a>.\u00a0 Be sure to limit your search by location to Archives and Rare Books Library <\/strong>for the most accurate results.\u00a0 The archival materials are listed on ARB\u2019s website<\/a>.\u00a0 Finding aids are also available through the OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository<\/a>.\u00a0 If you\u2019re unable to come to the Archives and Rare Books Library, take a look at our online exhibits<\/a> or our blog posts<\/a>, to see more images from this collection.<\/p>\n

\"Celebrate<\/a>

Undated photo from the Third German Protestant Church records<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October is German-American Heritage Month, and there could not be a better time to explore ARB\u2019s German-Americana collection.\u00a0 The German-Americana Collection is one of the nation’s largest collections pertaining to German-American history, literature and culture, and is located in the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[53,64],"class_list":["post-10800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arb","category-uclibraries","tag-cincinnati-history","tag-german-americana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}