Authors:Russell Earnest, Corinne Russell, Edward L. Rosenber
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press
Keywords: broadsides, fraktur, printers, german, pennsylvania, leaves, one, sheets, flying
Number of Pages: 337
Published: 2005-06-03
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1584561459
ISBN-13: 9781584561453

First edition. With Edward L. Rosenberry. This work is a well-illustrated history of the Pennsylvania German printing traditions as represented by over 130 of their broadsides and fraktur specimens. Printing in both German fraktur (black letter) and English, these intrepid early printers produced thousands of flyers, posters, and instructional pieces in varieties so extensive as to defy categorization. Their legal documents, such as marriage, baptism, and birth certificates, with their colorfully primitive motifs and borders, are highly collected today. However their other works are also explo

Authors:Corinne P. Earnest, Russell D. Earnest,
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Keywords: german, pennsylvania, tradition, publications, society, fraktur, family, posterity, latest, registers
Number of Pages: 153
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0271023686
ISBN-13: 9780271023687

The family register holds a distinctive place in American visual culture. Used to record marriages and offspring within a family through several generations, the family register also incorporates hand-illuminated decorative art. To the Latest Posterity is the first major study to explore the colorful world of Pennsylvania German family registers and their place in American social, religious, and cultural traditions.Renowned authorities on fraktur, Russell and Corinne Earnest trace the evolution of decorative family registers from their roots in medieval European illuminated manuscripts to thei