German Study File - Historic New Orleans Collection

German Study File 

This extensive collection of research copies and working papers was compiled by Dr. 

Ellen Merrill. It consists of 20 boxes, or approximately 10 linear feet. The inventory that 

follows is based on Dr. Merrill’s original box and file labels. 

In varying levels of detail, the file touches upon the entirety of German-Louisiana 

history. On one extreme end of the range is found material about the German Coast in 

the 1720s (e.g., a copy of a French language census of the German Coast in 1724), on the 

other a copy of the Covenant Home newsletter “Tidbits” from 1984, and copies of 

articles about the history of Germantown clipped from the Minden Press-Herald in the 

1970s. In between, there is material by many different authors relating in different ways 

to German history in New Orleans and Louisiana: material relating to the history of 

German immigration to and settlement of the region (mostly copies of essays by authors 

who were themselves members of the German community, but also copies of original 

“primary source documents”), material relating to German churches and charitable 

organizations, material relating to German business and political and consular affairs. 

There is also selected genealogical information on specific persons consisting of copies 

of documents from German state archives. 

A notable component of the German Study File is the material on Germantown and 

Robert’s Cove, La., two rural communities of German heritage. This material, consisting 

mostly of copies and newspaper clippings, deals with an element of German history in 

Louisiana which is absent from the Deutsches Haus Archives, the Germania Lodge 

materials, or any of THNOC’s other German-related manuscripts holdings. 

Additionally, there is one record storage box containing research-related correspondence 

of Dr. Merrill’s. The 180 folders in the box contain letters and receipts to and from 

various local and foreign persons, archives, and dealers. 

German Study File Finding Guide 

prepared by Daniel Hammer 

September 2006

GERMAN STUDY FILE BOX INVENTORY 

Box 1 Germantown 

Box 2 Germantown 

Box 3 Periodicals 

Box 4 Pamphlets 1 



Box 7 Family Histories 

Box 8 Dissertations, etc. 

Box 9 Translations – Archival Material 

Box 10 Translations from French 

Box 11 Robert’s Cove I 

Box 12 Robert’s Cove II 

Box 13 Books, Parts of Books 



Box 16 Translations from the German 

Box 17 Translations from the German II 

Box 18 First Evangelical 

Box 19 Photos 

Box 20 Miscellaneous 

Box 21 Dr. Merrill’s Research Correspondence

German Study File Detailed Inventory 

Box 1 

Germantown 

FOLDER AUTHOR TITLE SUBJECT SOURCE 

1 R.L.B Letter to 

Frederick G. 

Graf in 

Baltimore, 

dated April 9, 

1833 

1 Letter to 

Charles von 

Bonhorst in 

Pittsburgh. 


(1833?) 

1 Letter to 

Nicholas 

Lenning, 

Dated: 

Economy, 

March 31, 

1832 

2 Fredrich Rapp Letter to 

Consul Kahl, 

Dated: 

Economy, Jan 

(?) 17, 1832 

3 J.S. Bopp Letter to Philip 

Unninger, 

dated 

Phillipsburg 

(PA), Jan 18, 

1833 

Harmony Society 

disturbances 

involving Count 

de Leon; 

attempted 

storming of 

George Rapp’s 

house 


disturbances 

involving count 

de Leon; 

attempted 

storming of 

George Rapp’s 

house 

Harmony 

Society: 

“Unfriendly 

terms” of 

settlement with 

Count de Leon 

and his faction 

Response to a 

declaration by 

Count de Leon 

which apparently 

challenged 

current 

leadership of the 


Founding of 

New- 

Philadelphia 

religious 

community by 

Herr Proli 

(Count de Leon) 

and his followers 


Papers (?) 


Papers 


Papers 


Papers 


Papers

4 Unknown Hebrew letter 

to Dr. 

Killingan in 

Europeans, La. 

Dated January 

1843 

5 Unknown, in 

Cotile P.O., La. 

Chabona 

6 Dr. Friedrich 

Carl Bath, 

Director of the 

Mindener 

Museum, 

Minden West 

Germany 

6 Pohle (Mayor 

of Minden, W. 

Germany); 

Brinkmann 

(Councilman of 

Minden, W. 

Germany) 

Letter to Mr. 

A. Bozong, 

Claiborne 

Parish, Flat 

Lick, P.O. La. 

Dated Dec. 2, 

1855 

Letter to Mr. 

Tom Colten, 

Mayor of the 

City of 

Minden, La. 

Dated Aug. 28, 

1968 

Letter to 

Mayor of 

Minden, La. 

Dated Sept. 

1970 

Apologetic 

request for 

correspondence 

with the receiver, 

described as a 

wise and learned 

man. Writer 

alludes to 

enclosing the 

diary of 

Amerigo, 

secretary of the 

Govenor Ben- 

Yirat 

Postponing a trip 

(visit?) due to 

injury, and 

general family 

inquiries 

Enclosed copy of 

Minden’s coat of 

arms, and inquiry 

as to existence of 

museum in 

Minden, La. 

(Xerox of sheet 

describing the 

coat of arms and 

its historical 

significance, too 

weak to 

decipher) (see 

Box 1, folder 29) 

Greeting 

accompanying a 

photo book/gift 

carried by citizen 

of Minden, W. 

Germany visiting 

sister city 

Minden, La 


Papers 


Papers 


Papers 


Papers

7 Magistrate, 

Frankfurt City 

Archive 

Letter to Frank 

E. Tritico of 

Houston, 

Texas; dated 

March 25, 

1975 

8 Unknown Letter 

Fragment 

9 Act of the 

County seat of 

Frankfurt on 

February 12, 

1822 

10 Oberrad area 

Court 

11 (signed) Mayor 

of the City of 

Edenkoben 

Dated: March 

8, 1822 

Names, 

Birthdates of 

children born to 

Johann Wilhelm 

Teutsch and 

Philippina 

Eleystein in 

Oberrad, 

Germany (1824- 

1828), prior to 

the family’s 

presumable 

immigration to 

North America 

Thanks and 

farewell from 

writer, 

presumably 

dying, to sister 

who cared 

for/tried to save 

him/her 

Acceptance of 

Wilhelm Teutsch 

as resident of 

Oberrad and 

bidder for the 

Gasthaus Zum 

Adler (a guest 

house) to be used 

as an iron/screw 

factory 

Recommendation 

to the Higher 

Court that 

Johann Wilhelm 

Teutsch be 

allowed to 

become a citizen 

of Oberrad 

Documentation 

of Wilhelm 

Teutsch’s assets 

and skills 


Papers 


Papers 


Papers 


Papers 


Papers

12 Acts of the 

Frankfurt 

County Seat on 

February 25, 

March1, March 

27, April 13, 

and May 2, 

1822 

13 Act of the 

County Seat of 

Frankfurt on 

July 1, 1831, 

presented July 

7, 1831 

14 Senate 

Supplement 

98/44 (?); 

Dated 1831 

Granting J. 

Wilhelm Teutsch 

the right of 

residency in 

Oberrad and 

describing his 

assets, skills, 

ambitions and 

benefits he 

would bring to 

the community 

Granting of 

Wilhelm 

Teutsch’s 

petition to 

emigrate to 

North America 

with his wife and 

six sons from 

Bremen on 

March 18, 1832. 

Reasoning: 

limited money 

and losses 

experienced in 

Oberrad could 

cause Teutsch 

and his family to 

become burden 

on the 

community 

Document 

granting 

Wilhelm 

Teutsch, his wife 

and children, 

permission to 

emigrate to 

North America 


Papers 


Papers 


Papers

15 Teutsch Family 

(?) 

16 Record of a 

Marriage; 

Sunday, 24 

July 1826 

17 Baptismal 

Record for 

Michael Joseph 

Maximilian 

Johannes 

Anton 

Goentgen; 

Born: Sept. 12, 

1830 

17 Baptismal 

Record for 

Johanna 

Henrietta 

Elisabthea 

Goentgen; 

Born: 10 

August 1828 

17 Birth record of 

Catherina 

Elisabetha 

Wilhelmina 

Magdalena 

Heuser; n.d. 

(translation 

only) 

Book of 

Remedies to cure 

illnesses in 

horses or cattle; 

belonged to 

family at 


Marriage of John 

George 

Goentgen to 

Lisabeth 

Magdalena 

Heuser 

(including 

birthdates and 

parents’ names) 

in Hessen, 

Germany 

3 rd Child of 

Johann Georg 

and Lisabetha 

Magdalena (nee 

Heuser) 

Goentgen; listing 

of sponsors (godparents) 

and their 

relationship 

2 nd child of 

Johann Georg 

and Lisabetha 

Magdalena (nee 

Heuser) 

Goentgen; listing 

of sponsors (godparents)and 

their 

relationships 

(Later wife of 

Johann Georg 

Goentgen?); list 

of parents and 

sponsors in 

baptism (godparents) 


Papers 


Papers 


Papers 


Papers 


Papers

18 District of New 

York – Port of 

New York 

passenger list 

or manifest 

19 Maximilian 

(known as 

Proli) 

20 J.S. Steck (?), 

publisher, 

Grünsberg, 

Westmoreland 

County, PA 

Last Will; 

Executed in 

Offenbach, 

June 28, 1831 

Announcing a 

periodical titled 

“Trumpet of 

Zion.” Printed 

article or 

Brochure, 

dated Aug 9, 

1832, 

Philipsburg, 

Beaver County, 

Pa. 

List of 

Passengers taken 

aboard the ship 

Isabella which 

sailed from 

(Bremen?) to 

(New York?) in 

(? 1831); 

Captain: J. 

Meyer 

Lists age, sex, 

occupation, 

country of origin 

of passengers 

Naming of heirs 

prior to his 

approaching 

departure for 

North America 

(Principle heir: 

Johann Gottfried 

Heusser and his 

six children) 

Tract 

expounding the 

religious views 

of the New 

Philadelphia 

Society and 

announcing the 

publication of a 

new, monthly 

pamphlet 

designed to detail 

these views and 

the community’s 

progress for the 

public. 


Papers 


Papers 


Papers

21 Maximilian 

Count von 

Leon and 

Doctor Samuel 

George 

Goentgen (and 

signed by the 

entire 

congregation) 

Document of 

the 

Constitution 

and Laws for 

the New 

Philadelphia 

congregation in 

the United 

States of North 

America. 

Dated: March 

21, 1832 

Establishes 

leadership role of 

von Leon and 

Goentgen and 

general 

governing 

principles of the 

New 

Philadelphia 

community, 

including pledge 

of a minimum 

one-year bond. 

22 ? ? Transcript of a 

prospectus for 

the colonization 

project of 

Maximilian, 

count of Leon, 

written in 

Pennsylvania 

some time before 

23 Homestead 

Application of 

John Bopp, 

Claiborne 

Parish, La.; 

Dated 

November 8, 

1838 

24 John s. Bopp Will and 

Testament of 

John S. Bopp. 

Claiborne 

Parish, La. 

Dated: March 

20, 1860 

(supplement 

dated Sept. 18, 

1860) 

25 Count Leon’s 

Seal (copy) 

march 21, 1833 

Yohst Papers 

(Germantown) 


Papers 


Papers 


Papers 

Germantown

26 ? ? Document from 

old “Gin” Book? 

In German, no 

transcript of 

handwriting 

27 ? Religious Play 

(w/ transcript and 

28 Photograph of 

an oil painting 

of “Count 

Leon” n.d. 

translation); n.d. 

28 Photograph of 

“Articles of 

Christian Faith” 

printed in old 

German script 

(see Box 1, 

folder 30 for 

translation of 

29 ? The Arms of 

the City of 

Minden 

(Westphalia) 

30 Articles of 

Christian Faith; 

sealed: July 25, 

1833 

31 Chronology of 

the life of 

Count Leon 

(Bernhard 

Müller – 

“Proli”) 

entire document) 

Translation of 

description of 

Minden’s Coat 

of Arms and its 

historical 

significance (see 

Box 1, folder 6), 

as well as 

possible origins 

of the name 

“Minden” 

Basis of religious 

practices in the 

colony under 

Proli (count of 

Leon); Beaver 

County, Pa 

(Provides links 

to Heuser and 

Goentgen 

families) 


Papers 


Papers 




Papers 


Document 

Germantown


Box 2 



32 Ezra Adams “Germantown: 

Remnant of a 

Dream” 

33 Ezra Adams, 

David James III 

and Rita 

Krouse 

“Authors 

describe 

colony: ‘A 

religious 

dream’ 

‘thriving and 

socialistic’ and 

‘settlers led 

quiet lives” 

34 Karl J. Arndt “The Life and 

Mission of 

Count Leon” 

35 Robert K. 

Butcher 

“Germantown: 

The Story of a 

114-Year-Old 

North 

Louisiana 

Settlement” 

36 Rita Krouse The Consitution 

of the 


Settlement 

37 “’Contess’ 

Home’ Nears 

Completion at 


Museum” 

History of the 

colony of 

Germantown, 

est. 1834 by the 

followers of 

Count de Leon, 

near Minden in 

North 

Louisiana 

History of 


and the 

founding of 

Count de 

Leon’s 

religious colony 

Biography of 

the German 

mystic, Count 

Leon 

History of 


History and 

constitution of 



History and 

restoration of 

museum site 

Sunday 

Advocate, 

Baton Rouge, 

La, June 9, 

1963. 

Newspaper 

Article 

LA Press 

Herald, 

Minden, LA, 

July 1, 1976. 


Articles 

The American- 

German 

Review, June, 

1940 

The Shreveport 

Times, Sunday, 

April 17, 1949. 


Article 

Minden (La) 

Press-Herald, 

July 1, 1976 


Article 

Minden (La) 

Press-Herald, 

July 3, 1974 


Article

38 J. Hanno Deiler “A Forgotten 


Colony: A 

Voice in 

Defense of the 


alias Proli, alias 

Bernard 

Müller” 

39 Dr. Rudolph 

Fiehler 

40 D.W. Harris 

and B.M. Hulse 

“Professor – 

Journalist traces 

history of count 

Leon’s seal” 

The History of 

Claiborne 

Parish, 

Louisiana 

Chapter IX: 

”Germantown – 

Its Origin, 

Growth, and 

Final Decay” 

History of 


and 

biographical 

information on 


including a 

letter written in 

1891 by one of 

his last 

surviving 

adherents, Mr. 

Stakowsky; 


articles from 

New York 

State, dated 

Sept and Oct 

1831; and the 

first-hand 

account of a 

woman raised 

in the Countess 

de Leon’s 

household 

Brief history of 

the Count’s 

exploits and 

explination of 

symbolism in 

his seal 

History of 


A special 

printing from 

articles in the 

New Orleans 



from November 

18, 25, and 

December 2, 

1900 

Minden (La) 

Press-Herald, 

Tuesday, 

October 14, 

1975 


Article 

(See Title) 

Press of W.B. 

Stansbury & 

Co., New 

Orleans, 1886

41 D. Fritz 

Herrmann 

Archive for the 

History of 

Hessen, 

p. 202: 

“Maximilian 

Ludwig Proli, 

the Prophet of 

Offenbach” 

42 “Historic 


Still Draws 

Visitors” 

43 Christine S. 

Hunt 

44 Lawrence A. 

Kratz, 

Northeast 

Louisiana 

University 

45 Rita Moore 

Krouse 

46 Rita Moore 

Krouse 

Minden, 

Louisiana: A 

History 

“Germantown 

Colony: 

Economic Life 

of a Louisiana 

Cult” 

Fragments of a 

Dream The 

Story of 


“The 


Store” 

47 Rita Kouse “Settlers led 

quiet lives” 

48 ? “Museum to be 

established at 

Germantown” 

Biography of 

Count Leon, up 

to his 

emigration 

from Germany 

in1831 

Description of 

historic 

settlement of 

Germantown in 

Webster Parish 

History and 

Bibliography 

Economic 

analysis of the 


Commune 

The importance 

and function of 

the country 

store at 


Everyday life in 

early 


Original 


buildings 

donated to 

establish 

museum 

(see Title) 

Published by 

Hessen 

Historical 

Society, 

Darmstadt, 

1922 

Minden Press, 

Nov. 9, 1952 

Newpaper 

Article 

? Germantown 

Northeas 

Louisiana 

Business 

Review, 1978 

Leader Press, 

Ruston, LA 

1962 

North 

Louisiana 


Association 

Journal Winter 

1977, Vol. VIII 

– No. 2 

Minden (LA) 

Press-Herald, 

Thursday, July 

1, 1976 


Article 

Minden (LA) 

Press-Herald, 

October 4, 1973 


Article

49 ? “Religious 

freedom played 

a major role in 

the settlement 

of 

50 Norman 

Richardson 


“The Dream of 


51 ? “The Story of 

Minden, 

Louisiana” 

Sept, 1941 

51 ? “Minden, 

Louisiana: A 

History of ‘Our 

Little Town’” 

History of 



Colony at 


General 

Information abd 

background for 

Minden, La 

History of 

Minden, La 

Minden (LA) 

Press-Herald 

July 1, 1976 


Article 

The Shreveport 

Times, Nov. 16, 

1958 p 3-F 


Artilce 

? Germantown 

Papers 

Minden (LA) 

Press-Herald, 

July 1, 1976 


Article


Box 3 

Periodicals 


1 Blume, Helmut “The 

Devlopment of 

Agriculture in 

Louisiana” 

The 

development of 

agriculture (and 

accompanying 

civilization) in 

La, and 

particularly the 

Mississippi 

Delta region, is 

presented as a 

result of the 

struggle agains 

natural 

elements asnd 

as an 

expression of 

state economic 

policy 

18 th International 

Geographic 

Congress, Rio de 

Janeiro, 1956 

Part IV, pp. 16- 

20

2 Blume, Helmut “Landscape and 

economy of 

Louisiana 

during the 

period of 

French colonial 

administration’ 

3 Boudreaux, 

Florence 


Customs Still 

Retained in 

Robert’s Cove 

4 Bowen, Judy “Qualicare – A 

PRC Corporate 

Member” 

4 Theil, Rev. 

Spencer E. 

Letter to 

Russell 

Chandler, 

President of 

Qualicare 

(Hospital firm 

owner of 

Turner’s Hall) 

Discusses slow 

rate of 

economic 

development 

inLa under the 

french 

administration, 

due to climate 

and 

inconsistent 

policies, and 

the two types 

of agriclutrual 

enterprises 

developed – 

rice and maize 

for local 

consumption, 

and indigo for 

export. Also 

links features 

of the current 

rural landscape 

to that era. 

History and 

observance of 


Catholic 

customs in 

Southwest 

Louisiana 

Renovation and 

history of 

Turner’s Hall at 

938 Lafayette 

Street in New 

Orleans 

Background on 

William Thiel, 

architect of 

Turner Hall 

Geography, Ferd. 

Dümmlers Publ., 

Bonn, August 

1956 Vol. X, #3 

(Journal) 

Attakapas 

Gazette, Vol. III, 

No. 2 


Preservation in 

Print, May 1983, 

p. 6 

Letter

5 Collins, 

Kathleen 

6 Conrad, Glenn 

R. (Translator 

and Editor) 

“The German 

Coast” 

“The Germans 

in Louisiana in 

the Eighteenth 

Century,” by 

René Le Conte 

7 Conway, Alan “New Orleans 

as a Port of 

Immigration, 

1820-1860” 

Settlement of 

the “German 

Coast” along 

the Mississippi, 

north of New 

Orleans, in the 

early 18 th C. 



settlement in 

Louisiana 

under John 

Law, Govenor 

Bienville, 

Chevallier 

D’Arensbourg, 

etc. From 

about 1720 to 

1774 

Importance of 

New Orleans as 

port of 

immigration 

second only to 

New York in 

number of 

passengers 

received prior 

to Civil War); 

positive and 

negative 

attributes of the 

city as port; 

living 

conditions and 

make-up of the 

immigrant 

populations; 

resulting 

conflicts and 

problems 

Louisiana 

Herritage 

Magazine, Vol. 2 

1970 

Journal de la 

Société des 

Américanistes de 

Paris, Vol. xvi 

(New Series), 

Paris, 1924. pp. 

1-17. 

(Translation 

appears in book 

entitled 

Louisiana 

History, pp. 67- 

84. 

Louisiana Studies 

Vol. I, No. 3. the 

Louisian Studies 

Institue, 

Northwestern 

State Coleege, 

Natchitoches, La.

8 Gottfried 

Dascher and 

Gerhard 

Mantwill 

„Emigration 

Overseas in the 

19th Century – 

Initial Research 

and Archival 

Sources“ 

9 Delanglez, Jean „A Louisiana 

Poet-Historian: 

Dumont dit 

Montigny“ 

Summary of 

presentations 

made to 

seminar on 

sources at the 

52 nd German 

Archive Day 

(conference) in 

1978; initial 

emigration 

research and 

documentation 

stemming from 

Hanseatic city 

records, 

communal 

living 

experiments in 

Southwest 

Germany, 

church records, 

economic 

records, 

newspapers, 

and American 

census, ship 

passenger and 

naturalization 

and citizenship 

records 

The Frenchborn 

poet and 

historian Jean 

Francois 

Benjamin 

Dumont (1696- 

?), and his 

adventures in 

and around 

Louisiana from 

1722 to 1737. 

The Archivist, 

Feb. 1979 vol. 32 

#1. Pub. by 

Nordrhein- 

Westfälishcen 

Hauptstaatsarchiv 

Mid-America: An 


Review, January, 

1937. Vol. 19, 

New Series, Vol. 

8 #1. Published 

by Loyola 

University, 

Chicago, IL

10 Ehmer, 

Hermann 

11 Franz, 

Alexander 

“Emigration 

from Southwest 

Germany to 

North 

America” 

“The First 


Immigration to 

the Mississippi 

Valley – A 

Critical 

Assessment” 

Reasons for an 

fate of large 

numbers of 

Southwest 

Germans who 

emigrated to 

North America 

beginning in 

the 18 th 

Century, but 

primarily in the 

19 th 

Study in 

response to 

Hanno Deiler’s 

“ The 

Settlement of 

theGerman 

Coast of 

Louisiana and 

the Creoles of 


Descent “ 

(Philadelphia, 

1909); in 

primary dispute 

is the size of 

the first wave 

of German 

settlers to 

Louisiana 

(what number 

perished early 

on, etc.) 

? 

German- 

American History 

Pages, 1912. 

Journal of the 

German- 

American 


Society of 

Illinois, vol XII, 

Edited by Julius 

Goebel, Illinois 

State Universtiy

12 Friesen, 

Gerhard 

“H.C.E. von 

Gagern and 


Emigration to 

America: some 

Preliminaries” 

13 Holweck, F.G. “Origin of 

Creoles of 


Descent” 

14 Kondert, 

Reinhart 

“German 


French 

Colonial 

Louisiana: A 

Reevealuation” 

15 Le Conte, Rene “Colonization 

and German 

Immigration in 

America” 

The German 

nobleman and 

government 

official, Hans 

Christian Ernst 

Baron von 

Gagern (1766- 

1852), and his 

…concern with 

emigration as a 

…remedy for 

the…German 

problem of 

overpopulation 

that began to 

assert 

itself…after the 

Napoleonic 

wars 

Traces history 

of Germans 

who 

immigrated to 

the Louisiana 

Territory 

during the 

colonial period 

(i.e., before 

1803) 

Revises views 

and historical 

inaccuracies 

propounded by 

J. Hanno 

Deiler’s The 

Settlement of 


Coast of 

Louisiana 

Contribution of 


states to the 

colonization of 

America (in 

French) 

Amerikastudien, 

Vol. 26, No. 1, 

1981 

St. Louis 

Catholic 


Review, July- 

October, 1919. 

Vol I, No. 4-5. 

Publ. by Catholic 


Society of St. 

Louis 

University of 

Southwest 

Louisiana, n.d. 

Journal de la 

Societe des 

Americanistes de 

Paris, Vol. 14, 

1922.

16 Le Conte, Rene “The Germans 

in Louisiana in 

the 18 th 

Century” 

17 Lenhart, John 

M. 

18 Matthews, 

Richard Ira 

19 Moltmann, 

Günter 


Catholics in 

Colonial 

Louisiana 

(1721-1803) 

“The New 


Revolution of 

1768: a 

Reappraisal” 


Migration to 

Overseas 

Territories: 

Research status 

and Research 

problems 

20 Oppel, Horst „The German 

Colony in 

Louisiana as 

reflected by the 

America-Novel 

in the Goethe 

era: Heinrich 

Zschokkes’ 

‚Princess of 

Wolfenbüttel’“ 

History (and 

factors making 

it difficult to 

trace) of the 

German(ic) 

colonial 

population of 

Louisiana (in 

French) 

Numbers and 

origins of 


settled in 

Colonial 

Louisiana 

The Cession of 

Louisiana to 

Spain, 1762- 

1769 

Overview of 

emigration 

research 

Comparison f 

Heinrich 

Zschokkes’ 

1804 novel , 

which deals 

with a group of 

French and 


Emigrants who 

begin a new 

life in 

Louisiana, with 

the real colony 

on the “German 

Coast.” 

Journal de la 

Societe des 

Americanistes de 

Paris, New 

Series, Vol. 16, 

1924 

Historical Studies 

and Notes, 

Central Blatt and 

Social Justice, St. 

Louis, April 1932 


Vol. IV, No. 2, 

Spring 1965, pp. 

124-157. 


Institute, 

Northwestern 

State College, 

Nachitoches, La 

Der Archivar, 

Feb. 1979, Vol. 

32, No. 1. 

Nordrhein- 

Westfälisches 


Louisiana State 

University Press, 

Baton Rouge

21 Richter, Gregor “The American 

Revolution – 

Southwestern 

Germans in 

Both Camps” 

22 Sauer, Paul “The 

Availability of 

Sources in 

Territorial 

State-Archives, 

particularly in 

Southwest 

Germany, for 

Migration- 

Research” 

23 Saxon, Lyle „German 

Pioneers in Old 

New Orleans“ 

24 Scheuerbrandt, 

Arnold 

25 Spahn, 

Raymond 

Jürgen 

“Southwest 


Immigration 

and colony 

Settlement in 

the U.S.A.” 


Accounts of 

Early 

Nineteenth- 

Century Life in 

Illinois” 

Involvement of 

Germans in the 

American War 

of 

Independence 

Promising 

sources/ 

Documents for 

migrationresearch 

History of 

Settlers of the 


Coast,” 

including 

French 

derivations of 

many originally 

German names 

Southwest 



the U.S., by 

century and 

geographical 

region 

Early Germanlanguage 

books 

containing first 

hand accounts 

of Illinois 

? pp. 23-27 

Der Arhcivar, 

vol. 32, No. 1, 

Feb. 1979. Publ. 

by Nordrhein- 

Westfällishces 


The American- 

German Review, 

Feb. 1941. pp. 

28-29. Publ. by: 

Carl Schurz 

Memorial 

Foundation, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA 

?, pp.50-61 

Reprint from: 

Papers on 

Language and 

Literature. Vol. 

14 #4, Fall 1978, 

pp. 473-488. 

Southwestern 

Illinois Univ., 

Edwardsville, IL

26 Vogel, Claude 

L. 

“The 

Capuchins in 

French 

Louisiana, 

1722-1766” 

(“Les 

Allemands,” pp 

53-59) 

27 Walter, H. “The Origins of 


Settlements on 

the 

Mississippi” 

28 Zier, Hans “The 1848ers 

in the United 

States” 

29 Zier, Hans “Southwest 

Germans as 

Participants in 

the Civil War” 

Ecclesiastical 

history of early 

colonial 

Louisiana 

Early history of 


Settlements in 

Louisiana 

History of 


fled to the 

United States 

after the 

unsuccessful 

Revolution of 

1848 


immigrant 

participation in 

the American 

Civil War 

(primarily on 

the side of the 

Northern 

states) 

Franciscan 

Studies #8. 

August 1928. 

New York. 

(Vierteljahresheft 

des Vereins für 

Deutschtums im 

Ausland) 

Quaterly of the 

Society for the 

Germany Abroad 

VII (1910) 

? pp. 32-36 

? pp. 37-40.


Box 4 

Pamphlets 1: 

Church Histories 


1 Andrews, 

Edmund L. 

The First 

Century 

2 Baudier, Roger Centenary, 

Holy Trinity 

Parish 

3 Baudier, Roger The Catholic 

Church in 

Carrollton 

4 Baudier, Roger St. Roch Chapel 

and the Campo 

Santo of New 


5 Helfrich, L.J. “Confirmation,” 

First English 

Evangelical 

Lutheran 

Church 

7 - Charter and Bylaws 

of the First 

English 

Evangelical 

Lutheran 

Church of New 

Orleans, La. 

8 - 50 th 

Anniversary of 

Our Present 

Sanctuary 

History of 

Waldheim 

United 

Methodist 

Church, 1875- 

1975 

Holy Trinity 

Parish, 1847- 

1947 (History 

of) 

Mater Dolorosa 

Church, 1848- 

1948 (Histoy 

of) 

St. Roch’s 

cemetary 

(Campo Santo) 

and Chapel 

(History of) 

Confirmation 

pamphlet 

Charter and By- 

Laws 

50 th anniversary 

of the First 

English 

Evangelical 

Lutheran 

Church 

A 

Commemorative 

Book 

(Waldheim 

Methodist) 

Holy Trinity 

Parish 

Parish 

Centennial 


Archdiocesan 

Cemetaries 

First English 

Evangelical 

Lutheran 

Church 

First English 

Evangelical 

Lutheran 

Church 

First English 

Ev. Lutheran 

Church

9 Meyer, Richard Founded on the 

Firm 

Foundation 

Account of the 

first 135 years 

of St. Paul 

Lutheran 

Church 

10 - Pamphlet 

accompanying 

weekly service 

at Our Savior 

Lutheran 

12 - St. Charles 

Borromeo 

Church 

13 No Author 

cited on title 

page (Two 

profiles by Re. 

Msgr. H.C. 

Bezov and 

Rev. Roland 

Boudreaux) 

14 - 125 th 

St. Charles 

Borromeo 

Church, 1981 

Anniversary 

Celebration – 

St. Henry’s 

Church 

15 Michele Cripps “Restoration of 

St. Mary’s 

Assumption’s 

Alter” 

Church 

Pamphlet 

commemorating 

250 th 

anniversary of 

St. Charles 

Borromeo 

Parish, incl. 

letters of 

congratulations 

from 

Archdiocese 

and Church 

officials, and 

summary of 

history of the 

area and Parish 

History of St. 

Charles 

Borromeo 

Church 


Henry’s Church 

Restoration of 

Alter 

St. Paul 

Lutheran 

Church 

Our Savior 

Lutheran 

Church and 

School 

St. Charles 

Borromeo 

Church, 

Destrehan, La. 

Publ. by 

Custombook, 

Inc. for St. 

Charles 

Borromeo, 1973 

St. Charles 

Borromeo 

Church 

St. Henry’s 

Church 



Print, 1982

15 - St. Mary’s 

Assumption 

Church 

Described 

16 - St. Matthew 

United Church 

of Christ 

16 - Order of 

Worship for the 

Sunday Cantata 

17 - Founder’s Day, 

1981 

18 - Founder’s Day 

Salem Church 

(Flyer) 1982 


Mary’s 

Membership 

pamphlet – 

invitation to 

membership 

Order of 

Worship 


Salem United 

and program 

notes for 

Founder’s Day 

activities 

Flyer for 


celebration 

(service and 

dinner) 

18 - Cloud Flyer for 


worship service 

19 - Founder’s Day 

(flyer) 

bulletin, 1982 


Activities 

(Service and 

dinner) 

19 - Newsletter Newsletter for 

activities for the 

month of 

20 - Salem United 

Church of 

21 Rev. Louis 

Voss, D.D. 

Christ 


First Street 

Presbyterian 

Church 

February 


the church 


church 

St. Mary’s 

Assumption 

Church 

St. Matthew 

Church of 

Christ 

St. Matthew 

United Church 

of Christ 

Salem 

Evangelical 

Church 

Salem United 

Church of 

Christ 

Salem United 

Church of 

Christ 

Salem United 

Church of 

Christ 

Salem United 

Church of 

Christ 

Salem United 

Church of 

Christ 

Presbyterian 

Board of 

Publication of 

the Synod of 

Louisiana

22 Wegener, G.J. “Brief History 

of the German 

Evangelical 

Lutheran St. 

Paul’s 

Congregation, 

New Orleans, 

La.” 

23 Wegener, G.J. Golden 

Anniversary 

1881-1931. 

Evangelical 

Lutheran 

Bethlehem 

Orphan Asylum 

Association 

24 Smith, Barry 

Richard 


General 

Hospital’s 

Urban 

Development 

Action Grant 

Renovation of 

the old site of 

the Gates of 

Prayer 

Synagogue (500 

Jackson Ave.) 

25 Wonk, Dalt The Abbey St. Joseph’s 

Abbey 

(Benedictine) In 

26 - First 

Evangelical 

Church 

27 - Sunday School 

Certificate 

28 (11) Nav, John P. The Lutheran 

Church in 

Louisiana 

St. Tammany 


church 

Certificate for 

Florence Keller 

upon 

completion of 

Sunday School, 

Dec. 1888 

Lutheran 

Concordia 

Press, St. Louis, 

Mo., 1890. 


1931 



Print, 1982 

Louisiana Life 

Jan/Feb 1983 

First 

Evangelical 

Church 

Clio Str. 

Deutschen 

Protestant 

History Published by the 

Louisiana 

District 

Conference


Box 5 

Pamphlets 2: 

German Institutions 

Annual Reports, Charters, Constitutions, By-laws 


1 39 th Annual Annual report, ? 

Report of the including 

German number of 

Society of New German 

Orleans for the immigrants for 

year 1885-86 the year and 

their eventual 

destinations and 

occupations, as 

well as an 

immigration 

chart detailing 

origins and 

numbersof 

immigrants from 

1847-1886. 

Also : list of 

revenues and 

expenditures, 

and list of 

members 

2 Joseph Annual Report 

Brandner, J. of the German 

Hanno Deiler, Society of New 

and Hy Buddig Orleans, 

Louisiana for 

1889-90, 43 rd 

Activity and “New Orleans 

accomplishments Deutsche 

of the Society in Zeitung,” 108 

tracking and Camp Street 

provinding 1890 

assistance to 

fiscal Year German 

Immigrants to 

Louisiana

3 J. hanno Deiler, 

Joseph 

Brandner, Wm. 

Frantz 

4 Jospeh 

Brandner, J. 

Hanno Deiler, 

J. Koeper 

5 Joseph 

Brandner, Otto 

Knoop, John 

Koeper 


Society of New 

Orleans, 

Louisiana 

Annual Report 

1890-91, 44th 

Fiscal Year 




Louisiana 

Annual Report 

1891-92, 45 th 

Fiscal Year 




Louisiana 

Annual Report 

1892-93, 46 th 

Fiscal Year 

6 German 



Louisiana 

Annual Report 

for 1893-94, 

47 th Fiscal 

7 J. Hanno 

Deiler, H. 

Heber Otto 

Walther 

Year 




Louisiana 

Annual Report 

for 1894-95, 

48 th Fiscal 

Year 

Activities and 

accomplishments 

of the society in 

tracking and 

providing 

assistance to 


immigrants to 

Louisiana 

“New Orleans 

Deutsche 

Zeitung” 108 

Camp Street 

1891 

Annual Report “New Orleans 

Deutsche 


Camp Street 

1892 


Deutsche 


Camp Street 

1893 


Deutsche 


Camp Street 

1894 


Deutsche 


Camp Street 

1895

8 J. Hanno 

Deiler, 

President 

9 J. Hanno 

Deiler, 

President 

10 J. Hanno 

Deiler, 

President 

11 J. Hanno 

Deiler, 

President 

12 J. Hanno Deiler 

President 

13 J. Hanno 

Deiler, 

President 

49 th Annual 

Report of the 

President of the 



Orleans. June 

1, 1895 – May 

31, 1896. 

The german 

society of new 


Louisiana 

Annual Report 

for 1896-97, 

50 th Fiscal 

Year 




Louisiana 

Annual Report 

for 1897-98, 

51 st fiscal year 




Annual Report 

for 1898-99, 

52 nd Fiscal 

Year 




Annual Report 

for 1899-1900, 

53 rd Fiscal 

Year 




Annual Report 

for 1900-1901, 

54 th Fiscal 

Year 

Annual Report ? 


Deutsche 


Annual Report Paul J. 

Sendker, 311 

Baronne St., 

1898 

Annual Report Paul J. 

Sendker, 335 

Carondelet St., 

1899 

Annual Report Paul J. Sendker 

Printing Co. 

Ltd., 335 

Carondelet St. 

1900 


Printing Co., 

Ltd. 335 


1901

14 J. Hanno 

Deiler, 

President 

15 J. Hanno 

Deiler, 

President 

16 J. Hanno 

Deiler, 

President 

17 J. Hanno 

Deiler, 

President 

18 J. Hanno 

Deiler, 

President 

19 Wm. Frantz, 

First Vice 

President 



Orleans, La 

Annual Report 

for 1901-1902, 

55 th Fiscal 

Year 




Annual Report 

for 1902-1903, 

56 th Fiscal 

Year 




Annual Report 

for 1903-1904, 

57 th Fiscal 

Year 




Annual Report 

for 1904-1905, 

58 th Fiscal 

Year 




Annual Report 

for 1905-1906, 

59 th Fiscal 

Year 




Annual Report 

for 1906-1907, 

60 th Fiscal 

Year 


Printing Co., 

Ltd., 335 

Carondelet Str. 

1902 


Printing Co., 

Ltd. 335 


1903 


Printing Co., 

Ltd. 335 


1904 

Annual Report New Orleans 

Printing Co., 

3055 N. 

Rampart Street 

1905 

Annual Report Sendker Book 

Publisher, 3053 

N. Rampart St. 

1906 

Annual Report Sendker 

Printing 

Works, Ltd., 

416 Gravier St. 

1907

20 J. Hanno 

Deiler, 

President 

21 J. Hanno 

Deiler, 

President 


First Vice 

President 


President 


President 


President 




Annual Report 

for 1907-1908, 

61 th Fiscal 

Year 




Annual Report 

for 1908-1909, 

62 nd Fiscal 

Year 




Annual Report 

for 1909-1910, 

63 rd Fiscal 

Year 




Annual Report 

for 1910-1911, 

61 th Fiscal 

Year 




Annual Report 

for 1911-1912, 

65 th Fiscal 

Year 




Annual Report 

for 1912-1913, 

66 th Fiscal 

Year 


Printing 

Works, Ltd., 


1908 


Printing 

Works, Ltd., 


1909 


Printing 

Works, Ltd., 


1910 


Printing 

Works, Ltd., 


1911 


Printing 

Works, Ltd., 


1912 


Printing 

Works, Ltd., 

319 Magazine 

St. 1913


President 


President 

28 P. Roh, 

President 

29 Hans 

Forchheimer, 

President 

30 Dr. H.U. 

Gabert, 

President 




Report for 

Fiscal Period 

5/31/1913 to 

12/31/1913 




Annual Report, 

68 th Fiscal 

Year 





69 th Fiscal 

Year 



Orleans Annual 

Report, 70 th 

Fiscal Year 



Orleans Annual 

Report, 71st 

Fiscal Year 

31 Joseph Reuther The German 




81 st Fiscal Year 

Semi-Annual 

Report (Due to 

change in Fiscal 

calendar) 

Sendker 

Printing 

Works, Ltd., 

319 Magazine 

St. 1914 


Printing 

Works, Ltd., 

319 Magazine 

St. 1915 

Annual Report Geo. Muller, 

Printer, 610 

Bienville St. 

1916 

Annual Report Neue Deutsche 

Zeitung Print, 

526 Poydras St. 

1917 

Annual Report George’s 

Printing Office, 

526 Poydras 

St., 1918 

Annual Report 

and details of 

merger of 

German Society 

with the 

“Deutsches 

Haus” (i.e., end 

of operation of 


Society) 


1929

32 Philip W. 

Dielmann, 

President 

33 Philipp W. 

Dielmann, 

President 

34 Philipp W. 

Dielmann, 

President 

35 Philipp W. 

Dielmann, 

President 

Eleventh 

Annual Report 

of the President 

and Secretary 


Protestant 

Orphanage, 


November 

1877 

Twelfth 

Annual Report 

of the President 

and Secretary 


Protestant 

Orphanage, 


November 

1878 

13 th Annual 

Report of the 

President of the 


Protestant 

Orphanage, 


November 

1879 

14 th Annual 

Report of the 

President and 

Secretary of the 


Protestant 

Orphanage, 


November 

1880 

Annual Report Deutsche 

Zeitung 

Printing, 108 

Camp St. 1877 


Zeitung 

Printing, 108 

Camp St. 1878 

Annual Report New Orleans, 

1879 


Zeitung 

Printing, 108 

Camp St. 1880

36 Philipp W. 

Dielmann, 

President 

37 Philipp W. 

Dielmann, 

President 

38 Philipp W. 

Dielmann, 

President 

39 Philipp W. 

Dielmann, 

President 

15 th Annual 

Report of the 

President and 



Protestant 

Orphanage, 


November 

1881 

16 th Annual 

Report of the 

President and 



Protestant 

Orphanage, 


November 

1882 

17 th Annual 

Report of the 

President and 



Protestant 

Orphanage, 


November 

1883 

18 th Annual 

Report of the 

President and 



Protestant 

Orphanage, 


November 

1884 


Zeitung 

Printing, 108 

Camp St. 1881 


Zeitung 

Printing, 108 

Camp St. 1882 


Zeitung 

Printing, 108 

Camp St. 1883 


Zeitung 

Printing, 108 

Camp St. 1884

40 Philipp W. 

Dielmann, 

President 

19 th Annual 

Report of the 

President and 



Protestant 

Orphanage, 


November 

1885 

41 Constitution 

and By-laws of 


Support Group 

of Algiers, La., 

Organized 

April 29, 1879 

42 Charter and 

By-Laws of the 


Protestant 

Home for the 

Aged and 

43 Board of 

Directors, 

Protestant 

Bethany Home 

Infirm 


Protestant 

Bethany Home 

1943 No. 

Claiborne 

Avenue, New 

Orleans, LA 

44 GPOA 

foundation 


1980 

45 GPOA 

foundation 


1981 


Zeitung 

Printing, 108 

Camp St. 1885 

Founding (in 

1889) and 

subsequent 

operation of 

home for the 

poor and sick 

Annual Report 


Protestant 

Orphan Asylum 

Association of 

New Orleans, La 

Annual Report 


Protestant 

Orphan Asylum 



George Miller 

Printing, 50 

Bienville 

Street, New 

Orleans, 1893 


1885 

476 Metairie 

Road, Room 

203, Metairie, 

La 70005 

476 Metairie 

Road, Room 


La 70005

46 GPOA 

foundation 


1982 

47 Kolb’s German 

Restaurant – A 


Landmark 

Annual Report 


Protestant 

Orphan Asylum 



Promotional 

Brochure of the 

restaurant 

established in 

1899 

476 Metairie 

Road, Room 


La 70005 

125 St. Charles 

St., New 

Orleans, La.

German Study file 

Box 6 

Pamphlets 3 


1 Blume, Helmut The Growth of 

the Cultural 

Landscape of 

the Mississipi 

Delta in 

Colonial 

Times, Under 

Special 

Consideration 


Settlement 

2 Blume, Helmut German 

Colonists in the 

Mississippi 

Delta 

3 Blume, Helmut Sugar 

Cultivation on 

the Lower 

Mississippi 

(Louisiana’s 

4 Deiler, J. 

Hanno 

Sugar Bowl) 

A Forgotten 


Colony. A 

Voice in 

Defense of 


alias Proli, alias 

The physical 

characteristics of 

the Mississippi 

Delta; the 

Mississippi 

Delta under 

French 

Administration; 

the coast of Des 

Allemands under 

Spanish 

Administration; 

Special 

Problems for the 

Cote of Des 

Allemands; the 

Cote of Des 

Allemand during 

the time of the 

Louisiana 

Purchase 

The settlement 


colonists in the 

Mississippi delta 

in Louisiana’s 

colonial period 

History of Sugar 

cane cultivation 

in an 

evnironmentally 

hostile 

environment 

Story of the 

founder of 

Louisiana’s first 

German colony 

The 

Geographical 

Institute of the 

University of 

Kiel, Vol 16 #3, 

Kiel 1956 

Jahrbuch für 

Amerikanstudien 

12, Band I, 

1956, 177-183. 

Michael 

Lassleben 

Kallmünz, 

Publisher 

Regensburg, 

1954 

Deutsche 

Zeitung, New 

Orleans, LA 

1900

5 Deiler, J. 

Hanno 

6 Deiler, J. 

Hanno 

7 Deiler, J. 

Hanno 

8 Deiler, J. 

Hanno 

9 Deiler, J. 

Hanno 

Bernhard 

Müller 

Germany’s 

Contribution to 

the Present 

Population of 


with a Census 


Schools 

European 

Immigration 

into the United 

States from 

1820-1900 

History of New 


German Press 

Louisiana, A 

Home for 


Settlers 





A census of 


immigrants 

beginning in 

1847 – number 

of children in 

schools 

European 

immigration, 

predominantly 

German, from 

1820-1900 


German settlers 

in Louisiana, the 

founding of 


newspapers, and 

the activities of 

notable citizens 


origin 

Report on the 

State of 

Louisiana and its 

German colonies 

published by the 

German society 

of New Orleans 

The history of 

the society with 

an introduction 

discussing 



the U.S. from 

1820 to 1896, 

New Orleans as 

a port of 

Immigration and 

the European 

immigration 

through New 

Louisiana 

Jounal of 

Education May 

1886 

Germanistic 

Society of 

Chicago, 

Decmber, 1907 

Private printing 

from the New 

Orleans German 

Newspaper, 


La, 1901 



Newspaper, 

printing 1895 

Private Printing, 


1897

10 Deiler, J. 

Hanno 

11 Deiler, J. 

Hanno 

12 W.W. Duson 

& Brothers 

13 W.W. Duson 

& Bros. 


Germans on the 

Lower 

Mississippi – 

The 

Redemption 

System in the 

State of 

Louisiana 

The Story of 

the Germans on 

the Lower 

Mississippi and 


Immigration 

through New 

Orleans – The 

Redemption 

System in 

Louisiana 


Landowners of 

Southwest 

Louisiana 

Southwest 

Louisiana Rice 

Industry 

Orleans. 

Written and 

published to 

commemorate 

the 50 th (golden) 


the society 

Sutdy of 

indentured 

servitude in 

Louisiana in the 

17 th , 18 th , and 

early 19 th 

century 

Study of 

indentured 

servitude in 

Louisiana 

Biography of 


landowners and 

businessmen in 

and around 

Crowley, La; 

descriptions of 

their successes 

intended as lure 

for potential 

immigrants 

Promotional 

“Booklet” 

describing 

positive climatic 

conditions and 

special 

opportunities for 

rice cultivation 



1901 



1889 


of W.W. Duson 

& Brothers, 

Real Estate and 

Immigration 

Agency, 

Crowley, La. 

1907 


of W.W. Duson 

& Brothers, 

Real Estate and 

Immigration 

Agency, 

Crowley, La. 

n.d.

14 The German- 

American 

Connection 

15 Hermann, Fritz Maximillian 

Ludwig Proli, 

the Prophet of 

Offenbach 

16 Ouachita Parish 

In the State of 

Louisiana. 

What the 

Region offers 


Settlers 

17 Tensas Parish 

in the State of 

Louisiana 

18 Lich, Glen E. German 

Creolization 

and Other 

Stories from 


in southwest, La. 

to prospective 


immigrants 

History of 


immigrants in 

America, and 

guideline for 

tracing ancestors 

in Germany. 

Published to 

commemorate 

the 300 year 




America 

Biography of 

Bernhard 

Müller, alias 

Proli 

Promotional 

Pamphlet 

describing 

Ouachita Parish 

to prospective 


immigrants, 

particularly 

farmers 

Promotional 

Pamphlet 

describing 

Tensas Parish to 

prospective 

German Settlers 

The process of 


acculturation 

into the unique, 

Creole ethnicity 


Published by 

Lufthansa, 1983 

Heinz Moos 

Publishing Co., 

Inc. Baltimore, 

Md. 

Archive for the 

History of 

Hessen, 

Darmstadt, 1922 

La. Dept. of 

Agriculture and 

Immigration. 

Printed by 

George Müller, 


1907 

La. Dept. of 


Immigration. 

1907. Printed by 



1907 

Perspectives of 

Ethnicity in New 

Orleans, a 

Publication of 

the Committee 

on Ethnicity in 


1980

19 Lich, Glen Germans in the 


Melting Pot 

20 Albrecht, Erich 

A. 

21 Albrecht, Erich 

A. 

22 Goessl, Alfred 

F. 

23 Goessl, Alfred 

F. 


– The city that 

Care Forgot” & 

“Portrait of 

New Orleans” 


Sängerfest of 

the North 

American 

Singers’ Union 


Song Festivals 

of the North 

American 

Singer’s Union 

The First 


Settlers of the 

Lower 

Mississippi 

24 Nav, John F. The History of 


Song in New 


25 Schlegel, Hans 

K.W. 

President, 

Deutsches 

Haus 

Deutsches 

Haus of New 

Orleans and the 


Settlers 

Photographs 

illustrating 


assimilation into 

New Orleans’ 

own unique 

culture 

Celebratory 



present day 

(1958) 

History of North 

American 

Singers’ Union’s 

German Singing 

Societies 

History of 

German Volsong 

and singing in 

America 


Colonial 

Louisiana 

Importance of 

Music and song 

in the cultural 

life of New 

Orleans’ 


History of 


in Louisiana and 

purpose of the 

Deutsches Haus 

in New Orleans 

to keep their 

contributions 

and some ties to 

the old country 

in tact 

Perspectives on 

Ethnicity in New 


43rd national 

Sängerfest, New 

Orleans, May 

1958 

43 rd national 



1958 




1958 




1958 




1958 




1958

26 Sheftall, John 

McKay 


Southeastern 

United States 

of America: An 

Historic 

Overview 


Influence 

27 Germans in 

New Orleans- 

History 

27 Germans – 

History 

Chapters on: 

Earliest settlers, 


Colonial South 

Carolina, 

Georgia, North 

Carolina, 


Revolution, 

politics, religion 

and education, 

the westward 

movement, 

community 

leaders, Civil 

War conflicts, 

and immigration 

and diplomacy 

Experience of 


immigrated to 

New Orleans in 

the 1850’s 


Theater in New 

Orleans, 1840- 

1890 

History of 

earliest German 

settlers in 

Louisiana 

(Law’s 

concession) and 

how the name 

“Zweig” became 

“LaBranche” 

Consulate 

General of the 

FRG, Atlanta. 

Printed in FRG, 

1982 

Transit Riders’ 

Digest, March 

20 1972 


Digest, January 

8, 1968 

November 27, 

1967

27 Germans – 

history 

27 Did You 

Know? 

28 Voss, Louis The German 

Coast of 

Louisiana 

29 Voss, Louis Louisiana’s 

Invitation to 


Farmers and 

Colonists 

30 Lone Star & 

Eagle. German 


Texas 

31 Artz, Thomas, 

C.SS.R 

Father Francis 

X. Seelos, 

C.SS.R. 

History of 


in Louisiana and 

their cultural 

contributions 

(recalled for the 

occaision of an 

upcoming 

Volksfest at the 

Deutsches Haus, 

June 15, 1963) 


Swiss in New 


History of Early 


in Louisiana 

Promotional 

pamphlet 

describing 

terrain, climate, 

and health and 

educational 

circumstances of 

Louisiana with 

emphasis on 

existing German 

settlements and 

colonies yet to 

be founded. 

History of 


in Texas 

(commemoration 

300 th 




America 

Life and Work 

of Father Seelos 


Digest, June 10, 

1963 

The Rider’s 

Digest, n.d. 


Bulletin # 9 The 

Concord Society 

Hoboken, N.J. 

1928 

Dept. of 


Immigration of 

La. Printed by 


1907 

Goethe-Institute 

Houston. 

German Cultural 

Center 1983 

Redemptionist 

Fathers. Father 

Seelos Center,

1979. New 

Orleans


Box 7 

Family Histiories 


No Folder --Cassette Tape Varenholt 

Family History 

Family History Family ? 

1 Becker, F.W. History of Traces the life and Becker, F.W. 

Michael marriage of the (1929) 

Becker, Jr. & founder of the 

his wife Becker Family – 

Michael Becker – 

and the subsequent 

history of the 

Becker Family 

2 The Family of Family history of 

Charles Wirth 

– Karl Würth 

and Elizabeth 

Singer Worth – 

“A Life Like 

theirs has left a 

record sweet 

for Memory to 

dwell upon” 

the Wirth children 

2 Glassman, Beer in New The decline of Figaro, April 

James K. & Orleans: A local breweries – 24,1974 

Clifford, Doug Changing Face Jax, Falstaff, Etc. – 

in New Orleasn 

around 1974 

2 Charles Wirth A Letter to his A letter about his 

Mother passage to New 

Orleans, dated 

Nov. 30, 1866 

2 Ludwig Wirth Letter to his A letter to parents 

parents dated after his arrival in 

Nov. 30, 1866 New Orleans on 

the 29 th of Nov. 

1866

2 Bosch, Charels 

Wirth, Jr. (?) 

Charles Wirth, 

Man of Affairs 

2 The Joint 

Grandparents 

Brief biographical 

sketch of Wirth 

and his 

accomplishments 

& contributions to 


The Grandparents 

& parents of the 

Wirth family and 

the parents of the 

present generation 

& their children 

3 Marriage 

certificate of Otto 

Briede and 

4 Mount, May 

W. 

Some notables 

of New 


biographical 

and descriptive 

sketches of the 

artists of New 

Orleans ad 

their work 

5 Centenarian is 

Honored at 

Two Birthday 

Parties 

5 Early German 

Site Marked at 

Edgard 

5 Puneky, Claire Down the 

Bayou, German 

Colonists Came 

to Louisiana 

June 4, 1722 

Carolina Roder 

Biographical 

sketch of politician 

Charles F. Buck 

and his dramatic 

and other talents 

100 th birthday 

celebration of C. 

Horace 

D’Arensbourg, the 

oldest direct 

descendant of an 

18 th Century 

German settler, 

Chevailier Karl 

D’Arensbourg 

The dedication of 

the second German 

settlement in 

Colonial Louisiana 

The history of Karl 

D’Arensbourg and 

the settlement of 

the Cote des 

Allemands 

Encycolopedia 

of American 

Biography 

Archives of St. 

Louis 

Cathedral 

The Times- 

Picayune – 

Aug. 22, 1974

5 Steadman, 

Joseph D. 

5 Kondert, Dr. 

Rheinhart 

5 Dimitry, 

Charles Patton 

5 Dimitry, 

Charles Patton 

5 Rees, Grover 

(?) 

5 Villeré, Sidney 

Louis 

5 de la Vergne, 

Col. H. J. 

Letter to Dr. 

Merrill 

Charles 

Frederick 

D’Arensbourg, 

1693-1777 

Familes of 

Louisiana 

Famille de la 

Louisiane 

(Families of 

Louisiana) (In 

French) 


Family 

Notes of Pierre 

(Charles) 

Frederick 


Charels 

Frederick 


Steadman’s 

ancestor Karl 

Frederick 


History of 

D’Arensbourg and 


settlement under 

his leadership 

Karl F. 

D’Arensbourg & 

Des Allemands 


Karl F. 


Lineage of Louise 

D’Arensbourg – 

child of Karl 

D’Arensbourg (?) 

History of 

D’Arensbourg – 

States that 

D’Arensbourg was 

not Swedish bu 

German and the 

lineage of his 

children 

Presentation give 

to La. Historical 

Society regarding 

history of 

D’Arensbourg by 

descendant de la 

Vergne 

6 Dastugue-Cordes 

Family History 

7 History of Del 

Bondio Family – 

Frederick Del 

Bondio was the 

first president of 

German Protestant 

Orphan Asylum 


Genesis, Vol. 

20, No. 80, 9 – 

1981 

Hahnville 

Courthouse 

Grover Rees 

Villeré, Sindey 

L. 

Publications of 

the Louisiana 


Society 

Paul F. 

Dastugue 

Lucy Del 

Bondio

8 Veach, Damon Louisiana 

Ancestors, 

Dugas and 

Landry History 

9 The Dutsch 

Family 

The historical 

connection 

between the Zahn 

Family and the 

Dugas Family, 

Zahn being 

German – initiated 

by Bennie Jay 

Zahn of New 


The history of the 

Dutsch family, 

beginning with 

Henry H. Dutsch 

(1795), and also 

the geneology of 

the family 

The Times- 

Picayune, Aug. 

5, 1979 

10 Elmwood 

family history 

(Settlement) 

11 Testament Will of Julke ? Emenes 

12 Pedigree Chart Family tree of 

Eldemere 

13 William Fizner Obituary of New 

Dies 

Orleans architect 

James Fizner 

13 Addresses of 

Fizner as they 

began to appear in 

the 1870 directory 

14 Death of Mrs. Obituary of 

Franko Cornelia Franko, 

second wife of 

Nahan Franko 

14 Last Tributes Review of funeral 

Paid to Nahan 

Franko 

services 

14 Church and Wedding 

Clubhouse Announcement of 

Jeanne Franko and 

Hugo Kraemer 

family? 

Ida M. Ficklin 

Times-Piayune 

– August 17, 

1914 

N.Y. Times 12- 

4-1896 

NY Times 6- 

17-1930 

NY Times 4- 

11-1889

14 Mrs. Nahan 

Franko Widow 

of Conductor 

14 Sam Franko 

killed in fall on 

steps 

14 Mrs. Jeanne 

Franko, 

Violinist, last 

of five famous 

Frankos 

musicians, dies, 

85 

14 Actress 

Searches for 

missing child 

14 Nahan Franko 

Dies, Noted 

Condutor 

14 Cohen New Orleans 

Directory 1861 

14 Death takes 

Sam Franko 

14 Marriage 

Certificate 

14 Marriage 

License 

14 Ewen, David Encyclopedia 

of Concert 

Music 

Obituary of actress 

Anna Braga, third 

wife of Nahan 

Franko, the 

Metropolitan 

Opera concert 

master 

Obituary of 

musician/conductor 

Sam Franko 

Obituary of 

violinists Jeanne 

Franko 

The kidnapping of 

Emily Eleanor 

Franko, daughter 

of Mr. and Mrs. 

Edwin Franko 

Obituary for Nahan 

Fanko 

Listing of Hamen 

Franko, Living in 


1861 

Obituary of Sam 

Franko 

Marriage 

Certificate of H. 

Franko and Ellen 

Bergman, Dec. 30, 

1849 

marriage license of 

H. Franko and 

Ellen Bergman, 26 

Dec. 1849 

Brief Sketches of 

the musical careers 

of Nahan and Sam 

Franko 

NY Times 9- 

13-1938 

NY Times 5-7- 

1937 

NY Times 12- 

4-1940 

NY Times 

NY Times 6-8- 

1930 


Directory 1861 

(Tulane) 


Item 5-10-1937 

Tulane U. 

Library 

Tulane U. 

Archives 

Encyclopedia 

of Concert 

Music

14 Hughes, Rupert Music Lovers’ 

Encyclopedia 

15 Franko, Sam “Prelude” and 

“New Orleans, 

1857-1862” 

16 A Decade of 

Service in 

Acadiana, 

1973-1983 

17 Hermann B. 

Deutsch 

18 Mr. W.M. 

Darling and 

Mr. Eugene 

Barnes 

Frey: 100 

Years, 1865- 

1965 

The Fromherz 

Story, 1867- 

1967 

19 “George 

Gessner Dead” 

19 “Tulane’s 

Founders’ Day 

Marked by 

Celebration” 

19 Matas, Rudolf Hermann 

Bertram 

Gessner, 1872- 

1944 

Very brief 

biographical 

sketches of Sam & 

Nathan Franko 

Segment of the 

autobiography 

about his early life 


Tenth Anniversary 

Celebration of 

Bishop Gerard L. 

Frey, Diocese of 

Lafayette, La. 

History of the Frey 

meat packing 

company, which 

was founded by 

Alsatian, Andreas 

Frey, and a history 

of Frey’s family 

First 100 years of 

the Fromherz 

engineers 

Obituary of George 

Gessner, a 

professor of the 

Classics at Sophie 

Newcomb 

The conference of 

the Doctor of 

Laws, an honorary 

degree, upon 

George Gessner 

History of H. 

Gessner, son of 

George Gessner. 

H. Gessner was a 

doctor and a 

colleague of Matas 

Music Lovers’ 

Encyclopedia 

Chords and 

Discords, 

Memoirs and 

Musings of an 

American 

Muscician 

Supplement to 

The Morning 

Star 6-6-1983 

Dixie 

Supplement to 

the Times- 

Picayune (4- 

25-1965) 

The Fromherz 

Story, 1867- 

1967 

Times- 

Democrat, 8- 

23-1907 

Times 

Democrat 5- 

24-1906 

Reprinted from 

Annals of 

Surgery

20 Ewen, David “Edwin Franko 

Goldman” 

20 “Goldman, 

Edwin Franko” 

Brief biographical 

sketch of E.F. 

Goldman, nephew 

of Sam and Nathan 

Franko. Goldman 

was also a 

musician 

Biographical 

sketch of Goldman 

– early life, family 

tree, career 

Biographical entry 

20 Ewen, David “Goldman, 

Edwin Franko” of G.E. Franko 

21 Ulysee A. Brief biographical 

Gueringer sketch of 

Gueringer’s life 

and a brief 

obituary. Gueriner 

served in the 

Confederate Army 

22 Letter from John 

Gray, Jr. regarding 

his great 

grandfather, 

Eugene Wehrlin 

and his great 

grandmother, 

Barbara Seitz 

22 Marriage 

certificate of 


and Barbara Seitz, 

May 20, 1871 

22 Marriage 

certificate of 

Michael 

Strohmeyer, John 

Grey, Jr.’s other 

great grandfather, 

Sept. 15, 1868 

22 Marriage license of 


and Barbara Seitz 

The Lighter 

Classics of 

Music 

Current 

Biography 

Living 

Musicians 

John Grey, Jr

23 The Helte 

Family 

24 Helwick 

Family 

The Helte lineage, 


Jean George Held 

– Cath. Schaefer 

Lineage of 

Helwich Family 

beginning with the 

marriage of Joseph 

Leonard Helwichk 

and Laura Angle 

Ross, Dec. 22, 

1891 and their 

children 

24 Article about an 

explosion at a grain 

elevator during 

which several men 

were killled, 

including Joseph 

Helwick, who died 

april 4, 1938 

24 Birth certificate of 

Joseph Leonard 

Helwick, Jr. who 

was born on June 

29, 1914. Helwick 

Jr.’s father was 

killed in grain 

elevator explosion 

24 Death Certificate 

of Joseph Leonard 

Helwick, who was 

kille din a grain 

elevator explosion 

25 Rosamond 

Hingle 

on April 4, 1938 

Obituary (?) of M. 

Hingle, a coroner 

who lived in the 

Geran area of 

Pointe a la Hache 

(?).

26 Stillman, 

Janice 

27 Robert 

MacDonald 

“Neighborhood 

Lost” 

27 List of Houses 

bought by John 

Lange 

27 History and 

background 

Article on the 

warehouse district, 

a once thriving 

“neighborhood,” 

which housed the 

tobacco factory of 

S. Hernsheim 

Letters to August, 

Peter, Paul Lange 

in regard to a handoperated 

press the 

brothers donated to 

the Louisiana State 

Museum 

List and prices of 

the homes Lange 

purchased 


John Lange who 

began Lange 

Metals, Inc., the 

first salvage and 

reclamation of junk 

27 Lange died Death 

announcement of 

28 Christovich, 

Mary L; Evans, 

Sally 

Kittredge; 

Toledano, 

Roulhac 

“Luling 

Mansion” 

29 The Father, the 

Ancestry, The 

Children, Their 

Children and 

Their 

Children’s 

Children (?) 

John Lange 

The history of the 

Luling Mansion 

built by James 

Gallier, Jr. 

Family History of 

George Johann and 

Dorthea Mayer 

Times- 

Picayune June 

19, 1983 


Architecture: 

Vol V. The 

Esplanade 

Ridge

30 Moehlenbrock, 

Arthur H. 

“J. Hanno 

Deiler: cultural 

Pioneer of the 

South” 

31 Lesser, David “Dixie Board 

oks sale of 

brewery to the 

Coy Corp.” 

31 Laborde, Errol “Hard Times at 

Dixie” 

Sketch of J. H. 

Deiler, a German 

professor and chair 

director. Deiler 

was instrumental in 

organizing German 

culture societies in 

the South 

Sale of the 

declining Dixie 

Brewing Go. to 

Coy Co., a brewer 

Discusses decline 

of Dixie Brewing 

Co. in New 


31 Laborde, Errol “Have a Dixie” An Article written 

in defense of Dixie 

32 Schwegmann, 

John, Jr. 

“1891 – Rev. 

Father Magnus 

Roth “ 1971 

Beer 

Brief obituary and 

a reprint of an 

editorial written by 

Schwegmann after 

Roth’s Golden 

Jubilee 

33 Schexnayder 

Family Tree 

34 Veach, Damon “Louisiana A request for any 

Ancestors: A information 

man of unusual pertaining to the 

merits” John Schen 

Family. John 

Schen was a 

blacksmith in New 


35 Folder reads 

“Sellars Family 

History” but it 

seems that this is 

the history of the 

Maier Family 

The American- 


Review, Feb. 

1942 

Times- 

Picayune 

Gambit April 

16-22, 1983 

Gambit April 

16-23, 1983 

Times- 

Picayune – 

June 20, 1969 

(reprint) 

Times- 

Picayune July 

4, 1982

36 Thiel, Spencer “A Study of the 

Life of William 

Thiel: an 

Introduction” 

37 Thiel, Spencer “Summary of 

William Thiel 

in New 

Orleans” 

37 Thiel, Spencer “William 

Thiel’s 

Building 

Contracts” 

A background of 

William Thiel, a 

German architect 

who lived in New 

Orleans in the 

1850’s 

Summary, year by 

year, of Thiel’s life 

in New Orleans, 

from 1851 to his 

death in 1870 

Listing of building 

contracts made 

with William Thiel 

38 Varenholt Family 

History – Family 

39 “Henry von 

Phul – Born 

August 14, 

1784 – Died 

September 8 

1874” 

40 Voss, Louis Memoirs of the 

Gaschen and 

Voss Families 


Trees 

History of Henry 

von Phul, a 

businessman – in 

trade—traces his 

birth and eventual 

marriage and 

children 

History of Voss’s 

family and of his 

wife’s family. The 

Gaschen Family. 

Voss was a 

(Presbyterian) 

Pastor of the First 


Presbyterian 

Church 

Spencer Thiel 

Spencer Thiel 

Spencer Thiel

41 Weinfurter- 

Labatut, Ruth 

42 Weis, Julius Autobiography 

of Julius Weis 


Weinfurther 

Family -- 

beginning with the 

great grandfather, 

John Jacob 

Weinfurter, born in 

Hungary in 1800 (a 

shoemaker), who 

moved to New 

Orleans in 1825- 

1826 

The story of Julius 

Weis, beginning 

with his 

impoverished life 

in Rheinpflatz, 

Germany His 

subsequent trip to 


1844, his days as a 

peddler, and his 

eventual business 

career as a dry 

goods store owner 

and marriage 

43 A family tree of the 

Luthers (as in 

Martin Luther) 

who were ancestors 

of Wingfield- 

Borah families 

43 Wirth Brothers The first letters of 

the Wirth brothers 

(Ludwig and 

Charles) from Nov. 

30, 1866 after their 

arrival in New 


Ruth 

Weinfurter- 

Labatut

44 “Charles With, 

Sr.: Man of 

Affairs” 

History of C. 

Wirth, Sr., who 

came to New 

Orleans from 

Germany near the 

end of the Civil 

War. Wirth owned 

a grocery store 

business and 

became a leading 

real estate 

developer in New 


45 Lineage of the 

Zeringue Family, 


Michel Zeringue 

and wife Barba 

Hertle married in 

1726. Lineage 

traces the history 

of Jean Louis 

Zeringue born in 

1738, married 

Marie de Lacroix 

46 Zimmerman, 

John A. 

of Opelouses, La. 

History of 

Zimmermans, 

beginning with his 

mother’s side 

Phillippi Antoni (a 

German) and 

Margaretha Hecker 

– Zimmerman’s 

grandparents. 

Then he discusses 

his father’s side – 

the Zimmermans of 

Texas. Antoni was 

a sculptor and artist 

who did carvings 

for St. Mary’s 

Church 

Encyclopedia 

of American 

Biography 

Mabel 2. 

Guillotte 

(Gretna, La.) 

John A. 

Zimmerman 

(Metairie, La.)


Box 8 

Dissertations, Theses, Typescripts 


1 Kondert, 

Reinhardt 

2 Abbot 

Patrick 

Regan, 

O.S.B. 

3 Carter, 

Corinne 

Henderson 

4 Conway, 

A.A. 

5 French, Dr. 

Isabelle 

“The New 



Society, 1847- 

1927” 

Sermon given 

at Robert’s 

Cove on 17 July 

1983 in 

commemoration 

of centenary of 

first mass 

celebrated by 

Father Aegidius 

Hanneman 

“Care of the 

Aged in New 

Orleans with 

Special 

Reference to the 

Protestant 

Home for the 

Aged and the 

Protestant 

Bethany Home” 


as a Port of 

Immigration, 

1820-1860” 

“The First 

Germans and 

Their Church 

on the German 

Coast in 

Louisiana” 

The founding and 

subsequent history of 

the society created to 

aid immigrant 

Geramns in need of 

help 

Founding of German 

Catholic Mission at 

Robert’s Cove and 

the development of a 

native Louisiana 

clergy 

Conditions for care 

and characteristics of 

inhabitants in two 

New Orleans homes 

for the Aged without 

Resources 

Reasons for and 

history of New 

Orleans’ function as a 

port of immigration 

Religious history of 

German settlers in 

Louisiana 

Lecture 

delivered to 

the Deutsches 

Haus 

See Title 

Masters 

Thesis, Tulane 

University, 

1933 

Masters Thesis 

in History, 

University of 

London, 1949 

?

6 Hoffman, 

Beryl 

7 Konrad, 

William 

Robinson 

8 Laguaite, 

Jeannette K. 

9 Laurent, 

Lubin F. 

10 Rothan, Rev. 

Emmet H. 


Education in 

New Orleans” 

“The 

Diminishing 

Influences of 

German Culture 


Life Since 

1865” 


Element in New 


1860” 

“A History of 

St. John the 

Baptist Parish” 


Catholic 

Immigrant in 

the United 

States (1830- 

1860) 

History of German 

instruction in 

Louisiana schools 

Height of German 

cultural influences in 

New Orleans and 

their rapid decline 

since the Civil War 

History of Germans 

in New Orleans, with 

chapters on 

immigration, religion, 

education, and 

charities; newspapers 

and political 

activities; cultural 

and social life 

History from the 

early explorers to the 

present of St. John 

the Baptist Parish 

(first fity pages, only, 

in folder) 

Pages from chapters 

on (general) German 

immigration, 

immigrants to the 

East, the Northeast, 

and Southwest, and 

bibliography 

Masters 


University, 

n.d. 

Masters 

Thesis, 

German, 

Tulane Univ., 

1940. The 

Louisiana 


Quarterly. Vol 

24, No. 1, Jan. 

1941, pp. 127- 

167. 

Masters 


Univ., 1940. 

History 

Unpublished 

Dissertation. 

Tulane 

University. 

n.d. 

Dissertation. 

The Catholic 

University of 

America Press. 

Washington, 

D.C. 1946.

11 Stern, Harriet “The Germans 


Orleans” 

12 Villeré, 

Sidney Louis 

13 Zeringue, 

Donald 

“The Old Red 

Church and 

Cemetery of 

Saint Charles 

Parish, 

Louisiana” 


Coast” 

14 Unknown “Germans in the 

French Colony 

of Louisiana” 

Discusses ease of 

assimilation of 

German immigrants 

to New Orleans, lack 

of discrimination 

against them, and 

German cultural 

influences, 

businesses, and areas 

of residence 


founding/construction 

of the “Old Red 

Church;” list of 

pastors of St. Charles 

Parish; list of colonial 

generation buried in 

cemetery 

History of German 

Settlement along the 

lower Mississippi 

Valley 

Early settlements in 

La. 

Masters 

Thesis. Univ. 

of New 

Orleans. n.d. 

(From the 

notes of Father 

Peufier) A 

translation 

from the 

French text. 

Files of 

L’Observateur 

Louisianais, 

Vol. V, No. 11. 

Nov., 1896. 

Baton Rouge 

branch of Lath 

& Plaster 

Grant, 1970 

University 

Kiel. German 


the U.S. 1682- 

1776.


Box 9 

Translations, Archival Material 


1 Regarding the 

Establishment 

of a Consulate 


Orleans, Nov. 

23, 1854 

2 Hormayer (Banking and 

Finacial 

Conditions in 

America [with 

reference to 

New Orleans] 

in 1837) 

3 Haslang (Letter to 

Vieregg) 

See Title (copy 

of document in 

Old German 

Script, 

untranslated) 

Document 

addressed to the 

King of 

Hannover, 

dated July 25, 

1837, 

describing the 

unfavourable 

condition of 

American 

banks and 

finance at that 

time. 

Account of 

operations at 

Pensacola and 

along the 

Mississippi, 


1780 

Bavarian State 

Archive 

Bavarian 

Archive (Copy 


German script 

with partial – 

“blurb” – 

translation) 

Bavarian 

Archive (Copy 

of letter written 

in French, 

untranslated)

4 Festivities at 

the Presentation 


Flag in 

Lafayette 

5 Englebert (no 

surname) 

Letter to E. 

Klug 

6 Announcement 

of the (Bremen) 

Senate to the 

Citizenry on 

February 9, 

1849 

Description of 

Festivities 

surrounding 

presentation of 

the German flag 

by the city of 

Lafayette to 

Captains of a 

fleet from 

Bremen, on 

Dec. 17, 1848 

Flag Ceremony 

in Lafayette 

Regarding the 

transmittal of 


Flag to the 

Senate by the 

Bremen 

Capitan who 

received it on 

behalf of the 

city from the 

citizens of 

Lafayette, and 

expression of 

thanks for the 

gift 

Copy of 

newspaper 

article,in 

German, from 

Die Deutsche 

Zeitung, New 


December 19, 

1848, and 

accompanying 

article, in 

English, dated 


Dec. 18. 

Bremen 

Archive 

Copy of letter, 

dated Dec. 18, 

1848, in 

German script, 

with English 

typed 

translation. 

Bremen 

Archive 

Bremen 

Archive (copy 

of document, in 


untranslated)

7 Extract from 

the proceedings 

of the Senate, 

February 9, 

1849, pg. 73 

8 Decision of the 

Citizenry (of 

Bremen) on 

February 10, 

1849 


the Senate’s 

Proceedings, 

Febraury 12, 

1839 


the Senate 

Proceedings of 

February 16, 

1849 

Regarding letter 

from the 

citizens of 

Lafayette, dated 

Dec. 17, 1848, 

and the 

Lafayette flag 

ceremony 

Regarding the 

Gift of a 

German Flag 

from the 

Citizens of 

Lafayette, 

Expression of 

thanks and 

goodwill 

towards those 

citizens 

Flag gift of the 

citizens of 

Lafayette: the 

Bremen 

Senate’s 

acceptance of 

this gift of 

honor and 

proposed 

response to 

accompanying 

letter 

Flag gift of the 

citizens of 

Lafayette 

(Copy of 

document in 


script, 

transcribed in 

modern 


handwriting, no 

translation) 

Bremen 

Archive 

Bremen 

Archive (copy 

of document 

printed in 


untranslated) 

Bremen 

Archive (copy 

of handwritten 

document, 

transcribed to 

modern script, 

in German, no 

translation) 

Bremen 

Archive (Copy 



Script, 

untranscribed, 

untranslated)

11 Beenken and 

Adami 

Address of 

Captain 

Beenken and 

Response of 

Senator Adami 

12 Beenken Address of 

Captain 

Beenken 

13 Announcement 

to the Citizenry 

(of Bremen) 

Delivery of the 

honorary flag 

gift o the 

citizens of 

Lafayette to the 

Senate of 

Bremen. Dated 

February 19, 

1849 

Delivery of 

honorary flag 

gift of the 

citizens of 

Lafayette to the 

Senate of 

Bremen, n.d. 

Acceptance of 

the honorary 

flag gift of the 

citizens of 

Lafayette. 

Dated Feb. 19, 

1859. 

14 Ship Arrivals 

and departures 

(New Orleans – 

Bremen), 

Receipts (tax) 

Cargo, 1846/ 

1846/ 1853/ 

1856-1859/ 

1862-1867 

15 Miscellaneous 

Papers from 


Consulate 

(responsible to 

Bremen) 

Bremen 

Archive (Copy 

of document, 

with 

transcription in 

modern 


no translation) 

Bremen 

Archive (Copy 

of document, 

with 

transcription in 

modern 



Bremen 

Archive (Copy 


document 

(draft?), 

transcribed in 

modern 



Bremen State 

Archive 

(Copies of 

documents, 

handwritten in 


untranslated) 

Bremen State 

Archive (copies 


documents in 

German, no 

translation)

16 The New 

Orleans Price- 

Current, 

Commercial 

Intelligencer 

17 New Orleans 

Consulate to 

Bremen? 


Trade Report 

for the Year 

1865 

Issues of 

Financial Paper, 

dated: Sept. 1, 

1846; Dec. 30, 

1846; Jan 29, 

1864; Jan 25, 

1867 

See Title. 

Dated 1866, 


(addressed to 

Dr. Rosing in 

Bremen?) 

18 Instructions of 

U.S. Supreme 

Court to ship 

captains 

arriving in U.S. 

Ports, February 

2, 1803 

19 Various Correspondence 

of Friedrich 

Rodewald, 

Consul from 

Bremen to New 


62 

20 Directors of the 

German Society 


Annual Report 




(Including 

Rules for 


New Orleans) 

see title, dated 

June 1, 1853 

Bremen State 


of newspaper 

issues printed 

in English) 

Bremen State 

Archive (copy 

of document, 

handwritten in 


untranscribed, 

untranslated) 

Bremen State 

Archive (Copy 

of document, in 

English) 

Bremen State 


of letters/ 

documents in 

English and 


transcriptions, 

no translations) 

Bremen State 

Archive (copy 

of report 

printed in 


translation)

21 An Act to 

Provide a Fund 

for the Support 

of the Charity 

Hospital of 


Enactment of 

Head Tax on 

ship passengers, 

signed into law 

by A.B. 

Roman, 

Governor of 

Louisiana, on 

March 26, 1842 

22 Various Correspondence 

of Friedrich 

Frey, Consul 

from Bremen to 


1827 – 1839 

23 The Hamburg 

Consulate in 


24 Eberhard 

Ludwig, Prince 

of Württemberg 

25 Eberhard 

Ludwig, Prince 

of Wurtemberg 

Establishment 

of the Hamburg 

Consulate, the 

appointment of 

Vincent Nolte 

to the post of 

Consul (1816, 

1817), his 

retirement and 

the appointment 

of F.W. 

Schmidt as 

Consul (1830) 

Ducal Decree 

preventing 


Louisiana, 

dated May 18, 

1720, Stuttgart 

Ducal decree 

preventing 


America, dated 

June 25, 1709, 

Stuttgart 

Bremen State 

Archive (copy 

of printed 

document, in 

English) 

Bremen State 

Archive 

(Copies of 

letters/ 

documents in 

German and 

English, no 

transcriptions, 


Hamburg State 

Archive 

(Copies of 

documents in 


no 

transcription, 


Stuttgart Main 

Archive (Copy 



Script, 

transcription 

and translation) 

Stuttgart Main 

Archive (copy 

of printed 

document in 

German, w/ 

translation)

26 Various Diplomatic 

correspondence 

of American 

Consulate to 

Hesse, 

Hamburg with 

Washington 

and New 


regarding 

(passports, 

visas, 

immigration?) 

dated 1862- 

1865 

27 William Huch Letter from 

advocate and 

notary Huch to 

Herzl. Kreis 

Direction (royal 

government of 

the county) of 

Braunschweig 

concerning the 

estate of the 

Barber George 

Muller of 

Mobile. 

Wiesbaden 

(Hessen) Main 


of documents in 


no 

transcription, 


Hauptstädtische 

Archiv 

Bremens


Box 10 

Translations from the French 


1 Various Translations Various articles Various sources 

from the French regarding the 

French and 


Louisiana, i.e. – 

census of the 

German Coast, 

John Law’s 

trade accounts 

and letters 

1 Various German Various From various 

Articles Influence in articles, sources 

Louisiana dissertations, 

documents in 

German about 



and Louisiana, 

i.e. about 


immigration 

into Mississippi 

Valley area, the 

history of 

German press 

2 Inventory: Collected songs Deutsches Haus 

Sängerchor sung at the 

Archive: National 

Deutsches Haus Songfest of the 

North 

American 

Singer’s Assoc. 

3 Various German Various Deutsches Haus 

Authors language German 

publications in publications, 

the Library i.e. the story of 

the Germans in 

the lower 

Mississippi, the 

story of the

4 Inventory of 

items from 

Bethany House 

5 Inventory of the 

Archive of the 


6 Various 

Authors 

The Louisiana 


Quarterly 

articles related 

to the German 

influence in 

Louisiana 


churches n 

Louisiana 

Inventory lists 

of items on 

loan from 

Bethany Home 

(Annual 

Reports of the 

Protestant 

Home for the 

Aged, minutes 

from Board of 

Directors 

Meetings) 

Annual 

Reports of die 

Deutsche 

Gesellschaft, 

meeting 

minutes of the 

Agent’s 

Committee, 

membership 

ledgers, “work 

books” 

(employment 

records), etc. 

Various articles 

written about 

Germans and 

German life in 

Louisiana 

7 Brief history of 


lifestyle in 

Louisiana – 

author and 

source not 

documented 

7 Census of the 

colonies on the 

German Coast 

taken in 1724 

Bethany Home 

(THNOC) 


Colonial 

Archives (Paris)

7 Concession de 

Mr. de Meuves 

8 Daire, Eugene John Law: 

Considerations 

on the Species 

and the Trade 

Accounts and 

Letters on the 

Banks’ Various 

Pamphlets (in 

translation) 

9 De Chaville, The Journey in 

Franquet Louisiana 

10 Doucet, Julian 

Geronimo 

11 Kondert, Dr. 

Rheinhart 

Draft and 

Translation of 

the Defense of 

Doucet 

The Germans in 

Louisiana – 

From 1721- 

1732 

In French 

Law’s letters 

and accounts, 

accompanied 

by 

commentaries 

and notes by 

the author 

An account of 

the journey in 

Louisiana made 

by de Chaville 

in the years 

1721-1724 for 

the Company of 

the Indies 

(French) 

Doucet’s own 

defense 

concerning his 

alleged 

involvement in 

the rebellion in 

Louisiana 

(Spanish) in 

1769 

Colonists of 

German origin 

who settled on 

what the French 

considered the 

“Cote des 

Allemands” – 

These settlers 

came with the 

French 

Company of the 

Indies and with 

John Law. 

Traces the 

settlers’ 

journey over 

and settlement 

Slatkin Reprints 

– Geneva (1971) 

Hotel de la 

Société 

D’Acclimatation 

Tulane Special 

Collection

12 Father Peufier Religion in 

Louisiana – 

The Old Red 

Church and its 

Cemetery in St. 

Charles Parish, 

La. 

13 Fortier Memorial of 

the Planters and 

Merchants of 

Louisiana on 

the Event of 

Oct. 29, 1768 

14 Instructive 

Memorial on 

the Profits and 

Advantages of 

Those 

Interested in the 

Company of the 

Indies and the 

Mississippi 

15 Memoir on the 

Production, 

Commerce, etc. 

of Louisiana, 

1763 

The settlement 

of St. John and 

St. James 

Parishes in 

1766 by the 

French 

(expelled from 

Acadia) and the 

Germans 

recruited by 

D’Arensbourg. 

Briefly 

discusses their 

church and the 

cemetery 

nearby 

Rebellion of 

1768 and the 

mistreatment of 

the Germans by 

Ulloa and the 

Spanish 

A response to 

two letters that 

raised questions 

about he new 

system of 

banking and 

financing of 

John Law 

An account of 

Louisiana and 

the surrounding 

areas of 

Alabama, 

Texas, 

Arkansas – 

primarily the 

rivers, 

mountains, etc. 

of the area 

L’Observateur 

History of 

Louisiana I 

Tulane Special 

Collections


Box 11 

Robert’s (German) Cove Collection 

Private Papers of Rev. Charles Zaunbrecher 

Box I 

FOLDER GROUP DESCRIPTION 

Loose General Dr. Ellen Merrill’s 

introduction to the Robert’s 

Cove Collection/Private 

Papers of Father Charles 

Zaunbrecher; Index of 

Papers 

Loose General Index of family names 

found in Robert’s Cove 

Collection, indicating the 

numbers of the folders in 

which mention of those 

1 Newspaper articles on 

original Robert’s Cove 

Families 



Families 

names can be found 

Hensgen Family. Articles 

cover the period October 

25, 1967 to October 10, 

1982. Contents: Family 

reunions of five generations 

of the Hensgen family, 

largest group of 

descendents of the original 

settlers of German cove 

(over 1600 living). 

Intermarriages with other 

Cove families are noted, 

and information on 

individual members is 

given. 18pp. 11 items. 

Heinen family. Articles 

cover the period June 28, 

1968 to October 16, 1981. 

Contents: same as above 

family reunions, 

intermarriages and 

information on individual 

family members. 20pp. 17 

items.



Families 



Families 



Families 

6 Publications, Robert’s Cove 

family genealogies 



Zaunbrecher family. 

Articles cover the period 

November 15, 1915 to 

October 14, 1979. 

Contents: same as above 

family reunions, 

intermarriages and 

information on individual 

family members. Extensive 

compilation by Reverend 

Charles Zaunbrecher, 

historian of Robert’s Cove. 

64pp. 44 items. 

Miscellaneous families. 

Articles concern the 

following Robert’s Cove 

families: Constantin, 

Cramer, Dischler, Frey, 

Gossen, Habitz, Ohlenforst, 

Olinger, Schaufhausen, 

Spaetgens, Von den Stein. 

Articles cover the period 

June 14, 1917 to November 

27, 1975. 21 pp. 16 items. 

Miscellaneous photographs 

of Robert’s Cove structures 

built by the Germans, the 

old settlers, and living 

residents. 16 pp. 8 items. 

“Heinen Family Tree,” 

1977 edition. Pamphlet. 

Contents: history of 

German roots of the Heinen 

family and chart of five 

generations. 8 pp. 1 item. 

“Heinen Family Tree,” 

1981 edition. Pamphlet 

compiled by Rev. Charles 

Zaunbrecher. Contents 

same as above. 9 pp. 1 

item.







11 Material on Robert’s Cove 

Centennial 

“Hensgen Family Tree,” 

1982 edition. Pamphlet 

compiled by Rev. Charles 

Zaunbrecher. Contents: 

History of the German roots 

of the family and chart of 

the six generations, listing 

1674 descendents, the 

largest of the Robert’s Cove 

original German familes. 

“Zaunbrecher Family Tree,” 

1979 edition. Contents: 

chart of the five 

generations, listing over 

1400 descendents. 

Addendum of Zaunbrecher 

cousins in Germany. 9 pp. 

1 item 

“Hensgens, Zaunbrecher, 

and Heinen Families,” 1971 

edition. Pamphlet compiled 

by Rev. Charles J. 

Zaunbrecher. Contents: 

history of the German roots 

of each family and chart of 

five generations, with an 

appendix of fifth generation 

descendents. 17pp. 1 item 

“German Colonists of 

Robert’s Cove, Louisiana. 

Their Ancestors, Children 

and Grandchildren” (A 

project of the German 

Centennial of Robert’s 

Cove, 1880-1980). 

Compiled by Reverend 

Charles J. Zaunbrecher. 

Pamphlet. Contents: 48 

family trees of original 

settlers of Robert’s Cove. 

22 pp. 1 item.


Centennial 


Centennial 

“German Centennial, 1880- 

1980.” Program for High 

Mass held October 5, 1980 

at St. Leo’s Church, 

Robert’s Cove, to celebrate 

the 11 th anniversary of the 

arrival of the original 

German settlers. 5 pp. 1 

item. 

Robert’s Cove German 

Centennial Scrapbook, 

1880-1980. Compiled by 

Mrs. Dolores Zaunbrecher 

Habetz. Contents: 

Newspaper articles about 

centennial celebration and 

photos of those attending. 

73 pp. 1 item.


Centennial 

German Centennial 

newsletters: 

1. Newsletter sent to c. 


descendents of 

original colonists. 

Contents: 

information on dates 

of arrival of 

different families; 

request for 

information on some 

descendents; brief 


establishment of 

Robert’s Cove; 

invitation to 

Reunion Day, 

October 5, 1980. 

(4pp.) 

2. Content: List of 23 

original German 

families in Robert’s 

Cove, and 

intermarriages; 

donations to 

centennial fund; list 

of chairpersons, 

volunteers, guests, 

minutes of general 

meeting giving 

details of 

arrangements for 

Reunion Day (6 pp) 

3. Content: newsletter 

accompanying 

distribution of 

pamphlet (folder 11) 

with review of 

Reunion Day and 

plans for 

commemorative 

Mass on St. Leo’s 

Day (2pp). 

12 pp. 3 items.


Centennial 

Letter-invitation to 

commemorative Mass to 

celebrate the arrival of 49 

Germans, Nov. 17, 1881. 

Held Nov. 17, 1981 at St. 

Leo’s Church, Robert’s 

Cove. 1 p. 1 item. 

16 Geilenkirchen Material Geilenkirchen Reunion. 

Newsclippings published in 

Germany. Content: Visit of 

Robert’s Cove German 

residents to original village 

(2 items). Display by local 

bank for the occasion; 

newsclips published in 

English locally – content: 

reunion in Geilenkirchen (3 

items). 11 pp. 6 items. 

17 Geilenkirchen Material Background material on 

German villages where 

Robert’s Cove settlers 

originated: Gangelt (2 

items), Gillrath, Birgden. 

18 History of Robert’s Cove 

and St. Leo’s Parish 



17 pp. 5 items. 

Chronology of events 

leading to the establishment 

of Robert’s Cove, April 27, 

1862 and history of the 

Cove up to November, 

1907, by Reverend Charles 

Zaunbrecher. Also notes on 

the Cove history. 11 pp. 2 

items. 

Benedictine role in 

establishing Robert’s Cove. 

Contents: Pre-foundation 

history, history of St. 

Joseph Priory, parochial and 

missionary activities, St. 

Leo Parish, footnoted. 

Rough draft by Rev. 

Charles Zaunbrecher. 10 

pp. 1 item.











History of St. Leo’s Parish. 

Content: St. Leo’s parish, 

past and present; as a 

territorial not national 

parish (3 pp), history of St. 

Leo’s 1867-1881 (3 pp), 

letters, dated 1907 and 1917 

concerning contributions 

and loyalties to church by 

parishioners (2 items), 

typed private memo dated 

1952 concerning 

compensation between St. 

Leo’s and St. Lawrence 

parishioners for 

contributions and loyalty. 

11 pp. 6 items. 

Miscellaneous notes on 

history of St. Leo’s parish 

from “ Catholic Action,” 

Oct. 21, 1943; 

announcement books, 1885- 

1904; chronology of events, 

from “Catholic Church in 

Louisiana” by Louis 

Baudier, Rayne Tribune, 

March 2, 1929. 5 pp. 4 

items. 

Newsclipping, “Parlez Vous 

Deutsch,” on Robert’s Cove 

German settlement. 

“Rundschau, April, 1974, 

Philadelphia, Pa. 1 p. 1 

item. 

Notes on settlers of 

Robert’s Cove. 2 pp. 2 

items. 

1983 edition, Zaunbrecher 

Family Tree. Compiled by 

Rev. Charles Zaunbrecher


Box 12 

Robert’s (German) Cove Collection 

Private Papers of Rev. Charles Zaunbrecher 

Box II 

FOLDER GROUP DESCRIPTION 

24 St. Leo’s Church Construction of St. Leo’s 

Church. Papers include: 

plan for the land, rectory, 

and church, building 

committee, building 

specifications and contract, 

ground breaking ceremony, 

laying of corner stone, 

blessing and consecration 

ceremonies, St. Leo’s Day 

celebration. 21 pp. 18 

items. 

25 St. Leo’s Church Material on priests who 

served at St. Leo’s Church. 

Contents: chronology; 

information on Fathers 

Besler, Braun, Buschor, 

Habetz, Henneman, Keller, 

Ohlenforst, Reznicek, 

Rumpf, Schwab, Olinger, 

Thevis, Wolbers, 

Zaunbrecher, Ziegenfuss, 

Zorn. 43 pp. 17 items. 

26 St. Leo’s Church Miscellaneous notes on 

priests in St. Leo Parish: 

Covers Zorn, Werner, 

Buschor, Chatard, Schwab, 

Ziegenfuss, Rumpf, Bessler, 

Seichter, Olinger, Maler, 

Mundwiler. 10 pp. 8 items. 

27 St. Leo’s Church Nuns serving at St. Leo’s: 

Vondenstein sisters, Sporl, 

Augustine, Stierheim, Hasp, 

Guilbilate, Ripps, Brunner, 

Crescentia. 6 pp. 6 items. 

28 St. Leo’s Church Records from St. Leo’s 

Church, 1884-1889 

submitted to the Diocese of

Lafayette. 7 pp. 2 items. 

29 St. Leo’s Church Life of St. Leo IV. 1 p. 1 

30 Transfer of Land, Robert’s 

Cove 


Cove 


Cove 

33 Celebrations and festivals, 





Robert’s Cove. 


Robert’s Cove. 

37 Pamphlets partly covering 




item. 

Transfer of land from Fr. 

Thevis, 1899 to Fr. 

Mundweiler, to St. Meinrad 

Abbey. 12 pp. 4 items. 

Transfer of land from St. 

Meinrad Abbey to Heinen 

Brothers, 1907. 8 pp. 5 

items. 

Transfer of land from 

Hensgen Brothers to St. 

Meinrad abbey to Catherine 

Hensgen, 1930. 6 pp. 4 

items. 

St. Leo’s Feast day – 

History and observance of 

newsclips about. 4 pp. 3 

items. 

St. Leo’s Corpus Christi 

Celebration newsclips. 3 

pp. 1 item. 

St. Nicholas Celebration – 

History and observance of, 

newsclips about. 13 pp. 9 

items 

German songs and hymns 

sung for special occasions 

at Robert’s Cove. 5 pp. 1 

item. 

“Mais, jamais de la Vie and 

Folklore Collection, Part II” 

German lore of Robert’s 

Cove: Origin of German 

settlement sin Acadia, 

Crowley Lore, the story 

behind Francis Parkinson 

Keys’ Blue Camellia, crafts 

and skills, interesting 

individuals, recipes. (pp 41- 

62). 10 pp. 1 item. 

“Remembering our 

Louisiana Heritage.” 

Bicentennial Publication, 

1976. History of Cajun


Music, German Heritage, 

[rest of description cut off] 

Lecture delivered before the 


Germanistik Society of 

Chicago, Dec. 16, 1907. 

Fragment, concerning 

Robert’s Cove. 2 pp. 1 

item. 

40 St. Meinrad Abbey St. Meinrad Archabbey 

History, 1854-1954, by 

Albert Kleber. 4 pp. 1 item 

41 St. Meinrad Abbey Correspondence: Fr. 

Koegerl, St. Boniface, N.O. 

to Rev. Abbot at St. 

Meinrad Abbey, excerpts 

dated January, 1890, from 

St. Joseph’s Abbey 

Archive. 1p. 1 item. 

42 St. Meinrad Abbey Correspondence – Fr. Like 

to Abbot Fintan at St. 

Meinrad Abbey, excerpts 

dated Jan, 1890 – Sept. 

1896, from St. Joseph’s 

Abbey Archive. 5 pp. 1 

item. 

43 St. Meinrad Abbey Correspondence – Joseph 

Heinen to Abbot Athanasius 

at St. Meinrad Abbey, 

excerpts dated August 1895 

to May 1908, from St. 

Joseph’s Abbey Archive. 5 

pp. 1 item. 

44 St. Meinrad Abbey Correspondence – Scheubel 

to Abbot Athanasius and 

Abbot Frowin at ST. 

Meinrad Abbey. Excerpts 

dated 1896 and 1907 from 

St. Joseph Abbey Archive. 

1p. 1 item. 

45 St. Joseph Abbey Brief Account of the 

Foundation of the 

Benedictine Community in 

Louisiana and the 

Conflagration which 

destroyed St. Joseph’s 

Abbey and College at

Ramsey, near Covington, 

on the morning of 

November 30, 1907. 2 pp. 

1 item. 

46 St. Joseph Abbey Chronological outline of the 

history of St. Joseph’s 

Seminary, 1884-1958, by 

Rev. Benedict Songy. 3 pp. 

1 item. 

47 St. Joseph Abbey Notes on course catalogues 

of St. Joseph’s Preparatory 

Seminary. 1p. 1 item. 

48 St. Lawrence Church Diamond Jubilee pamphlet, 

“First Catholic Church in 

St. Lawrence Parish, 1905- 

1980 and Fortieth 

Anniversary of the 

Ordination of Father Bede L 

Becnel, Pastor and Vicar, 

1940-1980.” History of the 

parish, church and pastor. 8 

pp. 1 item. 

49 St. Lawrence Church Newsclip. “Interesting 

History of Crowley, 

Contained in the Beaumont 

Enterprise Sketch of its 

Founder, W. W. Duson.” 

Crowley Daily Signal, Feb. 

15, 1926. 3 pp. 1 item. 

50 St. Lawrence Church “Honorable C. C. Duson, 

Opelousas. Biographical 

and Historical Sketch of 

State Senator Duson,” 

edited by William Henry 

Perrin, New Orleans Gulf 

Publishing Co., 1981. 10 

pp. 1 item. 

51 St. Lawrence Church “Deutsche Landwirte von 

Sudwest Louisiana.” By W. 

W. Duson and Brothers, 

Crowley, Louisiana, 

America. Pamphlet in 

German script on the 

economic successes of 

German rice farmers of 

Robert’s Cove and vicinity.

1907. 16 pp. 1 item 

52 Miscellaneous Miscellaneous 

newsclippings: “German 

Settle in La.,” Lake Charles 

American Press, Aug. 26, 

1972; “Die Deutsche 

Gesellschaft,” Crowley 

Signal, Jan. 5, 1910; 

“Carmel, Rock Chapel in 

the Wildwood,” Times 

State, March 11, 1979, 

“Visitor from Germany,” 

1969. 7 pp. 4 items. 

53 Miscellaneous Correspondence, Dr. 

Wolfgang Helbich-Charles 

Zaunbrecher, Sept. 13, 

No number Additions to Robert’s Cove 

collection 


collection 


collection 

1982. 1 pp. 1 item. 

Welcome address to Rev. 

Charles Zaunbrecher and 

Robert’s Cove visitors to 

Selfkant, Germany. June 

27, 1981. 2 pp. 1 item. 

“Robert’s Cove,” by 

William Iglinsky. McNeese 

Review. June, 1955. 7 pp. 1 

item. 

St. Leo’s Day Celebration. 

Robert’s Cove. July 17, 

1983. 2 items.


Box 13 

Books/ Parts of Books 

Box I 

FOLDER AUTHOR TITLE/ SUBJECT PLACE/DATE 

1 Arends, Friedrich “Schilderung des 

Mississippithals.” 

P. 1-8 

Emden, 1838. 

2 Arthur, Stanley Old Families of Claitor’s Publishing 

Clisby 

Louisiana. Division. Baton 

“D’Arensbourg 

Family” 

Rouge. 1971. 

3 Arthur, Stanley Old Families of Claitor’s Publishing 

Clisby 

Louisiana. “Wiltz Division. Baton 

Family.” 

Rouge. 1971. 

4 Baudier, Roger The Catholic 

Church in Louisiana 

New Orleans, 1939. 

5 Belsom, Jack “A Brief History of New Orleans 

St. Henry’s Church” Genesis XII. No. 85. 

p 11-14. 

6 Boecklin, August Wanderleben in den 

Vereinigten Staaten. 

Leipzig, 1902. 

7 Brackenridge, H.M. Views of Louisiana; 

Together with a 

Journal of a Voyage 

up The Missouri 

River, in 1811 

[Schilderungen von 

Louisiana] 

Pittsburgh, 1814. 

8 Bromme, Traugott Hand und 

Braunschweig, 

Reisebuch für 

Auswanderer nach 

den Verienigten 

Staaten von Nord 

Amerika. “Der 

Staat Louisiana.” 

1849. P. 220-25. 

9 Cronau, Rudolf Drei Jahrhunderte Berlin, 1909. P. 

Deutschen Lebens 

in Amerika. Eine 

Geschichte der 

Deutschen in den 

Vereinigten Staaten. 

111-113.

10 Dietrich, Bruno Mitteilungen der 

Geographischen 

Gesellschaft in 

Hamburg. “New 

Orleans und das 

Mississippidelta.” 

11 Du Lac, M. Perrin Travels through The 

Two Louisianas, 

and among The 

Savage Nations of 

The Missouri; Also 

in The United 

States, along The 

Ohio, and The 

Adjacent Provinces, 

in 1801, 1802, & 

1803. 

12 Eichhoff, Anton, ed. In der neuen 

Heimat. 

Geschichtliche 

Mittheilungen über 

die deutschen 

Einwanderen in 

allen Theilen der 

13 Eyraud, Rt. Rev. 

Msgr. Jean M.; 

Millet, Donald J. 

Union. 

A History of St. 

John The Baptist 

Parish with 

Biographical 

Sketches 

14 Faust, Albert The German 

Element in The 

United States. 

15 Forsyth, Hewitt “Research on the 

Germans of New 

Orleans, Louisiana.” 

16 Giorg, Kara Charlotte. Eine 

Episode aus der 

Colonial-Geschichte 

Louisiana’s. 

Vol. XLI. 

Hamburg, 1930. 

London, 1807. 

New York, 1884. 

Marrero, La., 1939. 

Chapters III, XIV. 

The Steuben Society 

of America. New 

York. 1927. 


Genesis XIX. No. 

76. 1980. P. 394- 

401. 

Cincinnati, 1883.

17 Gleditschens, ed. Ausführliche 

historische und 

geographische 

Beschreibung des 

an dem grossen 

Flusse Mississippi 

in Nord-Amerika 

gelegenen 

herrlichen Landes 

Louisiana;… 

18 Hauser, Heinrich Feldwege nach 

19 Von Hesse- 

Wartegg, Ernst 

Chicago 

Mississippi-Fahrten. 

Reisebilder aus dem 

amerikanischen 

Süden (1879-1880). 

20 Hintrager Wie lebt und 

arbeitet man in den 

Vereinigten 

Staaten? 

21 Huebener, Theodore The Germans in 

America 

22 Johann, A.E. Das Land ohne 

Herz. Eine Reise ins 

unbekannte Amerika 

23 Körner, Gustav Das deutsche 

Element in den 

Vereinigten Staaten 

1818-1848. 

24 Kilderlen, Hans F. Fahrt ins neue 

Amerika 

24 [new folder] Kopff, Paul Württembergische 

Neujahrsblätter. 

“Schwaben in 

Amerika seit der 

Entdeckung des 

Weltteils.” 

25 Krieger, B. J. Seventy-Five Years 

of Service 

Lepzig, 1720 

Berlin, 1931. 

Leipzig, 1881. 

Berlin, 1904. 

Chilton, 

Philadelphia. 

Ch. VI, pp. 175-197. 

Deutscher Verlag, 

Berlin. 1942. 

Cincinnati, 1880. 

Hamburg, 1936 

10. Blatt. Stuttgart, 

1893. 

New Orleans, 1923.


Box 14 


Box II 

FOLDER AUTHOR TITLE/SUBJECT PLACE/DATE 

26 Lauer, F. Die Deutschen in 

Amerika. P. 61-67, 

322-25. 

27 Margry, Pierre Memoires et 

Documents… 

“Memoire of 

Duvergier on Swiss or 

German workers to 

clear Biloxi. 1719” 

28 Margry, Pierre Memoires et 

Documents… 

Excerpts from La 

Harpe’s Journal. Re: 

Arkansas Post, Uzutui 

Indians. 

29 Maurin, Michael J. “The Churches of the 

German Coast” 

30 Mereness, Newton 

D. 

Travels in the 

American Colonies. 

“Journal of Diron 

D’Artaguiette” 1722- 

1723. 

31 Meuen, Emil “Dorf und Farm. Das 

Schicksal altweltlicher 

32 Multmann, Günter 

(ed.) 

Dörfer in Amerika.” 

Germans to America. 

300 Years of 

Immigration 1683- 

1983. 

32 Pamphlet: “Hallo 

Friends. Deutsche 

Welle – The Voice of 

Germany” 

32 Pamphlet: “Germans 

to America. 300 

Years of Immigration. 

1683-1983.” 

Tome Cinquieme. 

Paris, 1887. 

Tome Cinquieme. 

Paris, 1887. 


Genesis. Vol XX, 

no. 78. p. 209-13. 

1981. 

pp. 17-92. The 

Macmillan 

Company. New 

York. 1916. 

? 

Stuttgart. 1982. 

Köln. 1/83.

32 Booklet: “300 Years 

of Germans in 

America/300 Jahre 

Deutsche in 

33 Ratterman, 

Heinrich Arnim 

34 Ruetenik, Herman 

J. 

Amerika.” 

“Die Mississippi 

Seifenblase. Ein Blatt 

aus der 

Besiedlungsgeschichte 

des Mississippithals.” 

Berühmte Deutsche 

Vorkämpfer für 

Fortschrit, Freiheit 

und Friede in Nord- 

Amerika. [Vincent 

Nolte, Christian 

Roselius, Karl Aloys 

Lützenburg, Michael 

Hahn] 

35 Salten, Felix Fünf Minuten 

Amerika. “Städte des 

Sudens.” 

36 Schrader, 

The Germans in the 

Friederick Franklin 

37 Smith, T. Lynn; 

Hitt, Homer L. 

Making of America 

The People of 

Louisiana. Chapter 

IV, “Race and 

Nativity.” 

38 Vannson “Law.” [Article about 

John Law. In French 

and English 

39 Voninckel, Renate 

(?) 

translation] 

Ursachen der 

Auswanderung. 

Gezeigt an badischen 

Beispielen aus dem 

18. und 19. 

Jahrhundert. 

Excerpts, Index and 

Bibliography. 

40 Voss, Louis History of the German 



Heinz Moos 

Publishing. 1982. 

Cincinnati, 28. 

April 1880. 

Cleveland, 1889. 

Berlin. 1931. p. 52- 

61. 

Boston, 1924. 

LSU Press. Baton 

Rouge. 1952. pp. 

32-47. 

1847 

Berlin, 1939. 

Senaker Printing. 

New Orleans. 1927. 

[Tulane Louisiana 

Collection. Study 

Copy. Not for 

Reproduction.]

41 Voss, Reverend 

Louis (ed.) 

Presbyterianism in 

New Orleans and 

Adjacent Points. Its 

Semi-Centennial Held 

in 1873. Seventy-Fifth 

Anniversary of the 

Organization of New 

Orleans Presbytery 

1930. Sketches of 

Individual Churches, 

Ministers, and Ruling 

Elders. 

42 Yoes, Hery E. III A History of St. 

Charles Parish to 

1973. 

43 Zimmermann, Karl Onkel Sam. 

Amerikanische Reise- 

und Kulturbilder 

Published by the 

Presbyterian Board 

of Publications of 

the Synod of 

Louisiana. 1931. 

Norco, La. 1973 

Stuttgart. 1904.


Box 15 


Box III 

FOLDER AUTHOR TITLE/SUBJECT PLACE/DATE 

44 Zschokke, Heinrich; The Princess of Leipzig, 1867 

Faber, M.A., trans. Brunswick- 

Wolfenbüttel and 

Other Tales 

45 Zurbuchen, R. Kreuz und Quer 

durch Nordamerika 

in den Jahren 1915- 

1919 

Berlin, 1923. 

46 Deutsch – 

Das Buch der Philadelphia, 1909. 

Amerikanisches deutschen in 

National Bund Amerika [Deiler, p. 

294-6; Hahn p. 602- 

5; German Theatre 

p. 449-50] 

47 Deiler, J. Hanno Zur Geschichte der 

Deutschen 

Kirgengemeinden 

im Staate Louisiana 

[w/ translation: The 


German Church 

Parishes in the State 

of Louisiana] 

New Orleans. 1894.


Box 16 

Translations from the German 

Box I 

AUTHOR TITLE/ SUBJECT SOURCE/OTHER 

“The Battle of New Orleans 

or General Jackson’s 

Victory over the British” 

Victory song/poem 

Baumann, Felix “In Darkest America” Dresden. 1902 

Manuscript concerning Bern Mandatenbuch No. 12, 

recruitment of Swiss for 

Louisiana. 

p. 574. Bern Archive. 

Manuscript concerning Bern Mandatenbuch No. 11. 

recruitment of Swiss for (28.4.1720). p. 585-586. 

Louisiana. 

Bern Archive. 

Manuscript concerning Ratsmanual No. 84 (1720). 


Louisiana. 

P. 94. Bern Archive. 


recruitment of Swiss for P. 379/61/311. Bern 

Louisiana. 

Archive. 



Louisiana. 

P. 378. Bern Archive. 

Manuscript concerning Manual der Recrouten 

recruitment of Swiss for Cammer (1720-24). 

Louisiana. 

Fremder Kriegsdienst, 

Generalia, No. 8, p. 7-8. 

Bern Archive. 

Manuscript concerning Manual der Recrouten 

recruitment of Swiss for Cammer (1720-24). 

Louisiana. 

Fremder Kriegsdienst, 

Generalia, No. 8, p. 25-26. 

Bern Archive. 

Manuscript concerning Amterbuch Erlach C, p. 


Louisiana. 

661. Bern Archive 

Blume, Helmut “The Cultivation of Sugar Geographical Journal of 

Cane on the Lower Munich. No. 5. Michael 

Mississippi (Louisianas Lassleben Press. 

Sugar Bowl).” 

Kallmünz/Regensburg. 

1954.

Blume, Helmut The Development of the 

Cultural Landscape of the 

Mississippi Valley in the 

Colonial Period, with 

Particular Attention to the 

German Settlement. 

Blume, Helmut “German Colonists in the 

Mississippi Delta” 

Blume, Helmut “Landscape and Economy 

in Louisiana under French 

Colonial Government 

Cronau, Rudolf “300 Years of German Life 

in America. A History of 

the Germans in the United 

States.” 

Deiler, J. Hanno “A Forgotten German 

Colony. A Voice in 

Defense of the Count de 

Leon, alias Proli, alias 

Bernhard Müller.” 

Deiler, J. Hanno “History of the New 

Orleans German Press as 

well as other Memorabilia 

of the New Orleans 

Germans.” 

Deiler, J. Hanno “Louisiana, A Home for 

German Settlers.” 

Deiler, J. Hanno “History of the German 

Society of New Orleans, 

with an Introduction: The 

European Immigration to 

the United States from 1820 

to 1896, New Orleans as a 

port of Immigration, and the 

European Immigration 

through New Orleans.” 

Deiler, J. Hanno “History of the Germans on 

the Lower Mississippi. The 

Redemption System in the 

State of Louisiana.” 

Geographical Institute 

Writings. Vol. XVI, book 3. 

Kiel. 1956. 

Jahrbuch der deutschen 

Geschichte für 

Amerikastudien 12. Band I. 

1956. p. 177-183. 

Berlin, 1909. 

A special printing from 

articles in the New Orleans 

German Newspapers from 

November 18, 25, and 

December 2, 1900. 

Reprint from the New 

Orleans German 

Newspaper. 1901. Original 

typescript in THNOC 

Deiler Collection. 

German Society of New 

Orleans, 1895. German 

Newspaper Press. 

Private Publication, New 

Orleans, 1897. 

Second Edition, 1901. 

Original in THNOC 

Library.

Deiler, J. Hanno “History of the Germans on 

the Lower Mississippi. The 

German Immigration to 

New Orleans.” 

1889. Rare Pamphlet in 

THNOC library.


Box 17 

Translations from the German 

Box II 

AUTHOR TITLE/ SUBJECT 

Teutsch family papers. 

Germantown. 

SOURCE/ OTHER 

Duson, W.W.; Duson, C.C. “German Farmers of South 

West Louisiana. Greetings 

from W.W. Duson and Bro. 

Agents for land purchase 

and immigration, Crowley, 

Louisiana, America.” 

Duson, W.W. “Southwest Louisiana Rice 

Industry” 

Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of 

Wurtenberg 

Ducal Decree Stuttgart, May 18, 1720 

Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Ducal Decree Stuttgart, May 18, 1720 

Wurtenberg 

Franz, Alexander “The First Wave of German 

Immigration into the 

Mississippi Valley” 

“The Germans in North 

America” 

Gleditchen, J. Frederich “Description of the 

Beautiful Country of 

Louisiana lying on the 

Great Mississippi Delta.” 

Goentgen Announcement of a 

Periodical with the Title 

‘Zionspousane’ (‘Trumpet 

of Zion’)” 

Goentgen Hebrew Document 


Hahn, Micael Message from the Governor 

of Louisiana 

Heinz, Jacob “Original Palatinate Blood 

in Louisiana” 

Hermann, Fritz “Maximillian Proli, Prophet 

of Offenbach” 

Hintrager, Oscar How One Lives and Works 

in the United States. 

Chapter IV: “New Orleans.” 

Frankfurt, 1912 

University of Kiel, 

unpublished dissertation. 

Author and date unknown. 

Folder Empty 

Pennsylvania, August 9, 

1832 

New Orleans, 1864 

1922 

1871

Lafayette Flag Ceremony 

“Celebration upon the 

Presentation of the German 

Flag in Lafayette. 

Englebert ? Lafayette Flag Ceremony. 

Letter to K. Klug 

concerning ceremony 

Lafayette Flag Ceremony. 

Message of the Bremen 

Senate to the Citizenry 


Decision of the Bremen 

Citizens 


Extract from the 

proceedings of the Senate. 


Extract from the Senate’s 

proceedings 


Extract from the Senate’s 

proceedings 


Message to the Citizens 


Address from Captain 

Beenken. First Version 


Address of Captain 

Beenken 

Oeri, Albert “European Letters on 

America” 

Oppel, Horst “The German Settlement in 

Louisiana Reflected in the 

American Novels of the 

Period of Goethe: Heinrich 

Zschokke’s Princess of 

Wolfenbüttel” 

Ratterman, Heinrich “The Mississippi Bubble – 

A Page from the History of 

the Settlement of the 

Mississippi Valley” 

Deutsche Zeitung. Dec. 19 

1848. Bremen Archive. 

Dec. 1848. Bremen Archive 

Feb 9, 1848. Bremen 

Archive 

Feb. 10, 1848. Bremen 

Archive 


Archive. 


Archive 


Archive 

Feb 19. 1849. Bremen 

Archive 

Bremen Archive 

Bremen Archive 

Buchdruckerei zum Baseler 

Berichthaus (Microcard). 

Basel. 1930. p. 20-22. 

Lecture delivered April 28, 

1880 in the German 

Literary Club of Cincinnati.

Voss, Louis “Louisiana’s Invitation to 

German Farmers and 

Settlers” 

Wegener, G.J. “Short History of the 

Evangelical Lutheran St. 

Paul’s Congregation of 

New Orleans, La.” 

Weigel, Christopher “Geographic Description of 

the Province of Louisiana” 

German Town 

“Articles of Christian Faith 

(Basis of Religious 

Practices in the Colony 

under Proli)” 


“Bozong Document” 

New Orleans: Müller. 1907. 

Published by the 


Immigration Bureau of 

Louisiana 

New Orleans, July, 1890 

1720. [1978.211 a b; 77- 

226-L] 

Cotile P.O. La. Chabona 

December 2, 1855


Box 18 

“First Evangelical” 

3 unlabeled spiral notebooks with handwritten notes on: 

1. Erste Deutsche Protestantische Kirche in New Orleans, Taufen und Trauungen 

1871, u.s.w. (First German Protestant Church of New Orleans, Baptismal and 

Marriage Records 1871, etc.) 

2. “Das Echo,” Protokoll 1845-1869 (?) 

3. Die Deutsche Gesellschaft von New Orleans – Jahresberichte, Protokoll 

Bücher, etc. 

Folder containing information on the German Protestant Orphan Asylum, the Protestant 

Bethany Home, the German Protestant Home for the Aged, and the Ladies Aid Society. 

Incomplete typed copy of the Deutsches Haus table of contents (for complete version see 

“German House Archives”) 

Centennial pamphlet titled “First Evangelical Church, New Orleans, Louisiana. Hitherto 

the Lord Hath Helped Us. 1825-1925”


Box 18 

“First Evangelical” 

3 unlabeled spiral notebooks with handwritten notes on: 

4. Erste Deutsche Protestantische Kirche in New Orleans, Taufen und Trauungen 

1871, u.s.w. (First German Protestant Church of New Orleans, Baptismal and 

Marriage Records 1871, etc.) 

5. “Das Echo,” Protokoll 1845-1869 (?) 

6. Die Deutsche Gesellschaft von New Orleans – Jahresberichte, Protokoll 

Bücher, etc. 

Folder containing information on the German Protestant Orphan Asylum, the Protestant 

Bethany Home, the German Protestant Home for the Aged, and the Ladies Aid Society. 

Incomplete typed copy of the Deutsches Haus table of contents (for complete version see 

“German House Archives”) 

Centennial pamphlet titled “First Evangelical Church, New Orleans, Louisiana. Hitherto 

the Lord Hath Helped Us. 1825-1925”


Box 19 

Photos 

Box contains mounted photo reproductions of various images: 

1. Deutsches Haus Members 

2. Prominent Germans of New Orleans. New Orleans Deutsche Zeitung 

(German Gazette). Aug. 31, 1902 

3. Commemorative issue, 26 th Annual Song Festì¥Á 3 

ð ¿ —

jbjC‡C‡ " !í !í —

4. ÿÿ ÿÿ 

ÿÿ l Ø

5. Ø Ø Ø ì

s. Founded 1854. 

6. St. Mary Assumption Church Alter. Installed 1874. Made in Munich. Church 

build 1858. 2030 Constance. 

7. Annual Report. German Protestant Orphan Asylum. State Street. New 

Orleans, La. Founded 1886. 

8. German Flower Girls 

9. Grave (Mauseleum). St. Roch Cemetery (Schwegmann). 

10. Grave (Mauseleum). St. Joseph Cemetery. C. 1848. (Schmucker) 

11. St. Roch Chapel. 1725 St. Roch Ave. 

12. St. Mary Assumption Church. Built in 1844. Constance St. 

13. First Nursing School graduates. Bethany Home for Aged. C. 1939. 

14. Karl Friedrich D’Arensbourg. “Captain” of the German Coast (50 years), c. 

1720-1770. 

15. German Protestant Bethany Home. N. Claiborne and Allen. Organized 1889.


Box 19 

Miscellaneous (Manuscripts, records, newspaper articles) 

AUTHOR TITLE/ SUBJECT DATE/ PLACE 

Huebling, Max Letters, October 25, 1822 to 

August 18, 1826. Copies of 

letters. 

Weigel, Christoph “Geographische 

Beschreibung der Province 

Louisiana” 

Contra-bog (Seefahrts- und 

Contra-Buch) von Peter 

Heinrich Matthiessen [came 

at 15 (cabin boy), b. 1846] 

Ben Hart Henry 

Matthiessen, b. 1895 

Emma Rosa Mohrfeld, b. 

1859 

Johann Frederic Mohrfeld, 

married 1856 

French Colonial Document 

Marriage Contract, 1767, 

Signed by D’Arensbourg 

Dutch Broadside, c. 1720 

Der Hoch Deutsche 

Americanische Calender auf 

das Jahr 1805 

Census of citizens from 

Chopitoulas to Pointe 

Coupee 

Census of German village, 

1726 (Jan. 1) 

Passengers listed on “La 

Charente” made between 

Jan. 4, 1720 and Jan. 24, 

1721 at Lorient 

Census by Diron of 

Germans, May 13 (?), 1722 

Germans at the Landing, 

Feb. 25, 1721 

Census – German village at 

Ance Aux Outardes (73) 

section Autre Mer G464 

LSU archives – Special 

Collections. Not for 

reproduction 

Loyola University Special 

Collections 

Tulane La. Collection 

National Archives, Paris 





National Archives, Paris

Rowland, Dunbar; Sanders, 

Albert Godfrey (eds, trans.) 

Gianelloni, Elizabeth 

Becker (compiled by) 

“French Superior Council 

Minutes” (Excerpt on New 

Orleans as new capitol of 

La. 

“The D’Arensbourg 

Records, 1734-1769” 

Anti foreign immigration 

material, 1839, 1840, and 

arrivals 1845. 

Misc. material on German 

immigration to New 


“De Bow’s Review” – 

Excerpts. 

Immigration Statistics 

Press of Mississippi, Dept. 

of Archives and History. 

Jackson, Mississippi. 1932. 

Calender of Louisiana 

Colonial Documents. Vol. 

III. St. Charles Parish. Part 

1. La. State Archives and 

Record Comission. 1965. 

Sent by Frau Dr. Schenk 

1859, 60 

German lexicon entries on 

Louisiana and New Orleans 

La. Legislature laws against 1918 

Germans 

Deutsches Haus Oktoberfest Times-Picayune Friday, 

“Wie unsere Landsleute 

Heute drüben leben” [“How 

Our Fellow Countrymen 

Live Over There (USA) 

Today”] 

October 23, 1981 

Ostpreussenblatt 

(Newspaper Article) Oct. 

26, 1974 

Second German Coast Times-Picayune Aug. 22, 

1974 

Little Red Church fire Morning Star 

“On Old Red Church” St. Charles Herald Jan. 12, 

1978. p. 1, 2. 

“’Village des Allemads’ Times-Picayune March 18, 

Exact Location Wanted” 1975. Sect. 2 p. 7 

“Germany Shares Top of Times-Picayune June 1, 

America’s Family Tree” 

Crossette, Barbara “Celebrating 

Pennsylvania’s German 

Roots” 

1983 

New York Times June 26, 

1983 

Green, Roger Turner Hall Times-Picayune Feb. 26, 

1983 

German Seaman’s Mission, 

Mayfest program. 

May 6, 1983

Four Season’s Menu. 

German owned business 

1982 

Willi Koln’s Menu. German 

owned business 

Gretna, La. 

Amos E. Simpson “The Germans in 

Louisiana Tapestry: The 

Louisiana” 

Ethnic Weave of St. Landry 

Parish. Vaughn B. Baker 

and Jean T. Kreamer, eds. 

“Covenant Home Tidbits” February, 1984 

German Protestant Orphan 476 Metairie Road, 

Asylum annual report, 1983 Metairie, La., 70005 

“Commanders Notes” – Command Information 

concerning the tricentennial Division Office, Chief of 

year of German settlement Public Affairs, DA. July, 

in America 

1983 

Ephemera from 

October 7-9, 1983. 

“Oktoberfest” in Lafreniere 

Park, Metairie, La. 

Produced by Weltfest 

John H. Baron “Frederick Emil Kitziger of Musica Judaica, Journal of 

New Orleans: A 

the American Society for 

Nineteenth-Century Jewish Music. Vol. V, no. 1. 

Composer of Synagogue 

Music” 

1982-3.


Box21 

Dr. Ellen Merrill’s Research correspondence 

1. Germantown/ Teutsch Book (to translate)/ Transcriptions Finished 

Includes copies of originals (handwritten German script), transcriptions, and 

correspondence with transcriber (Charlotte). 

2. Arndt, Friedrich. “Schilderung des Mississippithals. Xerox copy from Tulane. 

3. German-American Calendar from 1805. Xerox copy from Tulane. 

4. von Hesse Wartegg, Ernst. Mississippi Fahrten. Xerox copy from LSU. 

5. Papers Concerning Flag Presentation by City of Lafayette Germans. Bremen 

Hauptstaatsarchiv. Xerox copies. 

6. Berlin Archiv Correspondence. 

7. Bremen Archive Correspondence. 

8. Hessisches Staatsarchive – Darmstadt Correspondence. 

9. Dusseldorf – Heine Institut Correspondence. 

10. Frankfurt Archiv Correspondence 

11. Hamburg Archiv Correspondence 

12. Hesse Archiv Correspondence. 

13. Israel, B.M. Antiquariaat (Amsterdam) Correspondence. 

14. Koblenz Archiv Correspondence 

15. Marburg Schillergesellschaft Correspondence. 

16. Merseburg (DDR) Archiv Correspondence 

17. Niedersächsisches Archiv Correspondence 

18. Offenbach Amtsgericht Correspondence 

19. St. Antonien (Schweiz) Zivilstandsamt Correspondence 

20. Schalve/Halverde (Westphalen) Archiv Correspondence 

21. Stuttgart – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen Correspondence 

22. Stuttgart Archiv Correspondence 

23. Westphalia Archiv Correspondence 

24. New York Public Library Correspondence 

25. Newberry Library Correspondence (Law Concession) 

26. Times Picayune Artlicle, 3/18/1975, “Village des Allemandes Exact Location 

Wanted.” 

27. “Nach America”. Auswanderung in die Vereinigten Staaten. Hamburg. Xerox Copy 

28. Library of Congress material and material from Frankfurt Archive. 

29. International Council of Museums correspondence 

30. German Acadian Coast Historical and Gen. Soc. Correspondence. 

31. National Archives Correspondence 

32. Newberry Library correspondence 

33. Ohio University Press correspondence 

34. St. Tammany Historical Society correspondence 

35. New York State Library correspondence 

36. Babendererde Antiquariat correspondence 

37. Antiquariat Branners Bibliophile correspondence

38. Galerie Brumme 

39. Dörling Antiquariat 

40. Antiquariat Emmerling correspondence 

41. Exlibris – Paris correspondence 

42. Libri di Ieri correspondence 

43. Antiquariat Kistner correspondence 

44. Antiquariat Kraus correspondence 

45. Kuttner Antiquariat correspondence 

46. Antiquariat Levin correspondence 

47. Antiquariat Makrocki correspondence 

48. Marzoli, Carla C., Libri Antichi correspondence 

49. Peter Matern correspondence 

50. Nierynck Antiquariat – Netherlands - correspondence 

51. Antiquariat Konrad Meuschel – Lobstein Document – correspondence 

52. Leo S. Olschki – Italy – Bibliographico correspondence 

53. Antiquariat Librairie les Pas Perdu correspondence 

54. Klaus Renner correspondence 

55. Antiquariat Thomas Scheler correspondence 

56. Gerhard Scheppler Antiquariat correspondence 

57. Fl. Tulkens antiquariat correspondence 

58. Hintze, Dr. James, correspondence 

59. Inglinski, William correspondence 

60. Jarrell, Roseann correspondence 

61. Jockell request 

62. Krouse, Florence correspondence 

63. Keller request – Schexnaidre 

64. Kissgen, Louis correspondence 

65. Labiche, Marcus C. correspondence 

66. Laiche request 

67. Landry request for Louque 

68. Large, August J. correspondence 

69. Larson, Harriet correspondence 

70. Layborne, Norman correspondence 

71. Leblanc, Raymond correspondence 

72. Losada, Gisele correspondence 

73. Lougue, Fay correspondence 

74. Loyola index and inventory for Deiler 

75. Laplace request 

76. Mary Condon correspondence 

77. Matthiesen Collection 

78. Meador, Pat 

79. Melhern request 

80. Meyer, Cheryl correspondence 

81. Miester, H correspondence 

82. Moseley, Mayo correspondence 

83. Muller request

84. Nau, Dr. John F. 

85. Newton, Barbara Stone correspondence 

86. Nordman, Ortell correspondence 

87. Novonty, Monica correspondence 

88. Ory request 

89. Reagan, Patrick (Abbot) correspondence 

90. Percle request 

91. Richards, Dr. Sherman L. correspondence 

92. Richardson, Mrs. Charles correspondence 

93. Rhodes request 

94. Robert’s Cove file 

95. Solaren, Zuma correspondence 

96. St. Joseph’s Abbey 

97. Sheehan, Annalies correspondence 

98. Schleh, Ingrid correspondence 

99. Schneider, Frank correspondence 

100. Sellers, Adele Mary 

101. Sheehan, Annalies (Jahnke) correspondence 

102. Shirley (re Germantown) correspondence 

103. Sister de Lima correspondence 

104. Spahn, Betty correspondence 

105. Spangenberg request 

106. Spilman, Joseph R. correspondence 

107. Spring Fiesta correspondence 

108. Steg, Adam correspondence 

109. Steadman, R.G (friend of Nau’s) correspondence 

110. Stuart, T. Casey correspondence 

111. Tate, Father Jules correspondence 

112. Taylor, Mildred correspondence 

113. Thibodeaux request (Hymel) 

114. Thiel, Rev. Spencer correspondence 

115. Thimmerman correspondence 

116. Veach, Damon correspondence 

117. Vidrine, Jackie correspondence 

118. Von Schwedtner correspondence 

119. Weber, Gero correspondence 

120. Webster Parish Police Jury correspondence 

121. Weinfurther Family correspondence 

122. Welcher, Roland correspondence 

123. Wirth permission 

124. Wingfield correspondence 

125. Wohlgemuth, Wilma research request 

126. Yancey, Bejamin W correspondence 

127. Zahn, Benny J. correspondence 

128. Zaunbrecher, Charles correspondence 

129. U. of Illinois library correspondence

130. Albany Public Library correspondence 

131. Biblioteque Nationale correspondence 

132. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press correspondence 

133. La. State Archives and Records correspondence 

134. re: Augustin letters 

135. Sam Allen 

136. Audubon Zoo 

137. Baines Permission (Bethaney Home) 

138. Banks, Otto (Deutsches Haus) 

139. Linda Behrenz, German Gazette 

140. Blume, Helmut correspondence 

141. Berry, Mrs. Fred correspondence 

142. Bickelmann, Hartmut correspondence 

143. Bosche, Alvin correspondence 

144. Boagne, Mrs. Ethel Haas correspondence 

145. Boutte, C.P. correspondence 

146. Bradburn request 

147. Briede, Albert correspondence 

148. Brink, Bernard correspondence 

149. Bull, Cathy correspondence 

150. Christovich, Mary Lou correspondence 

151. Clement request 

152. Coco request 

153. Colvin, Mrs. S.H. correspondence 

154. Dastugue, Paul correspondence 

155. Covenant Home and Bethany Home correspondence 

156. Deiler, Fred correspondence 

157. Delbert, Gene correspondence 

158. Deutsches Haus correspondence 

159. Del Bondio correspondence 

160. DiLamas, Sister correspondence 

161. Eddington correspondence 

162. Elmwood, Augusta correspondence 

163. Eskew, Margaret correspondence 

164. First Evangelical Church correspondence 

165. Funke, Peter correspondence 

166. Garrity, Dr. Ray correspondence 

167. Flynn, Mark correspondence 

168. Gebhardt, E.H. correspondence 

169. Germantown material microfilm permission 

170. Gieseker, Mrs. H correspondence 

171. Grangell, Father (St. Mary’s) 

172. Grayson Letter (German Protestant Orphan Society) 

173. Gremeillion request 

174. Grey, John correspondence 

175. Guidry request

176. Humphreys, Hubert (LSU Shreveport) correspondence 

177. Agry Hauptstadtarchiv correspondence 

178. Bern Archiv correspondence 

179. Bavarian Archive correspondence 

180. Archivo General de Indies correspondence

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