The
The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and
Printed Ephemera
Henry Francis du Pont
5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur,
Delaware 19735
Telephone: 302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883
OVERVIEW OF
THE COLLECTION
Creator: Gilgenast, Trudy.
Title: Pennsylvania German broadsides [photocopies]
Dates: circa 1741-circa 1890 [dates
of originals]
Call No.: Col. 912
Acc. No.: 13x5
Quantity: 4 boxes
Location: 11 D 3
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENT
Trudy E. Gilgenast, a native of Delaware, was a
professor of German and director of the German language student study abroad
programs at the University of Delaware.
She received her undergraduate degree from UD, and a master’s in German
from Middlebury College. She studied and
taught in Germany as well as Delaware.
She received a Certificate of Merit from the Goethe Institute in 1984
and a Federal Republic of Germany Friendship Award in 1987. Ms. Gilgenast lectured on German culture in
Delaware schools.
Ms. Gilgenast has authored or co-authored three
books: Das Mehl ist Anders = The Flour is
Different: German Heritage Recipes and Traditions, The Saengerbund: A 150 Year History of the German Club in Delaware (with
Hilde Cox), and Pennsylvania German
Broadsides: A Reflection of Daily Life, 1741-1890. Trudy Gilgenast is a member of the Delaware
Saengerbund.
SCOPE AND
CONTENT
Photocopies and photographs of printed Pennsylvania
German broadsides, a number of which were translated by Trudy Gilgenast and
published in her book Pennsylvania German
Broadsides. The collection only
contains copies of the originals, no translations and no original
broadsides. Most of the copies are
marked with the location of the original, as Ms. Gilgenast scoured Pennsylvania
libraries to find these examples.
ORGANIZATION
Arranged by topic by Ms. Gilgenast.
LANGUAGE OF
MATERIALS
The materials are in mostly in German.
RESTRICTIONS
ON ACCESS
Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.
PROVENANCE
Gift of Trudy E. Gilgenast.
RELATED
MATERIALS
The Downs Collection includes several collections
about Pennsylvania fraktur, and some of these include information on broadsides
as well. See Col. 876, papers of
Frederick S. Weiser; Col 818, papers of Donald A. Shelley; and Col. 853, Don
Yoder’s Roughwood collection of European fraktur.
ACCESS POINTS
Topics:
German Americans -
Pennsylvania - Social life and customs - 18th century - Sources.
German Americans - Pennsylvania -
Social life and customs - 19th century - Sources.
German Americans
- Pennsylvania - Intellectual life - 18th century - Sources.
German
Americans - Pennsylvania - Intellectual life - 19th century - Sources.
Immigrants
- Pennsylvania - Social life and customs - Sources.
Pennsylvania
- Social life and customs - 18th century - Sources.
Pennsylvania
- Social life and customs – 19th century - Sources.
DETAILED
DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
Location: 11 D 3
Box 1:
Folder 1: Adam and Eve
Folder 2: Advertisements
Folder 3: Auctions
and vendues
Folder 4: Bauernstand
[broadsides about farmers]
Folder 5: Bömisch
Bauer/ Kinder im Wald
Folder 6: Christmas
and New Year’s greetings
Folder 7: Christus
Folder 8: Comets
Folder 9: Concordia/Eleonora
Folder 10: Confirmations
Lied
Folder 11: Crucifixion/Einzog
in Jerusalem
Box 2:
Folder 1: Cures
and patent medicines
Folder 2: Current
events: death announcements
Folder 3: Current
events: murders, Trauerlied
Folder 4: Doctor
stories
Folder 5: Drunkenness/Warnung
Folder 6: Einweihung
Folder 7: Ephrata
broadsides
Folder 8: Feuersbrunst/Himmel-lied
Folder 9: Geburt
und Tauf-schein/Heirat/death/genealogy
Folder 10: Geistlicher
Irrgarten [labyrinth]
Folder 11: Glückselige
Kind
Folder 12: Gott/Räbel
Stücklein
Folder 13: Guldene
ABC
Folder 14: Handwerker
= Handworkers
Box 3:
Folder 1: House
blessing s [Haus Segen]
Folder 2: Haus
Segen/12 Stunden Gedächtnis
Folder 3: Heaven
and Hell, New Jerusalem
Folder 4: Himmelsbrief
Folder 5: Joseph
and his brothers, history of
Folder 6: Last
Judgment and Unjust Judgment
Folder 7: Life
and Age of Man, creation, salvation
Folders 8-9: Miscellaneous
Folder 10: Miscellaneous
songs: Noah, Pentecost, etc.
Folder 11: Mennonite
issues (reform, etc.)
Box 4:
Folder 1: Organ
and church dedication/ordination
Folders 2-3: Political
broadsides
Folder 4: Religious
(miscellaneous)
Folder 5: Religious
songs (miscellaneous)
Folder 6: Regeln/rules
(church)
Folder 7: Songs
Folder 8: Songs:
secular and love
Folder 9: Songs:
Jesu mein Verlangen, Geistlich Lied, vanity/Nichtigkeit
Folder 10: Sunday
school/Kinder