[Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1892]
Physical Details
106 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimile ; 24 cm
OCLC
on1048953813
Cover title.
In German and English.
"This memorial volume is published to celebrate the 209th anniversary of the landing of the first German settlers in America. Thursday, October 6, 1892"--Page [1].
Edited by Oswald Seidensticker.
At head of programs on p. 4 and 5: German Day celebration. Deutscher Tag.
"Officers of the German Society, 1892"--Page 2.
Philadelphia trade advertisements: bookbinder's slip tipped in on p. [72], 73-106, p. [2] and [3] of cover.
Issued in brown cloth; silver lettering on front cover.
Introductory remarks / [O.S.] -- German-American events, principally of Pennsylvania, up to 1870 ... / by Oswald Seidensticker -- Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker, LL. D. -- Deutsche Institute in Philadelphia -- John D. Lankenau -- Columbia und Germania, Festspiel von H.H. Fick -- Wie ist Amerika zu seinem Namen gekommen? / [O.S.] -- Francis Daniel Pastorius. Pennsylvania's first poet / O. Seidensticker -- The first German in America / C.T. Eben -- The first history of the Norse discovery of America by / C.T. Eben -- Official list of arrivals of German, Austrian and Swiss immigrants in the United States. 1820-1843