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Max Kade Institute Collection

The Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies is an interdisciplinary unit dedicated to preserving American print culture and personal documents in the German language and making them part of America's story and historiography. Two distinct collections are included here:

The German American Correspondence Collection features letters and related documents written in Kurrent, the old German script, with transcriptions in modern German print.

The MKI Monograph Series, features original scholarship in the field of German American Studies as well as republications of historic editions and translations from the German, all published by the Max Kade Institute. Print copies are distributed by the University of Wisconsin Press and can be purchased in any bookstore. Books that are only available in digital format can be read here.

Max Kade Institute Collection

The Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies is an interdisciplinary unit dedicated to preserving American print culture and personal documents in the German language and making them part of America's story and historiography. Two distinct collections are included here: The German American Correspondence Collection features…
Image Source: Van Steenwijk's advertisement in Der deutsche Auswanderer. (Archiv der Handelskammer Hamburg) from The Wisconsin Office of Emigration 1852-1855 and its impact on German immigration to the state by Johannes Strohschänk and William G Thiel.

Max Kade Institute Collection Sample items in the collection

  • Pickled herring and pumpkin pie  : a nineteenth-century cookbook for German immigrants to America
  • Anna Seifert Correspondence Collection
  • German-American immigration and ethnicity in comparative perspective
  • German-American artists in early Milwaukee  : a biographical dictionary
  • The German-American press
  • The German language in America, 1683-1991
  • The Wisconsin Office of Emigration, 1852-1855, and its impact on German immigration to the state
  • DocumentsJakob and Franziska Sternberg…
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