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St. Antonius Kirche, Schoenchen, Ellis County, KS

St. Antonius Kirche, Schoenchen, Ellis County, KS

Significance: The Gothic style church was attended by the Roman Catholics of German-Russian descent. Survey number: HABS KS-40 Building/structure dates: 1900-1911 Initial Construction

Annual Midwest Fleadh Cheoil at Bogen High School, Chicago, Illinois; Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois

Annual Midwest Fleadh Cheoil at Bogen High School, Chicago, Illinois; ...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-11, Irish music competion at Bogan high school; 11a-31, Siegfried S... More

Costume dolls of Irma Sieb, Chicago, Illinois

Costume dolls of Irma Sieb, Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-20, photos of dolls made by Irma Sieb (3816 N. Hermitage, Chicago), secretary of the Donauschwaben Club of Chicago. These dolls show some of the traditional women's costumes of Da... More

Schmitts Metzgerei, Chicago, Illinois; Second American Indian Fine Arts, Crafts and Trade Show, Lincoln Park Center, 2520 N. Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois

Schmitts Metzgerei, Chicago, Illinois; Second American Indian Fine Art...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-14, interior of Schmitts Metzgerei; 15-17, unidentified building; 1... More

Transylvanian Saxon costume shown by Martin Schwarz and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Transylvanian Saxon costume shown by Martin Schwarz and Sara Schwarz, ...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-37, series of photos (begun on film roll at call number AFC 1981/00... More

A) Mrs. Esther Schmall's quilts-Laurel, Montana; Deutsche Festspielers; B) Butte Cemetery-Old Montana St. Cemetery; C) Father Sarsfield O'Sullivan, priest of St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Butte-Irish community

A) Mrs. Esther Schmall's quilts-Laurel, Montana; Deutsche Festspielers...

Public domain photograph of quilt, needlework, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Martin and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Martin and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: -5a, Heidi Siewert modeling embroidered Austrian costume; 6-15a, Sara... More

Martin Schwarz and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Martin Schwarz and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 2, copy of photo taken of costume festival in Austria; 3, Copy of pho... More

German American event at D.A.N.K. House, Chicago, Illinois

German American event at D.A.N.K. House, Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-3, exterior of D.A.N.K. House (German American National Congress) building; 4-6, close-up of D.A.N.K. House sign; 7-20, at a German American event at D.A.N.K. House, first dance g... More

Laschet Inn (German American bar), 2119 West Irving Park Rd., Chicago, Illinois; Appalachian mural, Racine and Magnolia

Laschet Inn (German American bar), 2119 West Irving Park Rd., Chicago,...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-3a, mural at Racine and Magnolia depicting southern migration to no... More

German American event at D.A.N.K. House, Chicago, Illinois

German American event at D.A.N.K. House, Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-3, exterior of D.A.N.K. House (German American National Congress) building; 4-6, close-up of D.A.N.K. House sign; 7-20, at a German American event at D.A.N.K. House, first dance g... More

Chicago Zither Club concert, Golden Tiara Hall, 3213 N. Cicero, Chicago, Illinois

Chicago Zither Club concert, Golden Tiara Hall, 3213 N. Cicero, Chicag...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 2-5, 10, 19-20a, scenes after the concert taken during dinner and dan... More

Home of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Home of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-2, exterior of apartment building at 1638 W. Berwyn, Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Schwarz live upstairs; 3-6, Sara Schwarz, Tony Hellenberg, and Martin Schwarz in kitchen; 7-11, d... More

Martin and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Martin and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: -5a, Heidi Siewert modeling embroidered Austrian costume; 6-15a, Sara... More

Chicago Zither Club concert, Golden Tiara Hall, 3213 N. Cicero, Chicago, Illinois

Chicago Zither Club concert, Golden Tiara Hall, 3213 N. Cicero, Chicag...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 2-5, 10, 19-20a, scenes after the concert taken during dinner and dan... More

Martin and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Martin and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: -5a, Heidi Siewert modeling embroidered Austrian costume; 6-15a, Sara... More

Bachman House, Lonesome Hollow, Madison, Jefferson County, IN

Bachman House, Lonesome Hollow, Madison, Jefferson County, IN

Significance: The Bachman House is believed to have been built ca. 1825 for Alois Bachman, a German immigrant and tavern keeper. The house is built into an embankment, similar to many early Pennsylvania stone ... More

Bachman House, Lonesome Hollow, Madison, Jefferson County, IN

Bachman House, Lonesome Hollow, Madison, Jefferson County, IN

Significance: The Bachman House is believed to have been built ca. 1825 for Alois Bachman, a German immigrant and tavern keeper. The house is built into an embankment, similar to many early Pennsylvania stone ... More

Popp-Fries House, 705 South First Street, Lincoln, Lancaster County, NE

Popp-Fries House, 705 South First Street, Lincoln, Lancaster County, N...

Significance: The Popp-Fries house is closely associated with the predominant Volga-German settlement of the South Bottoms Historic District. It is an example of one of the most popular German-Russian house se... More

Tacony, St. Vincent's Catholic School, Bounded by Princeton, Delaware, & Cottman Avenues & Milnor Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Tacony, St. Vincent's Catholic School, Bounded by Princeton, Delaware,...

Significance: St. Vincent's Catholic School is the physical and institutional remnant of an important part of Tacony's pre-industrial history. St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum was founded in Tacony in 1855 and the ... More

Tacony, St. Vincent's Catholic School, Bounded by Princeton, Delaware, & Cottman Avenues & Milnor Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Tacony, St. Vincent's Catholic School, Bounded by Princeton, Delaware,...

Significance: St. Vincent's Catholic School is the physical and institutional remnant of an important part of Tacony's pre-industrial history. St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum was founded in Tacony in 1855 and the ... More

Christian Scheid House, Beulah, Mercer County, ND

Christian Scheid House, Beulah, Mercer County, ND

Significance: The Christian Scheid house is significant for its association with the German-Russian settlement in Mercer County and North Dakota. The house embodies the characteristics of German-Russian ethnic... More

Ralph Richterkessing Farm, Residence, 4600 I-70 North Service Road, Saint Peters, St. Charles County, MO

Ralph Richterkessing Farm, Residence, 4600 I-70 North Service Road, Sa...

Significance: The Ralph Richterkessing house is the principal building on a farm complex that is representative of German agrarian culture in Missouri. The brick house is an example of Missouri-German vernacul... More

Hans Ehlers Farm, F Street, Papillon 18 Damsite, Millard, Douglas County, NE

Hans Ehlers Farm, F Street, Papillon 18 Damsite, Millard, Douglas Coun...

Significance: A distinctive product of German-American culture and an example of a 19th century agricultural settlement, the farm shares a number of features with other German-American farms in Nebraska. German... More

Emperger Grocer, 532 Channing Avenue, Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, CA

Emperger Grocer, 532 Channing Avenue, Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, C...

Significance: This modest structure is a rare surviving example of the typical late 19th century false front wooden store buildings that were once common in Palo Alto and throughout Santa Clara valley. It poss... More

Lady Adams Building, 113-115 K Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Lady Adams Building, 113-115 K Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, ...

Significance: Built as wholesale and import house for four German immigrants who arrived on the brigantine "Lady Adams." Ballast brick said to have been used in structure. Only building to survive fire of 185... More

German-American Bank, 624 Felix Street, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

German-American Bank, 624 Felix Street, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County,...

Significance: Building symbolizes economic importance of German immigrants in the midwest during the late 19th century. It also is an important local example of Romanesque Revival architecture applied to an ear... More

Eaton-Worster House, 715 South First Street, Lincoln, Lancaster County, NE

Eaton-Worster House, 715 South First Street, Lincoln, Lancaster County...

Significance: The Eaton-Worster house is historically associated with the predominant Volga-German culture of the South Bottoms Historic District, and contributes architecturally to the district in its massing ... More

Rothschild House, 836 Jefferson Street, Port Townsend, Jefferson County, WA

Rothschild House, 836 Jefferson Street, Port Townsend, Jefferson Count...

Significance: D.C.H. (Henry) Rothschild (1824-86) was a German immigrant by way of Kentucky and California. He settled in Port Townsend in 1858, establishing the Kentucky Store on the town's waterfront. One o... More

John Conrad House, Sheidy Road (Penn Township), Mount Pleasant, Berks County, PA

John Conrad House, Sheidy Road (Penn Township), Mount Pleasant, Berks ...

Written documentation includes outbuildings. Significance: This is an excellent example of a typical Pennsylvania German family farm that has developed continuously since the middle of the eighteenth century, T... More

Alfred Uihlein House, 1639 North Fifth Street, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI

Alfred Uihlein House, 1639 North Fifth Street, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co...

Significance: This excellent, late nineteenth-century mansion was built for an executive of the nearby Schlitz Brewing Co. and was at the time it was recorded one of the last surviving homes in the once affluen... More

Alfred Uihlein House, 1639 North Fifth Street, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI

Alfred Uihlein House, 1639 North Fifth Street, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co...

Significance: This excellent, late nineteenth-century mansion was built for an executive of the nearby Schlitz Brewing Co. and was at the time it was recorded one of the last surviving homes in the once affluen... More

Palatine Church, State Route 5, Nelliston, Montgomery County, NY

Palatine Church, State Route 5, Nelliston, Montgomery County, NY

Significance: Built in 1770, this is one of the churches built by the Germans from the Rhine Valley who settled this area, and is maintained as a shrine to them by the owners. Unprocessed Field note material ... More

Palatine Church, State Route 5, Nelliston, Montgomery County, NY

Palatine Church, State Route 5, Nelliston, Montgomery County, NY

Significance: Built in 1770, this is one of the churches built by the Germans from the Rhine Valley who settled this area, and is maintained as a shrine to them by the owners. Unprocessed Field note material ... More

Tacony, Tacony Evangelical Lutheran Church, West side of 6800 block of Jackson Street between Knorr Street & Longshore Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Tacony, Tacony Evangelical Lutheran Church, West side of 6800 block of...

Significance: St. Petri Evangelical Lutheran Church remains as one of the surviving nineteenth-century religious congregations in Tacony. Like a number of its counterparts, the church was founded after an infl... More

Santa Clara Verein, 1082 Alviso Street, Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, CA

Santa Clara Verein, 1082 Alviso Street, Santa Clara, Santa Clara Count...

Significance: German immigrants were among the early settlers in the Santa Clara Valley. Bringing their traditional social customs to the Valley, the Germans soon began to form a number of organizations includ... More

Acts of the Apostles Church in Jesus Christ, 1400-28 North Twenty-eighth Street, northwest corner of North Twenty-eighth & Master Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Acts of the Apostles Church in Jesus Christ, 1400-28 North Twenty-eigh...

Significance: The parish buildings of St. Ludwig's Roman Catholic Church are important landmarks to both a disappeared urban community and another that endures. The structures are located in an area of Philade... More

Acts of the Apostles Church in Jesus Christ, 1400-28 North Twenty-eighth Street, northwest corner of North Twenty-eighth & Master Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Acts of the Apostles Church in Jesus Christ, 1400-28 North Twenty-eigh...

Significance: The parish buildings of St. Ludwig's Roman Catholic Church are important landmarks to both a disappeared urban community and another that endures. The structures are located in an area of Philade... More

Acts of the Apostles Church in Jesus Christ, 1400-28 North Twenty-eighth Street, northwest corner of North Twenty-eighth & Master Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Acts of the Apostles Church in Jesus Christ, 1400-28 North Twenty-eigh...

Significance: The parish buildings of St. Ludwig's Roman Catholic Church are important landmarks to both a disappeared urban community and another that endures. The structures are located in an area of Philade... More

Gus Worke, a farmer who came from Germany 40 years ago, Southington, Conn.

Gus Worke, a farmer who came from Germany 40 years ago, Southington, C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Home of Rudy Wacek, zither player, Chicago, Illinois

Home of Rudy Wacek, zither player, Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-7, Various instruments built by Rudy Wacek, 3133 N. Nottingham, Chicago; 8-20; All instruments were designed and constructed with electronic amplification

Laschet Inn (German American bar), 2119 West Irving Park Rd., Chicago, Illinois

Laschet Inn (German American bar), 2119 West Irving Park Rd., Chicago,...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0a-2, wall mural at Inn; located over the traditional Stammtisch, the... More

Costume dolls of Irma Sieb, Chicago, Illinois

Costume dolls of Irma Sieb, Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-20, photos of dolls made by Irma Sieb (3816 N. Hermitage, Chicago), secretary of the Donauschwaben Club of Chicago. These dolls show some of the traditional women's costumes of Da... More

Annual Midwest Fleadh Cheoil at Bogen High School, Chicago, Illinois; Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois

Annual Midwest Fleadh Cheoil at Bogen High School, Chicago, Illinois; ...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-11, Irish music competion at Bogan high school; 11a-31, Siegfried S... More

Event at D.A.N.K. (German American National Congress) House, Chicago, Illinois

Event at D.A.N.K. (German American National Congress) House, Chicago, ...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 2-3, the silhouette-cutter, Herr Hans Bittner; event at D.A.N.K. Hous... More

Chicago Zither Club concert, Golden Tiara Hall, 3213 N. Cicero, Chicago, Illinois

Chicago Zither Club concert, Golden Tiara Hall, 3213 N. Cicero, Chicag...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 2-5, 10, 19-20a, scenes after the concert taken during dinner and dan... More

George Kefalopoulos: Karagiopechtis (sihouette puppeteer), Chicago; Chicago Zither Club concert at Golden Tiara Hall, 3213 N. Cicero, Chicago, Illinois

George Kefalopoulos: Karagiopechtis (sihouette puppeteer), Chicago; Ch...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-18, George Kejalopoulos; 19-24, Mr. Kejalopoulos with unidentified ... More

Home of Johann and Irma Sieb, Chicago, Illinois

Home of Johann and Irma Sieb, Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-4, detail from doll made by Irma Sieb, and the home of Mr and Mrs Johann and Irma Sieb, 3816 N. Hermitage, Chicago; Sieb's dolls show some of the traditional women's costumes of D... More

Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois

Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-4, Workshop of Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, 525 W. Belmont, Chicago, showing instruments in progress; 5-19, Siegfried Schuh at work constructing and repairing stringed instrumen... More

Transylvanian Saxon costume shown by Martin and Sara Schwarz; Balys Pakštas, Chicago, Illinois

Transylvanian Saxon costume shown by Martin and Sara Schwarz; Balys Pa...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-17, Martin and Sara Schwarz in traditional adult costumes from Rode... More

Schmitts Metzgerei, Chicago, Illinois; Second American Indian Fine Arts, Crafts and Trade Show, Lincoln Park Center, 2520 N. Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois

Schmitts Metzgerei, Chicago, Illinois; Second American Indian Fine Art...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-14, interior of Schmitts Metzgerei; 15-17, unidentified building; 1... More

Transylvanian Saxon costume shown by Martin and Sara Schwarz; Balys Pakštas, Chicago, Illinois

Transylvanian Saxon costume shown by Martin and Sara Schwarz; Balys Pa...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-17, Martin and Sara Schwarz in traditional adult costumes from Rode... More

Laschet Inn (German American bar), 2119 West Irving Park Rd., Chicago, Illinois

Laschet Inn (German American bar), 2119 West Irving Park Rd., Chicago,...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0a-2, wall mural at Inn; located over the traditional Stammtisch, the... More

Transylvanian Saxon costume shown by Martin and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Transylvanian Saxon costume shown by Martin and Sara Schwarz, Chicago,...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-10a, dummy bride with Stefan Roth as bridegroom shown holding tradi... More

Annual Midwest Fleadh Cheoil at Bogen High School, Chicago, Illinois; Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois

Annual Midwest Fleadh Cheoil at Bogen High School, Chicago, Illinois; ...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-11, Irish music competion at Bogan high school; 11a-31, Siegfried S... More

A) Mrs. Esther Schmall's quilts-Laurel, Montana; Deutsche Festspielers; B) Butte Cemetery-Old Montana St. Cemetery; C) Father Sarsfield O'Sullivan, priest of St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Butte-Irish community

A) Mrs. Esther Schmall's quilts-Laurel, Montana; Deutsche Festspielers...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, coffin, grave, funeral, burial, monument, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Transylvanian Saxon costume shown by Martin and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Transylvanian Saxon costume shown by Martin and Sara Schwarz, Chicago,...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-10a, dummy bride with Stefan Roth as bridegroom shown holding tradi... More

Martin and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Martin and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: -5a, Heidi Siewert modeling embroidered Austrian costume; 6-15a, Sara... More

Bachman House, Lonesome Hollow, Madison, Jefferson County, IN

Bachman House, Lonesome Hollow, Madison, Jefferson County, IN

Significance: The Bachman House is believed to have been built ca. 1825 for Alois Bachman, a German immigrant and tavern keeper. The house is built into an embankment, similar to many early Pennsylvania stone ... More

William Goering House, 701 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV

William Goering House, 701 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV

Significance: This Second Empire Style house was built about 1883. It has a high mansard roof, dormer windows and is asymmetrically massed. It is a gracious house with careful interior detailing. It was buil... More

Das Deutsche Haus, 401 East Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN

Das Deutsche Haus, 401 East Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Marion Coun...

Significance: The building is an example of German cultural and architectural influences in the midwest during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Romanesque architectural forms are used on the exterior... More

Das Deutsche Haus, 401 East Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN

Das Deutsche Haus, 401 East Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Marion Coun...

Significance: The building is an example of German cultural and architectural influences in the midwest during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Romanesque architectural forms are used on the exterior... More

Amana Colonies General Store & Offices, State Route 220, Amana, Iowa County, IA

Amana Colonies General Store & Offices, State Route 220, Amana, Iowa C...

Significance: Located in the center of Amana, this structure was one of the community buildings that served the Community of True Inspiration, a German Pietist group that settled in the area in the 1850s and 18... More

Christian Scheid House, Beulah, Mercer County, ND

Christian Scheid House, Beulah, Mercer County, ND

Significance: The Christian Scheid house is significant for its association with the German-Russian settlement in Mercer County and North Dakota. The house embodies the characteristics of German-Russian ethnic... More

Christian Scheid House, Beulah, Mercer County, ND

Christian Scheid House, Beulah, Mercer County, ND

Significance: The Christian Scheid house is significant for its association with the German-Russian settlement in Mercer County and North Dakota. The house embodies the characteristics of German-Russian ethnic... More

Edward Henkel House, Henkel Square, Live Oak & First Streets, Round Top, Fayette County, TX

Edward Henkel House, Henkel Square, Live Oak & First Streets, Round To...

Significance: Constructed about 1851 the house it one of the earliest of Round Top that was built by German craftsmen. Its form and character reflect the traditions of the homeland of these settlers. Unprocess... More

Daniel Winter House, Goodrich, Sheridan County, ND

Daniel Winter House, Goodrich, Sheridan County, ND

Significance: The Daniel Winter House is an excellent example of North Dakota rural settlement architecture from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It also represents vernacular traditions associated with... More

Ralph Richterkessing Farm, Residence, 4600 I-70 North Service Road, Saint Peters, St. Charles County, MO

Ralph Richterkessing Farm, Residence, 4600 I-70 North Service Road, Sa...

Significance: The Ralph Richterkessing house is the principal building on a farm complex that is representative of German agrarian culture in Missouri. The brick house is an example of Missouri-German vernacul... More

Ralph Richterkessing Farm, Residence, 4600 I-70 North Service Road, Saint Peters, St. Charles County, MO

Ralph Richterkessing Farm, Residence, 4600 I-70 North Service Road, Sa...

Significance: The Ralph Richterkessing house is the principal building on a farm complex that is representative of German agrarian culture in Missouri. The brick house is an example of Missouri-German vernacul... More

Emperger Grocer, 532 Channing Avenue, Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, CA

Emperger Grocer, 532 Channing Avenue, Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, C...

Significance: This modest structure is a rare surviving example of the typical late 19th century false front wooden store buildings that were once common in Palo Alto and throughout Santa Clara valley. It poss... More

Lady Adams Building, 113-115 K Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Lady Adams Building, 113-115 K Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, ...

Significance: Built as wholesale and import house for four German immigrants who arrived on the brigantine "Lady Adams." Ballast brick said to have been used in structure. Only building to survive fire of 185... More

German-American Bank, 624 Felix Street, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

German-American Bank, 624 Felix Street, Saint Joseph, Buchanan County,...

Significance: Building symbolizes economic importance of German immigrants in the midwest during the late 19th century. It also is an important local example of Romanesque Revival architecture applied to an ear... More

Quarters B, Kongensgade 32-33, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, VI

Quarters B, Kongensgade 32-33, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, VI

Significance: Built by Germans for a consulate during Danish occupations of island, later used as residence for government secretary, now municipal office. Neo-classical with (front) facade. Unusual staircase... More

Erwin Richterkessing Farm, Residence, 4540 I-70 North Service Road, Saint Peters, St. Charles County, MO

Erwin Richterkessing Farm, Residence, 4540 I-70 North Service Road, Sa...

Significance: The residence is the principal building at the site that demonstrates characteristics of Missouri-German vernacular architecture and contributes to the agrarian setting and purpose of the Richterk... More

Alfred Uihlein House, 1639 North Fifth Street, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI

Alfred Uihlein House, 1639 North Fifth Street, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co...

Significance: This excellent, late nineteenth-century mansion was built for an executive of the nearby Schlitz Brewing Co. and was at the time it was recorded one of the last surviving homes in the once affluen... More

Kluge House, 540 West Main Street, Helena, Lewis and Clark County, MT

Kluge House, 540 West Main Street, Helena, Lewis and Clark County, MT

Public domain photograph related to Germany, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philip Pry Farm, House, Boonsboro Pike (SR 34), Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD

Philip Pry Farm, House, Boonsboro Pike (SR 34), Sharpsburg, Washington...

Significance: The Pry House derives its significance from both the historical implications of its role in the Civil War Battle of Antietam, and from the architectural significance of its mid-nineteenth century ... More

Goldstein-Kahem-Knaub House, 701 South First Street, Lincoln, Lancaster County, NE

Goldstein-Kahem-Knaub House, 701 South First Street, Lincoln, Lancaste...

Significance: The Goldstein-Kahem-Knaub house is of a type which was popular among German-Russians, as it closely resembles Old World types in plan and massing. Though built by a Wisconsin German, these shared... More

Santa Clara Verein, 1082 Alviso Street, Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, CA

Santa Clara Verein, 1082 Alviso Street, Santa Clara, Santa Clara Count...

Significance: German immigrants were among the early settlers in the Santa Clara Valley. Bringing their traditional social customs to the Valley, the Germans soon began to form a number of organizations includ... More

Santa Clara Verein, 1082 Alviso Street, Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, CA

Santa Clara Verein, 1082 Alviso Street, Santa Clara, Santa Clara Count...

Significance: German immigrants were among the early settlers in the Santa Clara Valley. Bringing their traditional social customs to the Valley, the Germans soon began to form a number of organizations includ... More

Laschet Inn (German American bar), 2119 West Irving Park Rd., Chicago, Illinois

Laschet Inn (German American bar), 2119 West Irving Park Rd., Chicago,...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0a-2, wall mural at Inn; located over the traditional Stammtisch, the... More

Martin and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Martin and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: -5a, Heidi Siewert modeling embroidered Austrian costume; 6-15a, Sara... More

Johann and Irma Sieb, Chicago, Illinois

Johann and Irma Sieb, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-4, at the home of Johan and Irma Sieb, dolls made by Irma Sieb, Sec... More

Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois; Martin Schwarz and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois; Martin Schwarz and S...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0a-7, Siegfried Shuh and shots of workshop; 7a-12, Sigfried Shuh with... More

Johnny's Tavern; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Johnny's Tavern; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 2-7, interior of Johnny's Tavern; 8-11, Nancy Buckalew; 12-14, Nancy ... More

George Kefalopoulos: Karagiopechtis (sihouette puppeteer), Chicago; Chicago Zither Club concert at Golden Tiara Hall, 3213 N. Cicero, Chicago, Illinois

George Kefalopoulos: Karagiopechtis (sihouette puppeteer), Chicago; Ch...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-18, George Kejalopoulos; 19-24, Mr. Kejalopoulos with unidentified ... More

Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois

Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-4, Workshop of Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, 525 W. Belmont, Chicago, showing instruments in progress; 5-19, Siegfried Schuh at work constructing and repairing stringed instrumen... More

Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois

Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-4, Workshop of Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, 525 W. Belmont, Chicago, showing instruments in progress; 5-19, Siegfried Schuh at work constructing and repairing stringed instrumen... More

Home of Johann and Irma Sieb, Chicago, Illinois

Home of Johann and Irma Sieb, Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-4, detail from doll made by Irma Sieb, and the home of Mr and Mrs Johann and Irma Sieb, 3816 N. Hermitage, Chicago; Sieb's dolls show some of the traditional women's costumes of D... More

Lutz's Conditorei; Chicago Ethnic Arts project apartment, Chicago, Illinois

Lutz's Conditorei; Chicago Ethnic Arts project apartment, Chicago, Ill...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-5, interior of Lutz's (Lutz Cafe, 2458 West Montrose, Lincoln Squar... More

Mrs. Mary Belica's garden, Cicero, Illinois; Yaounde Olu, uniphysicist, at her Osum Studio, 2541 E. 75th St., Chicago, Illinois

Mrs. Mary Belica's garden, Cicero, Illinois; Yaounde Olu, uniphysicist...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-8, Mrs. Mary Belica's garden, 2528 S. 61st Ct., Cicero; 9-21, Yaoun... More

Esther Schmall, quilts; German American in Laurel, Montana

Esther Schmall, quilts; German American in Laurel, Montana

Public domain photograph of quilt, needlework, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

George Kefalopoulos: Karagiopechtis (sihouette puppeteer), Chicago; Chicago Zither Club concert at Golden Tiara Hall, 3213 N. Cicero, Chicago, Illinois

George Kefalopoulos: Karagiopechtis (sihouette puppeteer), Chicago; Ch...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-18, George Kejalopoulos; 19-24, Mr. Kejalopoulos with unidentified ... More

Johnny's Tavern; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Johnny's Tavern; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 2-7, interior of Johnny's Tavern; 8-11, Nancy Buckalew; 12-14, Nancy ... More

Schmitts Metzgerei, Chicago, Illinois; Second American Indian Fine Arts, Crafts and Trade Show, Lincoln Park Center, 2520 N. Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois

Schmitts Metzgerei, Chicago, Illinois; Second American Indian Fine Art...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-14, interior of Schmitts Metzgerei; 15-17, unidentified building; 1... More

Schmitts Metzgerei, Chicago, Illinois; Second American Indian Fine Arts, Crafts and Trade Show, Lincoln Park Center, 2520 N. Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois

Schmitts Metzgerei, Chicago, Illinois; Second American Indian Fine Art...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-14, interior of Schmitts Metzgerei; 15-17, unidentified building; 1... More

Chicago Zither Club concert, Golden Tiara Hall, 3213 N. Cicero, Chicago, Illinois

Chicago Zither Club concert, Golden Tiara Hall, 3213 N. Cicero, Chicag...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 2-5, 10, 19-20a, scenes after the concert taken during dinner and dan... More

Annual Midwest Fleadh Cheoil at Bogen High School, Chicago, Illinois; Siegfried Schuh, violin maker, Chicago, Illinois

Annual Midwest Fleadh Cheoil at Bogen High School, Chicago, Illinois; ...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-11, Irish music competion at Bogan high school; 11a-31, Siegfried S... More

Transylvanian Saxon costume shown by Martin and Sara Schwarz; Balys Pakštas, Chicago, Illinois

Transylvanian Saxon costume shown by Martin and Sara Schwarz; Balys Pa...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-17, Martin and Sara Schwarz in traditional adult costumes from Rode... More

Martin Schwarz and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Martin Schwarz and Sara Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 2, copy of photo taken of costume festival in Austria; 3, Copy of pho... More

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