The Development and Growth of City Directories


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Compilation of directory publications by major city, worldwide, before 1913.










German-American Artists in Early Milwaukee


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Provides biographical information on German-American artists living in Milwaukee from 1849-1949. Bandw photographs include photographs of artists and reproductions of art works. Published by the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR




The Ancestry of Marguerite Hortense Cawker


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Marguerite Hortense Cawker was born Pearl Valeska Thormaehlen in 1890 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Her parents, William Thormaehlen and Pauline Adela Cawker, divorced in 1892. Pearl later legally changed her name to Marguerite Hortense Cawker. In 1919, she married Joseph Merrill. They had three children. Includes biographical sketches of Marguerite Hortense Cawker, her parents, grandparents and great-grandparents.




Milwaukee History


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German Immigrant Artists in America


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In addition to American sources, draws from German sources not generally consulted by historians of American art. Presents biographical sketches of German and German-speaking painters, graphic artists, engravers, lithographers, sculptors, and some stained glass designers who arrived in North America from the colonial period to the 20th century. The bibliographic references are article specific. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR