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German Associated Nationality Group of the American Red Cross War Fund Campaign. Records

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Held at: German Society of Pennsylvania: Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library [Contact Us]611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19123

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Call Number:
Ms. Coll. 50
Repository:
German Society of Pennsylvania: Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library
Extent:
0.1 linear feet (5 folders)
Language:
German
Preferred Citation:
Records of the German Associated Nationality Group of the American Red Cross War Fund Campaign (Ms. Coll. 50), Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library, German Society of Pennsylvania
Date:
1943-1945 (inclusive)
Creator:
German Associated Nationality Group of the American Red Cross War Fund Campaign. (Philadelphia, Pa.) and Lawrence, E. Hagen
Form:
Clippings (information artifacts), Correspondence, Donor lists, Membership lists, Minute books, and Printed ephemera
Abstract:
This collection contains the records of the German Associated Nationality Group, a committee of the Southeastern Pennsylvania chapter of the American Red Cross that led a fundraising effort within the German-American community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during World War II, from 1943 to 1945, as part of the Red Cross War Fund campaign. Included are minutes of meetings (12 March to 12 May 1943); invitation letters to meetings (July 1943 to April 1944); two appeal letters (1944, 1945), including related Red Cross campaign ephemera; committee membership lists; lists of donors and donations; and two clippings from German-language newspapers.

The German Associated Nationality Group was a committee of the Southeastern Pennsylvania chapter of the American Red Cross that led a fundraising effort within the German-American community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during World War II, from 1943 to 1945, as part of the Red Cross War Fund campaign. Also referred to as the German-American Committee, and, at one point (in 1945), as the German American Nationalties Group, this committee coordinated and promoted Red Cross fundraising efforts among German-American organizations in Philadelphia. It met in the hall of the German Society of Pennsylvania, and was chaired by Eugene A. Stopper, who was at the time the president of the Society. The other officers of the German Nationality Group were Gustave W. Dickel, treasurer; and (Mrs.) E. Hagen Lawrence, secretary.

This collection contains the records of the German Associated Nationality Group, a committee of the Southeastern Pennsylvania chapter of the American Red Cross that led a fundraising effort within the German-American community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during World War II, from 1943 to 1945, as part of the Red Cross War Fund campaign. Included are minutes of meetings (12 March to 12 May 1943); invitation letters to meetings (July 1943 to April 1944); two appeal letters (1944, 1945), including related Red Cross campaign ephemera; committee membership lists; lists of donors and donations; and two clippings from German-language newspapers. The records appear to have been kept by the secretary of the group, E. Hagen Lawrence, who took the minutes; her name is sometimes given in the form: Mrs. E. H. Lawrence.

The collection comprises 5 folders stored in GAC Mss. IIb (Legal-size folders), Box 1.

Related collections at the German Society of Pennsylvania include the Society's records for this period, especially the records of the GSP's Committee on the War Effort. Also, the Concord Group minute book (Ms. Coll. 50) contains references to the German-American Red Cross campaign.

Some materials found together with the present records concern the German Society of Pennsylvania's Committee on the War Effort, and are being considered separately, as part of the Society's records.

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Publisher
German Society of Pennsylvania: Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library
Finding Aid Author
Finding aid prepared by Violet Lutz
Finding Aid Date
2013.08
Sponsor
The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from the Max Kade Foundation, as part of the grant project "Retrieval and Cataloging of the German-American Experience, 1918-1960."
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Copyright restrictions may apply. Please contact the German Society of Pennsylvania with requests for copying and for authorization to publish, quote or reproduce the material.

Collection Inventory

Minutes, 12 March - 12 May 1943. 17 leaves. In German. Included are typed minutes, as well as draft versions, in the hand of E. Hagen Lawrence, secretary. The minutes of the meeting of 12 May are in draft form only. Also included is an undated draft of the committee membership list, with list of donors and donations on verso.
Folder 1
Physical Description

17 leaves. In German. Included are typed minutes, as well as draft versions, in the hand of E. Hagen Lawrence, secretary. The minutes of the meeting of 12 May are in draft form only. Also included is an undated draft of the committee membership list, with list of donors and donations on verso

List of meeting dates; invitation letters to meetings, 3 July 1943 - 1 April 1944. 7 items, 7 leaves. In English. The letters are from either E. H. Lawrence or Eugen A. Stopper; most of them are on the letterhead of the Red Cross War Fund, Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter, and are addressed generically: Dear Friend. One letter is addressed to Karl F. Lutz .
Folder 2
Physical Description

7 items, 7 leaves. In English. The letters are from either E. H. Lawrence or Eugen A. Stopper; most of them are on the letterhead of the Red Cross War Fund, Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter, and are addressed generically: Dear Friend. One letter is addressed to Karl F. Lutz

Flier and appeal letter, 1943, 1945. 2 items, 5 leaves. Includes two draft versions of a flier (typed, with handwritten emendations), in German, promoting a concert of the United Singers of Philadelphia (Vereinigte Sänger von Philadelphia), on 29 May 1943, at the Academy of Music, for the benefit of the Red Cross; and an appeal letter, in English, on letterhead of the 1945 Red Cross War Fund, Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter, from Eugene A. Stopper, chair, German Nationalities Group, with enclosed Red Cross printed ephemera (share certificate, receipt slips).
Folder 3
Physical Description

2 items, 5 leaves. Includes two draft versions of a flier (typed, with handwritten emendations), in German, promoting a concert of the United Singers of Philadelphia (Vereinigte Sänger von Philadelphia), on 29 May 1943, at the Academy of Music, for the benefit of the Red Cross; and an appeal letter, in English, on letterhead of the 1945 Red Cross War Fund, Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter, from Eugene A. Stopper, chair, German Nationalities Group, with enclosed Red Cross printed ephemera (share certificate, receipt slips)

German Society of Pennsylvania, circa 1944. 2 items, 4 leaves. In English. Includes: 1) appeal letter, on letterhead of the 1944 Red Cross War Fund, Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter, addressed to the members of the GSP, from "President," with GSP address stamp; and 2) historical sketch entitled "War effort--German Society of Pennsylvania" (2 versions, typed). The sketch, arranged on a timeline from 1942 to February 1944, indicates the GSP's support of the American Red Cross War Fund through the German Associated Nationality Group, among other war work activities. This item is in the form of acid-free photocopies; for the originals, see the German Society of Pennsylvania records.
Folder 4
Physical Description

2 items, 4 leaves. In English. Includes: 1) appeal letter, on letterhead of the 1944 Red Cross War Fund, Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter, addressed to the members of the GSP, from "President," with GSP address stamp; and 2) historical sketch entitled "War effort--German Society of Pennsylvania" (2 versions, typed). The sketch, arranged on a timeline from 1942 to February 1944, indicates the GSP's support of the American Red Cross War Fund through the German Associated Nationality Group, among other war work activities. This item is in the form of acid-free photocopies; for the originals, see the German Society of Pennsylvania records

Clippings, 1943. 2 items, 4 leaves. In German. Acid-free copies. The clippings, presumably from the Philadelphia Gazette-Demokrat, are of articles concerning meetings of the present group, here referred to as the "Deutschamerikanische Komitee für die Rote Kreuz-Sammlung" (German-American committee for the Red Cross fundraising campaign).
Folder 5

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