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The National German-American Alliance (NGAA; German: Deutschamerikanischer Nationalbund) was a federation of German-American organizations in the United States that existed from 1901 to 1918. Its primary mission was to foster fellowship and common endeavors among German Americans, to advocate on issues affecting German-American life, and to support the preservation of German culture in the United States. At the same time, it stressed its American patriotism, and encouraged German immigrants to become citizens as soon as possible and to take active part in civic life.

As part of its cultural mission, the NGAA advocated for the teaching of German language in public schools; and it supported activities and publications to increase awareness of the contributions of German Americans to American history and culture. Significant activities included fundraising for and erection of monuments to German-American figures; the founding of the German American Historical Society and an associated journal, Americana Germanica (later: German-American Annals); and the publication of pamphlets and books about German-American culture, as well as a journal reporting the proceedings of its meetings ( Mitteilungen des Deutschamerikanischen Nationalbundes).

The activities of the NGAA were closely identified with the figure of Charles J. Hexamer, an engineer of Philadelphia, who served as the organization's president from the founding until fall 1917. Born in Philadelphia, Hexamer was the son of the German immigrant and 1848er Ernst Hexamer (1827-1912). For most of his term as NGAA president Hexamer was simultaneously president of the German Society of Pennsylvania. (His term as GSP president was from 1900 to 1916.) After Hexamer's resignation, Philadelphia pastor Siegmund von Bosse (son of the pastor Georg von Bosse) succeeded him as president for the last months of the organization's existence.

Two other long-time leaders of the NGAA were Adolph Timm, who served as secretary throughout its existence; and Hans Weniger, who was treasurer from 1902 to 1913. Like Hexamer, Timm and Weniger were also active in the GSP. Timm headed the GSP School Committee from 1904 through at least 1917, and Weniger was GSP treasurer from 1894 to 1914. Another NGAA member, John B. Mayer, who served on the commission for the erection of the Pastorius monument at Germantown, was also a member of the GSP and later served as its president, from 1917 to 1923.

The formation of the NGAA was supported by existing German-American organizations as well as by the German-American press, with the main impetus coming from a state-level umbrella group in Pennsylvania, the German-American Central Alliance of Pennsylvania (Deutschamerikanischer Zentralbund von Pennsylvanien), of which both Hexamer and Timm were leaders (Hexamer was president, and Timm was secretary). On June 19, 1900, the Pennsylvania group, under the leadership of Hexamer, hosted a meeting in Philadelphia of representatives from German-American organizations in Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. This core group, chaired by Hexamer, subsequently organized a larger meeting in Philadelphia the following year, on October 6. (The day of the meeting coincided with the annual celebration of "German Day," commemorating the founding of the first permanent German settlement in America, at Germantown, in 1683.) The NGAA was officially founded at that Philadelphia meeting, on October 6, 1901.

The NGAA received a United States congressional charter on February 21, 1907. Under its charter it was prohibited from engaging in politics to the extent of supporting particular political candidates. Nevertheless, representatives of the NGAA did take public positions on political issues, especially concerning immigration and prohibition. The NGAA in general opposed restrictions on immigration, but it came out in favor of the strictures against anarchists in the Immigration Act of 1907. It opposed prohibition, using the rationale that such laws were an unjustified constraint on personal liberty; since the drinking of beer, and the custom of the Sunday "beer garden" were integral to everyday German-American culture, the NGAA regarded both "Blue Laws" and prohibition as an encroachment on German-American life. The state and local branches, which for the most part were independent of the parent organization, were not under the same obligation to refrain from political advocacy, and did indeed support particular candidates in elections, based on the candidates' positions on issues relevant to German-American life.

During the First World War, the NGAA also raised money for war relief in the German-speaking lands, from the beginning of the war, in August 1914, until the entrance of the United States into the war, in April 1917.

In an atmosphere of increasing anti-German sentiment, the NGAA became the subject of a Senate investigation in 1918, leading to the revocation of its charter, under a bill that was signed into law on August 31, 1918. The NGAA had already officially ceased to exist in April 1918.

References

Johnson, Charles Thomas (1999). Culture at twilight: The National German-American Alliance, 1901-1918. New York: Peter Lang.

Kazal, Russell A. (2004). Becoming old stock: The paradox of German-American identity. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Luebke, Frederick C. (1974). Bonds of loyalty: German-Americans and World War I. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press.

Polsander, Hans A. (2010). German monuments in the Americas: Bonds across the Atlantic. Oxford: Peter Lang. See chapters 2 ("The Pioneers") and 3 ("The American Revolution"), pp. 3-44.

This collection contains records of the National German-American Alliance (NGAA; Deutschamerikanischer Nationalbund), a federation of German-American organizations in the United States based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that existed from 1901 to 1918, for most of that time under the leadership of Charles J. Hexamer. The NGAA aimed to foster fellowship and common endeavors among German Americans, to advocate on issues affecting German-American life, and to support the preservation of German culture in the United States.

The collection includes correspondence, reports, clippings, and printed ephemera. The bulk of the materials dates from 1910 to 1918, and pertains to the NGAA's efforts to erect two monuments to figures of German-American history: one in Germantown, Philadelphia, honoring the first German settlers and their leader, Francis Daniel Pastorius; and the other in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, dedicated to the revolutionary war general Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben.

The records are organized into four series: I. Charles J. Hexamer correspondence; II. John B. Mayer correspondence; III. Rudolf Cronau papers related to the NGAA; and IV. Ephemera and Clippings. The correspondence of Charles Hexamer, who served as president of the organization from its founding until fall 1917 (Series I), comprises nearly half of the collection. The correspondence of John B. Mayer (Series II) and the papers of Rudolf Cronau (Series III) together make up approximately 20% of the collection, and pertain mainly to the work of Mayer and Cronau on the NGAA commission in charge of the Germantown monument (Cronau was chair, and Mayer was secretary). The remainder of the materials comprises printed ephemera and clippings, mainly related to the NGAA's work on the two monuments, with a small amount concerning the NGAA more generally, including program for a banquet in honor of Charles Hexamer in 1912, autographed by 13 of the attendees (Folder 54); and a souvenir program (Folder 55) for a musical event honoring the NGAA ("Souvenir programme: grand banner dedication of the National German-American Alliance") in 1914, carried out by the women's auxiliary of the Pennsylvania branch (Deutschamerikanischer Zentralbund von Pennsylvanien), with participation of the Philadelphia choral societies Maennerchor, Junger Maennerchor, and Harmonie.

Significant correspondents include the sculptors Albert Jaegers and J. Otto Schweizer, who both submitted designs for the Pastorius monument. Jaegers was also the artist responsible for the Steuben monument in Valley Forge. Since the Pastorius monument received funding from the United States Congress, that project was ultimately carried out in cooperation with the United States Commission of Fine Arts, and the War Department, which included the Corps of Engineers. Correspondence from all of these participants is found under the relevant name headings in Series I, II, and III. Other significant correspondents of Charles Hexamer (Series I) are Herman Ridder and C.B. Wolffram, both publishers of German-language newspapers in New York, whom Hexamer called upon to assist with fundraising for the Steuben monument.

Most of the records apparently remained at the German Society of Pennsylvania since the time of the NGAA's activities, since the principal creator, Charles J. Hexamer, was simultaneously president of the GSP. The papers of Rudolf Cronau were apparently donated at a later date.

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German Society of Pennsylvania: Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library
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Finding aid prepared by Violet Lutz
Finding Aid Date
2015.08
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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."
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Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents note

This series contains correspondence to and from Charles Hexamer as president of the National German-American Alliance (NGAA), arranged in two subseries: A. Individual correspondence files; and B. Miscellaneous, including form letters. The most significant proportion of the correspondence relates to the erection of the monument in Vernon Park, Germantown, in honor of the first German settlers and their leader, Francis Daniel Pastorius, a project that entailed a long planning process.

Rudolf Cronau had first proposed such a monument at the first NGAA congress in 1901. The NGAA early on appointed a three-person German Memorial Monument Commission, consisting of Rudolf Cronau, Gustav Bender, and John B. Mayer. The cornerstone for the monument was laid in 1908, on German Day, October 6. In 1911, the United States Congress appropriated $25,000 toward the funding of the monument, with a matching amount to be contributed by the NGAA. The selection of a design and the execution of the monument were therefore carried out in cooperation with the United States Commission of Fine Arts, as well as the War Department, which included the Corps of Engineers. The NGAA monument commission, under Cronau, originally selected a design by sculptor J. Otto Schweizer. However, the Fine Arts Commission eventually appointed a different three-person 'advisory' committee, which then shared responsibility for selecting the winning model. In a second round of the competition, a design by Albert Jaegers was selected, and that was the one that was executed. The monument was completed and ready to be unveiled in spring 1917, but after the entry of the United States into the First World War, in April, the ceremony was postponed. The unveiling finally took place in 1920.

Other topics of correspondence include the unveiling of a monument to Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben in Washington, DC., on December 7, 1910; and the erection of a monument to Steuben at Valley Forge, which was dedicated on October 9, 1915. The Steuben monument in Valley Forge, by Albert Jaegers, was a replica of a monument Jaegers completed shortly before in Utica, New York. Hexamer corresponded with Herman Ridder and C.B. Wolffram, both publishers of German-language newspapers in New York, concerning fundraising for the Valley Forge monument.

The correspondence includes many carbon copies kept by Hexamer of letters he sent. These copies were made on poor-quality paper that is now in fragile condition. Those items have been photocopied onto acid-free paper, and the photocopies integrated in the correspondence. The original items are stored in two folders at the end of the series.

Arrangement note

Arranged alphabetically, by correspondent name.

Bender, Gustav (member, German Memorial Monument Commission), 1912-1913.
Box 1 Folder 1
Burk, Rev. W. Herbert (Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge), 1915 October.
Box 1 Folder 2
Charles G. Blake & Co., Monuments/Mausoleums, 1912 August.
Box 1 Folder 2
Chew, D. S. B., 1913 December.
Box 1 Folder 3
Cronau, Rudolf (Chair, German Memorial Monument Commission), 1912 July 8. Copy of Hexamer letter to Cronau; see also Cronau correspondence, file on Hexamer (Series III).
Box 1 Folder 4
Physical Description

Copy of Hexamer letter to Cronau; see also Cronau correspondence, file on Hexamer (Series III)

Jaegers, Albert (sculptor) (1 of 2), 1911-1913. .
Box 1 Folder 5
Physical Description

Jaegers, Albert (sculptor) (2 of 2), 1914-1917.
Box 1 Folder 6
Mayer, John B. (secretary, German Memorial Monument Commission; chair, Unveiling Committee for Pastorius monument), 1911-1913, 1916-1917. Includes copies of Hexamer's letters to Albert Jaegers and Max Heinrici, 17 April 1917, enclosing a letter from Mayer about postponement of unveiling of the Pastorius monument.
Box 1 Folder 7
Physical Description

Includes copies of Hexamer's letters to Albert Jaegers and Max Heinrici, 17 April 1917, enclosing a letter from Mayer about postponement of unveiling of the Pastorius monument

Moore, J. Hampton (U. S. Representative for Pennsylvania), 1912 June 14. Copy of Hexamer letter to Moore, thanking him for the speech he delivered on June 12, and printed text of the speech, "The first German settlers," concerning HR 25069, making effective an appropriation of $25,000 toward the erection of a monument at Germantown.
Box 1 Folder 8
Physical Description

Copy of Hexamer letter to Moore, thanking him for the speech he delivered on June 12, and printed text of the speech, "The first German settlers," concerning HR 25069, making effective an appropriation of $25,000 toward the erection of a monument at Germantown

Mudra, Arthur (German consul in Philadelphia), 1911 December 26. Regrets for an event on the same day.
Box 1 Folder 9
Physical Description

Regrets for an event on the same day

Pennsylvania Governor. John K. Tener, 1912-1913.
Box 1 Folder 10
Pennsylvania Governor. Martin G. Brumbaugh, 1915-1917.
Box 1 Folder 11
Pennypacker, Samuel W., 1913 January.
Box 1 Folder 12
Philadelphia, Pa. Art Jury (secretaries: Leslie W. Miller, Andrew Wright Crawford), 1912-1917. Includes draft of application to Art Jury for Pastorius monument in Vernon Park by Albert Jaegers.
Box 1 Folder 13
Physical Description

Includes draft of application to Art Jury for Pastorius monument in Vernon Park by Albert Jaegers

Philadelphia, Pa. Department of Public Works, 1914-1917. Matters related to the monuments at Valley Forge, and in Vernon Park.
Box 1 Folder 14
Physical Description

Matters related to the monuments at Valley Forge, and in Vernon Park

Poepel, Otto (Secretary of NGAA Utica, NY), 1912-1913. Concerns selection of artist for a Steuben monument in Utica. Includes list of artists who presented models for the NGAA German memorial monument.
Box 1 Folder 15
Physical Description

Concerns selection of artist for a Steuben monument in Utica. Includes list of artists who presented models for the NGAA German memorial monument

Potts, Cornelia Ross (Mrs. Noble Newport Potts), 1913.
Box 1 Folder 16
Ridder, Herman (president, New Yorker Staats-Zeitung), 1911-1915. Mainly concerns fundraising for the erection of the Steuben monument at Valley Forge.
Box 1 Folder 17
Physical Description

Mainly concerns fundraising for the erection of the Steuben monument at Valley Forge

Rothberg, M., 1913 October 10. Copy of letter from Hexamer.
Box 1 Folder 18
Physical Description

Copy of letter from Hexamer

Schuler, Hans (sculptor), 1912 July 1. Copy of letter from Hexamer.
Box 1 Folder 18
Physical Description

Copy of letter from Hexamer

Schweizer, J. Otto (sculptor) (1 of 3), 1912.
Box 1 Folder 19
Schweizer, J. Otto (sculptor) (2 of 3), 1913.
Box 1 Folder 20
Schweizer, J. Otto (sculptor) (3 of 3), 1914-1915.
Box 1 Folder 21
United States. Commission of Fine Arts (Washington, DC), 1912-1913. Concerns the erection of the Pastorius monument (German memorial) in Vernon Park. Correspondents include Col. Spencer Cosby, secretary, and U. S. Grant III, acting secretary of the commission; and Robert Shaw Oliver, U.S. Assistant Secretary of War. Also includes correspondence with a three-person advisory committee, or jury, to assist in selecting the winning model: architect Frank Miles Day; and artists Carl Bitter and Herbert Adams.
Box 1 Folder 22
Physical Description

Concerns the erection of the Pastorius monument (German memorial) in Vernon Park. Correspondents include Col. Spencer Cosby, secretary, and U. S. Grant III, acting secretary of the commission; and Robert Shaw Oliver, U.S. Assistant Secretary of War. Also includes correspondence with a three-person advisory committee, or jury, to assist in selecting the winning model: architect Frank Miles Day; and artists Carl Bitter and Herbert Adams

United States. War Department (John C. Scofield, Assistant and Chief Clerk), 1913. Concerns the erection of the Pastorius monument (German memorial) in Vernon Park.
Box 1 Folder 23
Physical Description

Concerns the erection of the Pastorius monument (German memorial) in Vernon Park

United States. War Department. Corps of Engineers (John E. Kuhn), 1913-1914. Concerns the erection of the Pastorius monument (German memorial) in Vernon Park.
Box 1 Folder 24
Physical Description

Concerns the erection of the Pastorius monument (German memorial) in Vernon Park

United States. War Department. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, 1916-1917. Concerns the erection of the Pastorius monument (German memorial) in Vernon Park.
Box 1 Folder 25
Physical Description

Concerns the erection of the Pastorius monument (German memorial) in Vernon Park

Valley Forge Park Commission, 1915. Concerns the erection of the Steuben monument at Valley Forge.
Box 1 Folder 26
Physical Description

Concerns the erection of the Steuben monument at Valley Forge

Voelckner, Curt (NGAA, Washington, DC), 1912 June 13. Copy of Hexamer letter to Voelckner.
Box 1 Folder 27
Physical Description

Copy of Hexamer letter to Voelckner

Wolffram, C. B. (owner of the New Yorker Herold) (1 of 2), 1912-1913. Mainly concerns fundraising for the erection of the Steuben monument at Valley Forge. Includes clippings; related correspondence of Hexamer with Charles H. Weinsberg (NGAA, St. Louis); and a letter from Albert Jaegers to Wolffram, which the latter forwards to Hexamer.
Box 1 Folder 28
Physical Description

Mainly concerns fundraising for the erection of the Steuben monument at Valley Forge. Includes clippings; related correspondence of Hexamer with Charles H. Weinsberg (NGAA, St. Louis); and a letter from Albert Jaegers to Wolffram, which the latter forwards to Hexamer

Wolffram, C. B. (owner of the New Yorker Herold) (2 of 2), 1914.
Box 1 Folder 29
Arrangement note

Arranged chronologically.

Form letter concerning the unveiling of the Steuben monument, Washington, DC, 1910 November 29. Addressed to superintendents of public schools and professors of American history, urging attendance.
Box 1 Folder 30
Physical Description

Addressed to superintendents of public schools and professors of American history, urging attendance

Form letters concerning Pastorius monument fundraising, 1911.
Box 1 Folder 31
Form letters concerning the unveiling of the Steuben monument at Valley Forge, 1915. Invitation letter; request for donations to cover cost of the event.
Box 1 Folder 32
Physical Description

Invitation letter; request for donations to cover cost of the event

Acidic originals of carbon copies (1 of 2), J-P, 1911-1917.
Box 1 Folder 33
Acidic originals of carbon copies (1 of 2), R-W, 1911-1917.
Box 1 Folder 34

Scope and Contents note

This series comprises correspondence received or sent by John B. Mayer as secretary of the German Memorial Monument Commission, concerned with erection of the monument to the first German settlers in Vernon Park, Germantown (the other members of the commission were Rudolf Cronau and Gustav Bender); and also as chair of the committee for the unveiling of the monument, which was originally scheduled to take place in spring 1917 but was postponed (it eventually took place in 1920). Included are submissions from several artists in the contest held by the commission for design of the monument (in making its final decision the commission considered 15 designs, and materials related to only eight submissions are included here, none of them the top choices). For Mayer's letters to Charles Hexamer, see Series I.

Artists' submissions - German memorial monument design contest, 1912, undated. Includes correspondence from John M. Behrman (with drawings and two photographs of model); Leo Lentelli; Herman Wurth; and several identified only by title of design (Achilles; Eureka; Die neue Heimat; Nihil-Sine-Labore; and Rex).
Box 1 Folder 32
Physical Description

Includes correspondence from John M. Behrman (with drawings and two photographs of model); Leo Lentelli; Herman Wurth; and several identified only by title of design (Achilles; Eureka; Die neue Heimat; Nihil-Sine-Labore; and Rex)

Jaegers, Albert (sculptor), 1916 April 20. Includes text of a proposed inscription for the monument.
Box 1 Folder 36
Physical Description

Includes text of a proposed inscription for the monument

United States. Office of Public Buildings and Grounds (F. D. Owen), 1912. Concerns invoice for shipping back to the artists the models they had submitted to the War Department.
Box 1 Folder 37
Physical Description

Concerns invoice for shipping back to the artists the models they had submitted to the War Department

United States. War Department. Secretary of War, 1917.
Box 1 Folder 38

Scope and Contents note

This series contains papers belonging to Rudolf Cronau that he collected in connection with his role as chair of the NGAA's German Memorial Monument Commission, which concerned the erection of the monument in Vernon Park, Germantown, commemorating Francis Daniel Pastorius and the first German settlers. Correspondence files, arranged alphabetically, are followed by a folder of drafts for the German Memorial Monument Commission; and a folder containing other writings, ephemera, and a photograph.

Cronau first proposed such a German memorial monument at the founding meeting of the NGAA in October 1901, and raised the idea again at the second NGAA convention in 1903. The two other members of the commission were Gustav Bender and John B. Mayer. Included are items written by Cronau that express his justification for the commission's original selection of the design by J. Otto Schweizer (Folder 44); and his critique of the design by Albert Jaegers that was later chosen instead (Folder 45).

The series includes just three items dated after 1917: one letter from Schweizer, in 1931 (Folder 42); a photograph of Cronau with his family, also dated in 1931 (Folder 45); and a miscellaneous clipping from 1938 (Folder 45).

Day, Frank Miles, 1913 January 13.
Box 2 Folder 39
Hexamer, Charles J., 1903, 1912-1915.
Box 2 Folder 40
Jaegers, Albert, 1912-1913, 1917.
Box 2 Folder 41
Schweizer, J. Otto. 1912-1913, 1931. Includes a statement of prices for three reproductions of Schweizer's Pastorius monument model (February 19, 1913). One letter dated February 24, 1931 refers to an article by Cronau (about Schweizer) about to be published in Deutsch Amerika (see Bd. 18, Heft 13, p. 10-12, "J. Otto Schweizer und seine Denkmäler amerikanischer Geschichte"); and to a bronze casting of his Pastorius monument model that he is giving to the city of Krefeld. It includes the inscriptions for the monument model.
Box 2 Folder 42
United States Commission of Fine Arts (Col. Spencer Cosby, secretary), 1912 June 22.
Box 2 Folder 43
Writings (report, statement) for the German Memorial Monument Commission (presumably addressed to Charles Hexamer), circa 1912-1913. One item is a handwritten draft report of the commission naming the winners of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes in the competition; the other is a copy of a typed statement by Cronau, as chair, justifying the selection of the 1st-place design ("Liberty," which was done by J. Otto Schweizer). The latter includes a passage about Cronau's own background as an artist.
Box 2 Folder 44
Physical Description

One item is a handwritten draft report of the commission naming the winners of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes in the competition; the other is a copy of a typed statement by Cronau, as chair, justifying the selection of the 1st-place design ("Liberty," which was done by J. Otto Schweizer). The latter includes a passage about Cronau's own background as an artist

Writings, ephemera, photograph, 1913, 1931, 1938. Writings comprise a handwritten summary of the NGAA project to erect the monument at Germantown ("Der Denkmal zu Germantown, Pa."), signed by Cronau; and a typescript of an English-language article for the Sunday edition of the Philadephia Gazette, dated January 19, 1913, giving a critique of the design by Albert Jaegers. A photograph of Cronau with family is dated by hand July 7, 1931. Also included is a 1938 clipping that appears to be unrelated (drawing of turtle inscribed "Betty Zane, Ft. Henry, July 4, 1776, with the name Wm. R. Bock written below); and the original handwritten title page of the folder in which Cronau's papers were found.
Box 2 Folder 45

Scope and Contents note

This series contains printed ephemera and clippings, grouped roughly according to topic, with oversize materials listed at the end.

Pastorius monument - Ephemera, circa 1907-1912. Fundraising fliers, blank stationery.
Box 2 Folder 46
Physical Description

Fundraising fliers, blank stationery

Pastorius monument - Ephemera - Reports, publications, circa 1903-1915. Includes resolution of NGAA to form the German Memorial Monument Commission; reports to the NGAA congressses by Rudolf Cronau, as chair, 1907-1911; items related to the House appropriations bill, including speech of Representative J. Hampton Moore, 1912; and a report on the monument contained in the U.S. government publication Monuments and Memorials Outside the District of Columbia, 1915.
Box 2 Folder 47
Pastorius monument - Clippings, 1912-1913. See also Oversize.
Box 2 Folder 48
Physical Description

See also Oversize

Steuben monument at Valley Forge - Ephemera, 1915. Includes program for the unveiling; draft program; and typescripts concerning the monument.
Box 2 Folder 49
Physical Description

Includes program for the unveiling; draft program; and typescripts concerning the monument

Steuben monument at Valley Forge - Clippings - Fundraising appeals, 1907, 1912. See also Oversize.
Box 2 Folder 50
Physical Description

See also Oversize

Steuben monument at Valley Forge - Clippings - Unveiling, 1915 October. See also Oversize.
Box 2 Folder 51
Physical Description

See also Oversize

Steuben monument, Washington, DC - Program of unveiling, 1910 December 7.
Box 2 Folder 52
Ephemera - NGAA - General - Fundraising letter from John Tjarks (chair, Finance Commmittee), circa 1910.
Box 2 Folder 53
Ephemera - NGAA - General, circa 1910-1913, undated. Includes: article about Peter Muhlenberg monument at City Hall, Philadelphia, erected 1910 ( Old Penn Weekly Review, University of Pennsylvania); several copies of program for banquet in honor of Charles Hexamer, May 9, 1912, including one copy autographed by 13 of the attendees; permission form for a meeting of the Junior Order of the German-American Alliance to be held at the German Society of Pennsylvania, on April 19, 1912; blank certificate form for awarding medal for meritorious work in German; and miscellaneous notes.
Box 2 Folder 54
Souvenir program - "Grand Banner Dedication", 1914 May 11.
Box 2 Folder 55
Oversize. Steuben monument fundraising appeal, 1912. Original flier that accompanied letter of November 25, 1912, to Hexamer from Charles B. Wolffram, editor of the New Yorker Herold.
Box GAC Oversize Box 4
Oversize. Program for and speeches given on German Day, October 6, 1908, ceremony for laying of cornerstone for Pastorius monument. Galley or page proofs? The material is in both English and German. The English versions, with the exception of the introductory speech by Henry Schwemmer, were published in German American Annals, new series VI, no. 6 (November-December 1908).
Box GAC Oversize Box 4
Oversize. Clippings (acid-free copies), 1912, 1915. Includes: 1) Fundraising appeal for Steuben monument in Valley Forge, New Yorker Herold, January 16, 1912; 2) "Steuben in Valley Forge," by Otto Lohr, New Yorker Staatszeitung, January 21, 1912; 3) New Yorker Revue, October 10, 1915. Front page, including illustration "Columbia und Germania. Zum Deutschen Tag 1915"; and editorial, "Zum Deutschen Tag: Nur festes Zusammenhalten schafft Macht für das Deutschtum in Amerika".
Box GAC Oversize Box 4
Oversize. First page of NGAA journal Mitteilungen, vol. 5, no. 2, February 1913, with illustration of Albert Jaeger's design for the Pastorius monument in Vernon Park.
Box GAC Oversize Box 4
Oversize. Galley or page proofs, circa February 1918. Material in English responding to charges of disloyalty on part of the NGAA, possibly intended for publication in the NGAA Mitteilungen. Includes "A Word to Our Members and the Public"; and testimony of S. G. von Bosse, at the Senate hearings concerning revocation of the NGAA's charter.
Box GAC Oversize Box 4
Oversize. Philadelphia Public ledger newspaper article printed on silk, March 2, 1913. Titled: What our Germanic population is doing in America., 1913.
Oversize GAC Box 4
Oversize. Henry Bacon (architect). Pastorius monument inscription on rear of pedestal; revised inscription, 1917 January - May. Latin inscription "Salve posteritas, posteritas Germanopolitana..." Marked received by Art Jury, submission no. 34, April 14, 1917; signed by secretary Andrew Wright Crawford, May 31, 1917. White lettering on blue ground; scale full size. 41-3/4 x 106" (Original GSP call no. AD 500).
Box GAC Gallery Box 2
Physical Description

Latin inscription "Salve posteritas, posteritas Germanopolitana..." Marked received by Art Jury, submission no. 34, April 14, 1917; signed by secretary Andrew Wright Crawford, May 31, 1917. White lettering on blue ground; scale full size. 41-3/4 x 106" (Original GSP call no. AD 500)

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