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List Of Publications By Walter Angst, Walter Angst

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1. "Heraldry in a Republic," The Augustan, Book Two (1973): 183-184.

2. "Heraldic Plan for Redesign of the State Flags," Smithsonian 4, No. 4 (1973): 18-25.

3. "Sovereignty, Identity, Morality," The Augustan, Book Five (1974): 638-639.

Samples Of Walter Angst's Heraldic Creations *

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* These illustrations are inadequate black and white reproductions of some of the splendidly colored pictures that appeared in the Smithsonian 4 (July 1973): 22, 23, 24.

New Heraldic Creations And My Fourteen-Point Ethical Code, Walter Angst

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Most of my contemporaries have many misconceptions about all things heraldic. Most people - if they even know what we are talking about - consider heraldic designs disdainfully as pretentious, superfluous, even silly, or at best arcane frills having to do with royalty. They are wrong. Armorial bearings are an expression of such things as sovereignty, of individuality, of beauty, of sagas, history, past glories and civic achievements. Just fancy our villages and resort places back-home: how poor would they be if they could not display their panoply of colorful community flags fluttering in the alpine breeze. Even here in …

A Letter Of Johann Grob Of St. Imier To His Parents, Written In Jersey City On June 10, 1866, Johann Grob

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Ms. Elisabeth Fowler of Oak Park, Illinois, found Johann Grob's letter among her family papers. "I have never heard how we got the copy over here," she wrote, "but we did have a cousin (in my father's generation or maybe a bit older) who used to go back and forth to Switzerland." Although it is not known who has translated the 3 document nor where the original might be, the letter sounds authentic and reports valuable details about Grob's ocean crossing and his first weeks in the United States.

Memoir Of The First International Gerster-Castor Reunion Basel, Switzerland, 1987, Richard J. Caster

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Two hundred and fifty years have elapsed since Hans Georg Gerster, a Swiss from the village of Gelterkinden in the Canton of Basel, emigrated to the New World. Pietist leanings and his quest for citizenship in this new land were strong inducements for him to embark on the Rhine from Basel in July, 1736. With him were his mother, Elsbeth Sparr of Herzogenbuchsee, and his three-months pregnant wife, Eva Gysin of Holstein. Arriving in Rotterdam, they boarded the Princess Augusta, and set sail for the New World via Cowes, England arriving safely after being shipwrecked off shore, at Penn's Landing, …

Zwischen Deutsch Und Englisch Bilingual Puns

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GRANDMOTHER'S PUNS Grandmother Joss had a quiet sense of humor and was not above having a little fun with the language: In Bensenville the church bell was rung at 5 p.m. every Saturday afternoon to remind us that the following day would be Sunday and our presence in church would be appreciated. Grandmother's usual comment was: "Ah, die Kirche bellt schon."

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1887 Bern, Kansas 1987, Erdmann Schmocker

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Only the chirping of the chickadees all around the passing farm fields broke the silence of the evening as we neared the place of our destination -- the village of Bern, Kansas.

The Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Of The Sahs, Dr. Arnold Price, Ms. Selina Sutter

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A. Minutes of the Meeting, Arnold Price

The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Swiss American Historical Society was held at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, October 24, 1987.

A Review Of Walter A. Maggiolo, Techniques Of Mediation. New York: Oceana Publications, 1985, Lukas F. Burckhardt

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Walter Maggiolo is an old friend of mine from my stay as a labor and cultural attache at the Swiss Embassy in Washington, D.C. Our mutual understanding for our ways of thinking is based on our 17 experience of many years in mediating collective labor conflicts between management and unions. Whereas he acted as a General Counsel of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in Washington, D.C., I was the permanent Secretary of the Conciliation Office (Einigungsamt) in Basel. Only by reading his book did I become fully conscious of the close similarities of our experiences, in spite of the …

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Meeting Fred Anderegg, Leo Schelbert

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It all started in June 1987. Michigan Today had arrived in the mail, a University of Michigan newspaper that carried some pictures of wonderful Byzantine mosaics. They had been photographed in the monastery of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai, a community that had survived some fifteen hundred years and harbors numerous treasures brought there to be hidden from the ravages of turbulent times.

Fred Anderegg: Of Course He's On Edge, He's A Second-Story Man, Suzanne Ramljak

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Fred Anderegg's conversation is full of colorful anecdotes, which is to be expected from a gregarious archeological photographer whose job has been to take the ideal picture, in less than ideal circumstances, all over the globe.

Fred Anderegg's First Eight Decades

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Titles Relating To Fred Anderegg: A Bibliographical Note, Leo Schelbert

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A. Articles by Fred Anderegg

(1) "Agar Plate Photography," Photo Technique (October ~940), 2 pages, with four illustrations.

(2) "Aerial Negatives and Prints, Their Classification and Preservation in the United States," Transactions, American Geophysical Union 28, No. 4 (August 1947): 523-527. (Notation, p. 527: 11Manuscript received May 7, 1947; presented at the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 30, 1947; open for formal discussion until January 1, 1948.")

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On Becoming An Archaeologrical Photographer, Fred Anderegg

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The normal and simplest way to become an archaeological photographer is to take courses in photography and some in archaeology--then go out in the field with a good director and get practice.

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Goals And Objectives Of The Danish American Heritage Society

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Recollections Of Two Immigrant Sisters, James D. Iversen

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My father's family were among those thousands of Danes who made their decision to emigrate to America in the last decade of the nineteenth century. On March 28, 1893, Peter Iversen and wife Kirstine and children Christine, 12 years, Karen, 10, Katherine, 8, Marie, 6, Mikkel, 5 and Laura, not quite 3 years old, sailed from Copenhagen on the "Thingvalla." The came first to Sioux CIty, Iowa, where Kirstine's brother Graves Mikkelsen had settled earlier. Times were not prosperous in 1893 in Sioux City, however so the family soon moved to a homestead site in Buffalo County, South Dakota, about …

Danish Perceptions And West Indian Realities: Slavery In The Danish West Indies, Karen Fog Olwig

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The year 1987 marked the 70th anniversary of the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States of America. With the sale of the three small islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John, Denmark had disposed of all her tropical colonies, which at one time had included possessions on the Gold Coast in Africa, the present Ghana, and in southeastern India, most importantly Trankebar.

Devastation In Tyler, Jens B. Johansen, Thorvald Hansen, Translator

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During the evening of August 21, 1918, the community of Tyler, Minnesota, was struck by a severe tornado. Many people were killed, many more injured, and the damage to property was tremendous. The letter, written in Danish, which follows is a first-hand account of what that thriving community looked like after the storm. In some places this account is gruesome, in other places it is subtly humorous, and in all places it is a graphic presentation of the havoc that can be wreaked in a few moments.

Danish Immigrant Archival Listing, Arnold Bodtker, Thorvald Hansen

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The Danish Immigrant Archival Listing (DIAL) is a reference book, and guide, which will enable scholars, researchers and others to know something of the existence and whereabouts of source material related to the Danish immigrant in America. This 300 page hard-cover book is a comprehensive listing of books, periodicals, manuscripts, pamphlets, letters, documents, scrapbooks, pictures, and similar items.

Goals And Objectives Of The Danish American Heritage Society

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To promote an interest in Danish American contributions to American life.

To encourage research in the life and culture of Danish Americans. To serve as an agency for the publication of studies of Danish American contributions to American life.

To provide a means of communication and education for individuals interested in the activities of Danish Americans.

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