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The Handschin Foundation: Foundation Revenues And Their Uses

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Foundation assets at the end of 1985 amounted to Sfr. 1,275,982.00

At the end of 1992 they had increased to 2,365,039.50

The Handschin Foundation: Financial Statement For 1992

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Daily allowances for board members sfr. 1,696.00

The Handschin Foundation: Sources

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StABL [Staatsarchiv Basel-Landschaft] Neueres Archiv. C. Handschin Stiftung

Introduction: A Weaver In Moscow-A Benefactor In Basel-Land Heinrich Handschin 1830-1894, Marianne Burkhard

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While I was President of the SAHS a few years ago I was contacted by a descendant of the Handschin family who wanted to have an English translation of a brochure which described the life and work of her greatgreat- uncle Heinrich Handschin. He grew up in rather poor circumstances in Rickenbach, in the Canton of Basel-Landschaft, became a weaver, emigrated to Russia and returned as a rich man to Basel. At his death he bequeathed most of his money to his Canton requesting that an educational foundation be set up which would allow poor children of the Canton to …

Heinrich Handschin: Relief

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The hiring of the young Jakob Wirz proved to be a great success. Under his management the Handschin firm emerged as an extremely profitable large enterprise. The financial statement for the year of 1882 was the best the firm had ever seen, thus Heinrich Handschin gave Wirz a bonus of sfr. 5,000.00 and promoted him to general manager.

The Handschin Foundation: Secondary Studies

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Forcart-Respinger, E. Basel und das Seidenband. Basel 1942 [Basel and the Silk Ribbon].

The Handschin Foundation: Picture Credits [Giving Only English Translations Of The Titles]

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All photographs and reproductions: Felix Gysin, Microfilm Depatrment of Canton Basel-Landschaft

Preface, Ruth Haener

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A person who has erected a memorial to himself easily elicits rumors and speculations which even intensify if he came from nowhere and left great riches but seemed to have little personality.

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Foreword, Hans Fünfschilling

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The Handschin Foundation is 100 years old. Thanks to this Foundation many young people from the Canton Basel-Landschaft have been receiving scholarships which have made it easier, or even possible, for them to get an education. The founder, the industrialist Heinrich Handschin from Rickenbach, regretted his own lack of formal education throughout his life. Therefore he provided in his last will that "poor, gifted young people from the Canton" were to be helped to complete an education appropriate to their abilities.

Heinrich Handschin: Retirement To Private Life

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In 1885, at the age of 55, Heinrich Handschin made the tried and tested Jakob Wirz his partner. He informed his clients that "I have accepted my present general manager Jakob Wirz as joint proprietor in my silk ribbon enterprise which I will continue under the name of Heinrich Handschin & Wirz."

Heinrich Handschin: Childhood Places

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Heinrich Handschin was born on February 1, 1830, in Rickenbach in the Canton of Basel-Landschaft as the son of Anna Maria Obrist and Johannes Handschin. He was the youngest of four children and grew up in the 'Butcher House' named for the butcher line of the Handschin family from Rickenbach which has many wide-spread branches. Yet for a long time there had been no more butchers in the family, instead there were lacemakers, weavers of silk ribbons, small farmers, day-laborers and farmhands. In the 19th century other family members undertook the difficult journey to America in the hope to find …

The Handschin Foundation: Franz Hasenböhler

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Born on November 1, 1936 as citizen of Therwil near Basel. He attended the elementary school in Therwil and graduated with a Matura [the nationally required exam which allows entering a Swiss (or German, Austrian) university, type A, i.e. with Greek and Latin] from the humanities branch of the Gymnasium [college preparatory school] in Basel in 1956. Subsequently he studied philosophy and law at the universities of Basel and Fribourg and received a doctor in law in 1974.

Heinrich Handschin: Wilhelm Mohler

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Mohler, Wilhelm from Thtirnen, born on July 3, 1911, moved in 1916 to Gelterkinden. Parents: Wilhelm and Elise Mohler-Mohler. The father was a watch-maker [Uhrensteinschleifer - grinding a part for watches], after 1916 he worked on the roads in Gelterkinden; the mother was a homemaker and silk-ribbon weaver.

Heinrich Handschin: Things Are Looking Up

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A real change did not come until Handschin turned his back on the silk ribbons and in 1863 began to produce ribbons for fire hoses. This cheap ribbon made of the raw material flax finally brought him the long expected commercial upswing. Drabbet (coarse linen) unlike silk or cotton could be bought inexpensively since it was produced in Russia and thus was not subject to tariffs. Low wages and long work hours which guaranteed the best possible use of the machines also contributed to making Moscow an extremely attractive industrial place for Heinrich Handschin.

Charles De Gaulle's Influence On Contemporary French Culture And On France's Rejection Of Genetically Modified Food, Susanna Lenore Foxworthy

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Although the Gaullist movement declined after violent student and worker rebellions in 1968, I propose that de Gaulle's distrust of American policy coupled with his strong belief in French sovereignty continues to influence contemporary France. These two factors are the primary reasons why the French strongly disapprove ofthe production and consumption of genetically modified food not only in their country but also in the entire European Union.

Special Report: My Trip To Helvetia, West Virginia, Rosa Schupbach

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Intern At The Harriman-Nielsen Farm: Where To Begin?, Nana Mikkelsen

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During the months of October and November 2008, I interned on the Harriman-Nielsen Farm in Hampton, Iowa. The Danish American Heritage Society was looking for a Danish intern to assist the Harriman-Nielsen Farm board in the process of creating an interpretive exhibition, which would tell the stories of the estate. I immediately thought it would be a good place for me to apply my professional training in a combination of dramaturgy and museology. I find it interesting to introduce theatre elements into a museum context.

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The Way It Was, Thorvald Hansen

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When New York is mentioned, it seems that thoughts inevitably tum to a very large city, tall buildings, and with sidewalks and streets crowded with unfriendly people. The latter is only partially true, but it fits the common understanding, or perhaps one should say, misunderstanding, of the city and, more importantly, the state.

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An American Presidential Election In The Eyes Of A European Observer, Louis Christensen

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After "election fever" ran rampant in the United States throughout the year 2008 and Europe was also "running a temperature," it might raise a few eyebrows to read what a European observer wrote home after having attended the presidential election in 1848.