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Letters From 1915 To The End Of The War, Othmar Ammann, Lilly Ammann
Letters From 1915 To The End Of The War, Othmar Ammann, Lilly Ammann
Swiss American Historical Society Review
My dear parents,
Tomorrow the last steamship that can bring you our Christmas greetings is leaving, so that means: hurry. Just a few words, but from the heart.
One is carried along here in the non-ending stream of business so much that one can hardly catch one's breath in order to appreciate the ideal side of life. However, with the approach of the holidays, spirits are lifted. With great excitement and wonderment, young and old await the festive days. What will Christmas bring, how will the New Year begin? This is what each one is asking himself and with thousands …
Othmar H. Ammann's Return To Switzerland, Othmar Ammann, Lilly Ammann
Othmar H. Ammann's Return To Switzerland, Othmar Ammann, Lilly Ammann
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Two beautiful and quiet days have already passed since we parted. The sea is so quiet and the sky so peacefully clear as to make one forget all dangers and sorrows. Besides, the pure air is so invigorating that I feel already much better and stronger than in New York, I am looking with confidence and pleasure to the future. I feel that my body and brain need a complete restoration and I will be the more vigorous and able to work afterwards. And how · about you? I still ·see the last looks from your dear eyes and the …
Othmar H. Ammann's Military Service, Lilly Ammann, Othmar Ammann, Gustav Lindenthal
Othmar H. Ammann's Military Service, Lilly Ammann, Othmar Ammann, Gustav Lindenthal
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Finally I get to write you a few lines from duty. As Papa probably has already informed you, I went from Basel to Monthal, where I met Mama and Werner, as well as Rosa and Manja Labhart from Moscow. Werner was very happy. He is thin but looks strong and healthy. He did not want to answer my question of whether he would like to come back to America with me after the war. But I am decided about bringing him back with me. On the same evening I also visited Onkel Hermann and David in Zurich. I also met …
Preface, Leo Schelbert
O. H. Ammann's Return To New York, Othmar Ammann, Lilly Ammann, Rudolf Meyer
O. H. Ammann's Return To New York, Othmar Ammann, Lilly Ammann, Rudolf Meyer
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Dear L.
Just returned from the snow-covered mountain heights of the St. Gotthard on a long ski ride. Am spending a few hours in this beautiful place, which, however, is at present quite desolate. The lake, the Pilatus look wonderful. If nothing intervenes I shall be home in 4 weeks. Shall go to Basel tonight and later to Kilchberg for a few days.
Reports, Leo Schelbert, Erdmann Schmocker, Carla Crosby
Reports, Leo Schelbert, Erdmann Schmocker, Carla Crosby
Swiss American Historical Society Review
REPORT
ON THE 30TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SWISS AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD ON OCTOBER 9, 1993 AT THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART IN PHILADELPHIA, PA
Program For The Afternoon Meeting
Program For The Afternoon Meeting
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Agenda For The Business Meeting
Agenda For The Business Meeting
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Obituaries
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Godfrey L. Munter, 96, a former judge of the D.C. Domestic Relations Court and a past president of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, died of heart ailments August 9.
MURRAY LUCK (1899-1993) Dr. James Murray Luck, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and a well-respected writer on Swiss history and culture, died on August 26 at his home in Menlo Park, at the age of 93.
"We're Here Because You Were There": Britain's Black Population, Louis Kushnick
"We're Here Because You Were There": Britain's Black Population, Louis Kushnick
Trotter Review
The existence of a black population in Britain is the result of Britain’s imperialist history. The conquest of large parts of the world and their incorporation into a new world system dominated by Britain and other European nations not only created the economic basis of the capitalist system, but also set in motion massive movements of—and, indeed, constructions of—peoples. The creation of the African-American and African-Caribbean peoples are examples of this phenomenon: “We’re here because you were there.”
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Swiss-American Newsletter
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Glimpses From An Industrial Electrician's Lifetime, Ernest Thurkauf
Glimpses From An Industrial Electrician's Lifetime, Ernest Thurkauf
Swiss American Historical Society Review
My life's main line of work has been as an industrial maintenance electrician, though in early years I tried my hand as blacksmith's helper, arc and acetylene welder, coal mine laborer, lumber jack, farm hand, fruit picker, and other miscellaneous work. But it was as a trained electrician that I got my greatest joy in working especially in training men in my line of work. In my old years now, I have given much thought to what have been some very challenging jobs I had encountered as I struggled onward in this best of all possible. worlds, and these are· …
Agent Of Absolutism: Printing And Politics In Early Modern Europe, Donna Amelia Vinson
Agent Of Absolutism: Printing And Politics In Early Modern Europe, Donna Amelia Vinson
Bridgewater Review
The fifteenth century marked the commencement of two trends which signaled the end of the medieval era and the dawn of modernity: the emergence of centralized monarchies and the introduction of print culture. Both trends were gradual and in their infancy in the fifteenth century, but their successive paths of development were closely intertwined. Throughout the early modern era, monarchs with aspirations of imposing an absolute and uncontested authority on their often recalcitrant subjects utilized the “new art” (ars nova) of printing to realize their aims. Select printers became agents of absolutism, and the craft developed at the …
Valaisans All, Gordon Chapman
Valaisans All, Gordon Chapman
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Like seeds blown on winds of change.
These trees are evidence,
People, ideas, some piece of the ancient soul
Of this place, this valley, this passageway
Prefatory Note, Jane Adèle Roberts Chapman
Prefatory Note, Jane Adèle Roberts Chapman
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The theme of this issue of the Review is the 19th Century SAHS emigration from Canton Valais of Switzerland to the United States. All the materials in the issue were written by Valaisans or by American descendants of Valaisan immigrants. My own article, "Nineteenth Century Swiss Valaisan Immigration to the United States," developed from · a desire to understand the experience of my great-great grandparents who left the canton in 1854. Their final destination, according to the ship's manifest, was Mishicot, Wisconsin.
Our American Cousins, Alexandre Carron, Christophe Carron
Our American Cousins, Alexandre Carron, Christophe Carron
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In the article which follows, Alexandre and Christophe Carron, uncle and nephew, of Fully, Canton Valais, tell of their own adventure in discovering and writing about the Valaisans' immigration to North an~ South America. They have published two books, with a third under way, under the series title, Our American Cousins (Sierre, Switzerland: Edition Monographic).
Volume I (1986) presents the problem of the Valaisan emigration of the nineteenth century. It describes diverse expeditions to Algeria and Argentina, in addition to the founding and history of the V alaisan colony of San Jose in Argentina. Volume Il (1991) covers the colonization …
Nineteenth Century Swiss Valaisan Immigration To The United States, Jane Adèle Chapman
Nineteenth Century Swiss Valaisan Immigration To The United States, Jane Adèle Chapman
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In writing this paper I have had before me a mental picture of a young couple who left Martigny-Bourg in bas-Valais in the summer of 1854. They sailed from Le Havre with their small son on the new American ship Brother Jonathan to the Port of New York and continued overland to Wisconsin. The study of Valaisan emigration, of which this paper is a part, is my attempt to put this rather blurry mental picture in focus.
Profiles Of Immigration, Jane Adèle Chapman
Profiles Of Immigration, Jane Adèle Chapman
Swiss American Historical Society Review
There is a story to tell for every Valaisan immigrant of the 19th century, but only a few can be presented below. These profiles were written by Swiss Valaisans, by American immigrants, or their descendants. They vary greatly as to source and level of detail. But even the simplest account of the facts of departure and travel reveal the enormity of the steps these immigrants took and the effect it would have on them and the generations to come..