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Book Review: Six Bridges: The Legacy Of Othmar Ammann, Nicole Butz
Book Review: Six Bridges: The Legacy Of Othmar Ammann, Nicole Butz
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Around his eightieth birthday, the Swiss-American engineer, Othmar Ammann moved to an apartment at the top of the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan. One imagines that he, gazing down on the city below, could have only marveled at how much its landscape had changed since his arrival there fiftyodd years earlier. He also could have delighted in his own accomplishments, the vistas from his new home offering visual confirmation of his professional successes. With views in three directions, Ammann would have seen virtually all of "his bridges": the George Washington to the north; the Triborough, Bronx-Whitestone, and Throgs Neck to the …
Reports, Karl Niederer, Sabine Jessner, Carla Crosby, Erdmann Schmocker, Fred Moser, Ernest Thurston, Leo Schelbert
Reports, Karl Niederer, Sabine Jessner, Carla Crosby, Erdmann Schmocker, Fred Moser, Ernest Thurston, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
At 10:00 A.M., President Karl I. Niederer called the business meeting to order. He expressed the Society's thanks to His Excellency, Ambassador Alfred Defago for hosting this meeting and to staff Member Ms. Florence Nicole for having so efficiently taken care of all the local arrangements. The Society has traditionally met here in Washington every third year. Our Washington meetings also mark the conclusion of outgoing officers' three-year terms and the election of new officers, so meeting in this place has a special significance. Mr. Niederer also expressed his deep appreciation to Ambassador and Mrs. Defago for welcoming us to …
The Swiss In Utah: An Introduction, Douglas F. Tobler
The Swiss In Utah: An Introduction, Douglas F. Tobler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Beginning in the mid-18.SOs, Swiss immigrants, virtually all converts from early successful Mormon proselyting in their homeland, began arriving in the Utah Territory. They became part of two larger immigrant streams: one composed of thousands--by the year 1900, some 115,000--of . fellow Swiss who, beginning in colonial times, had found new homes in the United States; and the other, the so-called "Gathering to Zion," the organized emigration of thousands of European Mormon converts, mostly from Protestant countries, in the last half of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth century.
Reports, Karl Niederer, Sabine Jessner, Carla Crosby, Erdmann Schmocker, Fred Moser, Ernest Thurston, Leo Schelbert, Selina Sutter
Reports, Karl Niederer, Sabine Jessner, Carla Crosby, Erdmann Schmocker, Fred Moser, Ernest Thurston, Leo Schelbert, Selina Sutter
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Promptly at ten a.m. President Karl J. Niederer called the business meeting to order. He noted that since the Swiss Town House had been sold, this was the first time that we have met in another New York City location. He expressed the thanks of the society to Rosa Schupbach, a member of the Board of Advisors, for having found the location in the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church and for having so efficiently taken care of the local arrangements. He also acknowledged Richard Frey of the church staff for his help.
Book Review: Das Selbstverstiindnis Eines Schweizerischen Auswanderer-Vereins In Den Usa: Die Geschichte Der Zeitschrift Swiss-American Historical Society Review,", Sabine Jessner
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Racine's work treats two subjects: the Society and the contents of the Swiss-American Historical Society Review. After a brief overview of the Society's first decades following its 1927 founding in Chicago, she traces in detail its evolution since 1965. The structure of the organization and the gender, educational, and geographical distribution of the membership are discussed. Although the diplomat Lukas Burckhardt reorganized the Society in 1965, the author fails to underscore his important role, while she does stress the leading part that academics--especially historians--have played. She-stresses Leo Schelbert's many contributions to the history of Swiss-American immigration, offering a review …
Reports, Karl Niederer, Eric Pumroy, Sabine Jessner, Scott Baumgartner, Fred Moser, Leo Schelbert, Selina Sutter
Reports, Karl Niederer, Eric Pumroy, Sabine Jessner, Scott Baumgartner, Fred Moser, Leo Schelbert, Selina Sutter
Swiss American Historical Society Review
President Karl J. Niederer called the meeting to order at 10: 10 a.m. The members were greeted by the Swiss honorary consul, Franz Portmann, who invited them to visit the Swiss consulate between 6th and 7th Streets, time permitting. Next Eric Pumroy, director of the Balch Institute of Ethnic Studies, welcomed those present and reminded them that this was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Institute. He noted that the Swiss were in on the Institute's ground-breaking in 1972 and the SAHS records are housed there, as well as those of the Swiss Benevolent Society of New York. He also mentioned …
Reports, Sabine Jessner, Erdmann Schmocker, Carla Crosby, Elisabeth Stockli, Donald Tritt, Leo Schelbert, Selina Sutter
Reports, Sabine Jessner, Erdmann Schmocker, Carla Crosby, Elisabeth Stockli, Donald Tritt, Leo Schelbert, Selina Sutter
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The Attache Culturel of the Swiss Embassy, Walter Haffner, welcomed the members of our society to the Swiss Embassy. He was followed by our president Erdmann Schmocker who greeted the attendees to the business meeting. He expressed the society's appreciation to Ambassador Carlo Jagmetti for hosting the meeting and for graciously inviting the participants to be his guests at lunch.
Reports, Erdmann Schmocker, Sabine Jessner, Rosa Schupbach, Carla Crosby, Elizabeth Stockli, Leo Schelbert, Selina Sutter
Reports, Erdmann Schmocker, Sabine Jessner, Rosa Schupbach, Carla Crosby, Elizabeth Stockli, Leo Schelbert, Selina Sutter
Swiss American Historical Society Review
President Erdmann Schmocker greeted the members assembled for the business meeting at 9:30 a.m. Mr. Lukas Gloor moved and Mr. Peter Sehlinger seconded the acceptance of the minutes of the Philadelphia meeting on October 9, 1973. This motion passed unanimously. Mr. Schmocker then asked for a moment of silence in memory of the late Helen Muller of Stamford, Connecticut.
Agenda For The Business Meeting
Agenda For The Business 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.
Reports, Erdmann Schmocker, Arnold Price, Carla Crosby, Selina Sutter, Rosa Schupbach, Leo Schelbert
Reports, Erdmann Schmocker, Arnold Price, Carla Crosby, Selina Sutter, Rosa Schupbach, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The Twenty-Eighty Annual Meeting of the Swiss American Historical Society was held in New York City at the Swiss Town House on October 19, 1991.
Postal "Helvetica" In The United States: Non-Historic Observations Of A Stamp Collector, Felix Ganz
Postal "Helvetica" In The United States: Non-Historic Observations Of A Stamp Collector, Felix Ganz
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
A ~ew weeks after arrivi ng in this country, thirty years ago, fr iends drove me to a place called LAKE GENEVA, Wisconsin, and on t he way back we passed a town called LAKE ZURICH Illinois. Neither of these two towns seemed to have direct 1 ties to Switzerland; but a few months later, in NEW GLARUS Wisconsin, l earned much about that town's being founded by' Swiss immigrants--a story well known to all members of the Swiss American Historical Society.
The Swiss Guards Of San Francisco, Agathon A. Aerni
The Swiss Guards Of San Francisco, Agathon A. Aerni
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Swiss immigrants to California brought with them their military tradtions, and particularly their fondness for shooting.