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Size | 3 items |
Abstract | The collection includes the records of the related German-American Van Vleck family and Kramsch family. One volume contains accounts, 1832-1834, of Charles Anthony Van Vleck (fl. 1811-1845), later Moravian minister in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, kept when he taught French, painting, and music in Newport, R.I., and other memoranda. The other volumes contain German script memoirs, unattributed, of Van Vleck, Kramsch, and Langgaard ancestors in Germany and colonial America, written circa 1845-1850. |
Creator | Kramsch family.
Van Vleck (Family : Van Vleck, Charles Anthony, 1794-1845) |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English German |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2010
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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The Van Vlecks and Kramschs were related German-American families.
Back to TopThe collection includes records of the Van Vleck and Kramsch families. One volume contains accounts, 1832-1834, of Charles Anthony Van Vleck (fl. 1811-1845), later Moravian minister in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, kept when he taught French, painting, and music in Newport, R.I., and other memoranda. The other volumes contain German script memoirs, unattributed, of Van Vleck, Kramsch, and Langgaard ancestors in Germany and colonial America, written circa 1845-1850.
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