Resources: German Archival and Manuscript Resources in the U.S.

Major Collections

Center for Research Libraries

 

Harvard University Libraries

 

Library of Congress German Collections

  • Geography and Map Division
  • Law Library
  • Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
  • Music Library
  • Prints and Photographs Division
  • Rare Books and Special Collections Division
  • Science and Technology Division

 

University of California, Berkeley Libraries

 

Specialized and Topical Collections

German Americana and Germans in the U.S.

Law

Literature / Literary

Medical and Scientific

Nachlässe / Personal Papers

National Socialism / Nazi / Holocaust

Visual Arts

Miscellaneous

 

German Archives and Manuscripts Resources (pdf) 

 

Other Tools of the Trade

Printed Guide

  • Hope, Anne and Jörg Nagler. Guide to German Sources in American Archives and Libraries. Washington, D. C.: German Historical Institute, 1991. (Dated but useful)

 

Potential Roadblocks – Can You Read Your Documents?

MSSGerman

 

German Script Courses

Moravian Archives German Script Course

Moravian

 

Archival Summer Seminar in Germany (GHI)

GHI

 

German Script Tutorial (BYU)

BYU

 

Sütterlin

Sutterlin

 

 

 

German Script Books

  • Grun, Paul Arnold. Schlüssel zu alten und neuen Abkürzungen: Wörterbuch lateinischer und deutscher Abkürzungen des späten Mittelalters und der Neuzeit mit historischer und systematischer Einführung für Archivbenutzer, Studierende, Heimat- und Familienforscher u.a. Nachbildungen der Originale. 625 Limburg/Lahn: Starke Verlag, 1966.
  • Kirchner, Joachim. Germanistische Handschriften: Ein Lehrbuch für die Studierenden der Deutschen Philologie. 2. erg. Aufl. München: Beck, 1967.
  • Minert, Roger P. Deciphering Handwriting in German Documents: Analyzing German, Latin, and French in Vital Records Written in Germany. Woods Cross, Utah: GRT Publications, 2001.
  • Süß, Harald. Deutsche Schreibschrift Lehrbuch. Lehrbuch. München: Knaur, 2003.

 

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