Image Gallery: Set Apart: Religious Communities in Pennsylvania
Image Gallery - Set Apart: Religious Communities in Pennsylvania
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Fraktur
"Fraktur" are decorated manuscripts or documents... |
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Ephrata fraktur
The first fraktur created in this country... |
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Taufschein
The most popular type of American fraktur... |
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Art in Lettering
Most fraktur created before 1900 used German... |
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Symbolism
Some scholars believe the forms and characters... |
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"Taufschein" or circa 1801 birth and baptismal certificate.
Most early fraktur were created by schoolmasters... |
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Religious Text
Many types of frakur were created for many... |
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Decorative Drawing
Fraktur was also created simply for fun.... |
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Penmanship Model
Fraktur was sometimes used by schoolmasters... |
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Haussegen
Another common type of fraktur was a house... |
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Story Telling
Relatively rare are fraktur that relate stories.... |
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Personalized
Beginning in the early 19th century, some... |
