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A good start : the Aussteier or dowry / Jeannette Lasansky.
LIBRA HQ1017 .L37 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lasansky, Jeannette.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dowry--Pennsylvania--History.
- Dowry.
- Dowry--Pennsylvania--History--Sources.
- Mennonites--Pennsylvania--History--Sources.
- Mennonites.
- Amish--Pennsylvania--History--Sources.
- Amish.
- History.
- Pennsylvania.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 88 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 30 cm
- Distribution:
- Philadelphia, Pa : Distributed by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewisburg, Pa. : Published by the Oral Traditions Project of the Union County Historical Society, 1990.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Definitions/Dowry, Aussteier, Dower
- A Complex Inheritance System/Indentures, Family Books, Wills
- It's in the Accounts/Written and Oral
- Initialed and Dated Objects.
- Notes:
- "An Oral Traditions Project."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 84-87) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- ISBN:
- 0917127064
- 0812282612
- OCLC:
- 20755305
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