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The golden signpost : a guide to happiness and prosperity / translated by Colin D. Thomson and edited by Charlotte Lang Brancaforte.
Van Pelt Library BJ1573 .G6513 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Translation series (Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies (University of Wisconsin-Madison))
- Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies
- Translation series / Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies
- Standardized Title:
- Goldne Wegweiser. English 1993.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1900.
- Conduct of life.
- Home.
- German Americans--Life skills guides.
- German Americans.
- Genre:
- Life skills guides.
- Physical Description:
- xlvii, 391 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993.
- Summary:
- The Golden Signpost, here in English translation, was an extremely popular guide for recent immigrants published in 1880s Cleveland. It offers today's reader fascinating insights into codes of behavior in the U.S. in the late nineteenth-century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page xli-xlvii) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0924119306
- OCLC:
- 31352437
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