- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"7 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"MssCol NYGB 18168", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"18168", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1813-1907", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1813/1907"}
{"value"=>"1844-1898", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1844/1898"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1813
- date_inclusive_end
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1907
- keydate
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1813
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Klefeker and Saxer family papers"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. <span class=\"subarea\">Manuscripts and Archives Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The collection contains correspondence among members of the Klefeker and Saxer familes in Germany and the United States, 1844-1906, family photographs, autograph albums, and other memorabilia. Nearly all of the materials in the collection are written in old German script."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Klefeker and Saxer Family Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Klefeker family", "type"=>"famname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Franz (or Frans) Klefeker (1801-1882) of Hamburg, and later, Berlin, Germany was a merchant and customs official. He married Johanna Sophie Elenore Von Hanffstengel. Their daughter, Luise (1829- ) married George Alexander Saxer of New York in 1857. The couple settled in St. Louis and later, Ft. Wayne, where Saxer taught at the Concordia Collegium. He returned to New York, and, during the 1870s served as personal secretary to railroad magnate Henry Villard. He later went into business. He disappeared in 1884 and was thought to have been robbed and murdered.</p> <p>Saxer's daughter, Hannah Luise was born in 1869 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and died 1915 in Halesite, Long Island, NY. She married Robert A. Troup in New York City in 1889. Her daughter, Marie Louisa Troup, donated the family papers to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated to New York Genealogical and Biographical Society by Marie L. Troup, 1976.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection contains correspondence among members of the Klefeker and Saxer familes in Germany and the United States, 1844-1906, family photographs, autograph albums, certificates, legal documents, drawings, poetry, religious writings, and memorabilia. Included is Franz Klefeker's diary/memoir, 1842-1882, and instructions for the disposition of his estate. Nearly all of the materials in the collection are written in old German script.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Klefeker and Saxer family papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18168#c40588'>I. Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1844-1907, n.d.</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18168#c40598'>II. Family documents and memorabilia</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18168#c40616'>III. Photographs</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Chiefly carte-de-visite portraits of family members, souvenir album of images of Goslar, Germany. Also, copy negatives (1976) of some photographs and documents in the collection</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The Klefeker and Saxer Family Papers are organized in the following series:</p> <ul> <li>I. Correspondence, 1844-1907, n.d.</li> <li>II. Family documents and memorabilia</li> <li>III. Photographs</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2008</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Leslie Reyman.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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3 linear feet (7 boxes)
- date_start
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1813
- date_end
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1907
- date_bulk_start
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1844
- date_bulk_end
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1898