Letters to William B. Miller from German POWs

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{"value"=>"1916-1919", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1916/1919"}

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1916

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1919

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1916

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{"value"=>"Letters to William B. Miller from German POWs"}

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{"id"=>"MSS", "value"=>"Manuscripts and Archives Division"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Letters to William B. Miller, German emigrant and artist in Brooklyn, New York, chiefly from Captain Carl Grasshof, Margarete Grasshof, and Trygve Narvesen expressing thanks for his donation of reading material and other goods to German prisoners of war held at internment camps in Fort Douglas, Utah and Forts Oglethorpe and McPherson in Atlanta, Georgia. Some of the letters contain information about activities in the camps and the personal lives of the inmates and their families. Grasshof had been Commander of the German gunboat Geier, and Narvesen was YMCA International Committee agent at Fort Douglas, acting as an intermediary for correspondence with prisoners of war. Most of the content concerns Captain Grasshof, his wife Margarete, and their friendship with Miller and his young niece, Mignon Fuchs / Fox. Some letters are addressed to Mignon, who also wrote to the Grasshofs and to Narvesen. Letters from other prisoners and Claud D. Nelson of the YMCA in Atlanta are also present. In German and English."}

prefercite

{"value"=>"<p>Letters to William B. Miller from German POWs, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}

origination

{"value"=>"Miller, William B., d. 1959 -- recipient", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Mignon Eayre, 2012</p>"}

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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Susan P. Waide</span>, <span class=\"date\">2014</span></p>"}

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.21 linear feet (1 box)

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1916

date_end

1919

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