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- Creator
- Brachvogel, Udo, 1835-1913
- Call number
- MssCol 361
- Physical description
- 2 linear feet (6 boxes, 2 v.)
- Language
- Materials in German and English
- Preferred Citation
- Udo Brachvogel papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Udo Brachvogel (1835-1913), a German author and translator, was a major figure in German-American publishing. Collection consists of correspondence, writings, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed matter. Includes letters written to Brachvogel and his wife; autographed portraits; manuscripts of essays, poems, and other writings including Gedichte and Brachvogel's German translation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter; and scrapbooks of newsclippings containing Brachvogel's contributions on music, art, literature, and the theatre, and notes of his journeys from Mainz to New York, and from New York to Saint Louis. Also, notebooks, reviews and obituary notices.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift, Brachvogel, Claire, 1927Key terms
Names
- Brachvogel, Udo, 1835-1913
- Anzengruber, Ludwig, 1839-1889
- Bodenstedt, Friedrich, 1819-1892
- Brandt, Marianne, 1842-1921
- Christians, Rudolf
- Damrosch, Walter, 1862-1950
- Geistinger, Marie
- Hauk, Minnie, 1852-1929
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
- Heyse, Paul, 1830-1914
- Jacobi, A. (Abraham), 1830-1919
- Janauschek, Francesca Romana Magdalena, 1830-1904
- Kudlich, Hans, 1823-1917
- Lehmann, Lilli, 1848-1929
- Lewald, Fanny, 1811-1889
- Lindau, Paul, 1839-1919
- Mottl, Felix, 1856-1911
- Possart, Ernst von, 1841-1921
- Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906
Subjects
- American literature -- Translations into German
- Art -- Germany
- German Americans
- German literature
- German poetry
- Music -- Germany
- Theater -- Germany
Places
- Mainz (Germany) -- Description and travel
- New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
- Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Description and travel
Occupations
Material types
Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328