Details
Contributor Wollenweber, Johanna Dorothea, publisher.
M. H. Traubel & Co., lithographer.
Dechant, Augustus L., 1823-1901, associated name.
Beitenman, Amanda H., associated name.
Keeler's Church (Frederick, Pa.), associated name.
Title Confirmations-Schein : Es wird hiermit bescheinigt, dass [blank] nachdem [blank] in den Grundlehren und Pflichten der christlichen Religion gehorig unterrichtet, durch die Confirmation in die volle Gemeinschafte der [blank] aufgenommen worden ist, den [blank] im Jahre unseres Herrn Ein Tausend Acht Hundert und [blank] / [blank] Pastor der [blank]
Title Confirmations - Schein [certificate] [graphic] /
Publisher [Philadelphia, Pa. : Zu haben bei J.D. Wollenweber, No. 385 Nord 2te. St. Philada]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1854
Date [between 1854 and 1856?]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 30 x 23 cm (11.75 x 9 in.)
Description Confirmation certificate issued by the Reformed Church containing a scene of a confirmation class, and Biblical passages, a confirmation poem, and text in German. Scene depicts a pastor at the altar of a church attending to four men and a woman kneeling in prayer in front of him. Also shows curved stairways in the background and the baptismal font in the foreground. Bible passages include Isaiah 54:10, Matthew 11:28, Deuteronomy 29:9, Mark 8:34, and Rev. 2:10. Also contains an ornamental border.
Is referenced by Yoder, D. Pennsylvania German broadside, p. 248
Notes Johanna Dorothea Wollenweber is listed at this address in Philadelphia directories from 1854 to 1857; M.H. Traubel is listed at this address from 1854 to 1856.
Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 22.7 x 17.6 cm.L
Not in: Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 42
Library Company copy completed in MS. for Amanda H. Beitenman, confirmed March 29, 1857 by Rev. A.L. Dechant, in Keeler's Church, Frederick, Montgomery County, Pa.
Subject Confirmation.
Confirmation -- Pictorial works.
Reformed churches -- Pennsylvania.
Confirmations -- Pennsylvania.
Altars -- Pennsylvania.
Fonts -- Pennsylvania.
Genre Blank forms.
Broadsides.
Confirmation records.
Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Certificates -- 1850-1860.
Illustrator M. H. Traubel & Co., lithographer.
Printer Wollenweber, Johanna Dorothea, publisher.
Provenance Dechant, Augustus L., 1823-1901, associated name.
Beitenman, Amanda H., associated name.
Keeler's Church (Frederick, Pa.), associated name.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| #Am 1854 Confirm 14331.Q (Roughwood)
Accession number 14331.Q (Roughwood)