The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society Twelve Volume Set: 1936-1945, 1947, 1948

Twelve hardcover volumes. 8vo. Color plates, black & white photographic plates, half-tone illustrations, and drawings throughout text. A collection of various types of folklore and traditional arts (poetry, stories, etc.) by German immigrants to Pennsylvania, also valuable for its genealogical content with respect to Pennsylvania Dutch families. Contents include: Drauss un Deheem (a collection of poetry); The Pennsylvania German Galleries in the American Wing [of the] Metropolitan Museum of Art; A List of German Immigrants to the American Colonies from Zweibrucken in the Palatinate, 1728-1749; Catalogue of The Pennsylvania Folk Art Exhibition; Consider the Lilies How They Grow; Gezwitscher: A Book of Pennsylvania German Verse; Early Marriage Customs of the Moravian Congregation in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the Use of the Lot in its Relation to the Marriage Rite and Descriptions of Some Notable Ceremonies; Notices by German and Swiss Settlers Seeking Information of Members of Their Families, Kindred, or Friends Inserted between the Years 1742 and 1761 in the Pennsylvanische Berichte and between the Years 1762 and 1779 in the Pennsylvanische Staatsbote; Conestoga Wagons and Their Ornamental Ironing; En Quart Millich un En Halb Beint Raahm: A Pennsylvania German Comedy; Letters Addressed to the Honorable Robert Hunter Morris upon His Appointment as Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania from the Reformed Clergy, from the Lutheran Churches, from the Lutheran Ministers, from German Protestant Freeholders, and a Broadside by German Freeholders of Philadelphia against Benjamin Franklin Candidate for the Assembly; Lewis Miller: Pennsylvania German Folk Artist; Names Given by the Lenni Lanape or Delaware Indians to Rivers, Streams and Places in the Now States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, with Their Significations and Some Biographical Sketches; The Ephrata Printing Press: Now in the Printshop of Frank R. King, New Enterprise, Bedford County, Pennsylvania; Of Months and Days; The Folk Culture of the Pennsylvania Germans: Its Value in Modern Education; The Christmas Putz of the Pennsylvania Germans; Early Christmases in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (1742-1756); The Moravian Christmas Putz; The Christmas Poetry of the 'Pennsylvania Dutch'; Twelvetide; The Bucks County Historical Society; The Schwenkfelder Historical Library; The Pennsylvania State Museum; The Berks County Historical Society; The Hershey Museum; The Landis Valley Museum; Lancaster Rifles; 1942 in Pennsylvania German History; Conrad Weiser: Pennsylvania Peacemaker; 1943 in Pennsylvania German History; Storm Blown Seed of Schoharie; Lancaster Rifles Accessories; Pennsylvania German Versammlinge; Tribute to John Baer Stoudt; 1944 Pennsylvania German History; The Influence of the Pennsylvania Dutch in the Middle West; Emigrants from Wuerttemberg: The Adolf Gerber Lists; 1945 in Pennsylvania German History; In Memoriam - Lloyd A. Moll; Am Scharze Baer; Pennsylvania German Pioneers from the County of Wertheim; 1947 in Pennsylvania German History; Coverlets of the Pennsylvania Germans; Linguistic Variants in the Pennsylvania German Dialect; 1948 in Pennsylvania German History. Later volumes also include accounts of annual meetings and lists of society officers.