- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Collector:
- Schaefer, Bernhard K. (Bernhard Karsch), 1897-1985
- Title:
- Bernhard K. Schaefer Civil War Collection
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0k225b07x
- Dates:
- 1845-1890 (mostly 1861-1870)
- Size:
- 2 boxes and 0.90 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-2
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of papers collected by American businessman and importer Bernhard K. Schaefer (Princeton Class of 1920) relating to the Civil War.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of papers collected by Bernhard K. Schaefer (Princeton Class of 1920) relating to the Civil War. Included are autograph letters of such Union officers as Ulysses S. Grant, John C. Fremont, Winfield Scott, George McClellan, William T. Sherman, Fitz-John Porter, and George Gordon Meade, as well as 80 others; many of the letters are accompanied by portrait engravings, field orders, and other documents. Also present are files of miscellaneous and unidentified letters, Civil War envelope covers depicting various officers and political caricatures (including some of Jefferson Davis), documents, pictures, supply requisitions, and War Dept. orders.
- Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Schaefer, Bernhard K. (Bernhard Karsch), 1897-1985
American businessman, importer, and collector, Bernhard Karsch Schaefer (1897-1985) was a member of the Princeton Class of 1920.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of Bernhard K. Schaefer '1920.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed in 2002. Finding aid written in 2002.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Bernhard K. Schaefer Civil War Collection; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0k225b07x
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-2
Find More
- Genre Terms:
- Autographs -- United States.
Correspondence.
Portraits -- United States. - Names:
- United States. Army
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889. - Places:
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.
United States -- Politics and government -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
