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A fraktur by Daniel Peterman sold recently at Wehrly's Auction in Codorus Township for $9,680, according to Scott Wehrly.
Source: York County fraktur fetches nearly $10,000 at auction - The York ...
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The exhibition encompasses the period from 1750 to around 1850 and includes works by many of the finest and best ...
As devout a Christian people as the Quakers were, they did not express their religious belief as dynamically as the Pennsylvania Dutch/Germans, whose American Folk Art spilled over from the ...
→ Contemporary artists find resonance in old folk tradition — NewsWorks

Framing Fraktur
The Free Library of Philadelphia mounts two exhibitions. Quill & Brush: Pennsylvania German Fraktur and Material Culture will feature original fraktur works along with Pennsylvania German artifacts, manuscripts, and ...
→ Pennsylvania German folk art discussion set for March 13 - Bucks County Courier Times
Visitors coming to Pennsylvania from outside the state often associate Pennsylvania Dutch culture with the Amish of Lancaster County, sometimes even assuming that the group is representative of all Pennsylvania ...

UPDATE: You can find the full PA Books episode featuring Corinne and Russell Earnest discussing their book 'The Heart of Taufschein' here.
→ March 9, PA Books: “The Heart of the Taufschein” ...

Originally produced in 1998 for PBS, this documentary traces the arrival of the PA Dutch in America, along with their visual culture.
Synopsis: Explores the handicrafts and traditional arts of the "Pennsylvania ...

→ UD alumna, doctoral student curates new Winterthur exhibition
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She notes that, contrary to what many people believe, Pennsylvania Germans lived in urban as ...

→ Fraktur: More than Pennsylvania German artwork - Pocono Record.com
→ Soldiers' pensions: Family records included in applications from Revolutionary War veterans | Slate
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