[1] Small, rectangular, patent black with silver border, title and illustration, hard cover, ‘TRAUER ALBUM’, mourning album with loose documents inside. Cover illustration shows palm-like trees grouped around an obelisk style memorial, slightly left of centre. Yellowed pages, standard printed text in German, with handwritten pencil personalisation. Newspaper clipping of death notice glued to page three, along with photograph of man (Leo Freudenberg), in profile, left side to camera. 24 pages in total. Reverse cover slightly warped, vertically, through centre.
[2] A4-sized, rectangular, yellowed, cube-lined paper, black ink handwritten, single page letter, in German. ‘Sögel… 8.7.36/ Frau? A. Freudenberg/ Bremen/…’. Letter largely illegible. Page folded into quarters, with small tears to edges. Perforated top edge.
[3] Small, rectangular, yellowed paper with black ink, ‘Gebühren-Rechnung’, invoice, in German. Printed, itemised list of services on left of page, with related costs on right. Page folded into four. Perforated along left edge. Paperclip-shaped rust mark to lower left corner and reverse of upper left corner.
[4] Small, rectangular, pink-coloured paper with green-coloured (originally black?) ink, handwritten, ‘Die Sparkasse in Bremen’, receipt, in German. Largely illegible handwritten text, oval-shaped stamp in top right corner reads ‘…/21. Juli 36/…’. Reverse plain, with large, irregular shape in dark green (originally black?) ink.
[5] Thin, rectangular, yellowed paper with black ink, handwritten, ‘Rechnung’ account, in German. Handwritten, itemised list of services on left, with corresponding costs on right side, with total of 81.04 Reichs Mark. Handwriting largely illegible. Paperclip indent to top left corner. Paperclip-shaped rust mark to lower left corner and reverse top left corner. Paper folded in half, horizontally. Perforated left edge.
[6] Small, rectangular, orange coloured paper and black ink, handwritten, postal order receipt, in German. Receipt for 81.04 Reichs Mark. Stamp at lower right side reads ‘13324 10.7.36/ a 5/ Bremen 1’. Paperclip-shaped rust mark to upper left corner. Reverse plain, with two lines of gothic German text.
Department:
History DepartmentCollection
Stanwix Collection
History Collection
Collection Item Data
| Accession Number: | H2008.287.1-6 |
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| Accession Date: | 15 Apr 2014 |
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| Acquisition Year: | 2008 |
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Material
| Leather | leather, paper, ink, pencil
| 1 - ALBUM |
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Measurement
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