Prussia (Germany)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Name Authority File
Scope Note: Bio/Hist: For subject use on all works about this place without regard to date. For corporate names of government bodies, use the appropriate name for the time period(s) involved: Prussia (Duchy) est. 1525; since 1618 administered by the Electorate of Brandenburg; Prussia (Kingdom) created from electorate of Brandenburg and other territories, 1701-1871; Prussia (Germany) 1871-1947.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Ernestine and Emil Loewenstein, circa 1906
Item
Identifier: B333.01.01.00003
Abstract
Ernestine and Emil Loewenstein, Henry Lowenstein's paternal grandparents, pose for a formal portrait in Lessen, West Prussia.
Dates:
circa 1906
Friederike Goetz Loewenstein, circa 1880
Item
Identifier: B333.01.01.00001
Abstract
Framed photograph of Friederike Henriette Goetz Loewenstein, Henry Lowenstein's paternal great-grandmother, posed for a formal portrait in Lessen, West Prussia.
Dates:
circa 1880
Isadore Elkan and Anna Freudenthal Solomon, 1997
File
Identifier: B111.09.0009.0012
Scope and Contents
I. E. (Isadore Elkan) Solomon was born on May 23, 1841 in Kruschwitz, Prussia and moved to Pennsylvania in 1858. He became a US citizen in 1865 and married Anna Freudenthal in 1872 after meeting her in Poland. They moved to Arizona with their three children in 1876, opening a store shortly afterward in the town that came to be known as Solomonville. The town grew, and the Solomon Commercial Company incorporated more and more items and industries, selling automobiles and opening a flour mill,...
Dates:
1997
Levin Loewenstein, circa 1880
Item
Identifier: B333.01.01.00002
Abstract
Framed photograph of Levin Loewenstein, Henry Lowenstein's paternal great-grandfather, posed for a formal portrait in Lessen, West Prussia.
Dates:
circa 1880
Levin Loewenstein's Prussian Citizenship Papers, 1848 March 25
Item
Identifier: B333.01.0001.0001.00001
Abstract
Photocopy of citizenship papers issued to Levin Loewenstein, Henry Lowenstein's great-grandfather, by the Royal Prussian Town of Lessen granting him Prussian citizenship. The certificate spells out the duties and obligations of a citizen and confers the protection of the Kingdom of Prussia.
Dates:
1848 March 25
Louis Cohn, 1837 December 3-1899 July 31
File
Identifier: B111.02.0002.0021
Abstract
Louis Cohn (1837-1899) was born in Breslau, Prussia (now Wroclaw, Poland), and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1861. He traveled the Santa Fe Trail to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and opened a general merchandise store in the early 1860s. Cohn moved to San Luis, Colorado, in the early 1870s, and in 1876 married widow Juanita Mary Ruperta Valdez Cohn (1855-1895). In 1880, Cohn was elected as a delegate to the Colorado Democratic Convention, and was later elected to the Colorado House of...
Dates:
1837 December 3-1899 July 31