Flying Leaves and One-Sheets: Pennsylvania German Broadsides, Fraktur and Their Printers Redware sketches and documentary data

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The exciting events in the Bible took place thousands of years ago--in a culture very different from today's modern world

Stevick draws on decades of experience working with and studying Amish adolescents across the United States to produce this well-rounded

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Flying Leaves and One-Sheets: Pennsylvania German Broadsides, Fraktur and Their Printers Redware sketches and documentary dataEarly American printers amplified messages by setting them in type, adding decorative borders and other ornamental devices, and printing them as single sheets called broadsides. Flying Leaves and One Sheets explores eighteenth and nineteenth century Pennsylvania German broadsides, including examples of fraktur (illuminated sheets). For almost two centuries, German and English language broadsides circulated among Pennsylvania Germans and their