Dutch American Voices: Letters from the United States, 1850-1930Herbert J. Brinks Cornell University Press, 1995 - 480 páginas Dutch American Voices brings together a full spectrum of such perspectives, as expressed in immigrants' letters to their families and friends in the Netherlands. From the terse notes of first-time writers to the polished chronicles of skilled correspondents, the letters are presented in engaging English translations that capture the diversity of their authors' personalities. Herbert J. Brinks has included twenty-three series of letters from the Dutch Immigrant Letter Collection at Calvin College, covering periods of correspondence from three to fifty-seven years. In addition to an introduction to Dutch immigration history, the book provides abundant illustrations and brief biographies of the correspondents. Most write from Dutch American agricultural communities in Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa, but some describe life in cities as far-flung as Paterson, New Jersey; Tampa, Florida; and Oak Harbor, Washington. Rural and urban, Protestant and Catholic, male and female, the letter writers capture moments from their arrival through decades of life in the New World. |
Contenido
An Overview of Dutch Immigration 18501930 I | 1 |
H Koopman March 8 1921 434 | 10 |
SANDSOIL EMIGRANTS | 23 |
The main street of Staphorst about 1880 | 26 |
A log house in northern Michigan about 1910 | 32 |
Arnold Verstegen portrait no date | 45 |
Logging near Vogel Center Michigan about 1900 | 85 |
CLAYSOIL EMIGRANTS | 103 |
RURAL TO URBAN | 221 |
Grand Rapids view of dwellings on the east bank of the Grand | 251 |
Grand Rapids city center 1890s | 259 |
URBAN TO URBAN | 337 |
DETACHED IMMIGRANTS | 421 |
Jan Willem Nijenhuis 1908 | 439 |
Willem Smith 19351936 | 451 |
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Van den Hoek family portrait about 1885 | 147 |
Holland Michigan central business area about 1900 | 157 |
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Términos y frases comunes
acres America arrived asked Avink blessing bought brothers and sisters bushels Calvin College Catholic cents Chicago Closing corn cost cows crops daughter Dear brother Dear parents dollars Drenthe Dunnink Dutch American Dutch immigrants earn emigration English Eringa ethnic everything farm farmers Father five four Friesland Gelderland Gendringen Gerrit God's Grand Rapids greetings Groningen guilders happy Harmanna Hendrik Hoek hogs Holland hope horses hundred Jacob Klaas land Little Chute live Lord Maaike Mannee married Michigan Middelstum miles milk months Mother Netherlands nice Niemeijer Nieuwolda Noord Noordeloos Oude Pekela Overijssel pastor Philipsen Plaisier potatoes pounds received Reformed Church rented Ridderkerk Schoonbeek seceders South Holland Staphorst summer Sunday tell things Tryntje twenty Ulbe Ulrum Verstegen week wheat wife Willem winter wish write wrote York Zeeland Zierikzee Zuid Holland
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