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Title
Date(s)
- 1800-1850 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
0.15 Cubic Feet
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 25 November 1762 in Brenkenhoffswalde. Married Sarcke Schmiten. Migrated to Russia in 1834. Died 1 December 1836.
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Was previously cataloged as a book in the MLA library collection. Original source unknown.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Consists of Cornelius Voth's "Ein Schreibe Buch" which was continued by his son-in-law Peter Balzer.
The first two pages have recipes for remedies for stomach ache, the plague, etc. written by Peter Balzer.
Next is a 17 page family history section.
Pages 1, 2, and 3 are more remedies for illneses.
Up to p. 203 is miscellaneous poems, songs, speeches, sermons, etc.
Then several blank pages.
Page 233 starts a diary followed by accounts of what he borrowed from various people.
238-242: weather chart
258-266: remedies for horse diseases
272: recipes for gilding glass and leather
283: diary notes
288-291: remedies for human and animal illnesses
292 to end: financial notes, blacksmithing work, etc.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
unprocessed
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
open for research use
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- German
Script of material
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Place access points
Name access points
- Balzer family (Subject)
- Voth family (Subject)