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Pacific Northwest Mennonite Historical Society
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Anna (Beachy) Weirich Collection

  • US PNMHS I-68
  • Collection
  • 1921-2003 & undated

This small collection contains an album of photos and a folder of newspaper items focused on Anna Weirich as a quilter; miscellaneous papers in Plautdietsch; and miscellaneous other items

Weirich, Anna Beachy, 1901-1998

Pennsylvania Dutch items & stories

Miscellaneous items in German and Pennsylvania German, including:
Kinder-Lieder, zum Gebrauch fu"r Schulen, Sonntagschu"len und Familien (Pathway Publishing, 1967);
Notebook containing a long poem entitled Die Alte Zeite with note at end "Got this letter from S. B. Weirich A. D. 1921. May 1;."
Poem "Heemweh;"
Miscellaneous handwritten items in Pennsylvania German.

Weirich, S. B.

Correspondence

Two letters of appreciation from Rev. Jack Amos of Mansfield, OH, apparently written in Oct 1980, including two photos of his mother, for whose 84th birthday 22 Oct 1980 he had apparently commissioned a quilt to be made by Anna Weirich. Also two other small thank-you notes.

Amos, Jack

News clippings

Newspaper items featuring her quilting activities and a 2-page quilting biography "Anna Weirich, Lifetime Needler," by Elaine Dahl Rohse

Photo album--Anna's quilt pictures

Album given to Anna by friends 12 Sept 1972, containing numerous photos featuring Anna's quilts and quilting activities; most photos undated and unidentified. The photos do not appear to be in chronological or other discernible order.