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• Guide to the Heinrich A. Rattermann collection of German-American manuscripts (University of Illinois Library, 1979), by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library, Dennis F. Walle, and Donna-Christine Sell (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The German-Americans: An Ethnic Experience, by Willi Paul Adams (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Germans in the United States (German University League, 1916), by Albert Bernhardt Faust (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hessians and the other German auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War (Harper, 1884), by Edward J. Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer German Catholics in the American colonies (1734-1784) (The United States Catholic historical society, 1933), by Lambert Schrott and Theodore Roemer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abhandlungen, Vorträge and Reden. Erster Theil (Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1912), by H. A. Rattermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Deutschen in Nordamerika : und der Freiheitskampf in Missouri (D. Hertle, 1865), by Daniel Hertle (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of German immigration in the United States : and successful German-Americans and their descendants (F.T. Smiley, 1910), by George von Skal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The German-American (Hake & Stirn Prtg. Co., 1890), by George Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Deutschen in Amerika : ein geschichtlicher Ueberblick (Dick & Trumpold, 1909), by Neu-England-Staaten-Bund (page images at HathiTrust)
• The German element in the United States : with special reference to its political, moral, social, and educational influence (Steuben Society of America, 1927), by Albert Bernhardt Faust (page images at HathiTrust)

• A political prophecy of the forty-eighters in America (s.n., 1913), by Julius Goebel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Auswanderung der sächsischen Lutheraner im Jahre 1838 : ihre Niederlassung in Perry-Co., Mo., und damit zusammenhängende interessante Nachrichten : nebst einem wahrheitsgetreuen Bericht von dem in den Gemeinden zu Altenburg und Frohna vorgefallenen sog. Chiliastenstreit in den Jahren 1856 und 1857 (A. Wiebusch, 1867), by J. F. Köstering and C. F. W. Walther (page images at HathiTrust)

• Guide to the Heinrich A. Rattermann collection of German-American manuscripts (University of Illinois Library, 1979), by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library, Dennis F. Walle, and Donna-Christine Sell (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of German immigration in the United States : and successful German-Americans and their descendants (F.T. Smiley, 1910), by George von Skal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Matthew Peters, a foreign immigrant : the true story of a life (H.M. Gougar, 1898), by Helen Mar Jackson Gougar and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• German Saengerbund of North America, 22nd Saengerfest at Chicago, Ill., June 29, 30, July 1, 2 & 3, 1881 (M. Stern and F. Gindele, 1881), by Ill.) National Sängerfest of the Nord-Amerikanischer Sängerbund (22nd : 1881 : Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
• German Saengerbund of North America, 21nd Saengerfest at Cincinnati, OH, June 11th to 15th, 1879. (Mecklenborg & Rosenthal, Printers, 1879), by OH) National Sängerfest of the Nord-Amerikanischer Sängerbund (21nd : 1879 : Cincinnati (page images at HathiTrust)
• German Saengerbund of North America, 20th Saengerfest at Louisville, Kentucky, July 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th, 1877. (Louisville Anzeiger Office, 1877), by KY.) National Sängerfest of the Nord-Amerikanischer Sängerbund (20th : 1877 : Louisville (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wegweiser zur Gesundheit : für meine Patienten nah und fern (Verlag der Health Publ. Co., 1905), by Soeren Wilhelm Staads and Iowa) Deutsches Lutherisches Hospital (Sioux City (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sixty Years in Chicago: Autobiography of August Lueders (Chicago: Printed by F. Klein Co., 1929), by August Lueders
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• Chicago's Deutsche M�anner : Erinnerungs-Bl�atter au Chicago's F�unfzigj�ahriges Jubil�aum Geschichte der Stadt Chicago (M. Stern & Co., 1885), by Emil Dietzsch, Fred Kressmann, and Max Stern (page images at HathiTrust)

• The hundredth anniversary of the arrival in Detroit of the first organized immigration from Germany. (Neustadter Kirmess Committee, 1930), by Mich.) Neustadter Kirmess Committee (Detroit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gedichte und Lebens-Erinnerungen (Herold printing co., 1907), by Stephan Marx (page images at HathiTrust)

• Leichenpredigt des Weiland Georg Michael Blank, gehalten am 29. April 1906 in der Kirche zum heil. Kreuz, Saginaw, Mich. (F. and G. Reitter, 1906), by Hermann Speckhard and Mich.) Evangelisch-lutherische Gemeinde zum heiligen Kreuz (Saginaw (page images at HathiTrust)

• Leben, Meinungen und Ideen (s.n., 1903), by Adolph Zipperlen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vorstandsbericht des Deutschen Pionier-Vereins von Cincinnati, Ohio (Druck von S. Rosenthal, 1890), by Deutscher Pionier-Verein von Cincinnati (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theodor Sittel, deutsch-amerikanischer Arzt und Physiologe : Denkrede gehalten im Deutschen Litterarischen [sic] Klub von Cincinnati, am 18. Oktober 1905 (Verlag des Verfassers, 1911), by H. A. Rattermann and Deutsche Literarische Klub von Cincinnati (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aus Meinen Lebensführungen (in German; Cincinnati: Jennings and Pye, 1902), by Carl Urbantke
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• Reports, Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland. (Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland, 1887), by Klaus Wust and Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of German immigration in the United States : and successful German-Americans and their descendants (F.T. Smiley, 1910), by George von Skal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The first Germans in North America and the German element of New Netherland (G.E. Stechert & Co., 1912), by Otto Lohr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wurts family : one of the series of sketches (Historical Publication Society, 1931), by Frank Willing Leach, John S. Wurts, and Pa.) Historical Publication Society (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Geschichte von Teutopolis und Umgegend. (in der Office der "America", 1999), by Ill.) St. Francis Church (Teutopolis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Pennsylvania German (Rev. P.C. Croll, 1900), by P. C. Croll (page images at HathiTrust)

• Heritage Headlines, by Schwenkfelder Library (partial serial archives)

• Erster teil der Geschichte der Deutschen Gesellschaft von Pennsylvanien : von der Gruendung im Jahre 1764 bis zur Jubelseier der Republik 1876, auf verandassung der Deutschen Gesellschaft verfasst. (Graf & Breuninger, 1917), by Oswald Seidensticker and German Society of Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)

• Geschichte von Teutopolis und Umgegend. (in der Office der "America", 1999), by Ill.) St. Francis Church (Teutopolis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Indianapolis Turnverein : seventy-fifth anniversary, 1851-1926. (Indianapolis Turnverein?], 1926), by Indianapolis Turnverein (page images at HathiTrust)

• The hundredth anniversary of the arrival in Detroit of the first organized immigration from Germany. (Neustadter Kirmess Committee, 1930), by Mich.) Neustadter Kirmess Committee (Detroit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zum fünfundzwanzigsten jaehrigen Jubilaeum der Deutschen Protestantischen Heimat fuer Waisen und Alte Leute. (The Heimat, 1919), by Mich.) German Protestant Home for Orphans and Old People (Detroit (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Washington Lodge no. 54, I.O.O.F. (The Lodge], 1926), by Mich.) Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Washington Lodge No. 54 (Detroit (page images at HathiTrust)

• Frankentrost, 1847-1947 (Immanuel Lutheran Church, 1947), by Henry C. Miller and Mich.) Immanuel Lutheran Church (Frankentrost (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The history of Emanuel. (Emanual Lutheran Church, 1955), by Mich.) Emanuel Lutheran Church (Lansing (page images at HathiTrust)

• The descendants of Jacob Schoff who came to Boston in 1752 and settled in Ashburnham in 1757 : with an account of the German immigration into colonial New England ([J. McGarrigle], 1910), by Wilfred H. Schoff (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Deutschen im Staate New York während des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts (E. Steiger, 1884), by Friedrich Kapp (page images at HathiTrust)

• Geschichte verschiedener Gemeinden in Lecha und Berks Counties : wie auch Nachricht über die sie bedienenden Prediger, vornehmlich über die Familie Helffrich, deren Ursprung und Ausbreitung in Europa, nach authentischen Quellen, und deren Immigration und Verbreitung in Amerika : nebst einem Rückblick in das kirchliche Leben Ostpennsylvaniens (Trexler & Hartzell ("Friedensbote"), 1891), by W. A. Helffrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revivalism and the German Churches in Pennsylvania, 1783-1816 : a part of a dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Divinity School in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (University of Chicago Libraries, 1935), by Paul Himmel Eller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Albertus Magnus (gedruckt für den Käufer, 1839), by Harold Jantz Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Domestic life and characteristics of the Pennsylvania-German pioneer : a narrative and critical history prepared at the request of the Pennsylvania-German society ([New Era Print. Co.], 1900), by F. J. F. Schantz, Julius Friedrich Sachse, and Pennsylvania-German Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Souvenir für das 17. Nationale Sängerfest des Nordöstlichen Sängerbundes : abgehalten vom 22. bis 27. Juni 1894 in New York (Herausgegeben von den "Vereinigten Sängern von New York", 1894), by Nordöstlicher Sängerbund (page images at HathiTrust)

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