Postcard
Schurtz Home
View of the Schurz home. Caption reads: "Carl Schurtz's Home, Watertown, Wis." |
Image ID: | 37443 |
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Creation Date: | circa 1910 |
Creator Name: | E.C. Kropp Co. |
City: | Watertown |
County: | Jefferson |
State: | Wisconsin |
Collection Name: | Place File* |
Genre: | Postcard |
Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
Original Format Number: | PF Watertown.54 |
Original Dimensions: | 5 x 3.5 inches |
#5029 Carl Schurz, one of the most celebrated German Americans, was born on March 2,1829, in Liblar, Germany near Cologne, and died on May 14, 1906, in New York. He was a supporter of the early Republican party and was appointed U.S. envoy to Spain by President Lincoln. He served as Secretary of the Interior under President Rutherford B. Hayes from 1877 to 1881. He later moved to New York City, where he helped found the "New York Evening Post" and became nationally known as a political writer and reformer. His wife, Margarethe Meyer Schurz, established the first United States kindergarten in Watertown in 1856. Wisconsin Postcard Collection, undated |
Lawns |
Porches |
Cities and towns |
Trees |
Dwellings |
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Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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