Religion is a thread through all genres of early Americana, and is particularly suited to visual representation. The Library Company maintains one of the largest collections of German-Americana in the world, which includes many examples of highly decorated taufschein (birth and baptismal certificates) and other printed ephemera, much of it religious in nature.

 

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