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OLD SWEDES CHURCH, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, 1698-1938.
Curtis, Charles M. and Charles Lee Reese, Jr.
B1-3878. First edition. Illustrated history. Very fine copy.
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GEBURTS UND TAUF-SCHEIN.
Text in German. The framed birth and baptismal certificate has pictures of angels, birds, flowers, the American Eagle and a border that have been crudely printed in yellow and red. Also poetry in German script. This copy was filled in by hand in 1839, documenting the birth and baptism of Cyrus, son of John Bomberger, in Lebanon Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. An early example of American color printing by one of the earliest of American color printers.
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